2:50 The not-so-long awaited sequel Barbie Set Theory II. In this logical development in the plot, we see not simply random { and } symbols, but generation with {, }, {}, {{}}, {}{}, {}{{}}, {{}}{}, and {{{}}}. Many of these moving in big circles form dynamically changing larger sets made of several of all of these.
Vispo.com History
Year
April 2025
April 7: I've upgraded this, the Vispo.com history page, to HTML5. I've maintained this page since 1998, so the HTML was really old. Have also added a timeline slider to quickly navigate vispo.com history.
April 1: 14:46 A flip-through of the Tokyo Poetry Journal in which some work from Sea of Po appears.
March 2025
Many thanks to Natalie for recovering Netartery! It's back online!Mar 4: 2:10 Barbie Set Theory (part of my poem Generation of the Ten Thousand Things from Sea of Po)
2:10 Barbie Set Theory (part of my poem Generation of the Ten Thousand Things from Sea of Po)February 2025
An app version of NeoNio is available in the Apple Store for Apple machines!December 2024
2:23 Letters from Leibniz screencapture. The Leibniz shard brush in Aleph Null 4 is used, as is Alchemical Cosmography in shards.
"The Mechanic Ear: North American Sound Poetry in the Digital Age" is a 2015 paper by Maria Goicoechea and Victor Salceda that talks about my interactive audio workNovember 2024
27:00 Brent Bechtel in Aleph Null 3.0. Brent gave me some amazing
collages he created. Collage in Aleph Null is not so much 'collage' as something else. Digital synthesis.October 2024
The vispo.com youtube channel. It currently has 308 videos.
They're mostly screencaptures of sessions with Aleph Null, Enigma n2022, Sea of Po, NeoNio, and
other of the software art/tools I write. Or they're tutorials about those programs. Or they're about the programs. Most
of the videos are linked on the current page.
40:38 an AI-generated (NotebookLM) podcast about my collaboration with bill bissett. See the video's notes for info on the production and editing.Oct 14: 
17:56 an AI-generated podcast that discusses Enigma n2022. I talk about the production and editing of the video itself at the beginning of the video.
17:56 an AI-generated podcast that discusses Enigma n2022. I talk about the production and editing of the video itself at the beginning of the video.Oct 10: 1:01:28 Nikita Carter interviewed/reading about/from her book Both Sides of the Great Divide.
August 2024
Aug 7: Computer Art and the Theory of Computation.
This major essay is one of the only knowlegeable things out
there about the relations between computer art and the theory
of computation. It used to be on netartery, which is down for
the foreseeable future--but which might be back. In any case,
it's good to have a pdf version of this. I have slightly edited
it, so the pdf is the most recent, final version of this essay.
June 2024
June 1: JIM ANDREWS: Sea of Po - animisms and a 'different sort of poetry and magazine'. Writing by Sarah Tremlett about Sea of Po and my work more generally.
May 2024
May 4: Enigma n in Arabic is a translation by Egypt's Rehab Omer of a 1998 interactive poem.
May 1: 
Morphs is a collection of morphs I made from 1997 to 2007, plus writing about them.
Morphs is a collection of morphs I made from 1997 to 2007, plus writing about them.April 2024
March 2024
March 17: 5:38 Screenshots of Valerie Leblanc's poem "Becoming Time" from Sea of Po fed to Aleph Null 4.
March 17: 2:03 Screenshots of Stephen Roxborough's poem "After You Die" from Sea of Po fed to Aleph Null 4.
January 2024
Amateur in collab with Kirill Azernyy. Click the story to remember the next paragraph. Click the red button to remember a random paragraph. Can be installed as an app.December 2023
Dec 29: Digital Poetry in Digital Literacy. An essay (2000 words) published in issue 2 of Computers and Culture from University College Cork, Ireland (Dec 2023), edited by James O'Sullivan.
Dec 27: A Philosophy of Computer Art by Dominic Lopes. Re-released from 2009.
October 2023
September 2023
Indicted 2023. A wicked sinthesis of images of the recently
indicted with Trump, Mussolini and Hitler. Images created in Aleph Null.
August 2023
August 23: 
Click repeatedly to elevate. Also published in Taper 11.
Click repeatedly to elevate. Also published in Taper 11.July 2023
July 6: 15:19 video of two poems by me from Sea of Po: Psuboetry and Generation of the Ten Thousand Things.
April 2023
Apr 16: 285 screenshots from Lorem Ipsum
March 2023
13:00 Lorem Ipsum is a videopoem in collaboration with Adeena Karasick. Her poem and voice. I did the video. Fantastic poem! Check out the notes below the video.
Aleph Null 4.0 front door to my collab with Adeena Karasick. Also includes an essay about our collab.February 2023
12:05 Checking In 2 is a videopoem in collaboration with Adeena Karasick.November 2022
August 2022
July 2022
May 2022
May 14: 2:46 video I shot with my phone looking at Enigma n2022 in the living room (and other art there).
March 2022
December 2021
The Guest section of vispo.com now contains 21 works by Chris Joseph.November 2021
October 2021
Oct 15: 
Front door to colour music in Aleph Null 3.1-4.0. Includes writing about colour music plus links.
Front door to colour music in Aleph Null 3.1-4.0. Includes writing about colour music plus links.
A collab with my Russian friend Kirill Azerny: End of RecognitionSeptember 2021
Sept 8: 
City on the Other Side of Time, a slideshow of 500 images. The images are made
of images from Alchemical Cosmography--but a special subset. These images evoke a city and its books. An essay is included about the underlying images, mainly.
City on the Other Side of Time, a slideshow of 500 images. The images are made
of images from Alchemical Cosmography--but a special subset. These images evoke a city and its books. An essay is included about the underlying images, mainly.July 2021
July 22: 3:39 Rotating S brush. Colour music.
July 21: 8:03 Rotating S brush. Colour music.
June 2021
June 22: 6:39 Faded time machine. Aleph Null.
June 12: 8:51 Time Machine. Aleph Null.
June 12: 23:10 Time Machine. Aleph Null.
May 2021
April 2021
April 20: Daniel f Bradley's '250 pics or so'
March 2021
February 2021
Daniel f Bradley's "erogenous zones" in Aleph Null itself. Never-the-same-twice.Feb 13: 
Front door to Karl Kempton in Aleph Null. He has been writing lexical poetry, composing visual poetry and visual text art since the early 1970s.
Front door to Karl Kempton in Aleph Null. He has been writing lexical poetry, composing visual poetry and visual text art since the early 1970s.January 2021
December 2020
Dec 26: Questions About Creativity is a book that contains an interview of me by Piotr Szreniawski.
Front door for AMERICAN HITLER. Each of the many images is clickable, and opens a different slideshow of related images.October 2020
September 2020
Front door for all the Aleph Null 3.1-4.0 Time Machine work.August 2020
Front door to the No New Ideas project. This is an experimental comic book.Aug 28: 
War Pigs is online, available as a 32-bit downloadable executable for Mac and Windows. War Pigs is an interactive music game I made.
War Pigs is online, available as a 32-bit downloadable executable for Mac and Windows. War Pigs is an interactive music game I made.Aug 27: 
A new homepage for Arteroids. Includes a book about Arteroids that I wrote, a free 32-bit downloadable executable of the game itself, and several videos.
A new homepage for Arteroids. Includes a book about Arteroids that I wrote, a free 32-bit downloadable executable of the game itself, and several videos.Aug 26: Slideshow of 100 images of Aleph Null chewing on bill bissett. The images are mostly 3840x2160. It's in the new version of Slidvid. There's an accompanying video of Aleph Null in action chewing on bill bissett.
Aug 25: A Brit by the name of Gareth Hopkins created a project in which he asked participants to take a page from his abstract graphic novel, do something with/to it, and send him the results. Gareth's page involved the text 'There are no new ideas'; the project is called No New Ideas. Gareth then posted them all online and may do other things with the collection. With Gareth's help, I took the graphics people sent him and fed them all to Aleph Null. Plus an exchange I had with Jim Leftwich about the idea that there are no new ideas. Here's a Slidvid of 176 selected 1920x1080 images of Aleph Null chewing on No New Ideas. Here's a Slidvid of 69 images (3840x2160) of Aleph Null chewing on No New Ideas. Here's a new Aleph Null nib of No New Ideas. Here's 3 videos (video1, video2, video3) of Aleph Null in action chewing on No New Ideas. Participants include Alfredo Santos, Amy Hopkins, Bill Hopkins, Chloe Starlig, Chris Joseph, Cindy Lou, Daniel Bristow Bailey, Gareth A Hopkins, Hazel R Web, Jenny Robins, Jeremy Bushnell, Kele Web, Ladenia Jones, Martha Hopkins, Michæl Orzechowski, Nick Bryan, Piotr Szreniawski, Rosaire Appel, Sarah Daniels, Steve Thompson and Tony Edwards.
Aug 24: An update to the Nio project of 2001. Here is a free downloadable executable version of Nio (Windows only).
Aug 23: Here is a new 210-image slidvid of ALCHEMICAL COSMOGRAPHY from the 9th to the 18th centuries. It displays 210 different images and then repeats the slideshow. Some of these images build on previous ones. Most of the images are 3840x2160 so they zoom nicely.
** Use the space key to toggle pause/play (or pause/play button)
** Point mouse and turn mouse wheel to zoom.
** On mobile, touch and hold to zoom in.
** On mobile, double touch and hold to zoom out.
** Use the space key to toggle pause/play (or pause/play button)
** Point mouse and turn mouse wheel to zoom.
** On mobile, touch and hold to zoom in.
** On mobile, double touch and hold to zoom out.
Aug 22: Two videos (video 1, video 2) of Aleph Null chewing on the visual poetry of Karl Kempton. Music by Eric Satie.
Aug 21: Video of me talking about the art in the recent show of Aleph Null prints I showed at Massy Books.
May 2020
May 1: Aleph Null itself chewing on the Time Machine itself. A never-the-same-twice animation. Only possible to view it once.. Here's a couple of videos (video1, video2) of Aleph Null in action chewing on Time Machine.
April 2020
March 2020
Links to all things Lionel Kearns at vispo.com.
That currently features 'On Lionel Kearns' (2004); 'On bpNichol' (2007); 'Soliloquy' (2016); and Sea of Po (2024).February 2020
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump) 1
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump) 2
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Don Putin)
November 2019
October 2019
Oct 25: I have a show of prints opening at Massy Books, Friday Oct 25, 6-8pm. Here's my artist statement: vispo.com/massy. Here's a catalog of the available prints. I'm excited about this show. The prints are of high-res images created in Aleph Null. And Nat put together a Raspberry Pi app that boots a Pi and starts playing a slideshow of Aleph Null images. So the show is visual poetry meets visual art meets computer art meets net art. And the prints look great. Hope to see you there.
September 2019
July 2019
July 23: 2:59 vid of Trump in Aleph Null.
June 2019
June 15: 5:18 vid about Enigma n.
May 2019
May 15: 1:02 of Kelly-Anne Pence.
April 2019
Apr 17: Slideshow of Jim Leftwich's "asemic"--or "pansemic"--visual poems used in Aleph Null 4.0. This is a slideshow of about 260 images. These are Jim's poems, not Aleph Null's chewings on them.
Apr 16: New Aleph Null nib featuring the work of the artist Yael Gilks aka Fau Ferdinand. Click 
to configure the nib.
to configure the nib.Apr 13: New Text-Image nib in Aleph Null. Click 
to configure the Text-Image nib. You can use your own text, font, and fill the font with your own images. You can also specify how many words accumulate before the screen is erased.
to configure the Text-Image nib. You can use your own text, font, and fill the font with your own images. You can also specify how many words accumulate before the screen is erased.Apr 13: New essay: Me and the Random
Apr 12: A slideshow of 260 screenshots of the new Alchemical Cosmography brush for Aleph Null 4.0. The underlying images are from the 13th to 18th century and concern alchemy or cosmography (pictures of the cosmos). Also, check out the never-the-same-twice animation from which the screenshots were made. Click 
to configure the nib.
to configure the nib.Apr 5: A slideshow (232 images) of the new Jim Leftwich nib for Aleph Null 4.0. This has a new set of underlying Jim Leftwich images. Think of this as the total and complete fusion of poetry and. Also, check out the never-the-same-twice animation from which the screenshots were made. Click 
to configure the nib.
to configure the nib.March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
November 2018
Nov 17: Slidvid of 45 images of dbCinema gnoshing on the concrete poetry of bill bissett..
Nov 16: Quite a spectacular slidvid of 500 images of Aleph Null gnoshing on the concrete poetry of bill bissett; it's called th eye is th wind.
Nov 10: Slidvid of 100 images of dbCinema gnoshing on the concrete poetry of bill bissett.
October 2018
Oct 2: New Text-Image brush in Aleph Null images. There's a slidvid of images of it here.
September 2018
Sept 17: Alchemical Cosmography 8 (2:55).
Sept 13: New slidvid of Alchemical Cosmography images. There are new versions of the Alchemical Cosmography images: png images that have transparent sections.
Sept 7: New slidvid of 199 Alchemical Cosmography images. Also a page of links to all things Alchemical Cosmography.
August 2018
July 2018
July 6: Have been continuing the collaboration with bill bissett. Lots of new stuff at the collab home page. The new material is from the section labeled "dirtee konkreet (oldest to newest)", such as the series of 100 screenshots and the series of 140 screenshots.
June 2018
June 20: 0:38 David Bowie and a text nib.
June 19: 2:19 talking about new image nib.
June 18: 2:02 talking about new image nib.
June 5: 1:03 Aleph Null 2.2 Gary Barwin.
May 2018
May 24: 2:54 Intro to Aleph Null 3
May 18: There's a new bill bissett brush in Aleph Null along with lots of videos of it in action and screenshots of it in action. When you start the bill bissett brush, one of 7 poems by this legendary poet/painter is started up. This page contains links not only to the bissett brush in Aleph Null, but to the videos and screenshots of it in action.
May 4: Screenshots from Aleph Null with two brushes: Dan Waber and Trump. And here is a video of a similar session. This slidvid also has a new feature: fullscreen. Look for the fullscreen button top left.
May 3: Excerpt from the introduction to Aleph Null 3. Video of some of that text. Several more new videos here and here.
May 1: Alchemical Cosmography + Tangents + Parables is a video I made of Aleph Null 3.0 in action with four brushes. This links to my video channel on youtube which has a lot of videos I've made of my interactive work in action.
April 2018
Apr 11: Oppen Do Down is a JavaScript version of a 2000 work of interactive audio I originally created in Director.
Apr 10: Checking In is a collaboration with Adeena Karasick. This appears inside Aleph Null 3.0. The text is Karasick's from her 2018 book Checking In from Talonbooks. She also chose the 300+ images in the mix. I wrote about the collaboration. And here are some screenshots from Checking In.
March 2018
February 2018
Feb 18: The Role of Programming in Computer Art considers the role of programming in the new art form of computer art.
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
Nov 20: The <Body> of Net Art is a 2006 essay originally published in the Capilano Review
Nov 2: The Moral Deformity of Team Trump A slideshow of 429 screenshots from Aleph Null 3.0 with the Trump nib.
October 2017
Oct 13: 4:52 The Aleph Null Text Nibs
Oct 13: 1:48 Allie Andrews
Oct 10: 3:59 Dan Waber in Aleph Null 3.0
September 2017
Sept 6: 4:34 Layering in Aleph Null 3.0
August 2017
Sept 6: 4:34 Layering in Aleph Null 3.0
June 2017
June 13: SimiLily with Adeena Karasick
May 2017
May 3: 6:01 New Globebop features
May 2: 11:38 Doodling with The Pen
April 2017
March 2017
Mar 10: 1:27 Tangent brush in Aleph Null
December 2016
November 2016
Nov 12: Stir Fry texts by Curt Rode
October 2016
Soliloquy is an animated/voiced poem by Lionel Kearns. His poem and voice, my programming and design. Also available as an installable app.May 2016
March 2016
January 2016
July 2015
May 2015
April 2015
February 2015
January 2015
Jan 1: Computer Art and the Theory of Computation is an essay I wrote about the relations of those two things.
May 2014
May 13: Teleporter is a new online work. It teleports you to a random spot on the planet each time you press the "Teleport" button. There's also a map-view and you can share your travels. There's a web version, an iPhone/iPad version (app) and an Android app. And an essay I wrote about the project.
July 2013
July 13: Got married to Natalie Funk!
June 2012
June 13: 12:41 video about Aleph Null 1.
January 2012
Jan 11: Webcast of a talk on my work I gave at SFU Surrey to grad students and faculty of the Interactive Arts and Technology program. It's kind of annoying in that I'm the only person you can hear and the image of the screen doesn't keep up, sometimes, but still a better setup than most webcasts, I suspect.
Jan 21: Chris Funkhouser's book New Directions in Digital Poetry was recently published. I'm happy and proud to say that my work is quite prominent in this book; Funkhouser discusses Arteroids, the Stir Fry Texts, and dbCinema. There's a pdf of the book online for a limited time. Funkhouser is also the author of the first book-length history of digital poetry.
November 2011
Nov 18: Why I Am a Net Artist. An essay published on Netartery and in the Journal of Electronic Publishing in their special issue on digital poetry.
September 2011
August 2011
Aug 8: 
Aleph Null 1.0, an interactive, generative visual work in JavaScript and the new HTML 5 canvas tag.
Aleph Null 1.0, an interactive, generative visual work in JavaScript and the new HTML 5 canvas tag.May 2011
May 30: The Club (video and slidvid). My favorite politicians, business men, and psychopaths incinemated.
December 2010
Dec 5: Wikileaks, Napster, and the Ayatollah Flanagan is an article I wrote about things concerning Wikileaks
October 2010
September 2010
Sept 12: My aunt Georgie Irvine passed away in 1997. I've put up some photos of her and wrote something about her.
June 2010
June 29: My dad, Dick Andrews, passed away in 2000. I've put some pictures up of dad, and wrote something about him. I still miss him.
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
Mar 13: POET PIRATE NETBOT by Kedrick James.
Mar 4: This is quite a good article on digital poetry: "Digital Duende: Reading the Rasp in E-Poetry" by Amanda G. Michaels. She explains Lorca's use of the term duende, concerning art, in his lecture "Play and Theory of the Duende". And moves on to look at work by Ken Goldsmith, Craig Dworkin, Simon Biggs, Mez, and myself in relation to duende. And she discusses critical writing by Chris Funkhouser, Nathaniel Mackey, Michael Davidson, and Landow.
February 2010
Feb 7: Vancouver
Feb 4: New York
January 2010
Jan 8: London Hypotrochoid: A city of the mind—your mind. Requires the Shockwave plugin. Mac users need to use Firefox.
Click it when it seems to be finished. dbCinema will then paint the town in
a different way. Usually clicking changes the nib and path of the brush
(randomly). Sometimes it adds another brush or deletes a brush, if there are
two. Occassionally the mouse controls the brush. Usually it clears the
screen when you click; sometimes it changes brush type.
All the best for the new year. 2010 past a space odyssey. But still not down
to earth.
December 2009
Dec 9: An essay called Art, Games and Play commissioned by the Centre for International Contemporary Art in Montreal. It's also available on vispo.com here.
November 2009
October 2009
October 29: New dbCinema series: Klee Flowers
July 2009
July 18: New dbCinema series: Olga Glukovska
June 2009
June 28: New dbCinema series: Silvia Saint II
May 2009
April 2009
February 2009
Feb 19: Streaming Flash video of a Feb 12/09 talk I gave about dbCinema and Jig-Sound. dbCinema is a graphic synthesizer and Jig-Sound is an interactive audio app I'm writing. The talk was given in Vancouver at The Centre for Digital Media.
January 2009
Jan 18: A piece of mine, "The Idea of Order at Key West Re-ordered" is in an exhibit in Tennessee curated by Alan Bigelow.
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
Oct 18: Kandinsky7.
I made these images with dbCinema, a graphic synthesizer I'm writing
in Adobe Director. This series, as with Kandinsky6, show more of
what dbCinema looks like when it is running.
Oct 17: Kandinsky6. I made these images with dbCinema, a
graphic synthesizer I'm writing in Adobe Director.
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 20: Brazil's Jorge Luiz Antonio has put together a
CD on digital poetry with a
piece by me on the CD.
June 2008
June 22: Lots of
my work uses HTML tables centered vertically. Info on vertical
centering.
June 1 : Each of
the dbCinema image series now has a
slideshow option. Choose a series and then click the button
with the "s" on it.
May 2008
May 27 : "Graphic
loven ". I typed "comics" into dbCinema and
came up with these images.
May 19 : "Kandinsky
5 ".
This uses the same brush as does the "Color
& Brush 2" series,
but "Kandinsky
5" paints with image, not color.
May 17 : "Color
& Brush 2 ". Continuing to explore dbCinema's possibilities
via painting without image.
May 13 : "Color
& Brush".
dbCinema image series. Normally dbCinema images use other images.
The brushes in these images just use color, not images, as 'paint'.
May 5 : "Kandinsky
4". dbCinema image series.
April 2008
April 5 : "Kandinsky
3" and writing about
this series of images generated with my app dbCinema that I'm
writing. There are two earlier series of images based mainly
on Kandinsky paintings: "Kandinsky
2" and "Kandinsky".
January 2008
Jan 2 : Here are the graphics I've produced so far with
dbCinema: dbCinema Binary
Meditations. These include binary meditations on "Kandinsky",
"Sunset", "Jim
Leftwich", "Geof
Huth", "Silvia
Saint", and "Abstract
Art". The executable of the current version of dbCinema
is not online. There is a little video, though, that's meant as a
tutorial for those kind enough to test dbCinema.
July 2007
July 12: The Pen
June 2007
May 2007
May 10: Here is a link to the below piece from the E-Poetry conference.
April 2007
Apparently Arteroids is discussed in a
book from MIT press; I haven't seen the
book yet.
March 2007
Mar 30: I'll
be in Seattle March 30. Hope to see you there. Later on, May 20-23,
I'll be in Paris at the E-Poetry conference.
Mar 13: 
The Canadian experimental poet bpNichol
wrote First Screening, a suite of programmed, kinetic
poems, in 1983-84. This links to a project that
presents First
Screening on the Web in various formats,
including a JavaScript version by Marko J. Niemi and myself;
the project also includes essays by me, Dan Waber, Geof Huth,
and Lionel Kearns about First Screening and bpNichol.
Here
are comments on the project by Nick
Montfort,
Jack Kimball, Gregory
Betts and Markku
Paasonen.
The Canadian experimental poet bpNichol
wrote First Screening, a suite of programmed, kinetic
poems, in 1983-84. This links to a project that
presents First
Screening on the Web in various formats,
including a JavaScript version by Marko J. Niemi and myself;
the project also includes essays by me, Dan Waber, Geof Huth,
and Lionel Kearns about First Screening and bpNichol.
Here
are comments on the project by Nick
Montfort,
Jack Kimball, Gregory
Betts and Markku
Paasonen.Mar 7 : An
essay of mine called "Videogames as Literary Devices" is published
in a book called Videogames
and Art. The book is published by the University of Chicago Press
and is edited by Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke. My essay looks
at degrees of subordination of videogame to art in art/games
by Regina Célia
Pinto, Natalie Bookchin, Neil Hennessey, and myself.
Mar 6: Added new links to my collection of links to interactive
audio for the Web and my collection of links
to other types of net art.
January 2007
December 2006
Dec 13: "From
Concrete to Digital: The Reconceptualisation of Poetic Space" (192 Kb
PDF), by Anna Katharina Schaffner. This paper discusses some of my work and that
of Ana Maria Uribe, Marko Niemi, and Dan Waber.
Dec 7: Over
the years, vispo.com has come to house some fine work by
other artists. This page links to that work and to work I've
done in collaboration with others. Geof
Huth has written about the vispo.com Guests & Collaborators project.
November 2006
Nov 6: Redesigned the vispo.com/audio page
and got rid of the Real Audio files. It just serves mp3's now
(streaming or savable). The Real Audio files were more compressed,
lower quality. That era seems to be over (whew).
Nov 5: Am in the midst of changing to a new hosting service.
October 2006
Oct 26-30: Am off to Banff
New Media Institute Oct 26-30.
Oct 23: On
Lionel Kearns in Berlin.
Oct 22: Regina Célia
Pinto translated Spastext and Seattle
Drift into Portuguese.
Oct 15: Marko Niemi
translated Spastext into
Finnish and did a second translation of Seattle
Drift.
Oct 1: Continuing to work
on Jig-Sound. Some not-so-obvious Jig-Sound features:
you can select multiple sound icons by dragging a rectangle
around a bunch; or shift+click to add icons from a selection;
alt+click already-selected ones among a group to de-select;
you can ctrl+drag and drop to swap icons.
September 2006
Sept 5: Arteroids 3.1. Scores
in 'game mode' are now uploaded to the Net. And the texts
you read when you 'win' or 'lose' have been re-written and
expanded.
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
June 10: e-motive:
Visual Poetry in the Digital Age is an exhibition
at the U of Essex that includes Nio and work by Ana Maria
Uribe.
May 2006
May 21: Arteroids in
Italy.
May 9: Mariana
Coronha on the Stir
Fry Texts.
May 9: I
am working on Jig-Sound.
March 2006
Mar 10: On Lionel Kearns published in volume 9 of WordForWord.com
January 2006
November 2005
September 2005
August 2005
June 2005
November 2004
Nov 12: On Lionel
Kearns launched at turbulence.org (New
York) and vispo. Reviewed
by Geof
Huth (New York) and Karen
Wagner (Denmark).
October 2004
Oct 1: Translations
into Finnish of Seattle Drift,
Enigma n,
Millenium Lyric, and
Time Piece. These are four DHTML pieces from 1997-2000. The
translations were written by Marko Niemi for the fall 2004
issue of Lumooja magazine from Helsinki/Turku. Marko updated
the code, also, so that now these pieces run on Netscape and
Firefox as well as IE (PC only).
September 2004
Sept 15: Interview
by Dakota Reese Brown with me about Arteroids. Dakota
also wrote a review of Arteroids.
Sept 29: ound poem and na na ound poem.
August 2004
July 2004
July 30: "Digital
Writing Circa 2004" (essay). Written for my visit
to England in July 2004.
May 2004
May 23: The
Idea Of Order at Key West -- an audio re-ordering of the venerable
Wallace Stevens (2.9 mb).
March 2004
January 2004
Did a collaborative offline piece with Steve Gibson and Randy
Adams called the Blitbopper. It reacts visually to a MIDI feed.
It was in the new media section of the Victoria
International Film and Video Festival
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
October 5: "Arteroids,
Poetry, and the Flaw", thoughts on Arteroids.
September 2003
September 20: "Interactive
Audio for the Web", an essay/review of several works
on the Web, and lots of links. Published on trAce from Britain,
edited by Randy Adams.
August 2003
June 2003
June 23: Arteroids
2.5. New audio feature.
May 2003
April 2003
March 2003
February 2003
January 2003
January 4: This
is an experiment in audio programming. It uses "Black
Coffee" and "Stardust" by Sarah Vaughn. There are 25 sounds
from "Stardust", ie, all of the song. There are 13 sounds
from "Black Coffee" and you hear it less frequently.
December 2002
October 2002
August 2002
August 21: Enigma
n2. Turn up the sound. 130 kb download. This
is related to a 1998 piece I did called Enigma
n
August 9: "Games,
Po, Play, Art, and Arteroids 2.02". This essay attempts
to condense my thoughts on these subjects from the last year
and a half. It's a 650 kb download; it has a copy of Arteroids
embedded in it.
July 2002
July 16: Internet
Art (2002): Matt Mirapaul of the NY Times on WBEZ in Chicago
(Real Audio) interviewed by Victoria Lautman concerning
Nio, Mark Napier's work, and the 'road to acceptance'. Except
that 'acceptance' is not really the goal. Instead, the idea
is to blow your mind out of its socket. It isn't so much
that the work comes to be 'accepted' over time as understood
over time. If the work is good, then it will bleed future.
An enhanced literacy of the sensorium. And if that literacy
is useful, as it may be, then the work will play and be understood,
and carried to some other level somewhere, some time else.
Toward an expanded multi-sensorial literacy. I make human
language machines that sing and textualize voco-graphically
at length. I attempt to make them resonate through the sensorium
and various dimensions of language. I presume computer communications
will continue to proliferate throughout society. This is
toward literacy and vision using the computer. And a re-write
of digital literature.
June 2002
June 9: Full
Screen Templates. This is a tool for Web developers who want
to launch projects full screen. An example use of this
template is how Arteroids can
launch fullscreen..
May 2002
April 2002
April 7: An article on my piece called Nio: Jeder
Nutzer ein Komponist - die audio-visuelle Poesie des Jim Andrews by
Berlin's Roberto Simanowski. This article appears in the main
newspaper of Frankfurt, Germany. Click "Suche"
at top right and search for 'Jim Andrews'.
March 2002
March 26: Shuen-shing Lee has written an article called "The
Interlaced Poetics of Representation and Simulation" that
discusses Arteroids, my literary computer game for the Web,
and work by other artists.
February 2002
Feb 25: Germany's
Roberto Simanowski has written an article on my work at his
site dichtung.digital.de called "Fighting/Dancing Words:
Jim Andrews' Kinetic, Concrete Audiovisual Poetry" and
done an interview with me called "Becoming A Full-Time
Web Artist".
January 2002
December 2001
Dec 4: arteroids 1.0 has launched in issue 11 of theremediproject.com. arteroids is a literary computer game for the Web.
September 2001
September 28 : I've
been volunteering to build a site for PRIME, the Peace Research
Institute in the Middle East
August 2001
August 31: I've
released the Nio source code.
July 2001
July 13: Hey, I got a $20,000 grant from
the Canada Council to pursue the interactive audio!
July 4: Shuen-shing Lee has done some amazing
'translations' of my work into Chinese. He's done some wonderful
work with Enigma
n and Spas
Text, one of the stir fry texts. Shuen-shing also translated Seattle
Drift some time ago. He's had his translations published
online at The
Literary Cafe, a website co-sponsored by The United News's
Literary Supplementary and the Taiwan government's Council
for Cultural Affairs. Shuen-shing
posted an interesting introduction to the translations on webartery,
and there's a thread of discussion on webartery primarily concerning
his translation of Enigma n, so far.
May 2001
April 2001
April 29: "No
Ideas But In Products" published on Bill Marsh's factoryschool.org.
Wow, was the e-poetry festival ever a blast.
March 2001
March 17: I've
added three very different versions of a great original song
I was proud to play drums on with my friends Keith McMaster,
Steve Lewty, and Cliff Syringe. It's ironically titled The
Green Hills of Home (it's about a gritty smelter town). Requires
the Real Player.
November 2000
Oppen
Do Down; an interactive music piece. Turn on the speakers.October 2000
October 9: A
new form of music? You be the judge.Vismu is coming along
great. Many new features added and running quite smoothly. Requires
speakers and Shockwave 8.
September 2000
September 7: Question
Answered (morph)
September 6: I've
put one of my favorite essays up on the site: George Orwell's "Politics
and the English Language".
September 5: Defib:
Steve Duffy (England)
September 4: Defib:
Mez (Australia)
September 3: Defib:
Jack Kimball (USA)
August 2000
July 2000
June 2000
April 2000
April 20: Defib:
Loss Glazier
March 2000
Mar 27: Defib:
David Knoebel
Mar 9: Defib:
Carolyn Guertin
February 2000
Feb 29: fierce.com
site of the day
January 2000
Jan 1: Field
Theory for a l y r i c m a i l e r, the canned version of
the live Defib show for Dec 19.
December 1999
November 1999
Nov 30: The Pen: more
depth.
Nov 29: Enigma
n: More enigma
Defib, which is a live
Web artist interview show I host and organize at webartery.com,
launched Oct 17/99. We've just finished the first hypertranscript
of that show, which featured Talan Memmott.October 1999
Oct 10: A new pop up poem.
September 1999
August 1999
Aug 21: Two
new essays: Stir Frys
and Cut Ups and Architecture
and the Literary among the stir fry project on cut ups.
Aug 7: Correspondence,
a Stir Fry text in collaboration with Talan Memmott, Mary
Phillips, and Lee Worden.
Aug 5: 
Webartery.com exists
but is not launched yet in its first manifestotion. Lots of work ahead of us.
Webartery.com exists
but is not launched yet in its first manifestotion. Lots of work ahead of us. July 1999
July 14: 
The Stir Fry
Texts are in development, currently, but here are a couple
of finished ones.
The Stir Fry
Texts are in development, currently, but here are a couple
of finished ones.July 10: Several
essays in PDF format from my manuscript Several Numbers
Through the Lyric have been added to the writings section.
July 9: B Bopping
June 1999
June 6: I finished a manuscript for a book
in 1996 called Several Numbers Through the Lyric that's wide-ranging
over essays, poems, stories, letters, and visual poems. I've
started to publish it here in PDF files. Please see Writings for
more information. All the PDF's in Writings are
from this manuscript.
May 1999
Bought vispo.com. Bought a word. Bought
a domain. Working on Vispo 2.0 which I launched this month.
Have been working on this redesign of speakeasy.org/~jandrews
for a couple of months. Basic idea is each piece gets its own
page, no more gallery motif, and use simpler (not frame-based)
navigation to claim more space for composition. Also, trying
to design for the future: less on each page, more focussed,
but also will accomodate any size of screen (mostly) except 640.
April 1999
March 1999
November 1998
Webartery
email list started.
Visual poetry show in
Victoria.
Visual show at
The Globe in Seattle came down this month.
Enigma
nDigital
Langu(im)age up at Web del Sol's Perihelion site or here on vispo.com.
Some
pieces were published in a very strong "volume" of writing
called Poetries
of Canada. It's perhaps the first such Web volume of the
Canadian wired writers.
I published work by Uruguay's Clemente
Padín.
August 1997
I wrote my first programmed poem, Seattle Drift, while living and working in the amazing city of Seattle.
January 1996
I started my site as islandnet.com/~jandrews in 1996. When I moved to Seattle
in 1997, I moved it to speakeasy.org/~jandrews. And then I bought the vispo.com
domain in May 1999. The site started as a page I used to publicize the poetry
reading series I ran in Victoria called Mocambopo. It soon turned into a site for
my own work as I began to get a feel for the web.
