Philippe Bootz - Alire: A Relentless Literary Investigation
"The web-based literary journal Alire was created in January 1989 by the Parisian groupL.A.I.R.E. (Lecture, Art, Innovation, Recherche, Écriture) -which included Philippe Bootz, Frédéric Develay, Jean-Marie Dutey, Claude Maillard and Tibor Papp. Alire is known as the oldest multimedia journal in Europe, and certainly one of the oldest in the West. Before the arrival of CD-ROMs, before the Internet explosion, the journal was already publishing poetry written for and intended to be read through computers."
Labels: digital poetics, ebooks, hypertext, literature, netart, oulipo, theory
"Essentially a gift economy, poetry is the perfect space to practice utopian politics...."
samples from the massive archive:
Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Balkan Baroque 1999
John Cage in Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz [John Cage:"We do very good work when we don't know what we are doing."]
Labels: avant garde, concrete, dada, oulipo, spoken word, ubu
