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The Upgrade! w/Nick Montfort, Thurs, Dec 8 at Eyebeam

POSTED BY: Yael Kanarek | Thu Dec 1st, 2005 10:03 a.m.

Dear all,

Please join us on Thursday, December 8, for a talk with poet, writer and programmer Nick Montfort. We'll celebrate the launch of his new work Book and Volume, and close 2005.

The talk will take place in Liz's classroom at Eyebeam. Book and Volume will be installed on computers around us. To warm things up, shall we have us a potluck? Wine, beer (whiskey's okay too) and snacks are welcomed.

Nick will first discuss the approach that his collaborators and him have taken in working together on projects including 2002: A Palindrome Story (with William Gillespie) and Implementation (with Scott Rettberg). Nick is most interested in collaborations that involve developing the central concept and structures of a piece together, and that don't involve parceling out different creative tasks to different collaborators. Then, he'll consider his work in interactive fiction, and particularly his just-released interactive fiction Book and Volume, as an attempt to bring the computer's capabilities into literary art, another essential aspect of his practice.

Nick Montfort is a poet, writer, and programmer who lives in Philadelphia. His projects include Book and Volume (an interactive fiction, Auto Mata, 2005), Mystery House Taken Over (a modification kit and several modified interactive fictions, with Emily Short, Dan Shiovitz, and others, Turbulence, 2005), Implementation (a novel on stickers, written with Scott Rettberg, 2004), and 2002: A Palindrome Story (written with William Gillespie, online and in print from Spineless Books, 2002). He wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003), and, with Noah Wardrip-Fruin, edited the book and CD-ROM The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003). Nick is a Ph.D. candidate in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. He blogs at Grand Text Auto ; his own site can be found at http://nickm.com.

When/Where:
Eyebeam
Thursday, December 8, 7:30 PM
540-548 west 21st street (bet 10 & 11 Ave)

The Upgrade! is an international network of gatherings concerning art + tech + community (http://www.theupgrade.net).

Link:
http://grandtextauto

b. 1967, United States; raised in Israel Lives and works in New York City Yael Kanarek’s creative practice centers on the fundamental hypothesis that language and numerals render reality, and that this reality is an entirely subjective unified field. Through the shuffling of physical properties that construct our use of language (matter, shape, sound), Kanarek's work examines how verbal signifiers operate emotionally. Employing modes of authorship such as storytelling, multilingualism, Kanarek manipulates the biographical predisposition of cultural associations. As an Israeli-American, Kanarek's perception is tempered with an awareness of post-national borderlines. Her work enters spaces of meaning determined by a global network and the negotiation of identity that occurs when confronted with multiple systems. Crossing these sensibilities with her observation of the Internet as a network made of language - natural and computer - her most recent projects highlight connection and rejection. Selected for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, exhibitions of Kanarek's work also include The Drawing Center, New York; Beral Madra Contemporary Art, Istanbul; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; CU Museum, Boulder; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; The Jewish Museum, New York; Exit Art; The Kitchen; American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; LIMN Gallery, San Francisco; Holster Projects, London; Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh; bitforms gallery, New York; Nelly Aman, Tel Aviv; Boston CyberArts Festival; HVCCA, Peekskill; Arena 1, Santa Monica; California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Orsini Palace, Bomarzo; and Sala Uno Gallery, Rome. Kanarek’s work has also been shown in New York at Kenny Schachter Contemporary, Silverstein Gallery, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Derek Eller Gallery, A.I.R Gallery, 303 Gallery, and Schroeder Romero Gallery. In addition to a Rockefeller New Media Fellowship and an Eyebeam Honorary Fellowship, Kanarek is the recipient of grants from the Jerome Foundation Media Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts; commissions from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Turbulence.org, and The Alternative Museum; Kanarek’s distinctions also include a Harvestworks residency. In 1999, she founded Upgrade! International. She holds an MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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