Roy Ascott's moistmedia and the second big BANG (bits atoms neurons genes)
Kimo Reder
Bio-artist, cybernetician, and assembleur Roy Ascott refers to "a moistmedia substrate where digital systems, telematics, and genetic engineering" all meet. This fertile matrix, in his imagining, is a haven for "cultural traditions previously banished from materialist discourse as esoteric and shamanic." This esoteric tendency poetically and noetically questions the very bases of uppercase Form and Objecthood.
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Rochelle Owens
'Patterns of Animus, Part Two,' a continuation
[Rochelle Owens remains, as she has been for the preceding half-century, a necessary voice among the growing company of those American and world poets writing and performing at the limits. The work presented here is a follow-up to the first part of "Patterns of Animus" presented earlier on Poems and Poetics, and a harbinger of yet more works to come.