On Thursday 14th September, join Mark Amerika, Dene Grigar and Nick Lambert at a reception at the Gordon Square Cinema, Birkbeck. On Friday 15th September, we have a significant symposium about Mark’s work in the context of Electronic Literature, at the British Computer Society in Covent Garden.
Interview with Irish e-lit artist, Michael Maguire
James O’Sullivan talks with Michael Maguire about his work as a digital artist and author of electronic literature.
Challenges of Digital Art for Our Societies: Sean Cubitt, Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Eudaimonism and Melancholia in the Archive
Sean Cubitt questions the vulnerability of media archives and henceforth our obligation to them. He analyzes the values of media archives today, and what the structure of these values can tell us about the nature of ethical and political obligation in the 21st century.
Leonardo Flores – Electronic Literature in 2016: Definitions, Trends, Preservation, and Projections
An interview with Leonardo Flores on Entropy discussing electronic literature – what it is and where it’s going.
Concrete poetry on Resonancefm (November 2015)
On 4th November 2015 the great typographer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer was a guest on Making Conversations with Clive Graham who runs the Paradigm Disc label. Mayer studied with Max Bense in the late ‘fifties and came to live in London 50 years ago. Listen below to the programme which has some rarely heard excerpts from ’60s and ’70s sound … Read More
Resonance FM – ‘Art That Makes Itself’, with Daniel and Paul Brown, William Latham, Bronac Ferran and Professor Andrew Prescott
Daniel and Paul Brown, William Latham, Bronac Ferran and the AHRC’s Digital Transformations Theme Research Fellow, Professor Andrew Prescott talk about software, algorithmic art, artistic signatures and working in interdisciplinary ways to make art that makes itself. First broadcast on Resonance FM, 15th September 2015. Making Conversations – 15th September 2015 by Resonance Fm on Mixcloud
WordPress exclude categories from the_category
This is an update to an excellent old post on wordpress.com that partially explains how to exclude categories from the_category() function in WordPress. ocshawn’s solution half way down the page worked with a few small adjustments. Add the following to your WP functions.php (ideally in a child theme): function exclude_post_categories($excl=”){ $categories = get_the_category($post->ID); if(!empty($categories)){ $exclude=$excl; $exclude = explode(“,”, $exclude); $html = … Read More
Creating, Commissioning, Exhibiting and Collecting Art in the Digital Age – London, 22 January 2015, 5-6pm
http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/page.cfm/Action=Form/FormID=87/t=m Please note: entrance to the session requires a valid London Art Fair invitation or ticket. Since the establishment of the World Wide Web, questions have proliferated around the possibilities, value and collectability of its associated contemporary art forms. The web provides a single site for the creation (and sometimes co-creation), distribution, review and remix of an art form that … Read More
The Bus Driver’s Prayer – 27 November 2014, Kahaila Cafe, London, 7.30-10.30pm
From Richard Purnell: The final Bus Driver’s Prayer of 2014 will be on Thursday 27 November, at Kahaila Cafe, and it’s going to be the nuts. Get your tickets here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bus-drivers-prayer-presents-chris-difford-from-squeeze-and-every-tam-beth-and-carrie-tickets-14092423819 Our main feature is a man who has written 12 top 40 hits, performed on Top of the Pops, and had a sell-out show at Union Chapel last week. … Read More
BLAST is 100 years old today #vorticism
The “great MAGENTA cover’d opusculus” (as Ezra Pound described it) is 100 years old today. See the full journal here. [themify_quote] Blast 1 was edited and largely written by Wyndham Lewis with contributions from Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska, Epstein, Spencer Gore, Wadsworth, and Rebecca West and included an extract from Ford Madox Hueffer’s novel The Saddest Story, better known by its later … Read More
It’s All Fun Until Someone Loses: E-lit Plays Games – by Illya Szilak @HuffingtonPost #elit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/illya-szilak/jason-nelson-digital-poetry_b_2803049.html Exploring the relationship of language, especially poetry, to technology, power, and control through the work of digital poet Jason Nelson.