Cauldron & Net

This publication seeks to call the readers’/viewers’ attention to the fecundity of the WWW as a meeting ground. In my estimation the works herein tell this tale with a supreme eloquence and illustrate the richness of a gathering place which may bring diverse types together and help to illustrate their essential commonality: creation.

–Claire Allan Dinsmore, “INCEPTION“

Cauldron & Net (1999-2002) is a Web-based journal of e-poetry, alternative art, visual poetry, and poetic work published by editor Claire Allan Dinsmore. Now defunct, its website is still hosted online and remains as a valuable snapshot of e-literature created in the turn of the 21st century. The works featured are primarily in the following formats: animated GIF, Flash, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript.

There’s an open CFP to cover the works not yet reviewed. Contact the editor if you’re interested in writing about one of these works.

URL: Cauldron & Net
Publisher & Editor: Claire Allan Dinsmore
Years of Publication: Vol 1 (1999), Vol 2 (2000), Vol 3 (2001), Vol 4 (2002)

Works Reviewed

Volume 1

•  “The Body Politic” by Jennifer Ley
• “Poem by Nari Does Windows” by Ted Warnell

Volume 2

• “Broken” by Alan Sondheim and Barry Smylie
• “6-string Aria” by Bill Marsh
• “Aufschreibesysteme Green ghost echo” by Brian Lennon
• “Bean Project” by Carolyn Black
• “Gorgeous Oaks / GorOak” by Jason Nelson
• “In the Footsteps of the Father” by Jennifer Ley
• “Rude Little Song” by Jim Andrews
• “Eclipse Louisiana” by M.D. Coverley
• “GIF Poems” by Komninos Zervos
• “Mechanical Bride” by Ted Warnell
• “Realization Randomatic 2000″ by Ted Warnell
• “Chu Ta” by Thomas Bell

Volume 3

• “Incarnation: The Heart of the Maze” by Carolyn Guertin
• “Bus” and “Evening: 42 to 71″ by David Hadbawnik
• “White Room” by David Knoebel
• “How I Heard It” by David Knoebel
• “The Pines at Walden Pond” by Deena Larsen
• “Snaps” by Dirk Hine
• “Days of JavaMoon” by Duc Thuan
• “Default Lives” by M.D. Coverley
• “The Mall as a Machine for Living” by Matt Blackburn
• “Whispering” by Sean Donohue
• “Errand Upon Which We Came” by Stephanie Strickland and M.D. Coverley
• “Falling” by Steve Duffy
• “Delimited Meshings” by Talan Memmott

Volume 4

• “Stein Times Nine” by Brian Reed
• “Web Warp & Weft” by Helen Whitehead
• “The Minotaur Project” by Kim White
• “Jeffrey” by Lewis LaCook
• “the data][h!][bleeding texts” by Mez Breeze
• “Riddles” by Nick Montfort
• “Talking Cure” by Noah Wardrip Fruin, et. al.
• “Faith” by Robert Kendall
• “Shadow” by Ted Warnell
• “Shy Boy” by Thomas Swiss

Works Not Reviewed 

Volume 1

• “Menstruating Heart” by state sanction sedition
• “Minute” by Talan Memmott
• “I am anxious about the frame recently” by Kohei Shimizu
• “Fragment Mythologies” by Todd Sanders (W.I.P)
• “Diver’s Grave” Reiner Strasser

Volume 2

• “Power Moves,” by Deena Larson
• “Pi” by Duc Thuan
• “GSM.Art” by intima
• “Sketches on a Napkin” by Jeanette Lambert and Raquel Rivera
• “5 Poems” by Stephen Dignazio
• “Listening to Rain” by Thomas Bell — I can’t open the link to it, however.

Volume 3

• “Virtual Paintings, Cultural Resistance,” by Niklos Legrady
• “The Valley” by Komninos Zervos