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 [http://www.jaka.org/1997/int/int.htm Interactivalia / Interactivalia] - an interactive poetry, sl-en, 1997 and [http://www.jaka.org/2007/asciikosovel/ 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 [http://www.jaka.org/2007/crke/ Črke · Letters · 字母 2.0] .

External links

* [http://www.jaka.org www.jaka.org] - personal page focused on language based art works.
* [http://icommons.org/articles/art-intercom-featuring-artist-jaka-eleznikar at icommons.org] - an interview by Paddy Johnson.