Emanant Constructions

"I write and rewrite into a winperl program, changing it, substituting
texts for noun lists, etc. The program is the matrix/catalyst/chora for
subsequent processing. Once the program is transformed, I run it, enter
sentences, bypassing the natural language of the questions. Run over and
over again, texts emerge. The texts are then modified, sutured, eliminat-
ing program artifacts. The program itself undergoes continuous rewrite in
relation to the texts. The program and the texts merge, diverge. I work
towards the unimaginable representations of the imaginary. I pull emanants
out from me, as if the body were wounded, as if ectoplasm were ascii." -- from Alan Sondheim, Emanant Constructions, frAme, Issue 3, 2000

"Alan Sondheim writes on and about the Internet . . . He edited Being On Line, Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1997) and an issue of New Observations on Cultures of Cyberspace. His latest publications were two chapbooks, The Case of the Real, Potes and Poets, 1997. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn with a cat and cacti. He will be Virtual Writer-in-Residence for trAce, from September 1999 - February 2000."