"Digital Poetics": An interactive reading with John Cayley and comment by Rita Raley
John Cayley has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer, and all these activities have often intersected with his training in Chinese culture and language. Rita Raley is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches in the areas of the digital humanities and twentieth-century literature in an "international" or "global" context.
Cayley was the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 and is currently a visiting professor at Brown University. Links to his internationally recognized writing in net-worked and programmable media are at http://programmatology.shadoof.net. His most recent work explores ambient poetics in programmable media and writing in immersive VR, with parallel theoretical interventions concerning the role of code in writing and the temporal properties of textuality.
Raley's most recent book, Tactical Media (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), is a study of new media art in relation to neoliberal globalization. Her other works include "Code.surface || Code.depth," dichtung-digital (2007) and "eEmpires," Cultural Critique (2004).