[Purple-Blurb] Steve McCaffery next Monday! And the rest of Spring 2012...

[Nick Montfort]

Welcome back to another semester of Purple Blurb. Our Spring 2012 schedule 
is now set and can be found here:

http://nickm.com/if/purple_blurb/

Purple Blurb is pleased to announce the start of our Spring Semester series
next week with noted sound poet, book artist, and visual writer Steve
McCaffery. We hope you will join us for this and our future events, which
include a reading by Christian Bök, a symposium on the future of books, and
an open mic/open mouse for all forms of digital writing!


NEXT MONDAY...

IN STEREO...


     March 19 in 6-120, 5:30 PM

STEVE MCCAFFERY

   Author of Carnival, The Black Debt, Seven Pages Missing

     Professor and David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, SUNY
     Buffalo

A central figure in Canadian avant-garde writing, Steve McCaffery’s work
spans sound poetry, generative and iterative text, experimental prose,
performance art, literary criticism, and visual poetics. A member of the
Four Horsemen sound poetry ensemble and a professor of English at SUNY
Buffalo, he is the author of over a dozen influential books of poetry,
twenty chapbooks and four volumes of critical writing. His works include the
visual typewriter poem CARNIVAL (pictured above) panels 1 and 2, Panopticon,
The Black Debt, North of Intention and Rational Geomancy: Kids of the
Book-Machine (with bpNichol). With Jed Rasula, McCaffery edited Imagining
Language, an anthology for MIT Press.


And, later in the semester...



     April 9 in 6-120, 5:30 PM

OPEN MOUSE / OPEN MIC

   Featuring Alexandra Chasin and Ari Kalinowski

     Co-sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization

Please join us for an open mic featuring  D1G1T4L WR1T1NG for a variety of
platforms, from immersive projections by Ari Kalinowski to generative
fiction for the iPad by Alexandra Chasin. Bring video art, interactive
fiction, SMS poems, and any form of electronic literature you’ve got up your
sleeve!

Alexandra Chasin is the author of Kissed By (FC2), and Selling Out: The Gay
and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market (St. Martin's). She teaches Writing at
Lang College, The New School. Ari Kalinowski runs the Intermedia Poetry
Project: intermediapoetry.com



     MAY 3 IN 6-120, 6:00 PM

CHRISTIAN BöK

   Author of Crystallography, Eunoia and The Xenotext

     Professor of English, University of Calgary

     Co-sponsored by the Visiting Artist Series

     Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House
     Press, 1994), nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best
     Poetic Debut, and Eunoia, a lipogram that uses only one vowel in
     each chapter, which won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and is the
     best- selling Canadian poetry book of all time. He is also
     author of Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary
     Science (2001). His latest project, The Xenotext, encodes a
     poetic text into bacterial DNA that will produce proteins in
     response—yielding another poetic text. Bök has created
     artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final
     Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon.


The Purple Blurb series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and 
Writing and Humanistic Studies. The organizer for the 2011-2012 academic 
year is Amaranth Borsuk.

  -Nick