Category Archives: IUP-ENGL

Digital Literature Exhibit and Website at IUP

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Reading Rebooted Website Launched: Previews Upcoming Exhibit

Announcing the companion website for “Reading Rebooted: Glimpsing
the Future of Literature in the Digital Age” which offers the
opportunity to preview the works selected from twelve digital writers
and artists from the United States, Europe, and Australia. Visit http://readingrebooted.iupdhc.org to learn about future of literature in the digital age.

Professor Kenneth Sherwood and doctoral students in English curate
this exhibition which “explores the imaginative engagement of poets and
fiction writers with the tools of new media. . . inventing a
post-Gutenberg space for literature.” Visitors to the website are also
invited to join a forum discussion.

The Kipp exhibit runs November 30 through December 4, 2009, with an
opening reception on Monday, November 30, at 5:00 p.m. It is sponsored
by the College of Fine Arts and is presented in cooperation with the
IUP Center for Digital Humanities and Culture, and the Graduate Program
in Literature and Criticism at IUP. Kipp Gallery is located in Sprowls
Hall on the corner of 11th and Grant streets on the IUP campus. Hours
are noon to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

For more information, contact:
Kenneth.Sherwood AT iup DOT edu
Center for Digital Humanities and Culture
http://www.iupdhc.org

Code Poetry

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The word “poetry” still carries historical, Romantic associations with “emotions recollected in tranquility.”  In the general imagination, nothing could be further from the poetic than machines. And yet, for a hundred years, avant-garde writers have been exploring the intersection of technology and art. 

One can get the background though books like MIT’s New Media Reader, the Electronic Literature Association, and the Electronic Book Review.  The Center for Literary Computing held a stimulating NSF Codework workshop last year specifically on writing “code” in both the poetic and computing senses. This gathering started me thinking on the differences between producing digital compositions using highly developed applications like Macromedia Flash and working more directly with a scripting language.

So, in an effort to explore this, I’ve been working through an introduction to PHP programming.  Here is my first study in code poetry. http://sherwoodweb.org/hybrid/codepoems/codepoem01.html