Jaka Železnikar

Jaka Železnikar (born 1971) is a Slovenian artist known for his computational poetry and internet art.[1] The base of his work is a nonlinear language-based expression combined with visual art. Since 1997 he has been part of the net art community,[2][3] and since 2004 he has created several expressive add-ons for the Firefox browser.

Life

Železnikar was born in 1971 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.[4]

Work

His works are mostly bilingual (Slovene and English).

Železnikar has created about 25 net art works. Notable works include Interactivalia, a 1997 interactive poetry work in Slovenian and English[3][5] and "Ascii Kosovel", mix of nonlinear poetic interactive or computational narratives based on a work by Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian avantgard poet (1904—1926).[3][6]

His 2002 work "Poems for Echelon was a computer-based interactive work that invited users to send emails to the program itself. In doing so , the users participated in the production of poems that were designed to confuse ECHELON, a US Intelligence gathering system.[7][8]

Since 2004 he has created several expressive add-ons for the Firefox web browser, including the on-line visual poem "Letters · 字母 2.0" and "Disorganizer", made in 2007.[9][10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Literarno izražanje skozi programsko kodo - Oder - Planet Siol.net". archive.is. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "New media art timeline". Culture.si.
  3. 1 2 3 "Literary Aspects of the New Media Art Works by Jaka Železnikar and Srečo Dragan - ELMCIP". elmcip.net.
  4. ↑ Joanne Richardson (2003). Anarchitexts: A Subsol Anthology. Autonomedia. pp. 367–. ISBN 978-1-57027-142-7.
  5. ↑ Caterina Davinio (2002). Tecno-poesia e realtà virtuali: storia, teoria, esperienze tra scrittura, visualità e nuovi media. Sometti. ISBN 978-88-88091-85-3.
  6. ↑ "SCCA-Ljubljana". www.scca-ljubljana.si.
  7. ↑ Neural. "Net art literary poems for Echelon. - Neural".
  8. ↑ Eva Müller-Zettelmann; Margarete Rubik (2005). Theory Into Poetry: New Approaches to the Lyric. Rodopi. pp. 327–. ISBN 90-420-1906-9.
  9. ↑ "Disorganiser (2007) - Jaka Železnikar". Rhizome.
  10. ↑ Burgess, Helen J. "Introduction: e-Lit". Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  11. ↑ "Jaka Železnikar: Twitterska poezija v galeriji". Dnevnik.
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