thanks elizabeth, would be there if i could, but these reports are the next
best thing.
best
ian
>From: Elizabeth James <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Elizabeth James <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: the everyday at epoetry 2005
>Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:30:49 +0100
>
>'I go searching': every day for a month Kirsten Lavers (who is 'really'
>a visual artist (UK)) typed a variant of this phrase into Google, and
>worked with the text on the first page of results, in the animation
>program Flash, selecting, rearranging and visually reformatting it. Now,
>the reader will be served a different one of the resulting pieces, keyed
>to the date on their own web browser (This work is published in the
>online journal How2). Christophe Bruno (France? see iterature.com) uses
>Google results summaries too, especially the elliptical (& often
>misleading)
>extracts from the pages found. Bruno has also devised a piece which in
>response to a search, compiles a kind of ur blog using existing blog
>texts. S/oren Pold (Denmark) showed this (and his terrific paper
>embedded these practices right in the history of the book). Alan
>Sondheim (US) issues text bulletins daily to listservs and other
>locations: Maria Damon' related these often peculiarly intense and
>discomfiting missives to
>the genre of begging letters, and to the urgency and desperation
>manifested in some of Walter Bejamin's writings. Is this possibly the
>most significant single online poetry practice, (and/) or is it spam? A
>question older than the web ... A young team of writers and computer
>scientists from Rhode Island and Chicago is developing new
>tools to harvest material from the internet according to semantic
>relationships with an intentionally written text, which then
>incorporates
>and is altered by it. The aim of the project (the Error Engine) is for a
>truly relevant literature that
>co-exists and is imbued with the 'flimsy but largely successful
>construction of reality' in the news; but the radical poetics was in the
>claims made for the actual
>technology, which apparently uses a species of 'evolutionary
>computation' in a configuration inherently open, thus there will never
>be any one 'solution' to the task it performs 'only the best possible
>adaptation to current circumstances'. A potent new metaphor! (But woah,
>if you are taking stuff from other people's pages and re-using it, do
>you have an ethical obligation to give them something back, and/or to
>cite them? Another old chestnut ... ) jUS!tin katKO (US) walks, or runs,
>a video recorder around 'the readable city' (pace Robert Venturi, quoted
>by S/oren Pold earlier), holding up or out a sig or tag written on his
>own hand like a traffic cop goes STOP or a director CUT. To us, the film
>shown is very fast and loud, with hectic music, and then shown again
>with jUS!tin adding live performance of voice and eventually body,
>leaping around in frontof the figures on the screen and throwing himself
>repeatedly with cartoon force at the floor, THWACK! etc. He hurt himself
>a little bit. Hugely exciting work from this young associate of Keith
>Tuma, cris cheek and mIEKAL AND -- credit to them! (and that was only
>one of the things he showed). This was on the evening bill, along with
>Joerg Piringer's (Austria) 'spambot', which apparently took a page of
>that often engaging linguistic spam randomly compiled alongside the
>advert to evade mail filters, and turned it first into an airspace full
>of words which then completely morphed it into a slick elegant dance of
>abstract forms, this showing too accompanied by recorded and live
>voice-sound (Piringer is into sound petry also). Elizabeth Knipe (US)
>was the third performer and her quiet, intimate and rather beautiful
>films-with-poetry ('bucolic' I thought about one, and 'lyric' another)
>don't fit into the theme I've taken to cohere just a fraction of the
>day's contents around, but whatever. I am now about to be late for the
>morning's proceedings, which will be scarily theoretical, but come for
>tonight's fun part those who can!! 8 p.m. at Birkbeck College, London:
>presentations of the Error Engine (as above), Philippe Bootz (a
>long-established French e-poet) and Brigid McLeer (UK out of Ireland).
>Yes, this is cross-posted, but I have to tell.
>
>e
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