Electronic Poetry Center presents: E-POETRY SUMMER INTENSIVE 2012

May 16-18, 2012
232 CFA, Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo, North Campus

(Map, directions, other logistical information here.)

Featuring the EPC Summer Intensive 2012 Fellows:

* Mauro Carassai (Italy), “Problems and Perspectives in Configuring an Ordinary Digital Philosophy”
* Erica Cope (Comp Lit, UB), “Conjunction, Disjunction, What’s Your Function?”
* Leonardo Flores (Puerto Rico), “Close Reading 2.0: Reimagining Critical Practices for E-Poetry”
* Holly Melgard (English, UB), “The Poetics of Ubiquity”
* Laura Shackelford (RIT), “Mode-Play in Digital Poetics as ‘A Different Kind of Language’”
* David Tolkacz (Media Study, UB), “Gnoetry Daily”

As well as Invited Presenters and guests: Loss Pequeño Glazier (Media Study, UB), “Poetic Dimensions of Array Spaces” and Ming Qian Ma (English, UB), “‘That’s it’: Toward an A-Poetics of the Literal,” among others. Fellows will be in residence for the full three days of the Intensive. Attendees are welcome to participate in some or all of the presentations. Pre-registration is required for all participants.

I-2012 presents an engaging range of topics in and out of digital media and language, film, interactive art, and performance in an innovative format typified by human communication, generous presentation times, extended segments for response by peer scholars, and open and creative thinking as a group. The idea here is for presenters to propose their own field of references — in an effort to enlighten themselves and to help others locate new resources for themselves — in open conversations exploring connections. In terms of content, though numerous other venues exist for considerations of processor determined digital arts (the unreadable, machinic cum machinic, special effects, and data-dominant informatic), I-2012 focuses on the LANGUAGE edge of innovative emergent media practice, i.e, as we speak, read, and intimate, what is happening between the cracks in processing? Such attention is given as simply ONE relevant locus in the larger conversation and it is given cognizant that practice does not fall into distinguishable camps, but exist as contours within a larger media fabric. It asks: What are words when we “mean” through them? What language layers cascade in malleable forms? What our antecedents and contemporaries, without rigid adherence to genre, format, or theme? What are literary production, reading, and philosophy in reconfigured media landscapes? What is performance when language performs? Recognizing larger connections to poeisis as artistic practice, what possibilities are there for extending the reach, impact, and reception of digital media? (Of course, if asked, each Fellow and Invited Speaker would have a different proposal as to the topic of this event. Nothing could be better!) In any event, we hope to be able to share a middle way in the often disparate field of approaches to digital media practice.

Intensive Schedule

Wednesday, May 16 — 10:30a Coffee; 11a-12:00p (Intros/logistics); 1p-2:30p (Tolkacz); 3p-4:30p (Cope); 5:30-7p (Melgard)
Thursday, May 17 — 10:30a Coffee; 11a-1p (Flores); 1:30p-3:30p (Glazier) ; 4p-7p (Carassi)
Friday, May 18 — 10:30a Coffee; 11a-1p (Ma);1:30p-3:30p (Shackelford); 4p-7p (Closings/wrap-up)

LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL

Language to Cover A Wall

Digital Poetry 2011-2012 Exhibition
When: November 17, 2011- February 18, 2012
Where: UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts,
Second Floor Gallery, University at Buffalo
Curator: Loss Pequeño Glazier

Digital Poetry and Dance
Date: Friday, February 3, 2012
Time: 7:30 & 9:00 pm
Where: Black Box Theater, Center for the Arts
Admission: $10 at the door
Kerry Ring, Dance Director
A special performance of select works from the exhibition, choreographed, with the participation of digital poets in residence. Please arrive 1/2 hour early for seating.

Digital Poetry Spectacular
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012
Time: 3:30 – 9:00 pm
Where: UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts
Admission: Free
@ 3:30 pm – E-Lit Across Borders Panel in Center for the Arts Room 232
Artists talk about gallery works by visiting artists and interdisciplinary humanities
(Amaranth Borsuk, Nestor Cabrera, Jason Lewis, Ian Hatcher).
@ 5:00 pm – Open Gallery
Converse with artists about works in the gallery
@ 6:00 pm – Reception
Across from gallery entrance, in front of Center for the Arts Room 112
@ 7:30 pm – Digital Poetry in Performance
An evening of live outstanding digital poets in the Lightwell Gallery.
(Loss Pequeño Glazier, Ian Hatcher, Tammy McGovern, Jason Lewis, David Jhave Johnston).

Co-sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center, Department of Media Study and Department of Theatre & Dance. Thanks to Canadian-American Studies Committee, Melodia E. Jones Chair, Québec Province (PIRQ) 2011-2013.

Poets-in-Residence: David Jhave Johnston and Ian Hatcher
Assistant to the Curator, Digital Poetry Exhibition: Joseph Dante

For more information please visit: http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/wall/.

Digital Poetry Exhibition

LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL: Visual Poetry through its changing media
When: November 17, 2011 – February 18, 2012
Opening Reception: November 17, 2011 @ 5 PM – 7 PM
Where: Second Floor UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts

This exhibition of international scope will be the largest single gathering of its kind of language art, drawing upon material from as early as a Pueblo Indian petroglyph (Galisteo Basin, New Mexico, ca. 1350–1680) up to the twenty-first century that contributes to an alternative tradition to standard linear poetry. Included are examples of seventeenth-century pattern poems, contemporary concrete, poesia visiva, eye poems, typestracts, poem-objects and digital poems. Works by George Herbert, Lewis Caroll, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Barbara Kruger, Henri Chopin, Robert Lax, Dick Higgins, Daniel Spoerri, Alison Knowles, D.A. Levy, Bob Cobbing, Siebren Versteeg, bpNichol, Bill Bissett, Guy de Cointet are among a multiplicity on view.

The “Digital Poetry” component of LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL: Visual Poetry through its Changing Media focuses on bringing the traditions of visual poetry into present day digital poetics, including sound, video, language, especially as focusing on engagements with computer process media practices. These practices include works in a variety of formats, including computer generated poetry, time-based works, language and video, and digital poetry and dance. This exhibition will provide new works along with rarely exhibited historical works crucial to the field, presenting works by some of the most highly celebrated digital poets in the field from the United States, Canada, France, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Sweden, and Norway.

Sponsored by the E-Poetry Festivals and the Electronic Poetry Center, Department of Media Studies, in collaboration with UB’s Dance & Theatre Department, and other sponsors, the exhibition will also consist of special events celebrating the “Digital Poetry” component of LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL.

Upcoming Events:
January 31, 2012: Digital Humanities Panel: Poeisis, Language, & Emerging Media: A Roundtable on New Cultural Configurations @ 242 Center for the Arts, 3pm
February 3, 2012: Digital Poetry & Dance Concert @ the Black Box Theatre, 7:30 & 9 pm
February 4, 2012: International Digital Poetry Performances @ the UB Art Gallery Light Well, 7:30 pm

Digital Poetics Fall 2011 Event: In Conversation

The second Digital Poetics event for the Fall season!
Free and open to all.

When: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 @ 3:00PM
Where: The Center for the Arts, Room 232
Speaker: Nick Montfort In Conversation

Nick Montfort is associate professor of digital media at MIT and president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He develops text generators and interactive fiction and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations. Montfort co-edited The New Media Reader and The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 and wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (with Ian Bogost), and Riddle & Bind. His next book, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, is a collaboration with nine other authors about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program.

The grand opening of the Digital Poetry Exhibition in the UB Art Galleries occurs on November 17th, 2011. Special events associated with the exhibition, as noted on the calendar, will occur on February 3rd and February 4th.

Co-sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center, Department of Media Study and the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo.

Digital Poetics Fall 2011 Events

The first Digital Poetics event for the Fall season!

When: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 @ 3:00PM
Where: The Center for the Arts, Room 232
Speaker: Lizabel Mónica

Lizabel Mónica is a writer, blogger, cultural worker, and multidisciplinary artist from Cuba. She has published introductions to books by Cuban poets Octavio Armand and Juan Carlos Flores. She is presently preparing a collection of essays on Cuban literature and has also published and presented theoretical works for a book on Net Art. A recent recipient of the Hermanos Saíz de Cuba Fronesis prize for her novel-in-progress, Tim Sin Tina, she coordinates Desliz, an online alternative cultural project that includes her own blog. One of her blog posts was recently published in the New York Times on the occasion of the 50-year commemoration of the Bay of Pigs (called the Battle of Playa Girón in Cuba). It is a rare and wonderful treat to have her visit UB. Please make arrangements to attend if you are able!

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AN INVITATION TO ATTEND E-POETRY 2011

E-POETRY 2011
International Digital Language | Arts Festival
TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL
May 18-21, 2011
University at Buffalo
Web registration now available! Specially-priced advance registration offered during March 2011 only!

If you are interested in the emerging edge of language-informed arts practice, whether as a poet, writer, artist, media innovator, scholar, teacher, performer, or in any other disciplines, E-Poetry offers a context for practice and analysis that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. For its tenth anniversary, E-Poetry has been brought back to Buffalo, a central and accessible location for its activities. It will provide a mix of practices, with the emphasis on emerging practices in multiple disciplines that find themselves embedded or even just on the edge of the digital. It will convene a celebratory (in the triumphant spirit of preceding historic poetry festivals) and thought-filled gathering of 150 artists, writers, and scholars from 40 countries — a diversity and culturally rich offering that won’t be found elsewhere.

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Glazier: PERFORMANCE, EXHIBITION & PRESENTATION

ELECTRONIC LITERATURE WORKSHOP
20th and 21st of January 2011

@ Palazzo delle Arti of Naples, the PAN Museum in Naples, Italy
OLE (Officina di Letteratura Elettronica)

Glazier Exhibition: Middle Orange | Media Naranja
Glazier Performance: [ 8vo ]
Glazier Presentation: Una Piccola Historia della Poesia Elettronica

Exhibition screening of Middle Orange, performance of digital poem [ 8vo ], and paper presentation of Una Piccola Historia della Poesia Elettronica by Media Study Faculty Member, Dr. Loss Pequeño Glazier, as an invited participant at OLE.

The OLE (Officina di Letteratura Elettronica) Workshop of Electronic Literature conference and festival will be the first significant event in the field of digital literature hosted in Italy. The workshop will allow the OLE to introduce the field of Electronic Literature as it is practiced in Italy. Artists and researchers worldwide shall meet and present their research and works. This will permit researchers to present their latest research and artists to premier their newest works.

GLAZIER POETICS READING

Glazier Poetics Reading
Saturday, November 20, 2010
@8:00 pm

Featuring Media Study Faculty Member
Loss Pequeño Glazier

Poetics Affiliate Faculty at Work
Steve McCaffery and Loss Pequeño Glazier

Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
453 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY

Presenting an on-going series featuring work by Poetics Affiliate Faculty

Steve McCaffery and Loss Pequeño Glazier POETICS@4+ PERFORMANCE

Saturday, November 20, 8:00pm
Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 453 Porter Avenue

An on-going series featuring work by Poetics Affiliate Faculty:
Steve McCaffery will present the US premier of Carnival Panel III, a 30 minute rendition of the latest addition to McCaffery’s explosive typographical environment first begun in 1969.
Loss Pequeño Glazier will present from Middle Orange | Media Naranja | Cayo Largo, an iteration of present lateral translations of crushed coral, generative miscegenation, and turquoise digital variants.

More information can be found at http://english.buffalo.edu/docs/poeticsPlus.pdf.

LOSS PEQUEÑO GLAZIER performs at ARCHIVE & INNOVATE June 6, 2010

Professor Loss Pequeño Glazier performs “Front(era): the Gelato Prado”, an improvised digital poem, at Archive & Innovate: The 4th International Conference & Festival of the Electronic Literature Organization, organized by Writing Digital Media in the Literary Arts Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, June 6, 2010. Visit ai.eliterature.org for more info.

"EMERGING LANGUAGE PRACTICES" Journal Launch Party April 20, 2010

Join us Tuesday, April 20th, from 6-8 in 232 CFA for a launch party for our new journal: Emerging Language Practices. We will have some refreshments, show some of the work that is included in the inaugural issue and have computers available for you to explore the contents of the issue.

Click on the image above for details, including the names of those whose work is featured in the issue.

More info here: http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/elp.html

&NOW: Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts

The 4th Biennial &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts will be held in Buffalo, NY from October 14-17, 2009.

The &Now Festival explores intersections between creative and critical praxes, examines innovative and experimental acts of writing, and advances a serious inquiry into theories of language.

Panel: “POETICS ACROSS MEDIA”
featuring Media Study students Anna Scime (poetics of moving images) and Adam Liszkiewicz (poetics of video games) and Media Study faculty Josephine Anstey (virtual reality and stream of consciousness), and Loss Pequeño Glazier (language arts practice).

“Poetics Across Media” proposes to examine innovative incursions of the poetic into and across media. Through analyses of digital/poetry, film, video games, and virtual reality, this panel hopes to expand and better delineate the potentials of contemporary literature.

Moderator/co-moderator: Loss Pequeño Glazier/Adam Liszkiewicz.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009,
8:00-8:50 pm, Hallwalls Cinema (340 Delaware Ave, Buffalo).

Digital Media Poetics Events Fall 2009

Fall 2009, Department of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo

Monday, September 21 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
ELIZABETH KNIPE, TAMMY MCGOVERN

Wednesday, September 23 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
PATRICIA TOMASZEK, LORI EMERSON

Monday, October 5 (Gender Week Event), 3-5 PM, 112 CFA
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Monday, October 19, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
SANDY BALDWIN

Monday, November 9, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
A. J. PATRICK LISZKIEWICZ

Monday, November 16, 3-5 PM, 232 CFA
JONATHAN MINTON

All events will take place in the Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, North
Campus. Sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center , Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and, in part, by Gender Week, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. Series Curators: Loss Pequeño Glazier and Anna Scime.

SEE THE DETAILED SCHEDULE

Loss Pequeño Glazier Reading/Performance

September 11, 7: 30 pm
Poetry Collection (4th floor, Capen Library)

In the fall 2009, University at Buffalo, in collaboration with the European journal _Formules_, is sponsoring on the UB campus a bi-lingual international Colloquium entitled Urbanités Littéraires / Cityscapes – Literary Escapes. The goal of the conference is to study the relationship between writing and the urban environment, and specify interactive engagements between literature, architecture, and urbanism.

Friday, September 11, 7:30 pm Key Speaker, Loss Pequeño Glazier

Introduction: Justin Read — University at Buffalo
Loss Pequeño Glazier — University at Buffalo

“GUANIQUIQUI”

“Guaniquiqui” is an exploration of the play of languages, whether Cuban and African languages, Cuban and colonial Spanish, or Cuban and English. It explores the cultural landscape through a quiet insistence on detail, the play of colors and light, simple observations, cultural intuition, economic realities, and the crumbling architecture of old Havana. How does a culture synthesize so much of the American past and, though isolated, insist on a real presence in the present world? Through this process, with a focus on the material nature of language, “Guaniquiqui” hopes to present a way to see the world, the post-colonial and politically alternative, that both enriches and informs our understanding of human being in a difficult, but expressively rich, present age. This performance/reading will explore such themes, opening doors to this often-inaccessible culture through poetic practice, expressive utterances, and the unspoken views of passing observations.

*NOTE: Admission is free for UB faculty, staff, and students but they
are asked to PRE-REGISTER (http://www.ieeff.org/contactus.html). Please type “Student” in the “Communication” field. Please check the box “No fee $0″ and put “$0″ in the “Total cost” box. This event includes a Reception buffet (at 7:00 pm).*

E-Poetry 2009 Barcelona!

E-Poetry 2009 Barcelona, will take place in Barcelona, Spain, May 24-27, 2009. Directed by Media Study faculty member, Loss Pequeño Glazier (who will also perform at the Festival’s opening night), E-Poetry 2009 is sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center, Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo. This biennial international digital poetry festival is the largest in the world; presented here are performances and papers at the cutting edge of new developments in digital poetry and media poetics. Featuring numerous practitioners and scholars from over a dozen countries, E-Poetry is known as a definitive measure of the development of the new field of digital media poetics, actively engaging the cultural community and avant-garde venues of the host city where it takes place. For more details, consult the link at the EPC.