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litsci-l-digest      Saturday, September 7 2002      Volume 01 : Number
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     Interview with Kenji Siratori + Loop Writing
 
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:14:25 -0400
From: "Charles Baldwin" 
Subject: Interview with Kenji Siratori + Loop Writing

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Apologies for cross posting.

Here's an interview with Kenji Siratori, whose novel _Blood Electric_
was =
just released (it's described as "rendering English-language cyberpunk =
instantly redundant" with "relentless, murderous prose-drive").

This is a sample of what's now available at the Loop
(www.clc.wvu.edu/loop)=
: writing/codework/poetics online / everywhere / created by students / =
faculty at West Virginia University.

>>

Interview with Kenji Siratori

Q1: Can you discuss inspirations for your writing? I'm thinking of =
Burroughs and Guyotat - does that sound right? Are there other sources?
A1: Burroughs and Guyotat, they are sexual viruses--language cell that =
erodes electronics--my writing was born to the horizon of such techno =
music--immediately construct the digital narrative of data flesh. The
gig =
of nerve transmission.

Q2: You work in several media - text, computer graphics, mp3. Is one =
medium primary? Do you adopt different approaches and theories for =
different media?
A2: All the media are the conceptual machine of gene dub--I use a =
hypertextual hardweb as one of the method that processes data--becomes
the =
motive power that causes data mutation. And the digital narrative =
formation of the output organ.

Q3: Can you talk about how you produce your texts? I'm very interested
in =
procedural or method texts, and I sense your work in some ways falls
into =
this category. I mentioned Burroughs and Guyotat above, and both had =
particular - though very different - techniques and source materials.
With =
your work, I notice the use of certain kind of punctuation (..., =3D,
and =
so on) and certain repeated terms (ADAM, dogs, etc.), but I'm not clear
if =
these reflect a method or not.
A3: I explode the conceptual character on text. As the result of gene
dub =
that was perceived. Burroughs and Guyotat break down the unit of a =
cell--in other words the human body is caused to text hallucination--I =
extract the data flesh of digital narrative gene dub.

Q4: Your works often thematize contagion, biotech, flesh machines, and
so =
on. Can you talk about these themes and how your writing engages them?
A4: Thescreen changed the human body to a hardweb--decay of the digital
=
narrative by nanocommercialism, strategy of the data flesh that turned =
with the survival game--my writing maps digital narrative gene dub like
=
virus engineering.

Q5: You recently released released a series of Biocapture poems, which
you =
call the "prototype codework" Is this a new direction for you, i.e. =
working with Flash animation?
A5: Strategy that the literary code is networking--data layer of the era
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respiration-byte that is in discharge condition--the genome=3Dscreen
makes =
remote writing.

[biocapture_archive]
v1.0
win: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v1.0.exe
mac: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v1.0.hqx
v1.1
win: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v1.1.exe
mac: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v1.1.hqx
v2.0
win: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v2.0.exe
mac: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v2.0.hqx
v2.1
win: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v2.1.exe
mac: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v2.1.hqx
v2.2
win: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v2.2.exe
mac: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b/biocapture_v2.2.hqx
v2.3
win: http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b2/biocapture_v2.3.exe
mac: http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b2/biocapture_v2.3.hqx
v2.4
win: http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b2/biocapture_v2.4.exe
mac: http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b2/biocapture_v2.4.hqx
v3.0
win: http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b2/biocapture_v3.0.exe
mac: http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~white-b2/biocapture_v3.0.hqx



Sandy Baldwin
West Virginia University
Assistant Professor of English
359 Stansbury Hall
304-293-3107x452
Coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing
203 Armstrong Hall
304-293-3871
charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu
www.clc.wvu.edu
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