Author: Dylan Kinnett

14 Nov

Asemic Writing

Asemic Magazine explains the concept of Asemic Writing. It looks like writing, but we can’t quite read it. I call works like this “asemic writing”. Asemic writing seems to be a gigantic, unexplored territory. Asemic writing has been made by poets, writers, painters, calligraphers, children, and scribblers, all around the world. Most people make asemic writing at some time, [...]
10 Nov

Video Art by Phil Davis

The work of Phil Davis, video artist.
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.
24 Sep

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 [...]
18 Sep

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.
17 Sep

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.
15 Sep

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.
03 Sep

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

Issue 2 is Coming Soon

Infinity’s Kitchen is boiling over with good stuff to read in the upcoming issue. That means that submissions are closed for the second issue, but we’re still accepting submissions for the third issue. The behavior of this website might be a little bit quirky for a while. There are some changes in store here. For starters, [...]
07 Feb

Release Party

To celebrate the publication of the inaugural issue of Infinity’s Kitchen, there was an opening held at the Metro Gallery on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.