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A while ago, I published a list of generative writing exercises. They seem to be quite popular and so I submit to you, even more generative writing exercises. Do you know of any others? Let’s hear about them, in the comments!
The fourth issue of Infinity’s Kitchen is about silence: overlooked wishes and people, forgotten music, fading ink. Writing is the best way to discuss silence. Along the way, as usual, we’re trying some different recipes for the way words are written on the page, because it can’t be done out loud.
Google Books has a preview copy of Futurist typography and the liberated text By Alan Bartram
Oulipo, or Workshop of Potential Literature, is a group of writers and thinkers interested in the notion of “constraint”. You can think of constraint as something like the rules of a game. For example, the rules of the sonnet game result in the creation of a sonnet. The rules of the short story game result [...]
The author has some interesting things to say about how the book was created, and what sort of style it is written in.
An new exhibition of concrete poetry is on display at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The exhibition is titled “Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.” gets its name from a periodical by that name that championed new works of visual poetry in the 1960′s.
Existing not only as an art installation, but also as a book and a DVD-ROM, The Imaginary 20th Century proposes a new approach to narrative.
In a Vorticist painting modern life is shown as an array of bold lines and harsh colours drawing the viewer’s eye into the centre of the canvas.
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, possibly when testing a new pen.
Roulette TV is an on-going, innovative video series which presents unique contemporary music in compelling and engaging performances given by the creators themselves.
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.”
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”.
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.
Novelist Robert Coover’s keynote address at the Electronic Literature in Europe seminar (elitineurope.net), September 13th, 2008. Introduced by Scott Rettberg.
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 [...]
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 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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
Eclipse is “a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century”.
Dreaming Methods is a fusion of writing and atmospheric new media that explores digital storytelling, imaginary memories and dream-inspired states.
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 [...]
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.
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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.
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.”
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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.
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Poets and spoken word performers from all over the United States are getting ready for the National Poetry Slam this August.
An exploration of poetry, scat, spoken word, cadence, and even rap and scat. Word to your mother!
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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.
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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