Jaka Železnikar (born 1971) is a Slovenian artist known for his
computational poetry and
internet art
upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden
Internet art (also known as net art or web art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance o ...
. 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 curr ...
browser.
Life
Železnikar was born in 1971 in
Ljubljana
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, Slovenia.
Work
His works are mostly
bilingual
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolin ...
(
Slovene and
English).
Železnikar has created about 25 net art works. Notable works include Interactivalia, a 1997 interactive poetry work in Slovenian 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
Echelon may refer to:
* A level formation
** A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society
** A military sub-subunit smaller than a company but larger than a platoon
** Echelon formation, a step-like arrangement of units
* ECHELO ...
, 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
Slovenian digital artists
Net.artists