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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
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current ...
browser.
Life
Železnikar was born in 1971 in
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...
, Slovenia.
Work
His works are mostly
bilingual (
Slovene and
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
).
Železnikar has created about 25 net art works. Notable works include Interactivalia, a 1997 interactive poetry work in Solvenian and English
and "Ascii Kosovel", mix of nonlinear poetic interactive or computational narratives based on a work by
Srečko Kosovel
Srečko Kosovel () (18 March 1904 – 26 May 1926) was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. , 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.
Gallery
References
External links
Official site
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1971 births
Living people
Slovenian poets
Slovenian male poets
Digital artists
Net.artists