Just got this from Canadian poet Jim Andrews. Haven't read it yet but sounds
interesting, at least to an old McLuhanite like me...
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From: "Jim Andrews" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 21:28:22 -0800
To: "Paul Green" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 'On Lionel Kearns'
Hi Paul,
Here is a new piece I've just finished that I've been working on for a few
months. It's called 'On Lionel Kearns': http://vispo.com/kearns . Lionel
Kearns is a Vancouver poet who did some prescient work in the
sixties-through-the-eighties in books such as 'By the Light of the Silvery
McLune: Media Parables, Poems, Signs, Gestures, and Other Assaults on the
Interface' and 'Convergences'. You might know his work, I realize, Paul. He
was associated with the Tish group out of Vancouver. 'On Lionel Kearns' is a
tribute to his work and extends it into contemporary digital poetics and
software art. It's a hypertext, of sorts, but also contains experimental
video and considerable programming work on the videos, texts, and visual
poems. Given the prescience of Kearns's poetics, these extensions of his
work are virtually 'of a body.'
ja
http://vispo.com
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