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D|N|A Symposium

In cinema, DBnarrative, Doc, Interactive, Practice on 15 May 2011 with no comments

Just a brief summary of the Database|Narrative|Archive Symposium in Montreal.  I spent last weekend with about 120 others discussing and exploring a range of projects that were mostly non-fiction, interactive and cinema driven.  The scale of the conference was perfect – small enough to weave good conversation, large enough for a range of points of view. Organizers [...]

“ambience is a novel with a logo” by Tan Lin

In Collage, Poetics, Practice, Termite, Uncategorized on 17 March 2011 tagged ambient, tan lin, writing with no comments

After being gently knocked over by “Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking”, I ordered “ambience is a novel with a logo.”. I recommend you scroll through my little video reading to get acquainted with Tan Lin.   click to play Lin remixes networked and print reading/writing practices into something dense, beautiful, [...]

Life Data

In Practice on 23 November 2010 tagged blogging, Perec with no comments

Back to conversing with the network. This site began as a video blog way back when and has since morphed into academic musings on digital forms with some more reflective journal entries. My main interest and art practice is still video–or “cinema” in general–but things have changed. My iPhone and iPad, for example, have turned [...]

Practices of Construction

In cinema, Collage, Practice, Theory on 26 May 2010 tagged blake_butler, cinema, Collage, david_shields, experimental, fragment, htmlgiant, michael_robinson, Practice, raul_ruiz, reality_hunger, video with no comments

This year I have been doing a lot of listening to the now all-inclusive field of “digital media art.” I regularly read the blog HTMLGIANT for insight into how fiction and poetry writers are adapting to the changes digital culture brings to literary form. In a recent conversation between Blake Butler and Matthew Simmons about [...]