Publications by Artists

Howe, Daniel C., and John Cayley. 'The Readers Project: Procedural Agents and Literary Vectors.' Leonardo 44.4 (August 2011): 317-24.
MIT Press online site with abstract
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Copy of the version of record in the Brown Digital Repository

Howe, Daniel C., and John Cayley. 'Reading, Writing, and Resisting: Literary Appropriation in The Readers Project.' International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA). Eds. Kathy Cleland, Laura Fisher and Ross Harley. Sydney: ISEA International, the Australian Network for Art & Technology and the University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9708.
Copy of the version of record in the Brown Digital Repository

Cayley, John. 'Beginning with 'the Image' in How It Is When Translating Certain Processes of Digital Language Art.' Translating E-Lit (2014): Winter 2014, forthcoming on the site of the Université, Paris 8.
Author accepted manuscript in the Brown Digital Repository

Cayley, John. 'Writing to Be Found and Writing Readers.' Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.3 (2011): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/3/000104/000104.html.

Cayley, John. 'Terms of Reference & Vectoralist Transgressions: Situating Certain Literary Transactions over Networked Services.' Amodern 2 (2013): http://amodern.net.
Author accepted manuscript in the Brown Digital Repository

Cayley, John. 'N-gram.' The John Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Eds. Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson and Benjamin J. Robertson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 358-59.
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In Books
  • Andersen, Christian Ulrik, and Søren Bro Pold. The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2018. Discusses The Readers Project pp. 61-64, and How It Is in Common Tongues pp. 64-69.
  • Emerson, Lori. Reading Writing Interfaces : From the Digital to the Bookbound. Electronic Mediations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, pp. 183-84.

      "John Cayley and Daniel C. Howe's How It Is in Common Tongues is intensely concerned with drawing attention to the profound influence of Google's search engine and how it works on readingwriting practices. ... a disruptive response to the computing industry's insistent drive to create devices that are nearly invisible."

  • Johnston, David Jhave. Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016, pp. 111-12.

      "The Readers Project reflects the urgent necessity for creative authors to write the autonomous writers who will read for us. It does so formally and numinously, words drifting and vanishing in modernist cascade ..."

  • Portela, Manuel. Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013, pp. 343-47.

      "Paths and patterns that highlight words and phrases within a preexisting text give viewers a representation of acts of reading as performative or deformative interventions that establish their cognitive and perceptual associations with the textual field. ... Because every machine reading is also a new instance of writing available for a human reader, the act of reading the machine reading becomes a model for the infinite iterability of writing as actualized by each reading act."

  • The Readers Project, ELMCIP Record, 2013.
  • Remediating the Social. Ed. Simon Biggs. Edinburgh: ELMCIP, 2012. Link to the spread representing the Common Tongues installation. And in this collection, see: Biggs, Simon. 'The Hyperstitial Poetics Of Net-Work Media.' p. 161.
  • Rettberg, Scott. Electronic Literature. Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2019. The are many mentions of my work and theoretical writing throughout this exemplary introduction to the field. In particular, windsound is discussed p. 136; with The Readers Project and especially How It Is in common tongues featured pp. 179-80.
  • Ricardo, Franciso J. The Engagement Aesthetic: experiencing new media art through critique. International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics 4. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. See: pp. 176-81 of chapter 14 in the section of this book that considers 'Engagement as Post-Literary Mechanism'.
  • Schäfer, Jörgen. 'Netzliteratur.' Handbuch Medien Der Literatur. Eds. Natalie Binczek, Till Dembeck and Jörgen Schäfer. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 481-501.
  • Tanasescu, Ralua, and Chris Tanasescu, eds. Margento: “Us” Poets Foreign Poets: A Computationally Assembled Anthology = Margento: Noi Poeti “Americani” Poeti Strani: Antologie Asamblata Computational. Bucharest: Editura frACTalia, 2018. Contains translations into Romanian of output: John Cayley & Daniel C. Howe ‘The Readers’ = ‘Cititorii’ pp. 70-77.
  • Andersen, C. U., & Pold, S. B. 'Post-digital Books and Disruptive Literary Machines.' ELO 2013 Conference paper.
  • Pisarski, Mariusz. ‘Poetics in Action: Time and Code in the Poetry of John Cayley and the Poets of RozdzielczośĆ Chleba.’ Forum Poe­t­yki = Forum of Poetics Spring/Summer (2016): 6-19 (accessed July 13, 2018).

      "As a practitioner (a publisher and producer) of electronic literature, I have not encountered a more complex and radical work in recent years than the series of poetic programs prepared by John Cayley and Daniel C. Howe that constitute the cycle The Readers Project (2010–2016). Individual instalments of this long-term project contain the whole gamut of complexity that code in its proper function brings to poetry and poetics: the programmable function of transforming a poem’s content, style, rhetoric, and context." (13)

  • Portela, Manuel. 'Scripts for Infinite Reading', Electronic Literature Organization conference Chercher le Texte, Université Paris 8, 2013. Documented in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base.
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