Jaka Železnikar
Illustration — Jaka Železnikar Jaka Železnikar (born 1971) is a Slovenian artist known for his computational poetry and internet art. 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, and since 2004 he has created several expressive add-ons for the Firefox browser.
Jaka Železnikar
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- 1971 · Ljubljana.
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- Slovenia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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- poet · writer · artist · programmer
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- internet art
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- Slovene
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Železnikar was born in 1971 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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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 and "Ascii Kosovel", mix of nonlinear poetic interactive or computational narratives based on a work by Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian avantgard poet (1904-1926). 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. 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.
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- 1.Literarno izražanje skozi programsko kodo - Oder - Planet Siol.net. archive.is. 20 July 2015.
- 2.New media art timeline. Culture.si.
- 3.Joanne Richardson. Anarchitexts: A Subsol Anthology. Autonomedia. 367–. 2003. 978-1-57027-142-7.
- 4.Literary Aspects of the New Media Art Works by Jaka Železnikar and Srečo Dragan - ELMCIP. elmcip.net.
- 5.Caterina Davinio. Tecno-poesia e realtà virtuali: storia, teoria, esperienze tra scrittura, visualità e nuovi media. Sometti. 2002. 978-88-88091-85-3.
- 6.SCCA-Ljubljana. www.scca-ljubljana.si.
- 7.Neural. Net art literary poems for Echelon. - Neural.
- 8.Rodopi. Theory Into Poetry: New Approaches to the Lyric. 327–. 2005. 90-420-1906-9.
- 9.Disorganiser (2007) - Jaka Železnikar. Rhizome.
- 10.Introduction: e-Lit. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. 4. 1555-9351.
- 11.Jaka Železnikar: Twitterska poezija v galeriji. Dnevnik.
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