Reading/performing of Separation / Séparation (2003) New Years Eve, 19h15 CET in A Toast to the Flash Generation. Besides celebrating the end of an important creative period and showcasing the wonderful Flash e-lit collected by the Electronic Literature Organization in its Repository, this event also intends to document the flash poetry, narratives, & essays for posterity.
I used Midst, a software made by Annelyse Gelman to produce this text. “We hold no particular aesthetic allegiance, but we believe that poetry is a process, a way of thinking in language, engaging with language, attending to language. Poems are events. Poems are for everyone.“
Since February I have been participating in monthly meetings with elo people. We gather in zoom for a two hour salon session, that each time is led by someone else.
Johannah Rodgers has been publishing its background and write-ups of the meetings on Facebook. I have collected these in one .pdf available to those interested. (I hope you are ok with this Johannah)
A list of titles to give you a first taste of what we treated until now: Feb 11 – Kirill Azernyi – A Discussion of a Nika Skandiaka Poem and Reading “Electronically” Tools Zoom. Mar 10 – Annie Abrahams – A“reariting” centered on “Extra-terrestrial Rhetoric,” a multimedia text by Lily Robert-Foley. Tools Zoom and Framapad. Apr 14 – Deena Larsen – Collaborative Writing With Spreadsheets Fantasy Lunch. Tools Zoom and Google spreadsheet. May 12 – Reham Hosny – Re-Weaving Digital Textualities with Amira Hanafi’s “A Dictionary of the Revolution” Tools Zoom and browser. June 9 Lyle Skains – “E-lit in the Wild”. Tools Zoom, Googledoc and browser.
Upcoming – Aug 11 – Alan Sondheim – Sept 8 – Bill Bly – Oct 13 – Caitlin Fisher – Nov 10 Johannah Rogers.
What does it mean to be together apart? How can we create and share ideas from an (un)distance? In this experimental panel we will explore the topic “(un)distance” as a way to b(e/r)ing us together and to share ideas over various (di)stances and (di)scourses. We will center around long-distance writing practices, and will self-reflexively discuss how effective on-line community discussion works.
You could have participated watching the video conference while at the same time joining in a collaborative reariting on a framapad. If you click on the clock icon topright in the framapad you can see a cinamatographic image of the reawriting – a historique dynamique.
The framapad is a site for your thoughts and longer discussions, for questioning/commenting/digressing/feeding and disturbing the (un)distance elo panel before, during and after its effectuation.
two snapshots of the reariting in framapad
The panel will be moderated by Annie Abrahams and Anna Nacher on zoom, Deena Larsen and Johannah Rodgers in the framapad. The panel participants are Eugenio Tisselli, Kirill Azernyy, Renee Carmichael, and Roderick Coover.
Pondering on my relation to electronic literature / e-lit for the eloCork 2019 conference, where is was invited, I was surprised to discover how strong that was. My interest for text and translation has pervaded my all over, what? … networked practice … I am happy that the article that resulted from the venture has been published in the Electronic book Review. (thanks eo-Cork and ebr) My only regret is that I didn’t mention my ongoing e-stranger – What language does to you or not. – project.
Our article The machinic author has been published in the Journal of Creative Writing Studies in a special Issue: Creative Making As Creative Writing.
… an artists’ statement that situates the work in feminist materiality (Barad) Kathi Berens.
“The author is this intra-action itself. The author is not “dead” as such. He has just changed his nature. The machinic author reveals herself as queer.“
Abrahams, Annie and Guez, Emmanuel (2019) ““The machinic author” Artist’s Statement: The Reading Club”, Journal of Creative Writing Studies: Vol. 4: Iss.1, Article 8. ISSN: 2474-2937. Available at: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/jcws/vol4/iss1/8
“We take the Reading Club as an example for how nowadays reading and writing is entangled with machines and software. A real-time language game with a humorously competitive character becomes, through a public act of constructing and deconstructing sense, a creative apparatus. This literary “machine” does not write itself, but makes authors write text in a conversational space full of meanings and emotions. It is a kind of human text generator that challenges the idea of creation and where the authors are, at best, co-creators. Appearing in the 1960s, the “death of the author,” who is not really one, is actually the awareness of the emergence of the machinic author.”
Q&A with J.R. Carpenter and Andy Campbell (photo Leonardo Flores – merci)
Recently I did 2 talks at eloCork. The first #PEAE (Participatif Ethology in Artificial Environments) was about my relation to electronic literature and my struggles defining my artworks. In the second Diffractive Reading in the Reading Club, I describe how I became to consider the Reading Club as an example of a diffractive reading practice.
#PEAE, Annie Abrahams, Artist presentation. 15/07/2019 Artists: Forum 1 (12 – 1.30pm), Forum 1A Boole Lecture Theatre 3. Chair: Andrew Klobucar (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Preparation Peae.pdf 10 pages 1.6 Mo
Diffractive Reading in the Reading Club, Annie Abrahams, Paper presentation. 16/07/2019 Short Papers: Section 2 (3.30 – 5.00pm), Section 2B [Re]shaping students, teachers, readers. O’Rahilly Building 156. Chair: Diogo Marques (University of Coimbra) Preparation Diffractive.pdf 7 pages 1.2 Mo
On the 20th of June 2019 at 3:30pm (UTC+01:00) during my talk with/in languages – a pretty pathetic @ the Language INTER Networks conference in Lancaster, I danced to Lou Sarabadzic‘s reading of an extract of Hito Steyerl’s International Disco Latin. The text of my talk with/in languages – a pretty pathetic is now available in ZeTMaG numéro 4.2 Langu(ag)e(s)-(E)Space(s).
ZeTMaG, Temporary Zones of Expression, is an open collective non-commercial artistic “organization”, dedicated to experimental creation. Other works by: Jean-Pierre Balpe, Canan Marasligil, Gracia Bejjan, Lou Sarabadzic, Qianxun Chen, Eugenio Tissell, Tanja Vujinovic, Chris Joseph, Natasha Boskic and Mohamad Kebbewar, Mary McDonald, Mez Breeze and Alexandra Saemmer.
June 20, 8:15pm Lancaster time (9:15 Paris time) lingagens an online ReadingClub ***** session. Duration 20 min. Lai-TzeFan, Sören Pold and Andréa Catrópa will rearite a text originally written by Erika Fülöp.
To join connect to readingclub.fr on the 20th and wait for the performance to start. You can comment, ask questions and discuss the reariting via the chat window. The logfile of the chatwindow will be archived alongside the cinematographic recording of the lingagens session.
The reariting will be projected live as a part of lingagens: a performance by me (Annie Abrahams) at the The Gregson Centre in the frame of the Language INTER Networks conference at the Lancaster University.
Also on the 20th at 3:30pm (UTC+01:00) I will give a talk named with/in languages – a pretty pathetic. The complete schedule of the conference here.
Ours Lingages
Performance by Annie Abrahams concept, script, reading, singing
with Daniel Pinheiro computing, dancing, singing, video editing Isabel Costa dancing, reading Igor Stromajer {0§n–3¦é×F= Miá†} soundpoem in Portuguese Outranspo – Lily Robert-Foley, Camille Bloomfield and Jonathan Baillehache reawriting Jan de Weille reawriting Rui Torres translation Helen Varley Jamieson tchat queen Anna Tolkacheva live video capturing
Public volunteers holding Isabel Costa upside down All breathing
21/07 2017 10.15 PM, Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, Porto, Electronic Literature Organisation conference ELO 2017.
