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still images of The Precession included in "An Exchange with Sol LeWitt," an exhibition at Cabinet / Mass MoCA

From the submission: The Precession includes a series of generative text visualizations inspired by Sol LeWitt's wall drawings. The visualizations make use of instructions devised by LeWitt but re-situate these within the overall context of the work. They also reference SOL as an astronomical term, the latin origin of the word sun. The final section responds to Wall Drawing #289: 24 lines from the center, 12 lines from the midpoint of each side, 12 lines from each corner. The letters S-O-L (expressed as $-O-L) recur throughout the piece as a central refrain around which the poem (r)evolves.

Celestial Bodies in the City: The corporeal and virtual worlds of Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey

Chicago Art magazine has published Marissa Perel's engaged response to concurrent pieces at the MCA and Hyde Park Art Center.

The Labors

The Labors, a 90-minute dance made from a growing database of collected 'occupational' gestures and driven by the real-time apparent position of celestial objects over the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. January 11 - 16, 10:30-12:30: data collection; 2:30-4:00: performance

The Precession: An 80 Foot Long Internet Art Performance Poem

The Precession opened as a 10-screen installation at Hyde Park Art Center on Dec. 21, 2010. Here is a 10-minute video document tracing the opening performance and screens. The piece follows a code-driven structure with variable content and runs for an average of 65 minutes.

RC_AI: new generative work

RC_AI consists of texts composed by myself and Dr. Thomas J. Morrissey, my father, along with several generative algorithms and loose grammars in collaboration with a substantial portion of Robert Coover’s Pinocchio in Venice. The panoramic text is a printed array (approximately 380,000 pixels long – or 422 feet) of variable content generated by parsing through approximately 1/2 of Coover’s novel using the author’s name as a search string.

Hyde Park Art Center residency blog

Most recent post contains a very basic introduction to electonic writing and some images from our performance of The Precession at ELO_AI: Archive

The Living Newspapers

The Living Newspapers was performed daily at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago from June 1-25.

Relational Poetics

"What made post_moot [http://www.units.muohio.edu/creativewriting/postmoot/] 2KX remarkable was its repositioning of poetics within multiple fields of practice that included performance, criticism, film and media, digital and book arts, translation, collaboration, and others. Poetry per se became redefined in terms of ...practices that once were thought to be supplementary to it. The redefinition, in fact, was so total as to entirely reinvigorate the practice of poetics itself 'in the expanded field.'"

Chicago Dancemakers Salon

Zachary Whittenburg has written a very attentive response to a recent presentation given by myself & Mark Jeffery for the Chicago Dancemakers Forum.

digital poetry + poetics group blog: Netpoetic.com

This is a space, a net workshop, a spinning and feathering space for all manner of digital poetry and poetics. I will be an occasional contributor.

Electronic Literature in Drunken Boat

The 10th anniversary issue of Drunken Boat contains several interesting e-lit related contributions. Scott Rettberg's Electronic Literature (in Performance) includes readings/reports and video documentation of works presented at Electronic Literature in Europe 2008 (among them is The Last Performance (dot org))

Fault Tactical Network published in Frackija

This special issue of Frakcija Performing Arts Journal is a supplement to the SHIFTS program of PERFORMANCE STUDIES iNTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

new work-in-progress: The Precession

The Precession is a data-poetical new new work-in-progress that mixes original writing, real-time twitter feed choruses, and algorithmic composition in an evolving ecology.

Fault Tactical Network performed in Zagreb, Croatia

Fault Tactical Network is a temporary convergence of artists across media responding to the theme of mis-performance through a creative exploration of the error potential in reading, writing, performing and digital arts practice.

YouTube: paper on The Last Performance (dot org) @ E-poetry 2009

Scott Rettberg presented a close reading of The Last Performance (dot org) at E-poetry 2009 in Barcelona. Footage of the e-poetry performance of this work should also be forthcoming.