In an ever changing and increasingly depressing internet landscape we, the collective users, have learned to restrain our expectations...And yet, within this vast ever darkening digital ocean one human island remains: Craigslist.

There’s a poetics of deflation at play: deflating expectations, deflating ego. I enter, say, Abject-Oriented Anthology with my smart theory boy hat on and realize it’s a flip-book.

The digital poem “plays with a sentence spoken by the comedian and actor Gabriel Iglesias on the documentary series Inside Jokes — ‘And the next thing you know, there’s Mexicans in Canada.’”

Playing Dwarf Fortress is like an English professor operating a nuclear reactor. Its interface is a strange organ of levers, dials, and gauges. Toggling around may result in the flourishing of your dwarven home or may lead to a downward spiral in…

The online digital artworks “Soft Crash” by Alan Warburton and “Glyph” by Depart put forth an encrypted and almost arcane digital poetics.

I am thinking now of the Video Poem, a space between frames and words where thought shelters fragments that complicate vision and reframe understanding.

Part multimedia art, part literary experiment, the games of Porpentine Charity Heartscape range from text based narrative trees, to low-res Atari-style graphic scrollers, to surreal 3D environments.

I found Erik Ferguson’s art through his Instagram, his animations of throbbing larval and organoid forms instantly recalling for me the night some friends and I each dropped four hits of 2C-1 and went to a screening of Cronenberg’s eXistenZ.

I first became aware of the Canadian Artist Isabelle Pauwels’ work in 2014. A week later I was in a recording studio at R.P.I.’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, one of a dozen men standing in a circle, each in front of a mic, feigning…