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Jeremy Hight: Who are some of your influences?
Jim Andrews: Influences. At different times I've had different influences. These days, not so much cuz I'm going less on inspiration from others as from unexplored possibs.
JH: What have you been working on recently?
JA: Recently I've been trying to get a framework together for JavaScript works for both the desktop and mobile.
Recent Work includes Aleph Null, a visual, generative, interactive work of abstract art written in JavaScript; dbCinema, a graphic synthesizer and langu(im)age processor written in Adobe Director; A Pen a software pen with four nibs; and Arteroids an online shoot-em-up poetry game.
JH: What is vispo?
JA: Vispo is visual poetry. That's how vispo.com started out: being a site mainly of visual poetry. It's considerably broader than that now. I started my site in 1996. I bought the vispo.com domain in 1998 or 99. I've expanded the site from an interest in visual poetry to interactive audio and programmed work more generally, whether it's visual or not.
JH: How have poetry and poetics moved with technology, data visualizations and code?
JA: Poetry, for most people interested in poetry, is still very poemy on a page. But, in the meantime, "technology, data visualizations and code" have moved our experience and use of language into the 21st century experience of language. Poetry has to be able to live there or be quaint.
JH: What brought you to vispo?
JA: I did a degree in English and Math. Finished that in 83. Then I produced a literary radio show for six years. That's where I first learned to be creative with technology. Then I got into computers at age 30 and went back to school to study computer science and math. That's mostly when I got interested in vispo.
JH: Are there elements of poetics, the plasticity of language, semiotics etc that have not fully been explored with works using technology and language?
JA: I'm teaching a course in mobile app development. So trying to create some mobile stuff. Concerning new directions, my site vispo.com is where I do my stuff, mainly. The new directions there include the idea of this web site as my main work. I have published no books. I'm too busy doing vispo.com. I take the net seriously as artistic media.
Jim Andrews is a poet-programmer who has published his site vispo.com as his main artistic output since 1996. Vispo.com is literary, programmerly, visual, interactive, sonic, and critical. Sometimes all of the above at once. He lives in Vancouver, Canada where he currently teaches mobile app creation at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
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