In Search of a New(er) Digital Literature
curated by
Alan Bigelow
The Idea of Order at Key West Reordered
Jim AndrewsJim Andrews has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. He is a poet, critic, programmer, student of mathematics, and audio guy. Vispo.com is his attempt to acclimatize poetry and literature to the corrosive brine of the binary. Much of the work on vispo.com is programmed, interactive and involves text, audio, moving pictures, and networked media. Vispo.com is a synthesis of arts, media, technology and programming.
Why Do You Stay Up So Late?
Words: Marvin Bell
Visuals: Ernesto Lavandera
Marvin Bell's nineteenth book, Mars Being Red, was released in July of 2007. Many of the poems in it are wartime. Having been forty years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he now teaches for the brief-residency MFA based in Oregon at Pacific University and splits the year between Iowa City, Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington. He served two terms as Iowa’s first Poet Laureate, and is the creator of what are known as the "Dead Man" poems, for which he is both famous and infamous. He has collaborated with photographers, musicians and dancers, and periodically performs with the bassist Glen Moore of the jazz group Oregon.
Ernesto Lavandera lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He graduated with a degree in graphic design from the National
University of La Plata. After six years of working in studios and
design agencies, he went freelance in 2002. Since then, he has
freelanced for agencies and works on independent projects.
Don't Be Afraid to Help Sharks
Text: Sommer Browning
Visuals: Fluorescent Hill (Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie)
Audio: Below the SeaFluorescent Hill is an award-winning directing duo consisting of Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie. Founded in 2002, the team has created memorable, innovative work for music videos, commercials, short films, and promos from their base in Montreal. They were listed as one of the Top Ten Creators To Watch in 2006 by RES magazine. The team is adept with traditional character animation as well as stylized live-action meshed with 2-D elements. In addition to their motion work, the team has done paintings and print design work for t-shirts,posters and skateboards.
Dim O'Gauble
Andy CampbellAndy Campbell is a web artist, designer and programmer. His pioneering website Dreaming Methods (www.dreamingmethods.com) has been described my the Times newspaper (UK) as "one of the most impressive purveyors of the new art of internet reading" and is used as an inspirational resource by writers and media students globally. He is co-director of One to One Productions Ltd (www.onetooneproductions.com), an organisation that aims to open up new possibilities and innovation in producing creative media with charities, groups and individuals.
Entreville
J.R. CarpenterJ. R. Carpenter is the winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Prize 2008, a two-time winner of the CBC Québec Short Story Competition and a Web Art Finalist in the Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards 2006. Her first novel, Words the Dog Knows, was published by Conundrum Press (Montreal, 2008). Her electronic literature has been presented internationally at the Musée de beaux-arts de Montréal, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland), the Rhizome ArtBase, the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One and the Web Biennial 2007. She lives in Montréal, where she has serve as President of the Board of Directors of the OBORO, and artist-run gallery and new media lab. http://luckysoap.com
Episode 1: "China" (from Inanimate Alice)
Chris Joseph and Kate PullingerKate Pullinger (www.katepullinger.com) works both in print and new media. Her most recent novels include A Little Stranger (2006), Weird Sister (1999) and The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996), and the short story collections My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997) and Tiny Lies (1989). Her current digital fiction projects include her multiple award-winning collaboration with Chris Joseph on 'Inanimate Alice', a multimedia episodic digital fiction, and 'Flight Paths', a networked novel, created on an through the internet. She's also involved in developing a fiction for mobile phones. Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University where she teaches on the online MA in Creative Writing and New Media.
Chris Joseph (www.chrisjoseph.org) is a British/Canadian electronic writer and artist who currently lives in London after successfully completing the first ever Digital Writer-in-Residence post at the Institute of Creative Technologies in De Montfort University, Leicester, a two year post funded by The Arts Council. His electronic work has been widely exhibited in galleries around the world since 2002, and can be found online at www.babel.ca . He is founder and editor of the multimedia modernist magazine 391.org, and was awarded the first Premio per l'arte digitale for his work on Inanimate Alice by the Italian Ministry of Culture, Department for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, DARC (General Directorate for Contemporary Architecture and Art), MAXXI (National Museum for 21st Century Arts) and the Fondazione Rosselli.
Infinity / Identity
Tammy McGovernTammy McGovern is a multimedia artist creating works in film, video and interactive media. Her work has been included in E-Poetry Festivals, Hallwalls Artists & Models, Squeaky Wheel, Clifford Art Gallery, Visual Studies Workshop, Video Mundi and Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center. She currently works as assistant director of Squeaky Wheel, a media arts center in Buffalo, NY.
Radio Saliance
Stuart MoulthropStuart Moulthrop is a net artist and creative programmer based in Baltimore, Maryland. As the author of the early hypertext fiction Victory Garden, he has roots in the so-called Golden Age of digital literature, and has recently been at work on brassier products like "Radio Salience." In 2007, Moulthrop received the Ciutat de Vinarós Prize for Electronic Narrative, and shared that year's prize for Electronic Poetry. He has served as Co-Editor of the journal Postmodern Culture, and currently works on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. He teaches at the University of Baltimore, where he holds a Distinguished Chair in the School of Information Arts and Technology. Much of his other work can be found at http://www.smoulthrop.com/lit.
Velvet
Alexander MoutonAs a lens based artist, I contruct dynamic meaning by sequencing images, whether virtual or object based, moving or still. The artists' books I create are in collections internationally including MoMA, the Getty, and the Kunst Bibliiothek in Berlin. Within the area of new media I explore the potential that technology has for bringing visual and sound artists together for interative and immersive works both online and in physical spaces, creating net art, video interactive installations using MaxMSPjitter, and sequencing video in live multimedia performances. Working colloaboratively is an intergral part of my interdisciplinary practice. Currently, I hold the position of Assistant Professor of Photo.NewMedia at Denison University in Ohio, USA.
This is How You Will Die
Jason NelsonBorn from the computerless land of farmers and spring thunderstorms, Jason somehow stumbled into creating awkward and wondrous digital poems and interactive stories of odd lives. Currently he teaches Net Art and Electronic Literature at Griffith University in the Gold Coast's contradictory lands. Aside from coaxing his students into breaking, playing and morphing their creativity with all manner of technologies, he exhibits widely in galleries and journals, with work featured around the globe in New York, Mexico, Taiwan, Spain, Singapore and Brazil, at FILE, ACM, LEA, ISEA, ACM, ELO and dozens of other acronyms. But in the web based realm where his work resides, Jason is most proud of the millions of visitors his artwork/digital writing attracts each year.
A Staircase is a Staircase is a Staircase
Victoria WelbyVictoria Welby is an avatar born in a virtual dating website. Because her creator did not want a numbered nickname, she picked an English semiotician's name, necessarily unknown to people found on such websites. Welby's first public appearance happened in May 2006 with two literary projects using the blog as a publishing platform. Because she did not want to associate her real name to those projects, Victoria's creator decided to use the semiotician's name again. All her literary projects, whether electronic or on paper, are now signed with that name. Victoria Welby is a virtual character in continuous construction who can be defined only by accepting the law of excluded middle. Otherwise, schizophrenia is the only option. She writes mostly in French, but some of her works are available in English. They have been shown in North America and in Europe.
Seen Death
Jody ZellenJody Zellen is a Los Angeles based artists who is currently a Visiting Artist at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Zellen works in many media simultaneously making photographs, installations, net art, public art, as well as artists' books that explore the subject of the urban environment. She employs media-generated representations of contemporary and historic cities as raw material for aesthetic and social investigations. Recent solo exhibitions include FringeExhibitions, Los Angeles (2008), Paul Kopeikin Gallery (2007), LAXArt (2007); Pace University's Digital Gallery (2005); The Laguna Art Museum (2004-05); Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2002); Deep River, Los Angeles (2001). Her net art projects have shown world wide since 1997 in festivals and exhibitions such as Mundourbano, Madrid, E-Poetry Festival, Paris, Cyber Feminism, Vienna, WRO Media Art Biannual, Warsaw, File (2007); Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany; 9th Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo (2006); Arte Nuevo Interactive, Mexico; ACCEA, Armenia; Prog:Me, Rio de Janeiro (2005); File, Brazil; Festival du Noveau Cinema, Montreal; Siggraph, Los Angeles; International Festival of Electronic Art, Argentina; Cosign, Croatia (2004); New Forms Festival, Vancouver; Recontres Internationales, Berlin (2003); Whitney Museum Artport (2002); XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002); Art Future, Taiwan (2000); Net_Condition, ZKM (1999); Film + Arch.3, Graz (1997). Her website "Ghost City"(www.ghostcity.com) begun in 1997 is an ever changing meditation on the urban environment. "Crowds and Power" was the October 2002 portal for the Whitney Museum's artport (http://artport.whitney.org). Other recent net art projects include "All The News" (www.allthenewsthatsfittoprint.net) and "Talking-Walls" (www.talking-walls.com). For more information visit please www.jodyzellen.com.
