The Last Vispo Anthology – currently showing at Common Ground Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
COMMON GROUND ART GALLERY
in conjunction with
RAMPIKE Magazine
Very Proudly Present
T H E L A S T V I S P O
: selections from the upcoming anthology
edited by Crag Hill and Nico Vassilakis
(This selection compiled by Volker Nix)
Opening reception: Saturday, March 13th, 2010, Windsor, Ontario
Exhibition runs until April 10th, 2010
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Way back in 2008, American writers Crag Hill and Nico Vassilakis put out a world wide call for submissions for an upcoming anthology of visual poetry. Slowly, in the two intervening years, a 300 page book of such work has been brought together which covers the decade between 1998 and 2008, and features well over 125 different seasoned and emerging writer/artists from around the world. Cut to March of 2010; while these intrepid editors are busily shopping this gargantuan (and very colourful) manuscript around to an array of would-be publishers, Common Ground Art Gallery of Windsor Ontario has jumped at the opportunity to be the first gallery in Canada to exhibit a sneak peak at what these editors are hoping to see published sometime later this year.
Haven’t the foggiest notion as to what The Last Vispo is? Should you find yourself in the area, there’s no quicker way to answer that question for yourself by attending the reception we are holding in honour of the many artists, writers and editors who have all profoundly contributed to the curious phenomenon of visual poetry; a veritable black sheep on the landscape of our language arts. So come on down to Common Ground the evening of Saturday March 13th beginning at 7 pm and see for yourself what all the fuss is about.
The following artists from The Last Vispo have works currently on display in the gallery:
mIEKAL AND (U.S.A.), Hartmut Andryczuk (Germany), Petra Backonja (U.S.A.), Michael Basinski (U.S.A.), Guy R. Beining (U.S.A.), Marc Bell & Jason McLean (Canada), John M. Bennett (U.S.A.), Carla Bertola (Italy), Jaap Blonk (Holland), Chrisitan Bok (Canada), Daniel f. Bradley (Canada), Nancy Burr (U.S.A.), Mike Cannell (England), David Baptiste Chirot (U.S.A.), Jo Cook (Canada), Judith Copithorne (Canada), Klaus Peter Dencker (Germany), Brian Dettmer (U.S.A.), Fabio Doctorovich (Argentina), Maria Damon (U.S.A.), Amanda Earl (Canada), Shayne Ehman (Canada), Greg Evason (Canada), Oded Ezer (Israel), Luc Firens (Belgium), Angela Genusa (U.S.A.), Jesse Glass (Japan), Robert Grenier (U.S.A.), Bob Grumman (U.S.A.), Scott Helmes (U.S.A.), Geof Huth (U.S.A.), Serkan Isin (Turkey), Michael Jacobson (U.S.A.), Karl Jirgens (Canada), Alex Jorgensen (U.S.A.), Chris Joseph (England), Joe Keppler (U.S.A.), Dirk Krecker (Germany), Edward Kuleman (Russia), Jim Leftwich (U.S.A.), Troy Lloyd (U.S.A.), Carlos M. Luis (U.S.A.), Jeurgen O. Olbrich (Germany), Sonja Ahlers (Canada), Donato Mancini (Canada), Cy Machina (Canada), Keiichi Nakamura (Japan), Marko Niemi (Finland), Rea Nikonova (Russia), Christopher Olsen (Canada), Clemente Padin (Uruguay), Michael Peters (U.S.A.), Nick Piombino (U.S.A.), Ross Priddle (Canada), e.g. vajda (U.S.A.), Marilyn Rosenberg (U.S.A.), Jenny Sampirisi (Canada), Suzan Sari (Turkey), Serge Segay (Russia), Douglas Spangle (U.S.A.), Litsa Spathi (Greece), Pete Spence (Australia), Matina Stamatakis (U.S.A.), Miroljub Todorovic (Serbia), Cecil Touchon (U.S.A.), Aysegul Tozeren (Turkey), Stephen Vincent (U.S.A.), Reid Wood (U.S.A.) and James Yeary (U.S.A.). — ENOUGH ! ENOUGH !
But wait, that’s not all !
Karl Jirgens, editor of Rampike Magazine (since 1979!) and former Head of the English Department at the University of Windsor currently on sabbatical, (and ALSO one of two local Windsorites whose work will be featured in this upcoming anthology), had the fortuitous good fortune to choose this exact time to bring out his latest issue of RAMPIKE Magazine; an issue coincidentally devoted entirely to the musings of visual poetry, at that! So, in conjunction with this special exhibition featuring selections from The Last Vispo, Karl has very generously offered to bring a stack of the newly minted visual poetry issue of RAMPIKE to the reception to be given away free to all interested parties who attend this reception. So if you don’t know what Vispo is, this exhibition of selections from The Last Vispo coupled with the latest issue of Rampike Magazine will certainly go a long way in furnishing a very concrete example for your edification, amusement and enjoyment !
Furthermore, (if poetry is not your thing and you’re more easily given over to pursuits of the boogie woogie kind) local artist/musican KERO, featured on the cover of this issue of RAMPIKE, will provide his unique post-electronic musical stylings at some point during the course of the evening.
This, as with all Common Ground events, is FREE and OPEN to the public.
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Project AlphaAlpha by Regina Pinto and participants
AlphaAlpha, an animated netbook of letters “A”! It is composed of 365 instances of the letter “A” plus one more for the leap year. The letters are collected in groups of about ten. AlphaAlpha is a collaborative work and includes participants – artists & poets – from all over the world:
Joesér Alvaraz (Brazil), Bruce Andrews (USA), Jim Andrews (Canada), Paulo Aquarone (Brazil), Isabel Aranda – YTO (Chile), Isabelle Arvers (France), babel (Canada/UK), Vera Bighetti (Brazil), Bruno (Brazil), Patrick Burgaud (France), Josely Carvalho (Brazil), Steve Dalachinsky (USA), Martha Deed (USA), Rodolfo Franco (Brazil/Spain), Marcel Frazão (Brazil), Muriel Frega (Argentina), Sabrina Gledhill (Brazil), Lisa Hutton (USA), Satu Kaikkonen (Finland), Maja Kalogera (Croatia), Roberto Keppler (Brazil), Manik (Serbia), Brigitte Neufeldt (Germany), Millie Niss (USA), Clemente Padín (Uruguay), Margaret Penfold (UK), Yuko Otomo (USA), Edward Picot (UK), Regina Pinto (Brazil), Isabel Saij (France), José Roberto Sechi (Brazil), Reiner Strasser (Germany), Jurgen Trautwein (USA), Myron Turner (Canada), Susan Turner (Canada), Paulo Villela (Brazil), Miguel Jimenez – Zenon (Spain), Araceli Zuñiga (Mexico)
if:book HOTBOOK launched
http://futureofthebook.org.uk/index.php/hotbook/
The HOTBOOK is a ground breaking and free digital resource created by if:book.
The HOTBOOK aims to ignite a passion for literature (past, present and future) by introducing and exploring fragments of great works and presenting them in a way that will excite an audience that is more at ease with an electronic game or gadget than a book and with people who spend time social networking rather than reading.
To receive the free HOTBOOK resources and teachers’ guide, please visit http://futureofthebook.org.uk/index.php/hotbook/
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Some audio clips (very quiet, unfortunately) from the launch event at the Free Word Centre in London:
Viv Bird, Chief Executive of Booktrust:
Roland Marden, Head of Research, Booktrust (1):
Roland Marden, Head of Research, Booktrust (2):
Eleanor Clarke, Head of English, Queensbridge School, Birmingham:
Questions:
Daljit Nagra, poet:
Authoring software – how new media writers make their work
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/elit/elit_software.html -
by Judy Malloy
A resource for teachers and students of new media writing, who are exploring what authoring tools to use, for new media writers and poets, who are interested in how their colleagues approach their work, and for readers, who want to understand how new media writers and poets create their work, Authoring Software is an ongoing collection of statements about authoring tools and software.
It also looks at the relationship between interface and content in new media writing and at how the innovative use of authoring tools and the creation of new authoring tools have expanded digital writing/hypertext writing/net narrative practice in this vibrant contemporary creative writing field.
The project includes entries by and about such artists as Mark Amerika, Stefan Muller Arisona, M. D. Coverley,
Chris Joseph, Rob Kendall, Antoinette LaFarge, Deena Larson, Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop, Kate Pullinger, Jim Rosenberg, Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Sue Thomas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Joel Weishaus, and Nanette Wylde among many others.
This month features an interview with Sonya Rapoport, a visual artist and interactive art pioneer,
who creates interactive installations, as well as web works and artists books.
Video of Devil’s Rope Journal at Interactive Futures 2007
Video moments uploaded by Christine Wilks from the live presentation of The Devils Rope Journal at the Interactive Futures 2007 (The New Screen) conference in Victoria, BC, Canada. The Devil’s Rope, created in Flash by Randy Adams (aka runran, Can), Chris Joseph (aka babel, Can/UK) and Christine Wilks (aka crissxross, UK), remixes images, animations, texts, audio, and snippets of from the collaborative R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX blog – http://www.remixworx.net. You can download a Flash standalone player of the full version of The Devil’s Rope from R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX here – http://www.runran.net/remix_runran/?page_id=393
Kate Pullinger demonstrating Flight Paths during ‘The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice’ in Bergen, Norway
Kate demonstrates Flight Paths at Landmark café in Bergen, Norway during the conference: The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice, November 2009.
The Future of the Novel is Digital: Interactive Narrative ‘Inanimate Alice’ Featured in Epic Documentary TV Series
Full press release at
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-future-of-the-novel-is-digital-interactive-narrative-inanimate-alice-featured-in-epic-documentary-tv-series-78956737.html
Reviews and discussions of Inanimate Alice on CultureNet @ Capilano University
http://culturenet.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/review-3/
http://culturenet.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/review-2-2/
http://culturenet.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/do-you-hear-what-i-hear/
http://culturenet.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/inanimate-alice-episode-1-china-2/
http://culturenet.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/inanimate-alice/
http://culturenet.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/inanimate-alice-episode-1-china/
Sound Ecologies – Listening in the City, London, 18 November 2009, 10am-4pm
I was recently asked to create a small multimedia piece for this event, something that needed to work simultaneously as an online electronic flyer to promote the event, but also on big screens at the City University campus. The result is online now. It was a very interesting project, as the requirements and possibilities of small screen-interactive-online viewing are quite different from that of big screen-passive-offline viewing. I decided to use heavily degraded black and white visuals that only really become clear once you move away from the screen: in effect, requiring those who see it sitting at their computers to move away from their screens and into their wider (sonic) environment. There are 21 scenes which play at random.
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SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CITY
10am-4pm, Wednesday 18th November 2009
Department of Music, City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB
A day of presentations, participatory workshops and informal performance around themes of urban sound, networked sound, locative media and acoustic ecology – the relationship between living beings their environment, as mediated by sound.
More info http://www.furtherfield.org/soundecologies.php
Details of what will happen http://www.furtherfield.org/soundecologies.php#deets
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The live event is fully booked but there are still ways for you to get involved:
Check out the new commission by Chris Joseph
http://www.furtherfield.org/chris_joseph_soundecologies/
Upload your own sounds to the VisitorsStudio mix. If you can’t be there in the flesh you can still contribute to the mix by adding your own local sound files (small 200k loops please) on an urban theme.
http://visitorsstudio.org/x.html
NOTE: When you upload your sounds don’t forget to use the keyword ‘urban’ in the title or description so that we can find them.
AND IF YOU JUST CAN’T WAIT….
Please get your ears tuned in and check out some great projects highlighted by Furthernoise.org
A review by Alex Young of a project that draws on the sonification of ocean current data.
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=44&iss=50
Resonant Cities Compilation by New Media Scotland reviewed by Stacey Sewell
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=216&iss=65
Idea of South an evolving Internet based sound map which allows you to hear and mix locational recordings from all over the southern hemisphere in a contrapuntal collage of sound. Roger Mills and Neil Jenkins
http://www.eartrumpet.org/projects.html#ideaofsouth
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