09 Nov
Roulette TV: New and Experimental Music
Roulette TV is an on-going, innovative video series which presents unique contemporary music in compelling and engaging performances given by the creators themselves.
09 Nov
Anderbo
Anderbo.com is one of an increasing number of online literary journals. The magazine publishes three issues online and one print issue annually. It features poetry, fiction and “fact” writings. Here’s a clip from the journal’s facebook page. Founded by The New Yorker fiction contributor Rick Rofihe (who has published nine stories in the magazine, as well [...]
08 Nov
Link is Dead. Long Live Locus!
Tonight the torch was passed to a new publication in Baltimore, Locus Art Magazine. Locus has already published a fifth issue, and was named the 2008 best art magazine by Baltimore Magazine.
22 Oct
Experimental Writing Conference
If you’re in the Los Angeles area, and you read Infinity’s Kitchen, then you should definitely check out the “Untitled” conference. If anything cool goes online, as a result of this conference, we’ll be sure to mention it here. Here’s the skinny on this year’s conference.
06 Oct
Live From the High Zero Music Festival
A small taste of what audiences have experienced in the last ten years at the festival that Signal to Noise Magazine called “A fertile laboratory of musical possibility without equal.”
30 Sep
Proposed Poetry Bailout to Restore Readers’ Confidence
Harper’s Magazine online reports today that the poetry market is also affected by the recent downturn in the market. Charles Bernstein proposes a “bailout plan”.
29 Sep
A Documentary Saga of the Oulipo
OULIPO is the “Workshop of Potential Literature”. This is a group of writers and mathematicians whose goal is not to create new literature, but to invent new forms of literature. These short videos should give a good introduction.A History of the Future of Narrative
Novelist Robert Coover’s keynote address at the Electronic Literature in Europe seminar (elitineurope.net), September 13th, 2008. Introduced by Scott Rettberg.
22 Sep
Experimental Literature & Artists’ Books
There will be an exhibition of Jack Kerouac’s original manuscript for “On the Road”, at Columbia College in Chicago this fall. (Hopefully, this one will allow photographs.) In conjunction with that, there will be another exhibition that “highlights the ongoing exploration of writers/artists in the area of experimental literature vis-a-vis artists’ books”. Rather than focusing specifically on [...]
21 Sep
Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about the state-of-the-art, when it comes to digitally archiving artworks and poetry on the internet, here’s a treat for you. “Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online” is a critically-oriented (lengthy) discussion of digital media and the future of archiving, featuring alternating models for poetry and visual media currently [...]Generative Writing Exercises
Generative writing uses a system, such as a set of rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedure, which is set into motion with some degree of autonomy resulting in a completed work of art.Poetry on the Broad Side of a Barn
The side of a barn, photographed aslant, with the raised letters of a poem running along each running stratum of board on a wide side of the building. The sun is sharp and harsh against the words.Illuminated Manuscript
It doesn’t take lights and circuits to create an “illuminated” manscript. The tradition goes way back. Here’s an interesting overview of that history, from the earliest printed books, to the latest digital recordings.The Validity of Experimenal Literature
In 2002, there was a big debate over the validity of experimental literature. It was sparked by an article in the New Yorker, September 30 2002, where "Jonathan Franzen writes about the career of William Gaddis, one of the most imposing modern novelists, and considers the question of whether a novel’s difficulty is related to [...]
26 Aug
Radical Small-Press Writing
Eclipse is “a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century”.
12 Aug
Dreaming Methods - Digital Storytelling
Dreaming Methods is a fusion of writing and atmospheric new media that explores digital storytelling, imaginary memories and dream-inspired states.
10 Aug
Vispo in The World
Repugno Selects is a new blogzine for visual poetry / word art / text objects — as they intervene in the world. Each issue, Repugno the editor, gives us an interesting collection of graffiti, and things like graffiti to enjoy. His criteria: the visual poetry cannot appear on a page. Instead, the art featured ere [...]
08 Aug
The First Ever Flux-Olympiad at the Tate Modern
Fluxus uses humour as well as Zen philosophy to blur the boundary between art and everyday life. During the Flux-Olympiad, participants crossed the line between sports and performance art, with a bunch of zany spectacle sports.
03 Aug
Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection
Recently, The Avant Writing Collection has published a catalog of visual poetry, Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection. It includes many samples from the collection, along with critical writing.
31 Jul
Three Visual Poems
Michael Basinski, visual poet, has three visual poems published in Anti-. Anti- is “interested in work that blurs boundaries: between verse and prose, traditional and cutting edge, narrative and lyric and linguistically fragmented.”
30 Jul
Approaches to the New Poetics
Ron Silliman is afraid of getting into trouble for saying it, but he done said it anyhow. He sees some interesting parallels between the new poetry today and the poetry that was new in the 1950’s. He is happy to see that there are actually different approaches.
28 Jul
National Poetry Slam 2008
Poets and spoken word performers from all over the United States are getting ready for the National Poetry Slam this August.
28 Jul
Spoken Word from the Bending Corners Podcast
An exploration of poetry, scat, spoken word, cadence, and even rap and scat. Word to your mother!
22 Jul
Infinity’s Kitchen no. 2
Right after cooking up that first batch of words and music, with the first issue and the release party, we’ve done it again! Infinity’s Kitchen no. 2 is finally ready.
03 Jul
Concrete Poetry
lesabres in unlesbares ubersetzen by Claus Bremer (1963). Translated from German. Concrete poetry is writing with physical aspects. Concrete poetry happens when the physical qualities of words take on a meaning in addition to the meaning of words themselves. The word “concrete” here refers to that physical quality, not the stuff that paves the sidewalk. Concrete [...]
20 May
Author: Dylan Kinnett