[Wgcp-whc] Wg/CP--John Cayley April 25th

[richard.deming at yale.edu]

Dear All--

Soon I will be delivering a resport on last Friday's conversation with Rachel
Blau Duplessis, which was by all accounts compelliig, generative, and full of
insights.

I write now to give a sense of our upcoming session.  On April 25th, we will be
joined by John Cayley, who is one of the foremost practioners and theorists of
digital poetics currently working. This session will be our seminar's first
full engagement with digital poetics.  This will be a bit of a departure, which
is why there has beeen interest in putting just such a session together.  In
other words, digital poetics is something more than poetry +--it is a new and
devloping art in and of itself, with ties to text but much else besides.


 More or less, the one stop shopping for Cayley is his website:
http://programmatology.shadoof.net/?bibliography.html

There one will find a number of critical articles by Cayley, plus a number of
his projects.

He has also recommended that we look at these onlines articles.
Cayley, John. "The Code Is Not the Text (Unless It Is the Text)." Electronic
Book Review  (2002): [Website accessed December 2005 at
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/literal].
Cayley, John. "Writing on Complex Surfaces." dichtung-digital 35.2 (2005):
[Website accessed August 2004 at
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/05/2-Cayley.htm].

I'd also recommend this interview:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/cayley/index.html#

Since we have a good number of group members from East Asian Studies, it is
particularly interesting that Cayley started out working in Chinese and
translation.

I'm also attaching a piece by Christopher Funkhouser on Cayley's work.  It is
quite useful.

Finally, Cayley has said he would be most interested in discussing several of
his projects that are available via his website.  The pieces he has in mind
are:

"imposition"; "riverisland";translation"; and "windsound."  These require some
downloading, etc, but the site walks people through it.

We're also trying to have some photocopies of some work by Steve McCaffery that
will offer some general grounding in digital poetics.  More on that when those
are ready.


The Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics meets every other Friday
at 3.00 PM in room 116 at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University to
discuss problems and issues of contemporary poetry within international
alternative and /or avant-garde traditions of lyric poetry. All are welcome to
attend.

Onward!
Richard Deming
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