Building and Toppling

via S M Johnson's minus1 plus6:

I think of the words within these pieces as having a relation to a photographic process. When I take a photograph with my camera I am finding images in the world which are manipulated through selection and fine tuning of colour, contrast, etc, into the final image. In working with words I use a computer script (using Python) which outputs a number of images, based upon a source text and applies a variety of algorithmic mechanisms, that I may then select from, fine tune, and blend with other images.

The Mimeo Re-volution

via Richard Lopez' Really Bad Movies:

one of hansen's specialties is mimeo-era poets and poetry, poets such as d. a. levy, tom kryss et al. so there was a levy celebration a couple of months ago at hansen's bookstore, the book collector. for the occassion a local poet's press, polymer grove, published two beautifully designed chaps of levy's work. i devoured the collection miniConcrete, which contains some of levy's vispo and concrete work.

A Few Concepts in Digital Writing

via Brian Kim Stefans' Free Space Comix: the blog:

Keep in mind that very little is entirely “new” in “new media writing.” There are often examples from the analog world that explain certain principles of electronic writing even better than the electronic writing available.