Netartery online again!
As you can see, Netartery is back online. It was down for 2024 after the parent site, vispo.com was hacked. My dear wife Natalie Funk…
High-Resolution HTML5 Canvases
You can make your canvases as high-res as the user's computer can stand. I've recently used canvases of size 12000x6750 to create bitmaps that, when…
Digital Poetry in Digital Literacy
Poetry has been associated with the teaching of literacy for a long time. Because poetry, in some ways, is the cherry on the top of…
Godel and Philosophy
It's inspiring when math/logic leaps from the empyrean to the inner life. We see such a leap in Godel's work: he actually showed that there…
Leibniz and Computing
If you are interested in the history of the philosophical/logical/poetical dimensions of computing, you will be interested in Leibniz, the greater contemporary of Newton who…
Me and AI
Have been thinking about my art and AI. I don't use AI, as you may know--if one takes as fundamental in AI that it learns.
Some correspondence with my pal Ted Warnell
Here is some correspondence between myself and the marvelous net artist Ted Warnell.
Oppen Do Down--first Web Audio API piece
In my previous post, I made notes about my reading of and preliminary understanding of Chris Wilson's article on precision event scheduling in the Web…
Event Scheduling in the Web Audio API
This is the first of a two-part essay on event scheduling in the Web Audio API and an interactive audio piece I wrote (and sang)…
Chris Joseph: Amazing Net Art from the Frontier
I've been following Chris Joseph's work as a net artist since the late 1990's when he was living in Montréal--he's a Brit/Canadian living now in…
globalCompositeOperation in Net Art
Ted, Jim and globalCompositeOperation Ted Warnell and I have been corresponding together about net art since 1996 or 97. We've both been creating net art…
Colour Music in Aleph Null 2.0
I'm working on Aleph Null 2.0. You can view what I have so far at vispo.com/alephTouch/an.html . If you're familiar with version 1.0, you can…
Image Masking with the HTML5 Canvas
Image masking with the HTML5 canvas is easier than I thought it might be. This shows you the main idea and two examples. If you'd…
New Work by Ted Warnell
Ted Warnell, as many of you know, is a Canadian net artist originally from Vancouver, long since living in Alberta, who has been producing net…
Google Image Search API
Google image search parameters Here are some useful documents if, as a developer, you want to use the Google Image Search API. I used the…
Teleporter
I've been working on a new piece called Teleporter. The original version is here. The idea is it's a teleporter. You click the Teleport button…
Breaking Bad as Sittrag
Whatever else it is, tragedy is a dramatic form, a type of drama for the stage or film or TV etc. Certain dramatic works of…
The Great White West: Breaking Bad as Western
Breaking Bad is a kind of contemporary western. In various ways. Of course there's the New Mexico landscape. Breaking Bad uses that landscape cinematographically to…
First Remainder Series by Joseph F. Keppler
Apologies for the long absence. In the interim, I got married to the lovely Natalie Funk. And bought a condo in Metrotown in Vancouver. And…
Two Self-Portraits
These were created on invitation to make a work related to self-portraiture for Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses, a group exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery.
'R'
Dreaming Methods Labs presents 'R' - an experimental digital fiction project created using WebGL - an open source 3D technology. 'R' follows the story of…
Joe Keenan's MOMENT
I put together a twenty minute video talking about a fantastic piece of digital poetry by Joe Keenan from the late nineties called MOMENT. Check…
Color music
Just a brief note to say something about color music. Cuz I've spoken of Aleph Null, a project of mine, as one of color music.
Exotic functions
The strong lines in this scrawly curve are via the Lily function In my generative 2d art such as Aleph Null and dbCinema, a virtual…
Chapter X: Evolution and the Universal Machine
Having recently been trying to be less a fossil concerning knowledge of evolution, I've watched all sorts of truly excellent documentaries available online. In several…
Why I am a Net Artist
vispo.com homepage Vispo.com is pretty much my life’s work, such as it is. Most of what I have created is available for free on the…
Chapter 3: Programmability
I said in chapter 1 that it's programmability, not interactivity (or anything else) that is the crucial matter to consider in computer art. I want…
Computer Art and the Theory of Computation: Chapter 2: Greenberg, Modernism, Computation and Computer Art
(Broken Link Here: original link is http://www.lorenmunk.com/portfolio.html . Try looking for an image and contacting the artist https://www.lorenmunk.com/portfolio ) In a short but influential piece…
Computer Art and the Theory of Computation: Chapter 1: The Blooming
Alan Turing inaugurated the theory of computation in 1936 with the most humble but powerful manifesto of all time What I'd like to do in…
Aleph Null Color Music
Aleph Null makes color music. Colors are tones. Musical notes are tones. Music is tones moving in time. Aleph Null makes changing color tones move…
Aleph Null
I've just completed my first JavaScript work using the new HTML 5 canvas tag. It's called Aleph Null. It's a generative, interactive work of visual…
Some HTML 5 Works
I've been seriously trying to learn JavaScript, CSS, the DOM (document object model) and jQuery recently, hopefully toward the production of some HTML 5 art…
RECURSION AND HUMAN THOUGHT: WHY THE PIRAHÃ DON'T HAVE NUMBERS
I thought this was a very entertaining read, as it literally seems to be a case of the Natives converting the missionary. But I also…
Vancouver Riot
A dbCinema maundering on the Vancouver riot: http://vispo.com/dbcinema/vanriot
Dreaming Methods - Open Source Projects
Dreaming Methods has three new projects available to experience – each one created without the use of Flash or any other browser plugin. Visiting dreamingmethods.com…
The Club
The Club is a moving-image digital collaging of 57 images of selected North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths from the eighties till the present.
Unicode by Jörg Piringer
Jörg Piringer is a sound poet and poet-programmer currently living in Vienna/Austria. He really knows what he's doing with the programming, having a master's degree…
City Bird by Millie Niss
Millie Niss passed away in 2009. She was a New York writer/poet, programmer, and mathematician who took her work as a new media artist very…
Andrew Topel
from CONCRETE by Andrew Topel I subscribe to the Poetics list from SUNY, which is one of the oldest/biggest English language poetry-related listservs. Mostly the…
In the soup with the digital book
Nicolas Negroponte of MIT famously defined the phenomenon of digital convergence as "digital soup" and I'm poised - or at least tottering - on the…
Maria Engberg reviews Funkhouser and Drucker
Maria Engberg wrote an interesting review of two books relevant to digital poetry: Chris Funkhouser's Prehistoric Digital Poetry--An Archeology of Forms (1959-1995) and Johanna Drucker's…
Mom's music
When my mom was dying, there was a short time when she no longer could talk but could hear. This was only a few days…
Slidvid 3.0
I've been working on version 3 of a JavaScript slideshow program I call Slidvid. I initially developed it to show screenshots of dbCinema in action.
The Curse of the "Code Blue" Motto
The motto of the Canadian national junior hockey team in 2011 was "Code Blue". Who knew that their motto would prove ironic? After the final…
New online journal: Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics
I received the below notice concerning a new online journal on experimental poetics and aesthetics, which I thought I'd post on netartery. We would like…
Doc At The Radar Station
In 1980, as I took my own first forays into the wilds of electromagnetic schizophonia, bouncing twisted walkie talkie tracks between two battered Superscopes, Captain…
Nick Montfort & Stephanie Strickland / Sea and Spar Between
Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort have collaborated on a work of digital poetry called Sea and Spar Between. The generative/interactive piece uses Emily Dickinson’s poems…
iPhone apps for Native languages in western Canada
Quoted and condensed from an article by Judith Lavoie in the Victoria Times Colonist, Dec 16, 2010. New apps for the iPod Touch, iPad and…
Wikileaks, Napster, and the Ayatollah Flanagan
In an Assange interview published by the Guardian on Friday 3 December 2010, Assange says: "Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on…
New online issue of CIAC's magazine
The CIAC is the Centre for International Contemporary Art in Montréal. They publish on the net a long-running magazine, now edited by Paule Makrous, that…
Sound Resolution
Now what I'm going to tell you you already know back in some primitive part of your brain. Digital sound doesn't sound as good as…
NHL Brain Trinket
What I'm going to tell you—I warn you—is of no consequence whatever. And it won't even be of interest to you unless you're an NHL…
Issue on digital poetry from Journal of Electronic Publishing
Aaron McCollough is guest-editing an issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing on digital poetry. Below is the email he sent to the Poetics list…
Canadian Psycho
During the third week of October, 2010, the Canadian media covered the case of Russell Williams like no other news story. Williams, prior to his…
Gregory Chatonsky's Generative Narratives
Gregory Chatonsky is a French/Canadian artist who has created a significant body of net art. Here are a couple of pieces of his I found…
New Media Writing Prize Shortlist
The shortlist for the Poole New Media Writing Prize includes Christine Wilks (who is on netartery), Katharine Norman (whom I invited to be on netartery),…
Text Generators
Edde Addad put together an interesting post concerning poetical text generators on netpoetic.com. The post describes and links to quite a few online resources including…
Amy Winehouse links
I've been listening to Amy Winehouse's blue-eyed soul music (though hers are brown) recently, watching interviews and reading articles about her. I thought I'd post…
Sign After the X
David Clarke has created a new work of net art called Sign After the X in collaboration with Marina Roy and Graham Meisner. Sign After…
Sufferrosa an "interactive movie"
Sufferrosa is an "interactive movie" by Dawid Marcinkowski. Here's a video about it. It's quite extensive, as these things go. And it looks like some…
Auntie Georgie
It's only been over the last few years that, suddenly, just about all the folks in my family as old as my parents have all…
Got a Grant from the Canada Council
I recently got a senior grant from the Canada Council's 'Spoken Word and Storytelling' program to do a specific project described at http://vispo.com/wombamo/wm.pdf. Basically, the…
Nawlz.com, a computer graphic novel for the web
Various forms of art lend themselves to adaptation and subsequent mutation via their practice on the web. The graphic novel is obviously an excellent candidate.
My little cyber shrine
It's been ten years since my dad passed away in 2000. I've been meaning to put some pictures of him on the net, for myself…
Online Russian mag of sound poetry & audio art
To me, this is quite juicy: an online Russian magazine of sound poetry and audio art called ARTronic Poetry. Edited by Evgenij V. Kharitonov. This…
On Pulsate by Andre Michelle
I find Andre Michelle's (Flash) interactive audio piece called Pulsate quite interesting. I won't describe it (very much) because it's online and you can check…
Bios
Jim Andrews Jim Andrews has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. It is the centre of his activity as a writer/poet, programmer, visual/audio artist, and essayist…
Script: a new publication
(2010 link broken in 2024) S C R I P T is a new online publication edited by David Goldsmith and Quimby Melton. There are…
The gusher provides the ink
But what's the message? A few years ago, I co-produced a documentary for BBC Radio 3 that set out to follow the watery migrations of…
BP Horizon oil spill volume
How much oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the Horizon oil spill? Wikipedia tells us that although no really accurate testing has…
Reduced to the state of a child
I recall reading writing by the poet P.K. Page about her time in Brazil, as the wife of a Canadian ambassador. She didn't understand Portuguese.
How it feels
At this point (in learning Flash), it feels like each word I write requires a day of research. And, even then, the pace may not…
Typographic Animation Software
Obx labs at Concordia U in Montréal, which is directed by the poet-programmer Jason Lewis, has released some interesting typographic still and animation software. One…
Explorations in Audio
After 11 years of using the Director multimedia tool to create pieces such as dbCinema, Jig Sound, Arteroids, Nio, A Pen, On Lionel Kearns, War…
What is Netartery?
I've been participating in netpoetic.com , a group blog started by Jason Nelson. I've been posting regularly to that group blog concerned with 'electronic literature'…
About
Netartery is a group blog by a diverse collection of (mostly media) artists and thinkers, scholars, programmers, and whatnot. The idea is to keep one…