Digital Literature Lo-fi Style

Visiting Artist Talk | JR Carpenter DIGITAL LITERATURE AVEC FROMAGE. Technopoet and digi-maven JR Carpenter invites you for a grilled cheese, some pickles and a discussion of Digital Literature Lo-i Style February 10, 2012 | Room 595 | 12:45 PM Presented by the MADT program J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian artist, performer, poet, novelist, new media writer and researcher based in South Devon, England. She has been using the Internet as a medium for the creation and dissemination of non-linear narratives since 1993. Her digital work has been performed, published and presented in journals, festivals, and museums around the world. She a two-time winner of the Quebec Short Story competition, and recipient of the Carte Blanche Quebec Award as well as numerous research and production grants in literature and in new media from the Conseil des Arts de Montreal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec and Canada Council for the Arts. Her irst novel, Words the Dog Knows, won the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book. Her second book, GENERATION[S], a collection of code narratives, was published by Traumawien in Vienna in 2010. She is faculty for In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice At the Edge residency program and a practice-led PhD Researcher at University College Falmouth, Cornwall, working in the emerging and converging ields of performance writing, digital literature, locative narrative, media archaeology and networked art practices. http://luckysoap.com Montreal-bound MADTers will be selling delicious Grilled Cheese to enjoy with JR’s words at noon outside Room 494