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Thanks to Chris Funkhouser, digital poet and researcher, for this fantastic, all-embracing report of E-Poetry 2009, the international festival and symposium of digital poetry that took place in Barcelona in May:

Encapsulating E-Poetry 2009: Some views on contemporary digital poetry

This was the first time I’d attended this biennial festival where I presented a selection of remixes from R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX. Here’s what Funkhouser had to say about it in the section on the May 26 Panel of works:

Wilks (whose comments on the presentation—as well as links to several works she showed—are posted at http://crissxross.net/wilx/2009/06/07/remixing-at-epoetry-barcelona-2009/) showed a series of works that have been presented on a collaborative blog titled remixworx. Members of the group have done roughly 500 multimedia remixes since 2006 (Wilks usually uses Flash). She presented “trails” of posts to the site—which is set up as a blog and artistic responses are posted in comment fields—that reflected how the works evolved, and also read a couple of text pieces from the site. Beyond the high quality of the works presented, the collaborative axis of remixworx is more than respectable, and the sheer variety of types of works (stylistically/aesthetically)—kinetic visual poems often combining text/animation/sound—appearing on the site is marvelous.