> Talked it up on the ahadada facebook page and thanks for David for
> pointing it our way. I liked what Brownjohn had to say about Bob & Co.
> creating a back water for poetry--which is essentially true. There's
> no next step for any of it if you don't count computer higgily jiggly
> as part of its forward evolution.
i would think that "computer higgily jiggly" comes from many sources. in
different arts, media, and degrees of knowlegeableness about arts, media,
technology and science. even if we limited the "computer higgily jiggly" to
specifically literary "higgily jiggly", this would still be true. where we
see the influence on literary 'computer higgily jiggly' by people such as
cobbing is that often the most interesting of it cannot really be described
as 'specifically literary'. it shifts between sound and text, visual and
text, shifts between media and mode of interaction.
the borders between arts and media and between arts and technology/science
have been subject to dramatic change not only because of electronic media's
intense currency and, later, digital media's encoding of them all in a
common binary soup, but because of the avant garde work of people such as
bob cobbing who, prior to there being much prominent literary computer
higgily piggly, was working among and amid various arts and media with a
nonetheless literary focus.
ja
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