Loss Pequeño Glazier directs the Electronic Poetry Centre at University of Buffalo. In 2002, he authored the seminal critical text: Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Univ. of Alabama Press).
He is also a polyglot sensualist of ecstatic intensity whose recent projects fuse e-poetry and dance. Here he discusses the ocean in unix and other metaphoric issues.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston, CAPTA)
Christian Bök is pre-eminent among paradigm shifters. He has done seminal sound poetry as a beatbox-poet, written a bestseller lipogram Eunoia, and now is bio-hacking a durable bacteria so it exudes protein poems.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston, CAPTA)
Brian Stefans has achieved notoriety for a number of mischievous achievements: poetic subversion (The Dream LIfe of Letters), theoretical nimbleness (Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics), and curatorial omniscience (SF-MOMA OpenSpace: Third Hand Plays ). He is also a prof at UCLA & always in, his sparse timely way, a poet. We spoke on 2012-02-15 at the Banff Centre where Brian was a guest lecturer at the In(ter)ventions residency.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston, CAPTA)
"A poet and scholar, Amaranth Borsuk’s work focuses on textual materiality—from the surface of the page to the surface of language." http://www.amaranthborsuk.com/ Amaranth combines technical innovation with poetic-prose play that constructs context-content reflective of the mediated experience. Her augmented reality project Between Page and Screen (developed with her partner Brad Bouse) is an elegant austere mutation in poetics. This capta was recorded at SUNY U.Buffalo on Feb. 2nd, 2012.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston, CAPTA)
Une interview en français (avec franglais from Jhave). Artiste interdisciplinaire, D. Kimm a publié quatre recueils poétiques; elle est en poète de performance au niveau international; et elle dirige Le Festival Voix d’Amériques http://www.fva.ca This capta was recorded at Banff Centre on Feb. 23rd, 2012.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston, CAPTA project site)
Andrew is a prof-editor-theorist at NJIT and creator (along with David Ayre) of the GTR Toolkit an algorithm OULIPO-style language shredder. For more info see: http://web.njit.edu/~newrev/3.0/workbench/Workbench.htmlThis capta was recorded in Andrew's Jersey-side sky library on Feb. 7th, 2012.
Scott Rettberg (ELMCIP elmcip.net/) & Joe Tabbi (ELD directory.eliterature.org/) discuss how the acceleration of technology has influenced the stability of e-lit and discourse.
As directors of archives with extensive historical roots in the history of the ELO, both these individuals contribute formidably to the 'collective memory' of electronic literature. Preservation and re-construction of reader experience are problematic issues; preserving e-lit involves preserving the context and networks of discourse that envelop e-literature in an 'ecology'. Optimal success involves creating the conditions for project 'interoperability': linking conversations and structures that ensure continuity.
Neither Rettberg nor Tabbi, anticipated when they started that they would become become archivists, yet they now keep e-lit data from getting wet and/or disappearing.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston's description)