Jaka Železnikar

Jaka Železnikar (born 1971) is a Slovene author of a computational poetry and visual art. Base of his work is a nonlinear language based expression combined with visual art. From 1997 on he was part of the net art community. From 2004 he created several expressive add-ons for the Firefox browser.

Works

His works are mostly bilingual (Slovene and English). Slovenian is his native language.

So far he is the author of two books: 54.00 besed (54.000 words, a book of poetry and short stories, in Slovenian only, 1994) and Napis nad mestom (Inscription Over the City - book of a sampeled poetry from the history of Slovenian poetry, 2004, co-author Sunčan Patrick Stone).

He cretated about 25 net art works (including Interactivalia / Interactivalia - an interactive poetry, sl-en, 1997 and Ascii Kosovel - mix of a different nonlinear poetic interactive or computational naratives based on a work by Srečko Kosovel - a Slovenian avantgard poet (1904 — 1926), in Slovenian only).

From 2004 he created several expresive add-ons for the Firefox web browser, including an on-line visual poem Črke · Letters · 字母 2.0.

External links

• www.jaka.org - personal page focused on language based art works.
• at icommons.org - an interview by Paddy Johnson.