<nettime> Interview with Kenji Siratori + Loop Writing

["Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin@mail.wvu.edu>]

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. 20

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? 20
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
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
www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin


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