Re: [-empyre-] Links and Resources -- by Bill Seaman

[marcus bastos <bastos.marcus@gmail.com>]

The book after the book, by Giselle Beiguelman
http://www.desvirtual.com/thebook

Trace Online Writing Community
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/

Writing and the Digital Life
http://jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html
http://writing.typepad.com/

Writing in Unreaderly Times seems to be a good source, according to
the following review:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67979,00.html

Digital Poetics, by Loss Pequeño Glazier
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier/dp/

p0es1s.net
http://www.p0es1s.net/poetics/start.html

Roberto Simanowski @ EPC
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/simanowski/

Language is a Virus
http://languageisavirus.com/

U B U W E B
http://www.ubu.com/

New Media Poetry, Hypertext, and Experimental Literature Bibliography
Selected bibliography compiled by Eduardo Kac. E-mail: ekac@artic.edu.
Updated March 1999.
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/newmediapoetry.html

Visible Language special issue on New Media Poetry
http://www.id.iit.edu/visiblelanguage/VLCatalogueSearch/VLChronologicalTables/ChronologicalTables30.html#New%20Media%20Poetry:%20Poetic%20Innovation

Horizon Zero # 1 : the literary book as a digital form
http://www.horizonzero.ca/index.php?pp=14&lang=0

more later on...


On 10/16/05, Christine Goldbeck <cgoldie@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Bill and Friends:
>
> I would be glad to trade lists of textual resources with you as I would love
> to learn more about the mathematical theories and practices of the computer
> as tool for the practice of logic. This interests me from the perspective of
> history and for theories and practices of using the computer in educational
> environments, specifically for teaching across the curriculum and for
> fostering critical thinking.
>
> One of the problems I have with making the work I do is finding the
> resources to make my art come alive, as with a-life art. I cannot help but
> think that having a computer scientist to collaborate with would vastly
> improve what I aim to achieve. In other words, I find that I struggle when I
> have to pop from my role as artist to my role as coder (to make the art
> live). It has become easier with practice.
>
> If you would like a MLA-style biblio of the texts to which I often refer in
> my work in humanities computing (in my case digital writing, photography and
> art), I would be glad to forward it. My work focuses on the computer as tool
> for making art. My work is also grounded in the history of art and
> communications tools and mediums.
>
> N.K. Hayles, by the way, is someone whose thinking I admire. Her book
> "Writing Machines" is the little text that catapulted me from my safe/known
> spaces in the print world.
>
> If you want a biblio (note whether you want annotations or not), send a note
> to cgoldie@verizon.net.
>
> All the best,
> Christine
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>
> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:48 AM
> Subject: RE: [-empyre-] Links and Resources -- by Bill Seaman
>
>
> >
> >> Bill Seaman wrote:
> >> I am wondering what  resources that this group is drawing on for
> >> didactic texts to address digital writing?
> >
> > i don't teach it, but have run across a few texts that seemed obliquely
> > relevant.
> >
> > most recently, martin davis's 'the universal computer: from leibniz to
> > turing'. davis is a renowned logician. his book is on the life and work of
> > several mathematicians/logicians: leibniz, boole, frege, cantor, hilbert,
> > godel, and turing--arranged chronologically in the progress of "leibniz's
> > dream" of basically a language of symbolic logic and a machine in which it
> > could manifest (as "an aide to human reason" whereby when we have a
> > problem
> > demanding careful attention, we should sit down and say 'let us calculate'
> > and proceed kachunk kachunk to derive useful truths concerning the problem
> > using the universalis machinus)--but the reason why i bring it up here
> > concerns the book's perspective on language as crucial to "leibniz's
> > dream".
> >
> > computers are *both* language machines and number machines--and the way in
> > which language and number are synthesized in them is crucial to their
> > programmability--programmability being what sets computers apart from
> > other
> > machines, gives them their flexibility compared with other
> > machines--flexibility to the point where there is never likely to be any
> > proof that there are thought processes of which humans are capable but
> > computers are not--that's breathtakingly flexible!
> >
> > in my own work, intermedia and multimedia are important, but the
> > fundament--for me, anyways--seems less to me about synthesis of arts and
> > arts, or arts and media, or media and media so much as number and
> > language,
> > logic and feeling, or mathematics and poetry, which is where my own folly
> > first foamed. davis's book is going to be around for a long time as not
> > only
> > a history of the type of role the mathematicians/logicians played in the
> > development of the computer (and a compelling piece of writing about the
> > triumphs and tragedies of the lives of these men) but also as a teaser
> > concerning the way that, even as far back as leibniz, the development of
> > machines like computers was conceptualized not simply as an advanced
> > calculator, but as one in which general reasoning could be carried out.
> > leibniz thought that if he had about five years with some good help, he
> > could have formulated the language in that time. that was in the
> > seventeenth
> > century. but it has taken a bit longer to concoct that sort of language.
> > and
> > the machine in which it can manifest. put together rationality, process,
> > and
> > general language capabilities, and the result apparently changes not only
> > writing but any field it touches. and perhaps in related ways. as i
> > mentioned earlier, the lettriste isou said that 'each poet will integrate
> > everything with Everything'--the computer seems devised in the spirit of
> > that ongoing enterprise.
> >
> > i should add that i enjoyed your teaching partner's book, bill--'how we
> > became post human' by k. hayles--as a history of ideas concerning a change
> > in the images humanity has of humanity (as machine). also, i think one of
> > the urls you cited,
> > http://classes.design.ucla.edu/Winter02/189-1/texts/texts.htm , seems to
> > be
> > 404--would be interested to check that out, actually.
> >
> > ja
> > http://vispo.com
> >
> >
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