Image Generation :

  • ʘ → dedicated site

news :

  • updated July, 2025

In Networked 
& Programmable Media
:

  • ʘ → access to draft pages
    & notebooks from my major
    digital publication project

work :

  • the readers project
  • long-term collaboration
    with Daniel C. Howe (separate site)

  • Subliteral Narratives
  • deferred lest ...
  • the Epigraphic Clock
  • monoclonal microphone
  • inextrinsic reading
  • aurature
  • zero-count stitching :
  • the ZC process
  • zero-count perigrams stitched with liberated nlp Google stats :

  • clogged question opening ... summit heather snout tired are mine hers sweet don’t darling high dog morning mud is long it’s
  • text of a version of imageZC0304 produced for performance, Nov'10
    Link (here below) for an
    extended process description:

  • processProse
  • imposition
  • translation
  • first beacon
  • an imposition engine

  • wotclock
  • overboard
  • This Is (Not) Writing
  • riverIsland
  • lens
  • what we will ...
  • ... have of what we are: something past. a collaboration with Giles Perring, Douglas Cape, and others: groundbreaking 'broadband interactive drama' long overdue for its version 3.0

  • windsound
  • writing to be found

installation / networked :

  • The Listeners (2015.11)
  • Orthographics (2012.10)
  • Hapax Phaenomena
    with Clement Valla (2012.1)
  • This Clock (2011.10)
  • The Reading Room (2011.9)

sketches :

  • Orthographics (2013.1)
  • Suflosi (in RiTa.js) (2013.2)
  • Quartz Compositions

critical / theoretical :

  • bibliographic :
  • by listing
  • of critical & theoretical writing by myself and others, with a number of creative works

  • about listing
  • of selected writings about my work and collaborations

  • selected direct links:
  • Grammalepsy:
    an introduction
  • a good place to start

  • lens
  • so long as the archive of Leonardo Electronic Almanac is being rebuilt I am making this pdf available here

  • near & far
  • live transactional diagrams produced for the 'lens' article

  • for Bat of Minerva
  • interviewed by Peter Shea, MN 2009

  • complex surfaces
  • the code is not the text
  • (unless it is the text)

  • inner workings
  • from byte to inscription
  • interviewed by Brian Kim Stefans

  • to be continued ...
  • dialog >
    white cube blue sky
  • with Rita Raley

earlier work :

  • selected :
  • riverIsland HC
  • the original HyperCard version

  • noth'rs
  • where the sea stands still
  • a bilingual 'performance hypertext' based on Yang Lian's long poem, originally produced for the ICA, London, 1997

  • oisleánd
  • the early web iteration of a translingual Irish/English cross-mesostic piece commissioned in 1996

  • downloads
  • a page of links to archives or early work, esp. pieces built with Hypercard/Hypertalk in the late 1990s

early networked essays :

  • selected :
  • hypertext/cybertext/poetext
  • composed for Assembling Alternatives, 1996, and later published (see the
    bibliographic listing)

institutional :

  • biographical
  • literary arts
    at Brown University
  • link to research profile
    at Brown University

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