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I'm a fan of animated GIFs, and one of my favorite features of UMW's Convergence Center is it's "Media Wall," a large, multi-screen display in the main area of the second floor. It's a cool place for looping, ambient visual art, so it's perfect for animated GIFs. Last year, my rendition of Cory Ar...
Do you like Twitter bots? I know I sure do. I like following them, and I like making them. I also like introducing my students to bots as one way to do creative things in a networked digital context. That's way, back in 2013, I cobbled together a simple tool built on a Google...
When I first read Nick Montfort's #!, I shared my initial response via Twitter in the form of a Perl one-liner. Since I'm teaching #! this semester, I've been taking a second look and growing in my appreciation and understanding of the Perl poems in particular, so I thought I'd revisit that revi...
In my classes, I've been talking about and showing off the kinds of visual analysis one can accomplish by extracting frames from video and comparing them in a montage format. This approach has been pioneered by Lev Manovich, Jeremy Douglass and others under the heading of Software Studies, and Man...
Your phrases and their respondent images still keep within me. The cold water lapping at your ankles, threatening to pull you down into “Freezing meadows stretched to the horizon like a million blue pages”
This epigraph is a quote from House of Leaves, a book in which a complex and maze-li...
If you've read Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, then you are no doubt familiar with the madwoman in its attic, Pelafina Lièvre. Her letters to her son Johnny add one more voice to this already polyvocal text, and though her words reside in Appendix IIE, her melancholy and madness encompass a spac...
In many of my classes, I've have an opportunity to discuss the poetic, sublime, cliche and now inevitable Passage, a game well-known for being well-known as an art game (or artgame). As a game or game-like thing about life and death, its approachable style and memento mori theme are sufficiently...
