I’m doing a guest lecture spot today in a course entitled Digital Sound & Fury On Mac OSX. They’ve mainly been doing production oriented stuff all semester so my goal is to expose them to electronic literature (how apt, given the title). Anyway, here are links to what I plan to show, which will double as my set list during the talk.
If you have suggestions or additions get ‘em in before 2:00 EST today.
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, DAKOTA
Richard Powers, “They Come in a Steady Stream Now”
Olia Lialina, My boyfriend came back from the war
Ana Maria Uribe, Selected New Poems
Jason Nelson, Nine Attempts to Clone a Poem, Locomotive and creatures, and Conversation.
Want more? The Electronic Literature Organization and its Directory; GrandTextAuto; Eastgate Systems
Some additional stuff . . .
DAKOTA is based on a close reading of Ezra Pound’s Cantos part I and part II.At first, we didn’t realize we were creating an animation. But it seems that by a certain new-media-art definition of things, when you use Flash you’re doing animation. Someone suggested recently that we’re doing motion graphics – O.K., except we don’t really use graphics, just the Monaco font.
We came upon moving text because we wanted a website, but quickly discovered we didn’t know – or care to know – how web designers created online graphics, colors, photos, illustrations, and text. Frankly, we dislike graphic design, and we also dislike interactivity, which are the two staples of web design, if not the web itself. Being artists, we like to do things wrong, or at least our own damn way. We ended up with a moving text synchronized to jazz, which was (and still is) all we could do.
Young-hae Chang
}Marc Voge