Biography

Interests

Electronic literature and digital humanities, American and other English-language modernist and contemporary poetry; video game narrative studies; software studies and algorithmically generated film and narrative; conceptual art and literature.

My interests in electronic writing stem directly out of my work as a poet, though it has branched off into any number of art genres that have fallen under the persuasion of digital technology, such as photography, film/video and book publishing. Research interest include creating a “bridge” between the concepts and traditions of various 20th-century avant-gardes — Language writing, the Oulipo, concrete poetry, conceptual art, Situationism, metafiction, etc. — and the various genres of digital literature, including animated poems, interactive texts, algorithmically-generated and manipulated texts, “nomadic” writing, hacktivism and experimental blogs. Presently working on a series of wall projections called “Scriptors” which will appear as gallery and environmental installations in the coming years.

Education

B.A., Literature, Bard College, 1992 M.F.A., Electronic Literature, Brown University, 2006

Publications

Free Space Comix (poems), 1998 Gulf (poems), 1998 Angry Penguins (poems), 2000 Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (essays and poetry), 2003 What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (poetry), 2006 Kluge: A Meditation, and other works (poems), 2007 Before Starting Over: Selected Essays and Interviews, 2007

Selected Internet Art

“The Dreamlife of Letters”

“Star Wars, One Letter at a Time”

“Kluge: A Meditation”

Websites

Arras: New Media Poetry and Poetics, http://ww.arras.net

Electronic Writing II, http://ww.arras.net/brown_ewriting