new work from Turkey by Ozcan Turkmen

I received an email (below) today from Turkey, from Ozcan Turkmen, letting
me know that he has a site up of digital poems. This is an astonishing
event, to me, to visit a site by a fellow digital poet in Turkey, and would
like to share it with you.

It is vey unusual work, I think. If you refresh
http://www.workmanofchild.com repeatedly, you see different pictures from
the place Ozcan Turkmen was born: a prisoner of war camp in Germany from
WWII. He now lives in Istanbul.

These are works of experimental digital poetry. "Entropic Poetry" (done in
Java) finds/creates human meaning around Shannon's notion of entropy. This
is a conceptual poem involving programming, the visual, and an essay on the
concept. "The Story of a Line" (done in Flash) traces human growth through
the consciousness of a geometric figure. "Loopy" looks at the relation of
iteration/the loop to our own existence; "Pornography" seeks some
understanding of what it is.

I note that the full-site menu in the English section of the site is
considerably shorter than the Turkish section of the site, understandably.

It is really encouraging to see a site of this nature. Part of what many of
us treasure is the idea of a Net of art that aspires to international
solidarity in the creation of literary bodies of work that can swim in the
brine of the binary and communicate across many borders. Many thanks to
Ozcan for this moving, intelligent work from Istanbul.

ja

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Merhaba,

Kisisel web sitem olan www.workmanofchild.com adresinde toplamaya calistigim
yazilarimi sizinle paylasmak istedim. Umarim, aramizdaki iletisimi
guclendirir bu. Sevgiler…

Hi,

I'd like to inform you about my new site : www.workmanofchild.com . I hope
that it will strengthen the relation among us.
My greetings,
Ozcan Turkmen