At 02:50 PM 9/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>don't misunderstand me too quickly!

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>i don't want nor believe they SHOULD be distinct forms…BUT it all too
>often seems to me that they are…


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>there's a fundamental difference between, say, 'the dreamlife of letters'
>and jimpunk/bruno with their gogolchat….and all too often, looking at
>works that tout themselves as 'digital poetry,' i'm
>disappointed…disappointed because there's so much potential in the
>medium not being used…too often i see nothing more than text that
>moves…which is great, but no different than cinema, and not indicative
>of a new artform…or i see works that use rollovers as their only source
>of user-interaction, which, while justifying their presence on the machine
>and network, and introducing some reactivity to the work, is still pretty
>basic stuff (and with the tools used, require no writing or understanding
>of code)…

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>all of which is fine, really (some of these works are quite beautiful and
>intriguing)…but i hunger for more (as usual, being American, which is
>probably why we screw the world up so often)….

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>i want a new art form, a new form of digital poetry that's less cinematic…

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>why can't a digital poem do what gogolchat does, or what chris fahey's
>ada1852 does? is there work out there like that? where can i see it?
>because i desperately want to see it…

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www.cddc.vt.edu/host/netwurker/
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/display.myopia.swf

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