RE:WRITING: WRITERS, COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS

Within the digital arts there are also letters: works by writers who
explore the possibilities of texts controlled by computational
processes, or who write in ways that take the network as a medium. Four
writers will read from their network-enabled work: John Cayley, Yael
Kanarek (04/25)/Thalia Field (04/26), Nick Montfort, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

April 25, 2005: Brown University, Providence
April 26, 2005: Boston Public Library, Boston
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"Re:Writing: Writers, Computers and Networks" is a collaboration between
the Electronic Literature Organization and New Radio and Performing
Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org. It is made possible by the Department of
Literary Arts, Brown University and the LEF Foundation.

BIOGRAPHIES

JOHN CAYLEY is a London-based poet, translator and publisher. He has
lectured at Brown University and the University of California, San
Diego, where he was also a Research Associate of the Center for Research
in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). Cayley's most recent work explores
ambient poetics in programmable media, with parallel theoretical
interventions concerning the role of code in writing and the temporal
properties of textuality. He won the Electronic Literature
Organization's Award for Poetry in 2001. http://www.shadoof.net/in/

THALIA FIELD is the author of "Point and Line" (New Directions, 2000),
"Incarnate:Story Material" (New Directions, 2004), and the forthcoming
ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) (Coffee House Press, 2006). Her collaborations
with choreographer and media artist Jamie Jewett include "After the
Fall" (premiered at Danspace, 2004), "Seven Veils" (premiered at Slought
Networks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2003) and "REST/LESS," an interactive
poetry environment for dance that can be seen at Green Street Studios as
part of the Boston CyberArts Festival on May 6 and 7, 2005.

YAEL KANAREK is a new media artist who has been developing her
integrated-media project World of Awe since 1995. At the core of "World
of Awe" is "The Traveler's Journal"-an original narrative that uses the
ancient genre of the traveler's tale to explore the connections between
storytelling, travel, memory and technology. Selected for the Whitney
Biennial 2002, Kanarek is the recipient of numerous awards, including a
Turbulence commission for "Portal," an interactive net.dance in
collaboration with dance filmmaker Evann Siebens and composer Yoav Gal.
She is represented by Bitforms gallery in New York City.
http://www.treasurecrumbs.com/

NICK MONTFORT is a poet and computer scientist who has developed pieces
of interactive fiction and other types of online writing and art, often
in collaboration with others. He wrote the first academic book about
interactive fiction, Twisty Little Passages (MIT Press, 2003), and
co-edited The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003) with Noah Wardrip
Fruin. Montfort is co-vice president of the Electronic Literature
Organization. Montfort is the recipient of a 2004 Turbulence commission.
http://nickm.com

NOAH WARDRIP-FRUIN has recently co-edited two books: The New Media
Reader (2003) and First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and
Game (2004). His artwork has been presented by the Whitney and
Guggenheim museums. Wardrip-Fruin is co-vice president of the Electronic
Literature Organization. Wardrip-Fruin is the recipient of a 2003
Turbulence commission. http://hyperfiction.org

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