I'm no big fan of E-Poetry, but I do love code poetry. Here's a great example of code poetry by Lance Wakeling, who's been logging every word he types for a year with a keylogger as his conceptual writing practice:
[sic]--notes from a keylogger
The piece is related to Charles Bernstein's poems that he made by transcribing word for word the correction tape on his Selectric typewriter. Both pieces have overt social and political overtones in this time of increased government spying and corporate snooping.
Here's Wakeling's description: "As we type and edit our attention jumps from paragraph to paragraph and from program to program, leaving a trail of disconnected phrases and commands. Much of what we type is deleted before the final draft is reached, but it has not necessarily disappeared. The subject of sic is the record kept by a keylogger installed on my computer. Since the the keylogger records every key pressed, the data contain information best kept private, but the range of information is so great and cluttered with such noise it remains impenetrable and pretty much meaningless. Like a blog, sic is frequent and chronological--but unlike a blog it is a strictly linear record of non-linear processes. From a step back, the many colored key-commands and black phrases of text illustrate an abstract and personal topography of thoughts and actions. The illusion of sic is that everything is displayed, but the reality is that without the final products of the labor to compare, the record will always be incomplete, and will remain pieces whose sum is less than the sum of the whole."
He's also got another great piece here. There's no description of it, but it's fantastic nonetheless.
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