On January 10, Frohmann Verlag will publish my novel Durchschnitt (“Average” – I will make an English version at some point), my conceptual take on the canon. In the context of 0x0a, conceptual digital literature has mostly been discussed as either leaning towards poetry or lacking any genre – in any case, removed from the realism that tends […]
0x0a Cover Art
We have decided on a consistent cover design for all works that come out under the 0x0a label. The cover art is generative, and based on about 130 lines of Processing code. Generative in this context means: The looks of the cover are completely determined by certain variables taken from the text itself.
Let it write: Contemporary Literature and the Fear of the Digital
(This text was written in German before 0x0a came into being. A shorter version appeared in the journal Merkur (June 2014), and a longer one, from which the below translation was made, on my website hannesbajohr.de. The text was mainly geared toward a German, non-tech audience unfamiliar with conceptual writing. I put it online because it is part of the […]
Code Poetry at ITP
On Friday, I did something I usually loathe. I went to a Poetry Slam. This one was different, however, as its title indicated: The first ITP Code Poetry Slam, held at the fourth floor of NYU’s Tisch Hall, home of the Interactive Telecommunications Program. I went, tipped off by Jakob Nolte, in order to have a […]
“We remained contentious that day.” On “Reunification Corpus”
“We” is a violent word. Not only because a We always requires that You or They be excluded: The violence of We is also an inclusive one. To say “We” is to take possession of those one presumes to speak for. We consumes. And yet, it seems that the only way to resist We is […]
On “On the Road”
Communication Design, the discipline I have been studying for the past four years, looks at the elements and techniques of narratives and appropriates them. In the case of “On the Road” I did exactly that with the character and the story of globetrotter Sal Paradise from Jack Kerouac’s novel of the same title, who ventures […]
Where Is The Word Electric?
Last Saturday, the good people from Fiktion and the Goethe Institute New York hosted a five hour long examination of literature in the digital age. Besides luring in onlookers with crowdpleasers like Boris Groys and Kenneth Goldsmith, “The Word Electric” offered talks and discussions by a range of, mostly US based, literary magazines (Genius, The Rumpus, Words […]
0x0a online
Ab heute ist die Website des Textkollektivs 0x0a online. Erste Texte und Statements sind bereits aktiv, weitere folgen in Kürze. 0x0a versteht sich als Labor für Digitale Literatur und eskaliertes Schreibenlassen und besteht aus Gregor Weichbrodt und Hannes Bajohr.