Jaka Železnikar

Jaka Železnikar (born 1971) is a Slovene author of computational poetry and visual 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. Since 2004 he has created several expressive add-ons for the Firefox browser.

Work

His works are mostly bilingual (Slovene and English). Slovenian is his native language. He is the author of two books: 54.00 besed (54.000 words, a book of poetry and short stories, in Slovenian, 1994) and Napis nad mestom (Inscription Over the City, a book of a sampled poetry from the history of Slovenian poetry, 2004, co-author Sunčan Patrick Stone). He has created about 25 net art works (including Interactivalia / Interactivalia - interactive poetry, sl-en, 1997 and Ascii Kosovel — a mix of nonlinear poetic interactive or computational narratives based on a work by Srečko Kosovel — a Slovenian avantgard poet (1904—1926), in Slovenian). Since 2004 he has created several expressive add-ons for the Firefox web browser, including an on-line visual poem Črke · Letters · 字母 2.0.

References

• www.jaka.org - personal page focused on language-based art works.
• Alenka Teran Košir: Literarno izražanje skozi programsko kodo: Jaka Železnikar – računalniški literat. Planet Siol.net 11. 4. 2011.