(Re)Writing: Writers, Computers, and Networks I

"Presented by Turbulence.org, Upgrade! Boston, and the Electronic Literature Organization at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Within the digital arts there are also letters: works by writers who explore the possibilities of texts controlled by computational processes, or who write in ways that take the network as a medium (rather than a distribution mechanism). Net art includes text-, image-, and sound-based works; many e-literature works include images (moving and still) and sound. In both strains are the recurring themes of interactivity, participation, process, potential, and chance, as well as a questioning of the definitions of artist/writer, audience/reader, and the art object. 

In this reading, Turbulence.org and the Electronic Literature Organization celebrate their commonalities by presenting four writers reading from network-enabled work: Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort will read from their recent Turbulence commissions; Two Textual Instruments: Regime Change and News Reader, and Mystery House Taken Over. Yael Kanarek will read from World of Awe, and John Cayley will perform from Translation and related pieces. A discussion will follow." -- from Turbulence