On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Dirk Vekemans was born in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, in 1962. Taking the internet as his natural habitat, his creative activities cover nearly all media. In 2004 Dirk initiated the Neue Kathedrale des erotische Elends, originally a website at http://www.vilt.net. Everything he does is somehow incorporated within this "opera', a work in plural, indicating its stress on openness, incompletion and multiplicity. Dirk lives in Kessel-Lo, a suburb of Louvain. There, together with his friends from Grapes of Art and De Bereklauw, each year he organizes the KLEBNIKOV CARNAVAL, an eight day participative Festival of Free Lyricism. Dirk says: "The Neue Kathedrale actually has turned into a lifelong CR&D program for me: Creative Research and Development. I go wherever it takes me, & i don't really care to what media the output goes. The running program is what's important, what comes out is its garbage, manure that may be the starting point of new directions for me and hopefully for others as well. It's all code, anyway, it all goes up in files. For this collection i have chosen some works that attempt to break down the artificial barrier between language and the pictorial. There's a large selection from "Islandverse', reviving the old tradition of emblemata, except that here the words aren't elevated quotes of wisdom, but verses from Audacia Dangereyes' poetry consisting of words she ran into and processed in her poetic consciousness. And there's a lot of letter based works, where the program goes subgranular, deconstructing the petrified clusters of running code that single letters really are." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.