Thanks, Patrick. Yes, it's long just to view the (larger) images and read
the running notes! But it's a pretty interesting, unusual take on things.
I've got lots of respect for Kedrick James and his work.
ja
> Thanks Gorgeous images and layout -the running notes at the side helped
> those daunted by long speil!!
> Cheers Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Jim Andrews
> Sent: 13 March 2010 20:19
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> Subject: POET PIRATE NETBOT by Kedrick James
>
> POET PIRATE NETBOT
> Ruminations on the Undertaking of Excess Information
> by Kedrick James
> http://vispo.com/guests/kedrick/poetpiratebot
>
> An essay by the Vancouver poet, musician, scholar, and visual artist
> Kedrick
> James. With 13 of his intriguing visual collages (click these for bigger
> versions).
>
> POET PIRATE NETBOT is related to Kedrick's book-length "Writing
> Post-Person: Poetics, Literacy and Sustainability in the Age of Disposable
> Discourse". One of the things he looked at was spam as a literary
> phenomenon. In POET PIRATE NETBOT, he looks at that and related things:
> how
> writing and education are changing and will continue to change in light of
> the avalanches of writing and media occassioned by the net and the
> digital,
> not just by the wide access the world's population has to publishing
> tools,
> but by the presence of bots that write and process writings.
>
> It's quite a hopeful look, really, at what sometimes appears to be a
> devastating change to the literary, artistic, and educational landscapes.
> For although we see this continuing avalanche of writing and media
> changing
> the literary landscape, we also see people using the tools and bots to
> both
> sift through the deluge and create works of art that begin to sort through
> and synthesize what we have.
>
> The visual images in the essay relate to this topic via their being made
> from google image search images (they're not made with dbCinema). I
> visited
> Kedrick recently in Vancouver and saw the prints he and Olga Glukovska are
> making from these digital works. They're doing screen prints of them.
> About
> 18"x24" on thick archival paper and framed. These are not simply
> File>Print
> versions of the art, but are for the medium of print.
>
> There's more work on vispo.com by Kedrick :
> http://vispo.com/dbcinema/kedrick is something I did in dbCinema on
> Kedrick's thesis "Writing Post-Person: Poetics, Literacy and
> Sustainability
> in the Age of Disposable Discourse".
>
> Kedrick teaches English teachers at the University of British Columbia in
> Vancouver.
>
> ja
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