ELO 2021 Utterings

Utterings Performance: Supra Semiotics. 30 min.
May 25th 2021 20h Paris time. Zoom link:
Attunement: https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/antonin-artaud-by-jaap-blonk

Utterings Panel: Toward a Supra-Semiotic Telepresent Communication.
May 26th 2021 14h30 Paris time. Zoom link:
Members of our group will collectively discuss what we have pragmatically learned and experienced in our performance research thus far. During the panel we make a writing pad available, where the audience can collectively read and write their thoughts on utterings as a communication form. Utterings will join and continue the discussion on the writing pad in the last part of the panel.

Utterings is a networked performance and research group whose members gather online and, while blindfolded, engage in utterings as communication. We want to create an on the fly “new” language, that forwards attention, trust and feelings, above rationality. Put another way, we seek to develop a shared, experiential, supra-semiotic form of communication based on our ongoing performance history with each other. Michael Bakhtin’s concept of the “utterance event” as a node of intersection between lived, present-tense communication and atemporal, semiotic meaning has informed our research. Over the past year, we have enacted eight performances online “at” festivals “in” Nantes (France), Birmingham (UK), Linz (Austria), and London (UK).

Info and updates: https://utterings.hotglue.me/?elo

Utterings | Breathing. COVID E-lit exhibition. May 1st 2021 Opening.

ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic
Workshops: 24-25 May, main conference 26-28 May 2021.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, e-literature, Exhibition, Performance, ELO, ELO 2021, utterings

COVID E-lit

COVID E-lit exhibition. May 1st 2021 Opening.
Included is Pandemic Encounter by Annie Abrahams and Breathing by Utterings.

Annie Abrahams | Pandemic Encounter.
Breathing is usually an unconscious process shared by all persons, but during the pandemic, it has become a common source of anxiety. This audio track exteriorizes the raw, raspy discomfort of our new reality. It mixes the artist’s respiration; computer-generated, distorted heartbeats; and a sound piece called “Silences” by Frans van Lent, which captures the silences of twenty artists from all around the world.

Utterings | Breathing.
Confronts the viewer with a “being” that is the result of an intricate, active, interlaced communicative structure in which both humans and machines are involved in a process of shared auditory exchange and attention. Through the mixing of six audio and video streams emerges an image of a phantom-like breathing, pulsating entity that thrives through affection, attention, glitches, delays and even voids.

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Filed under: e-literature, Exhibition, Net art, networked performance, sound piece

WOMAN E-LIT

On March 30 6pm Paris time I will present #Crossroads…, a short intervention in WOMAN E-LIT, 10th anniversary of the Electronic Literature Lab x Women’s History Month.

Organisation Dene Grigar.
To register or learn more, email dgrigar@wsu.edu.

Filed under: e-literature, Event, Electronic Literature Lab, Woman E-Lit

Flash re-Generations … ?

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.

December 31, 2020
10 a.m.-5 p.m. PST (7 p.m. – 2 a.m. CET)

Hosted by Dene Grigar, Director, Electronic Literature Lab; Digital Preservationist, Electronic Literature Organization.

Filed under: e-literature, Event, Net art, Electronic Literature Lab, ELO, Séparation, separation

Corona Corona Corona

Deux/two extracts of un poème multiligue
https://internetexploreur.com/corona-corona-corona

Other d’autres text(e)s by me on sur Internetexploreur

• ✷ The violence of naming ✷
• ✷ Qu’est-ce que ça fait de frissonner en français ✷
• ✷ Parce qu’elle ne peut se rapprocher – interdiction ✷
• ✷ De huid tintelt ✷

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.“

Filed under: Articles / Texts, e-literature, Languages, corona, internetexploreur, Midst, poème, poem

ELO Virtual Salons

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)

Johannah Rodgers ELO SalonDownload

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.

Interested? Please put your name on this list : https://tinyurl.com/ELOsalonlist

first meeting

Filed under: e-literature

(Un)Distance ELOrlando

An ELOrlando 2020: Virtual Edition Panel.
Friday July 17, 1pm EDT, 19h Paris time.

A videorecording of the event here.
Log file of the zoom chat here.

You can download the framapad as a .pdf – saved on July 17 21H Paris time.

undistance-framapad-annuelDownload

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.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, e-literature, research, Anna Nacher, Deena Larsen, ELOrlando, Eugenio Tisselli, Johannah Rodgers, Kirill Azernyy, panel, Renee Carmichael, Roderick Coover, undistancing

#PEAE published in ebr

It touches on my inability, unwillingness to categorize my work and where that leads.

Published: Abrahams, Annie. “#PEAE Participative Ethology in Artificial Environments”, Electronic Book Review, May 3, 2020.

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.

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Conference / lecture, e-literature, categorisation, e-lit, ebr, Electronic Book Review, peae

The Machinic Author

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.”

Filed under: Articles / Texts, e-literature, e-literature, JCWS, Reading Club, ReadingClub

#PEAE – Diffractive Reading in the Reading Club – eloCork

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

15-17/07 The Electronic Literature Organisation Conference and Media Arts Festival In Cork. (Thanks for the elo bursary.)
Download the programme and book of abstracts of the conference. .pdf

Filed under: Collective writing, Conference / lecture, e-literature, diffractive reading, Electronic Literature Organisation, ELO, eloCork, Participatif Ethology, peae