Dirk Vekemans
Since 2005
Works in Kessel-Lo Belgium

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BIO
born in 1962 in Lier, Belgium.
studied filology at Louvain, Belgium.

worked a lot in bars and restaurants before i became obsessivly addicted to producing stuff on computers.

i once won a design contest of cgi-magazine and they let me go to New York for four days, that was nice.

i think in terms of writing mostly (or programming, but those are very similar processes for me)

painting is a very different process and i'm very bad at it but i do it anyway because i like the differences it produces and i like the freshness of amateurism, i guess.

what i produce new media-wise is also very much influenced by my daily practice of webdesign and programming with its concerns of usability and the pragmatic approach it implies.

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Re: Sprouts


& while you're at it, try "Jim Andrews" with the delays set to zero: lots of
people and a burst of beauty when it hits a certain site...
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Jim Andrews
> Verzonden: dinsdag 3 januari 2006 19:58
> Aan: list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: RHIZOME_RAW: Sprouts
>
> Here's something I thought was kind of beautiful. And shows a
> lot of pictures of people and places involved in Rhizome over
> the years. Search "Rhizome" (without the quotation marks) at
> http://vispo.com/dbcinema .
> You'll probably want to adjust the size of the pictures it
> shows you to the max possible size before you do your search.
> You can do that by clicking the 'dbcinema' logo at left and
> then deselecting all but the xxlarge wee radio box at the right.
>
> Then, to do the search, type "rhizome" into the box at *far
> left* and click "GO".
>
> This shows you Google and Yahoo xxlarge image search pictures
> (800x600 and larger if you have only xxlarge selected as
> above) associated with the word "rhizome" from around the
> net. Many of them are rhizome.org-related. Lots of very
> interesting art projects are shown. And people involved in
> them. Also, lots of pictures of people exploring the rhizome
> visually, artistically, botanically.
>
> It makes me affirm Abe Linkoln's suggestion of 'Sprouts' as a
> possible alternative to 'Net Art News'.
>
> A beautiful thing grows in New York and around the world.
>
> ja
>
>
>
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Re: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics


lovely story to wake up with, makes my soup taste ugly. It shouldn't, i
kinda like Komninos' loud style, in fact, so it's only wordplay, too. Hush
now.
:
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(cough)
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dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Christina McPhee [mailto:christina112@earthlink.net]
> Verzonden: maandag 2 januari 2006 4:25
> Aan: Dirk Vekemans; list@rhizome.org
> CC: Komninos Zervos
> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics
>
> or, that it was really the stone in the soup
>
> http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/stone_soup.html
>
> cm
> On Jan 1, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Dirk Vekemans wrote:
>
> > I think komninos meant to say he put the soup through a
> sieve, started
> > counting the vegetables, lost his count at carrot nr 8 or
> so and now
> > he wants us to put the whole thing back in the kettle and start
> > cooking again.
> > From his references i gather he's about to reverse engineer the
> > process and do away with the need for soup altogether, claiming the
> > count doesn't matter, the big secret was in the water all the time
> > along.
> > dv
> >
> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] Namens
> >> Rob Myers
> >> Verzonden: maandag 2 januari 2006 0:34
> >> Aan: Rhizome Raw list
> >> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: -empyre- in jan06:
> Computational Poetics
> >>
> >> On 1 Jan 2006, at 23:23, Komninos Zervos wrote:
> >>
> >>> a few terms requiring further definition
> >>
> >> I'm sorry, I didn't understand a word of that sentence.
> >>
> >> - Rob.
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DISCUSSION

Re: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics


I think komninos meant to say he put the soup through a sieve, started
counting the vegetables, lost his count at carrot nr 8 or so and now he
wants us to put the whole thing back in the kettle and start cooking again.
From his references i gather he's about to reverse engineer the process and
do away with the need for soup altogether, claiming the count doesn't
matter, the big secret was in the water all the time along.
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Rob Myers
> Verzonden: maandag 2 januari 2006 0:34
> Aan: Rhizome Raw list
> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics
>
> On 1 Jan 2006, at 23:23, Komninos Zervos wrote:
>
> > a few terms requiring further definition
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't understand a word of that sentence.
>
> - Rob.
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Re: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics


Naive poetics. Maybe. It's something that works in most environments.
Accidently, as it were.
Otherwise the complete absence of poetics might also be the key condition
for any formula of poetical engeneering to work. Dehumanise the whole
shabang instead of trying to inscribe it, allowing the poetical to occur
instead of trying to resuscitate it from dead or dying collections or
theoretical fictions based on those, catch and reuse the generated moments,
the discrete christals of time melting in your field of vision. I wasn't
trying to ridicule komninos's statement, just showing it could mean lots of
things, once you start computing...
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Jim Andrews
> Verzonden: zondag 1 januari 2006 20:27
> Aan: list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: RE: RHIZOME_RAW: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics
>
> > no poetics is the new poetics
>
> > komninos
>
> I'm reading the novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk. I already knew,
> from the back cover, that the main character is a poet. The
> first paragraph hooked me:
>
> "The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the
> bus driver. If this were the beginning of a poem, he would
> have called the thing he felt inside him the silence of snow."
>
> A beautiful introduction to the mind of a poet, how he
> traverses feeling and language. And also to the poetics of
> the novelist. A beautiful beginning to a real novel involving
> an imagined beginning to a poem not so much as poem but as
> way of contemplating what he is feeling, feeling it, contemplating.
> Poetics is what we mediate experience and language with.
>
> 'No poetics is the new poetics' doesn't mean no poetics but
> naive poetics.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
>
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Re: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics


poetics is the new poetics no
is the new poetics no poetics
the new is no poetics poetics
untsoweiter (happy new year)
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Komninos Zervos
> Verzonden: zondag 1 januari 2006 14:04
> Aan: Jim Andrews
> CC: list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: -empyre- in jan06: Computational Poetics
>
>
> no poetics is the new poetics
>
> komninos
>
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