For 25 years, Dene Grigar have been collecting born digital works of literature, amassing a personal library –– called the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) –– of over 200 works produced on floppy disks, diskettes, CDs, and jump drives by various publishers or the artists themselves. Also part of ELL his collection of forty-seven computers running various operating systems and containing the requisite software with which to view these work
Punchlines is a lyric long poem that probes the poetic tensions in the everyday languages of computer-user collaboration. Within the narrative structure of a Canadian couple’s drive down the West Coast of the United States, the poems set this exploration between the call (poem title) and response (the poem itself) of jokes and punchlines, echoing the input-output (call/response) of modern computer-user cooperation, with the ultimate goal of infusing code with poetry and poetry with code. The first section is the initial trip down the coast while the second section houses poems in response to the return trip. There is little stopping in this long poem.
O primeiro livro publicado na Candonga é um pequeno livro de poesia que procura novos caminhos para se fazer e refazer. Nas suas páginas encontramos uma exploração conceptual e plástica da verbalidade, num emaranhado de estratégias discursivas que pretendem testar a natureza do texto ao transformá-lo em agente híbrido co-habitado por linguagens humanas e maquínicas. Source: Publisher website (https://projectocandonga.wordpress.com/trabalhos/quinquilharia/)
Googlism by Paul Cherry e Chris Morton (googlism.com)
The Gathering Cloud collates research into the history and language of meteorology with current thinking about data storage and climate change. Archival material from the Met Office Archive and Library in Exeter has been studied and sifted, along with classical, medieval, and Victorian sources, including, in particular, Luke Howard’s classic essay On the Modifications of Clouds, first published in 1803.
This research material is presented as a sequence of texts and images, acting both as a primer to the ideas behind the project and as a document of its movement between formats, from the data centre to the illuminated screen, from the live performance to the printed page. In his foreword media theorist Jussi Parikka describes the work as “a series of material transformations made visible through a media history executed as digital collage and print publication, hendecasyllabic verse, and critical essay”.
This work won the New Media Writing Prize 2016.
The Cloud is an airily deceptive name connoting a floating world far removed from the physical realities of data.
An estimated 1.8 trillion gigabytes of digital information are created and stored globally each year by ordinary consumers with no sense that data is physical and storing it has a direct impact on the environment.
«oceanografias» or «a memória da água» is a poetic operation made in a computador from a linear numerical relation of correspondence with some signifiers, which are semantically and phonetically close to each other. [...] The project was developed in an 8-bit microprocessor Sinclair ZX Spectrum in January 1986.
American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and businessman. Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, he earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
(Source: Wikipedia, Amazon description)
Paperback reissue.
