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On 30/9/05 12:26 pm, "ian davidson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> thanks elizabeth, would be there if i could, but these reports are the next
> best thing.
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> best
>
> ian
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>
>> 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.
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