Netartery

Inspired by netpoetic.com, which is a group blog on 'electronic literature',
I recently started up a group blog called Netartery at
http://netartery.vispo.com . Which looks a bit like a much earlier project
of mine called Webartery ( http://vispo.com/defib/pastevents.htm ).

There are only a few posts, so far, to Netartery. They're by Gregory
Whitehead, Andy Campbell, Jhave Johnston, and myself. Currently 13 people
have agreed to post at least 6 times per year. That number will probably
increase and decrease and, hopefully, balance out to something steady in
terms of semi-regular posts.

Netartery is like netpoetic in that the reader and writership will consist
probably primarily of writers. But the focus is not so much on 'electronic
writing' as a more general 'writers gone wrong' approach. Gregory Whitehead,
for instance, is an audio writer. I've been following his work since the 80's
and regard him as the best literary audio artist I've encountered.

Jhave Johnston ( http://glia.ca ) and Andy Campbell (
http://dreamingmethods.com ) are also involved. Jhave Johnston is a
Montréal-based poet-programmer who is producing some of the strongest
contemporary poetic net art (such as http://vispo.com/jhave ). And Andy
Campbell has been producing digital fiction since the early nineties and
continues with his truly outstanding project dreamingmethods.com . The other
people involved (and haven't posted yet) are Chris Joseph, Christina
Ljungberg, Christine Wilks, Jason Quackenbush, Kedrick James, Leonardo
Flores, Marcus Bastos, Michael Harold, and Regina Célia Pinto.

Netartery is primarily a place to post about one's new work and new work of
interest to the group and its readership, and about related issues. New
work, interesting ideas, events, and so on. The people posting to Netartery
are media writers and scholars of media writing. They are 'writers gone
wrong' in this sense. They might write books, but they are also involved in
other forms of artistic writing. These can be vispoetic or performative,
programmerly, audio-oriented, and what not.