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taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Aug 6

Submit your digital poems—HTML5 + JavaScript, 2kB max—that explore thresholds, transitions, and remix between human and machine. Think rituals, remix culture, tarot devils, and code that fiddles at the edge of meaning.

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taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Aug 6

🕯️✨ Taper 15: Crossroads Submissions close August 15, 2025 (AoE) Submit your size-coded digital poems regardingcrossroads and 15!
taper.badquar.to/14/about.html#submit
#CreativeCoding #DigitalPoetry #HTMLPoetry #JavaScriptArt #NetArt #PoeticComputing #TaperZine #CallForSubmissions #IndiePublication

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taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Jun 30

"Sonnets"-- Issue 14 of Taper is now LIVE. Code meets poetry, text meets motion read it here: taper.badquar.to/14 #DigitalPoetry #ElectronicLiterature #CreativeCoding #LitJournal #OnlineLitMag #CodeArt #InteractivePoetry
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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · Apr 3

My & Patsy Baudoin’s French/English text-generating installation will be part of the show at Jeu de Paume in Paris, April 11 – September 21. The public opening is April 10!

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Exposition : Le monde selon l'IA - Jeu de Paume

Les IA génératives en art, photographie, cinéma, littérature et musique suscitent étonnement, frayeur, enthousiasme ou scepticisme.

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NarraScope @narrascope.org · Jun 5

The NarraScope Showcase 2025 shortlist has been announced! Check the replies to see each award category 🏆

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · Jun 17

Taper #14 : Sonnets is now out! This issue has 28 diverse works of computational poetry (broadly imagined), and, as always, they are all free software for you to study, share, and modify. Many thanks to the authors & editors

taper.badquar.to/14/

Taper #14

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Vijay's Virtual Vibes @vijaysvibes.uk · Jan 12

They Love Me, They Love Me Not (Taper #13) taper.badquar.to/13/they_love...

They Love Me, They Love Me Not

A poem by AnneMarie Torresen for Taper #13

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Christine Wilks @crissxross.bsky.social · Jun 18

Taper #14: Sonnets is published! A wonderful collection of computational poems on the theme of sonnets &/or the number 14 - taper.badquar.to/14/index.html #elit #creativecoding

Taper #14

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Christine Wilks @crissxross.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Vowel Carries the Tone - my new computational poem, animating the form & rhythm of a sonnet - is published in Taper #14 taper.badquar.to/14/vowel_car... #elit #creativecoding

Vowel Carries the Tone

A poem by Christine Wilks for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 18

@crissxross.bsky.social‬'s "The Vowel Carries the Tone" is a technical-conceputal-chromatic-oral weaving that is just really tight and boggling.

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Joses Ho's Moonshot Sonnet 2.0 is cleverrr

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Moonshot Sonnet 2.0”

A poem by Joses Ho for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

no no no not yet I'm not ready!

Katy Ilonka Gero's Every Sonnet Must Rot (Death, Be Not Proud) is so punchy

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Every Sonnet Must Rot (Death, Be Not Proud)

A poem by Katy Gero for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Procedural texts have to be really engaging for my brain to take them at all seriously. Invoking "Void nothing" as through a prayer did it for me.

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(John Cayley ofc)

One Bound One Naught”

A poem by John Cayley Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

David Thomas Henry Wright's digital fridge magnet poem as satisfying and bittersweet as the best chocolate taper.badquar.to/14/adulting....

adulting

A poem by john domenico calvelli for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Helen Shewolfe Tseng's (@wolfchirp.bsky.social)
"invitation for the viewer to bring awareness to your own ambient soundscapes as you watch the poem unfold"

is really meditative and provoking
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Field Sonata

A poem by Helen Shewolfe Tseng for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

I really love love this one from
@vivngo.bsky.social

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Smile Lines

A poem by Vivien Ngo for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Two of my digital poems were published today!

A Prism: taper.badquar.to/14/prism.html

Ways of Knowing: taper.badquar.to/14/ways_of_k...

Taper is a really interesting publication of tiny poem-programs (each is less than 2058 bytes). I can't wait to see the rest. taper.badquar.to/14/index.html

Taper #14

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taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Jun 19

Nice work editorial committee, publisher, and authors! :)

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Call for Submissions for Issue #15: Crossroads is available here: taper.badquar.to/14/about.html

It closes on August 15.

About Taper #14

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · Jun 17

Taper #14: Sonnets is out!

Come explore 28 tiny self-contained computational creative works that explore the sonnet as a form or engage with some aspect of the number 14.

taper.badquar.to/14/

#elit #creativecoding #art #sonnet

Taper #14

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taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Feb 7

Submit electronic works in HTML exploring the theme of Sonnets due Valentine's Day. #constrainedcreativity #electronicart #poetry #sizecode #demoscene

anjchang @anjchang.bsky.social · Feb 7

Dear electronic poetry artists, the submission deadline to Taper #14:Sonnets is Feb 14th, 1 week away! We hope to see you in the next issue! #digitalpoetry #size-coding #codegolf #oulipo #digitalart #HTML5 #CSS #javascript #standalone #sonnets

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taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Jan 2

Want to talk about Interactive Narratives? Looking for talk and panel proposals narrascope.org/talks/ #narrascope #interactivenarratives #gamedesign #proposal #talk

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Danny Elfanbaum @delfanbaum.bsky.social · Dec 26

I've gotten to see sneak peeks at one or two of the pieces in here that were absolutely brilliant -- excited to check out the rest! We <3 Taper

taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Dec 25

Taper#13: Superstitions is out. Happy DEC25 = OCT31 ! Read computational poems written in 2kB or less of HTML5 code in 29 new computational poems from 28 poets here! taper.badquar.to/13 #elit #taperzine #digitalpoems #html5 #codegolf #javascript #css #superstitions #2kbOrLess #sizecoding #eloai

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Brendan Schuetze @schu.etze.co · Dec 27

Contributed a computational poem about intrusive thoughts, the sword of damocles, and clicker games to @taperzine.bsky.social!

Check it out below

taperzine.bsky.social @taperzine.bsky.social · Dec 25

Taper#13: Superstitions is out. Happy DEC25 = OCT31 ! Read computational poems written in 2kB or less of HTML5 code in 29 new computational poems from 28 poets here! taper.badquar.to/13 #elit #taperzine #digitalpoems #html5 #codegolf #javascript #css #superstitions #2kbOrLess #sizecoding #eloai

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