The government’s strategies for cultural politics for the next decade or so include a focus on electronic art. Trond has admirably summarised and quoted the most important bits.

Oh look, a dispersed art project from 1994, Hej gud, where the idea was to get people together through usenet groups to light fires across the world, spelling out the words “hej gud” (hello god), readable only by God. And people in […]

Torill went to an exhibition of video game art, and found that the impossibility of audience interaction led to “an odd discomfort, like watching machines masturbate.” I’ve had just that feeling at some electronic art exhibitions, though I’d never realised that that […]

I need a search engine I can sing a theme to and it’ll tell me the name of the song!

Apropos the ideas in Rob Wittig’s Invisible Rendevous, here’s a writing festival starting tomorrow about just this kind of literature: If traditional, mainstream literature is the equivalent of a 19th century still-life, literature as a contemporary art form would be the equivalent […]

It’s raining. Plump drops of water fill up the deepening puddles in my waterlocked garden. I trickle water on my daughter’s seedlings, planted far too close to grow for long, with an egg decorated at school planted happily into the earth.

Waxy.org’s coverage of what’s probably a fake bot, i.e., a human.

I’ve dipped in and out of Invisible Rendevous several times, picking up images of literary construction workers collecting bits of a novel from bypassers, but this weekend I read it outright, in that old-fashioned way from beginning to end. Invisible Rendevous was […]

Albertine (who doesn’t have a website but has dipped into lots of interesting projects) has asked me to come teach her high school students to blog on the last day of April. A whole day, just a day, in a place I’ve […]

I might redesign the first page of this weblog to be more like this.