Life and art, of course, are related in o so many fascinating ways, but I
don't think of them as being identical.
Returning to the issue of Aleph Null as writing, if you 'read' my site,
Jesse, you see that although it is not without visuals, sound,
interactivity, programming, and networking, it is identifiably a writer's
site.
Aleph Null is the most recent project in sixteen years of projects I've
published on vispo.com. Most of them being writerly projects. But not
without relation to other arts and media, often. Aleph Null, it's true, is
much more focussed on purely visual and algorithmic, interactive art than on
writing or poetry. But, as I noted previously, I did *write* Aleph Null.
It's a program. One writes programs. And Aleph Null has relations with my
other work. Most obviously with dbCinema. But Aleph Null is quite colorful
in my own particular fashion, which various of my other works show. And
Aleph Null is written in JavaScript, as are DHTML works I wrote from 1997 to
2000. It's a return to that. And Aleph Null is generative interactive.
Pursue the art of programming long enough, and you eventually arrive at or
at least pass through generative interactive.
Was conversin wit a friend last night bout money and Damien Hirst. As though
one were to make music with lyrics "One dollar, two dollars, three
dollars...", for a start. An album of songs with lyrics equally focussed on
money. "Money makes the world go around, money makes the world go
around...". Several albums then. And they were all best sellers.
The thing about vispo.com is that it's worthless. It's online for anybody
who cares to view it. There is hardly any advertising on it at all. There is
nothing scarce about it. Hardly anybody knows anything about it. But it is
my life's work in art. And you won't see a lot of other sites like it. It
does indeed take poetry in new directions. Into interesting relation with
other arts and media. And with programming, interactivity, and media theory.
And even with the theory of computation.
So, Jesse, I think that's the sort of context in which 'Aleph Null as
innovative writing' might be considered.
ja
http://vispo.com
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