Introductions

The aim of the session is to experience some of the new writing opportunities facilitated by computers. The emphasis will be on writing and exploration, and everything introduced will be approached in an artistic and non-technical manner. There will be a number of hands-on exercises that give a real flavour of the excitement of writing with computers. There will be plenty of opportunities for discussion (of issues such as - What do we call this stuff? - Is this writing? -Is it different from the writing media we have become use to?)

This workshop will introduce some of the extraordinary works available over the web etc. and the aesthetic controversies that have grown-up around the tools, the critical terms and the future of this exciting area of writing practice.

Now an introduction to me - About Gavin Stewart

Some of things that I have been doing recently -

Slippage

choice/cuts

ontology

serendipity

The Making of P and G

Mystery Museum

 

Shall we see what the www has to say about me - Googlism

"gavin is the acknowledged master of his generation when it comes to picking up a piece of metal and causing other people to hurt with it"