We hope you'll explore @Taperzine at @ELO25! Visit Taper at The Gale Gallery, Goldfarb Centre, York University—July 11–13. Come read , click , and decode digital poetry in a cozy collaborative space! @taperzine.bsky.social 📍 86 Fine Arts Road, Toronto <3 @electronicliterature #TaperELO25 #ELO25

Taper #14: Sonnets is now out! I’m biased, but it’s an especially exciting issue with 28 diverse works of computational poetry (broadly), and, as always, they are all free software for you to study, share, and modify. You can sample a few in 5-10 minutes, this feed will wait! taper.badquar.to/14/

Latest issue of Taper, my first as part of the editorial board, is now live! Huge congrats to my fellow editors for bringing this collection to life. In this issue you can find sonnets that shift, erase, ignite, sing and more. Read and play here - taper.badquar.to/14/ @taperzine.bsky.social

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"Sonnets"-- Issue 14 of Taper is OUT.Read it, get inspired, submit to #15 here: taper.badquar.to/14 #DigitalPoetry #ElectronicLiterature #CreativeCoding #LitJournal #OnlineLitMag #CodeArt #InteractivePoetry @wolfchirp.bsky.social @geryon.bsky.social @leoflores.bsky.social @docmofo.bsky.social

Helen Shewolfe Tseng's (@wolfchirp.bsky.social) "invitation for the viewer to bring awareness to your own ambient soundscapes as you watch the poem unfold" is really meditative and provoking taper.badquar.to/14/field_son...

The Call for Submissions for Issue #15: Crossroads is available here: taper.badquar.to/14/about.html It closes on August 15.

Taper #14: Sonnets is out! Come explore 28 tiny self-contained computational creative works that explore the sonnet as a form or engage with some aspect of the number 14. taper.badquar.to/14/ #elit #creativecoding #art #sonnet

the taper editorial collective was thrilled to have both of alex's pieces as part of issue #14: sonnets! go check them out, and the rest of taper 14's contributions, best viewed in a desktop browser

Mirror mirror... #art #oc #originalcharacter #anime #dark #indiedev #visualnovel #horror #RPGMAKERHORROR #liminace #devlog #indiegame #yuri #yuriVN #horrorvisualnovel #horrorVN #WhenItRainsRed

The NarraScope Showcase 2025 shortlist has been announced! Check the replies to see each award category 🏆

Read the NarraScoop on Nicholas O’Brien! @essaygames.bsky.social

Read the NarraScoop on Ash Poprik! @ashleypoprik.bsky.social

A message from IFTF's president about this year's event (don't panic!):

My & Patsy Baudoin’s French/English text-generating installation will be part of the show at Jeu de Paume in Paris, April 11 – September 21. The public opening is April 10! jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...

We will be announcing more judges soon, so keep an eye out! And if you’d like to submit to the Showcase, you have until May 1st to do so at narrascope.org/showcase

Brendan Desilets is a veteran teacher of high school, middle, school, and college students. He has used interactive fiction in his classes since 1985. Brendan maintains the website “Teaching and Learning with Interactive Fiction,” and has authored a book of the same name.

This year marks the first ever NarraScope Showcase, celebrating the best in narrative games and interactive fiction. Submissions will be reviewed by an expert jury of designers and thinkers. Start getting to know our amazing judges! 🧵

Announcing our 2025 keynote speakers: Saturday’s keynote will be delivered by world-famous, cult-favorite designer SWERY, and Sunday’s will be delivered by Philadelphia’s own Dain Saint. Join us in Philadelphia this June to learn from Dain, SWERY, and other narrative design pros!

Registration is now open for NarraScope 2025! Until April 11, full NarraScope 2025 memberships are available at a discounted Early Bird rate. Your membership provides access to all NarraScope talks, meals, and opportunities to sign up for workshops. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

For the first time, NarraScope is hosting a game Showcase! 🎮 Submit narrative-based digital games in any format and genre by May 1st: itch.io/jam/narrasco...

Narrative game makers, digital fiction writers, new media experimenters, electronic literature folks: NarraScope 2025 SHOWCASE jam is open for entries! Submit a project from now to May 1 and look for a special event at the NarraScope conf June 20-22 in Philly. itch.io/jam/narrasco...

Dear electronic poetry artists, the submission deadline to Taper #14:Sonnets is Feb 14th, 1 week away! We hope to see you in the next issue! #digitalpoetry #size-coding #codegolf #oulipo #digitalart #HTML5 #CSS #javascript #standalone #sonnets

#Gamedevs, #narrative designers, #interactive media experimenters-- you're invited to propose a talk for #Narrascope! Particular interest on generating narratives and generative literature.... do you use/avoid #LLMs? How about for crafting #NPC #dialogues? narrascope.org/talks/

#Gamedevs, #narrative designers, #interactive media experimenters-- you're invited to propose a talk for #Narrascope! Particular interest on generating narratives and generative literature.... do you use/avoid #LLMs? How about for crafting #NPC #dialogues? narrascope.org/talks/

Happening now!

Next MITverses workshop on Music Production with Mr. Master. 📅Date: Thursday,Jan 16, 2025 🕕Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST 📍Location: zoom signup here: calendar.mit.edu/event/mitver... #SpokenWord #IAP2025 #CreativeExpression #MITCommunity #MITverses #spokenword #verse #lyrics #music

Six of my poems from ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN appear in the just-published issue 24.4 of DIAGRAM — thediagram.com/24_4/montfor... They consist entirely of three-letter words.

Want to talk about Interactive Narratives? Looking for talk and panel proposals narrascope.org/talks/ #narrascope #interactivenarratives #gamedesign #proposal #talk

Anteism has published my NARCISSYSTEM. The text is output from a program that simply describes itself exhaustively, down to the bit level. Smyth sewn, the book has a foil seal on the outside front cover and a special feature on the inside front cover. 48 pp. www.anteism.com/shop/narciss...

Taper #13 : Superstitions (the Fall 2024 issue) is out! taper.badquar.to/13/ A gift for you all from author/programmers and editors, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, both or neither. The 29 works are wide-ranging engagements with language and computation, and all are free software.

OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (co-edited w/ Lillian-Yvonne Bertram) is out from @mitpress.bsky.social & Counterpath! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981... It’s been awesome to encounter texts & many author/programmers over the years. Glad to share this joy via this book!

The new issue of Taper, includes one of my works: “Crossed Readings” which explores the poetic potential of the Woman Yells at Cat Meme. taper.badquar.to/13/crossed_r...

what luck it has been to serve on the editorial collective for this issue of tiny computational spells, talismans, hauntings, seances, divinations, covens, potions, tricks, treats, a taylor-swiftian take on her lucky number 13, and several game-like pieces, including one from me 𓃥

I'm in the latest issue of Edge magazine with a gloomy prediction for 2025.

Taper#13: Superstitions is out. Happy DEC25 = OCT31 ! Read computational poems written in 2kB or less of HTML5 code in 29 new computational poems from 28 poets here! taper.badquar.to/13 #elit #taperzine #digitalpoems #html5 #codegolf #javascript #css #superstitions #2kbOrLess #sizecoding #eloai

Getting into the holiday spirit with the Return to Cricket County play cast. #communitytheater #charity #benefitperformance #somersetma #gingerbread

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