The CLC created the content and script for a computer game supplementing the University 101 freshman orientation class.

A press release is here

ENG 303 Multimedia Writing Fall 2007

Professor Sandy Baldwin

The syllabus is here.

UbuRadio!

The CLC presents UbuRadio, streaming selections from the audio archives of UbuWeb. Listen to the best of avant-garde sound on your desktop, 24/7.

We’ve re-done our UbuRadio stream using ShoutCast. UbuRadio streams audio selected from the archives of UbuWeb. Currently we’re streaming a few thousands selections and we’ll add more soon. You can listen to Ubu 24/7 on your favorite media player. We had previously tried with QuickTime rather than ShoutCast, but had numerous problems. We think this version will be much more successful.

Please give it a listen. I’m sending this announcement to a limited group to test it out before we annouce more widely. While there may be some re-buffering due to net traffic and/or connection, please let me know if it seems excessive. Thanks!

Click here for the .pls file (the script that launches the stream): http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu:8000/listen.pls

Hyperconnectivity in Deleuze: between ‘linguistic being’ and ‘architectural body’

A talk by Jondi Keane, response by Martin Rosenberg // April 16, 1230-2pm, Stansbury 336 // Hosted and present by the Center for Literary Computing

All students and faculty are welcome. This is an informal talk on embodiment, cognition, Deleuzean theory, and related topics. Students working on these topics are welcome to meet with Jondi Keane to discuss their work. Keane will also be speaking at the CAC on Wednesday, April 17, 5-8pm, Blaney Seminar Room. The topic will be visual art, video, performance and writing/theory, in relation Deleuze and embodiment.

Questions to Sandy Baldwin at charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu

Speaker Biographies:
Over the last 25 years, arts practitioner and critical thinker Dr. Jondi Keane, has exhibited, performed and published in the USA, UK, Europe and AUS. Currently a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University in Australia, his research interests include the relation of practice-led research to the study embodied cognition. He is a founding member of collaborative interdisciplinary performance group, Co M-S-K, who recently performed at the 2006 Brisbane Festival. In 2007, has been invited to the NY studios of Arakawa and Gins to work on architectural features for the Reversible Destiny Hotel.
Martin E. Rosenberg is an independent scholar and author of many essays on Deleuzian theory.

Dispersive Anatomies CFP

Call for papers – LEA Dispersive Anatomies – A Special Issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac
http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/calls.asp#dispersive

Guest Editors: Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim and Mez Breeze: leadispersive@astn.net

Editorial Guidelines: http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.asp

Discussion Group: leadispersive-subscribe@googlegroups.com

Deadline: 31 May 2007

Call for papers – LEA Dispersive Anatomies

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting papers and artworks that address dispersion – dispersion of bodies, objects, landscapes, networks, virtual and real worlds.

A fundamental shift in the way we view the world is underway: the abandonment of discrete objects, and objecthood itself. The world is now plural, and the distinction between real and virtual is becoming increasingly blurred, with troubling consequences within the geopolitical register. This shift is related to a cultural change that emphasizes digital deconstruction over analog construction: a photograph for example can be accessed and transformed, pixel by pixel, cities can be taken apart by gerrymandering or eminent domain, and our social networks are replete with names and images that problematize friendship, sexuality, and culture itself. One issue that emerges here: Are we networking or are we networked? Are we networks ourselves?

LEA is interested in texts and works that deal with this fundamental shift in new and illuminating ways. Specifically, anything from essays through multimedia through networks themselves may be considered. We’re particularly interested in submissions that deal with the incoherency of the world, and how to address it.

Key topics of interest
Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):
Networked warfare in real and virtual worlds.
The wounded/altered body in real and virtual worlds.
Transgressive sexualities across borders, sexualities among body-parts, dismemberments and groups, both real and virtual.
Critical texts on the transformation of classical narrative – from its emphasis on an omniscient narrator and coherent plots/characters, to literatures of incoherency, dispersed narrations, and the jump-cut exigencies of everyday life.
Deleuze/Guattari, TAZ, and other phenomena at the border of networking.
Internet visions and their abandonment or fulfillment.
The haunting of the world by ghosts, virtual beings, dreams and nightmares that never resolve.
The geopolitical collapse of geopolitics.
Military empires as scattershot entrepreneurial corporations.
Dispersion has two vectors: the breakup or breakdown of coherent objects; and the subsequent attempt to corral, curtail, or recuperate from this breakdown. How do we deal with networks that are constantly coalescing and disappearing? Where are we in the midst of this? In an era of pre-emptive culture, is guerilla warfare to be accompanied by guerilla culture as the order of the day?

Want to be kept informed? For the latest news, updates and discussions, join the LEA Dispersive Anatomies Mailing List.
Email: leadispersive-subscribe@googlegroups.com

Publishing Opportunities
As part of this special, LEA is looking to publish:
Critical Essays
Artist Statement/works in the LEA Gallery
Bibliographies (a peer reviewed bibliography with key texts/references in Dispersive Anatomies)
Academic Curriculum (LEA encourages academics conducting course programmes in this area to contact us)
LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers / students / practitioners / theorists to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly encourage authors outside North America and Europe to submit essays / artists statements.

Proposals should include:
A brief description of proposed text (200-300 words)
A brief author biography
Any related URLs
Contact details
In the subject heading of the email message, please use Name of Artist/Project Title: LEA Dispersive Anatomies Special – Date Submitted. Please cut and paste all text into body of email (without attachments). Editorial Guidelines: http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.asp

Deadline for proposals: May 31, 2007

Please send proposals or queries to: Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim, Mez Breeze leadispersive@astn.net
and Nisar Keshvani LEA Editor-in-Chief lea@mitpress.mit.edu

Multimedia Writing English 303

Spring 2007 Multimedia Writing, TR 1130-1245, Professor Sandy Baldwin

The syllabus is here.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: “New Media Poetics”

Check out the new Leonardo Electronic Almanac special issue on “New Media Poetics.”

The CLC is helping coordinate the online discussion around the issue. The CLC-hosted chat is here. The journal is here: LEA

WRYTING-L

Email list for writing and theory

As the open spaces of the internet narrow between bureaucracy and greed, email lists become ever more important.

The aim of WRYTING-L is to maintain a balance between dissemination and conversation, to offer the possibility of a space of writing not overdetermined by academic rule, party line or limit of genre. All kinds of writing and discussion are welcome. The list is run with a minimum of management by Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin, and is open to all.

WRYTING-L is an email list for theory and writing, focusing on texts and comments presented by the participants. The list is managed out of the Center for Literary Computing at the West Virginia University. It is open to anyone, in or outside the University. The object is to provide a forum for writing and theory that may not fit within the confines of a particular discipline, in recognition of the recent interest in operating between and across theories and genres in the humanities and beyond.

We’re interested in all sorts of issues – avant-garde pieces, psychoanalytical, phenomenological, or deconstructive approaches, etc.
Wryting is cross-platform, cross-gender, cross-reason; it may involve embodiments of reader and writer, codework and sestinas, abstract language, the collapse of genre.

If you are working with images, please give a URL; they won’t come through the list. If you are working on an extremely long piece, you might want to give a URL as well (there is a 500-line limit on every post).

WRYTING-L stems from the older fiction-of-philosophy list, which presented work between literature and theory, fiction and poetry, philosophy and lyric, and so forth. Any discussion and original work is welcome.
To join send the message
“subscribe wryting-l (your e-mail address) (your name)”
without the quotation marks and parentheses to
listserv@listserv.wvu.edu

Alternatively, you can go to the following online subscription screen:
http://listserv.wvu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=wryting-l&A=1

A digest option is available.

Department of English to host digital media lectures by Alan Sondheim

Internationally-known artist, writer, and philosopher, at WVU July 13 and August 3, 730pm

Alan Sondheim, one of the world’s leading digital media artists, will give public lectures July 13 and Aug. 3 in the Mountainlair Rhododendron Room. Both talks begin at 7:30 p.m. During the first talk, he will offer an introduction to his work, which emphasizes writing, theory and digital performance. During the second presentation, he will showcase some of the results of his WVU residency. He also plans to give a multimedia performance at the Creative Arts Center, with the date to be determined. The Department of English, Center for Literary Computing and Department of Computer Science are hosting Sondheim’s lectures.

BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media

Announcing BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, hosted by the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. September 14-16, 2006.

BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is an interdisciplinary symposium on the re-invention of life in digital media. The term BIOS captures capture boundary-crossing and hybridization of human and machine. For the ancient Greeks, BIOS referred to particular forms of life rather than life in general (zoe). BIOS therefore, was the form of life specific to the development of human society and political culture. Understanding BIOS means understanding how humans adapt nature into culture. In computer science, by contrast, BIOS means something quite different: the basic input output system, the lowest level of code that allows a computer to run. BIOS is burnt into computer hardware and enables the machine to boot and run software programs and media. The two meanings of BIOS resonate with each other as basic requirements for a social system, whether in civic space or in cyberspace.

BIOS will combine talks and creative work / performances. We already plan a rich and exciting schedule. Proposals are welcome on any area within the topic. Keywords/subtopics include but are not limited to: electronic literature; hypertext; embodiment; media specific analysis; net.art; digital performance; complexity and emergence; the limits of computability; posthumanism and cyborgs; virtual reality; artificial life; biotechnology; cyberfeminism; biopower; social software; ... Innovative formats and approaches are welcome. We will also consider remote/tele-presentations. Webcasts/podcasts of the event and an DVD archive will be available. Send proposals of no longer than 200 words to clc@mail.wvu.edu by July 1, 2006.

BIOS is organized and hosted by the Center for Literary Computing, and co-organized by the Electronic Poetry Center / Digital Media Studies program at SUNY-Buffalo. The symposium is associated with the E-Poetry series of festivals and symposia.