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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DISCUSSION

Re: Legalise Europa Now


Did away with the hybrid, ironic stuff. Much better now i think. It's my
first attempt at (anything resembling) visual or concrete poetry, so i would
be grateful for some comments, however harsh or negative...
Thanks,
dv

-----Original Message-----
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Dirk Vekemans
Sent: dinsdag 21 juni 2005 12:26
To: list@rhizome.org
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Legalise Europa Now

http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/sfe_nl8.jsp

[after being 'made' by belgian bodies, Song For Europe 2005 now goes
concrete)

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
www.vilt.net/nkdee

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DISCUSSION

Legalise Europa Now


http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/sfe_nl8.jsp

[after being 'made' by belgian bodies, Song For Europe 2005 now goes
concrete)

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

Google image grabber


http://www.sas21.de/apps/googlegrab/

For anyone who's wondering how to do this: a tool to grab images based on a
google search, type in a keyword and this handy program saves all images
containing the keyword on your harddisk (limit can be set)

I tested it on PC,there's an OSX version available too
it's nice work from Sacha @ sas21,Germany www.sas21.de

greetings,
dv

DISCUSSION

Re: New Work: Black Holes--A Networked Generative Literary Object


Great GREAT Greaaaaaaaargh ( being sucked into one)
dv

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Lewis LaCook
Sent: donderdag 16 juni 2005 19:38
To: poeticslistserv
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: New Work: Black Holes--A Networked Generative Literary
Object

I like to look at other people's snapshots, don't you?
The voyeur in me is titilated by imagining the skeins
of love and betrayal between distant people in
indifferent photographs. Why are those two, husband
and wife according to the caption, sitting so far
apart? Why is he looking away? What does that haunted
look on the face of the son mean?

http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/BlackHoles/
FlashMX, PHP
Sound

hosted by Corporate Performance Artists

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No More Movements...

Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/|||

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DISCUSSION

MAAK/MAKE


http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/sfe_nl7.jsp#maak

quasi simultaneous translation, i did the translation because this one
(another of the Song for Europe oddities) is particularly important, the
language making a double fold here, a chiastic movement, encoding of an
encoded fold untsoweiter, so it's important for the whole of the Cathedral
structure, should anyone take an interest in that.

(the different usage of Dutch 'cijfer' - English 'cipher' is quite
interesting etymologically and problematic in translation.

Apparantly the arabic 'sifr' (loan of Sanskrit 'sunya-s' has created a
whole field of divergent meanings, Dutch for instance taking over some
meaning of the French-Italian(-ising of the Latin 'cifra') at a different
_time_ than English, so the meaning of 'coded message' (replacing letters
with numbers) or the key to that coded message (amount of shifting) came
earlier to Dutch and the meaning of 'zero' or 'nothing' is next to obsolete
in Dutch.

A whole complex of dating-grafting that leads you straight to Paul Celan.
And then of course everything gets mixed up in the current perceptual
confusion of number-digit-cypher-null-undefined...

So instead (or if needsbe along with) of regressing to early 20th century
ontology (Nicolai Hartman and stuff), perhaps sweeping the dust of the
science of etymology of that period might be usefull? The field was very
much dismissed by linguistic Structuralism, but if you want to study the
generation of meaning in code systems-information processes, having a look
at how language does it untsoweiter...)

http://www.etymonline.com/ is big fun by the way.

dv