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Shebang Bash at Babycastles, July 2
Shebang Bash is a two-part event at Babycastles (137 West 14th Street, Floor 2, New York City) on Thursday, July 2. It’ll be sort of like this reading in Saint Petersburg, but with projectors and a...
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Explorers of Bottomless Pit Return with Treasure
They found the key. Far from plunging us into darkness, Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} provides brilliant and multifaceted...
View ArticleGreat Workshop for New Programmers at Babycastles
I had a launch event Saturday afternoon for my new book, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. Not a typical reading or book party, but a workshop for people completely new to...
View ArticleComputer-Generated Books
Here’s a first effort (drafted, initially, at 2am on July 22) at a bibliography of computer-generated books. These are books in the standard material sense, somehow printed, whether via print-on-demand...
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Digital Lengua, the launch of 2×6 and Autopia, Nov 20 in NYC
Digital Lengua – Babycastles, 137 West 14th St, Manhattan – 5:30pm Sunday November 20 This reading of computer-generated literature in English and Spanish serves as the global book launch for two...
View ArticleMultisequential Books in the Trope Tank
Love is not Constantly Wondering if you are Making the Biggest Mistake of your Life. Portland, OR: Perfect Day Pub, 2011. Roflcon III. Cambridge, MA: Self Published, 2012. Bottke, Allison, Heather...
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Sliders
My minimal book Sliders has been published by my press, Bad Quarto. The book contains 32 poems, some of which are only one word long. In a break from tradition, they are not computer-generated....
View ArticleMy @party Talk on Computer-Generated Books
I just gave a talk at the local demoparty, @party. While I haven’t written out notes and it wasn’t recorded, here are the slides. The talk was “Book Productions: The Latest in Computer-Generated...
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The Gathering Cloud
The Gathering Cloud, J. R. Carpenter, 2017. (I was given a review copy of this book.) J.R. Carpenter’s book is an accomplishment, not just in terms of the core project, but also by virtue of how the...
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Author Function
The exhibit Author Function, featuring computer-generated literary art in print, is now up in MIT’s Rotch Library (77 Mass Ave, Building 7, 2nd Floor) and in my lab/studio, The Trope Tank (Room...
View ArticleUsing Electricity readings, with video of one
I’m writing now from the middle of a four-city book tour which I’m on with Rafael Pérez y Pérez and Allison Parrish – we are the first three author/programmers to develop books (The Truelist, Mexica,...
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“Bullet” and Poem without Suffering
Discussed in this review: “Bullet,” David Byrne, American Utopia, Nonesuch, 2018; Poem without Suffering, Josef Kaplan, Wonder Books, 2015 David Byrne’s earworm takes a distant yet close perspective,...
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Platform Studies at 10
The Platform Studies series from MIT Press is now about ten years old. The first book in the series, my & Ian Bogost’s Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, was published in 2009. (We...
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VIdeo of My PRB Reading
Thanks to host Joseph Mosconi, I read at the Poetics Research Bureau in Los Angeles from two recent computer-generated books. Sophia Le Fraga and Aaron Winslow read with me on this evening, on July 21....
View ArticleA Web Reply to the Post-Web Generation
At the recent ELO conference in Montréal Leonardo Flores introduced the concept of “3rd Generation” electronic literature. I was at another session during his influential talk, but I heard about the...
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WordHack Book Table
This May 21, 2020 at 7pm Eastern Time is another great WordHack! A regular event at Babycastles here in New York City, this WordHack will be fully assumed into cyberspace, hosted as usual by Todd...
View ArticleGolem and My Other Seven Computer-Generated Books in Print
Dead Alive Press has just published my Golem, much to my delight, and I am launching the book tonight in a few minutes at WordHack, a monthly event run by the NYC community gallery Babycastles. This...
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