Writers In Electronic Residence -- Linking Canada's Writers with Canada's Schools

Bukowski: Poetry and Motion

Saving the Alphabet -- Alan Bigelow

THE HUGOBALL-- talan memmott

Algorithmic Improvisations on the 74 Unique Words of Gadji Beri Bimba

Labylogue, installation interactive

..un espace de conversation... a conversation space ...

Dans trois lieux différents reliés par Internet, Bruxelles, Lyon , Dakar ,
les visiteurs déambulent dans un labyrinthe virtuel en quête de l’autre.

Wordie

Wordie [wûrd • ē] Like Flickr, but without the photos.

Lithoparticles

"...mass-produced microscale particles shaped like each letter of the alphabet...each letter is smaller than many kinds of cells, possible applications include marking individual cells with particular letters.."



(Image: Carlos J. Hernandez/Thomas G. Mason, UCLA Chemistry;

March 29, 2007, Journal of Physical Chemistry C)

Seymour Papert

"It was in his laboratory that children first had the chance to use the computer to write and to make graphics. "

One Laptop per Child

"...it's a global humanitarian cause."

ATypI is the premier worldwide organisation dedicated to type and typography.

Firedoodle

Guide for Writing Greek Letters

Writing.3D Editor's Introduction:

"...a three-dimensional text – whether it be presented in the immersive reading environment of a Cave, a game space, a QuickTime video, or a Javascript poem – requires an adaptive flexibility that we might even call a new mode of reading, a 'deep reading.' "

ELO Symposium 2007

"The invention of writing is probably the most important tool for human advancement, making it possible for each new generation to build upon the work of the previous, to transmit knowledge from person to person, across cultures and time."

Don Norman

Technologies of Writing

"The phrase 'technologies of writing' refers not to the script or alphabet, the calligraphic or marking system that a text employs, but to the practical methods by which these systems are applied—pencil, brush, quill, ink, paint, print, machine key and pixel—and to the material surfaces and sites of writing itself—clay, animal skin, parchment, linen, wood pulp and cyberspace."

The History of Writing

The pictograph for "water" pronounced nu became the symbol for the consonantal sound of N.; This practice of using a pictograph to stand for the first sound in the word it stood for is called acrophony and was the first step in the development of an ALPHABET or the "One Sign-One sound" system of writing.

Docly, the Web 2.0 online word processor with copyright protection, automatically assigns copyrights

Granary Books

“observing progressive scholarship and supporting adventurous book making in the context of exploring the relationships between seeing and reading, reading and seeking.”

Robert Smithson
Heap of Language, 1966

Crystalpunk: Meaning is to language what Soup is to a Fork

"Crystalpunk is a panoply of ideas revolving around the same few Wandering Stars: the Game of Go and the Game of Life, the origin of language and the origin of mind, the suspected but never-realised capabilities of mind, matter, memory and computers whispered into your inner ear by unknown writers and succumbi, the power of abstraction and a melancholy for the noise lost, the BacterioPoetic and the cybernetic writing machine envisaged by Italo Calvino and William S. Burroughs"

Videotage --- Writing Machine Collective 2nd edition

The following is not a dream... You walk by a desk, or you touch upon a desk surface by accident...and the desk starts to type itself. You walk by an ordinary stand-up lamp and a voice, half-human, half-machine, chants something almost comprehensible but not quite.

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