Re: [-empyre-] a-life poetic moments

[Paul Brown <paul@paul-brown.com>]

> > a-life experiences have given me poetic moments
>
> Perhaps the truest form of a-life poetry currently on the loose, are 
> the perfectly banal texts of virus emails. It's no stretch to 
> propose that these are the reproductive organs of engineered virii - 
> they are the flowers, and hapless humans are the pollinators; they 
> entice us, and we trigger their reproduction. Only difference is 
> that bees etc. get some real benefit (food) out of pollinating 
> flowers... hopefully a sign that virii are not (yet) sustainable 
> lifeforms...

One of my favourite pieces is Maciej Wisniewski's Turnstile II:

  http://www.netomat.com/art/turnstile.php

Try leaving it on as a screen saver for a few hours...

Poetry via net art.  Although it's not "alife art" the
serendipity of the chance encounters of lines can often be very effective
and sometimes profound.

and a warning - the search terms it uses mean its contents and links
(each line links to a source) are often from porno sites!
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