[Newspoetry] GiG 2.0 December 9 2000 Chicago

[Scott Rettberg]

GiG 2.0 CHICAGO MULTIMEDIA LITERATURE IN PERFORMANCE

Please join us for a celebration of electronic literature in Chicago,
presented by the Electronic Literature Organization, featuring digital
artists and authors from Chicago's Columbia College, Northwestern
University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the e-poets
network, tank20 Studios and the Electronic Book Review as well as special
guests from New York, Boston and San Francisco.

GiG 2.0 commemorates the first anniversary of the Electronic Literature
Organization, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Chicago
with a mission to facilitate and promote the writing, reading, and
publishing of literature designed for the electronic media.

Chicago has quietly become a center for innovation in the creative
adaptation of electronic media. Join some of Chicago's most interesting new
media artists and see why the city has acquired an international reputation
as a hotbed of activity in electronic literature.

Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested in
GiG 2.0

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GiG 2.0 Key Info

DATE: Saturday, December 9, 2000

TIME: Performance 8-11
Space is limited, please arrive on time to see the show.

PLACE: Center Portion Gallery -- 2850 W. Fullerton, Chicago
http://www.centerportion.com

TICKETS: $10 donation at the door, free libations

ELECTRONIC LITERATURE IN PERFORMANCE:
* The Unknown
* Michelle Citron, Northwestern University -- CD-ROM interactive video -- As
American As Apple Pie
* Bob Holman live via the e-poets network from New York
* Rob Wittig -- Friday's Big Meeting
* Talan Memmott -- BeeHive
* Niki Nolan, Wade Roberts, Karen Lee Osborne and Maureen Seaton, Columbia
College -- Chaosity
* Nick Montfort and William Gillespie -- The Ed Report
* Tyehimba Jess and Lisa Hemminger -- Book of Voices live readings from
Chicago Poets.

Master of Ceremonies: Joe Tabbi, Editor of the Electronic Book Review
Creative Director: Kurt Heintz, Publisher of the e-poets Network

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FEATURED PERFORMANCES

William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton
The Unknown
http://www.unknownhypertext.com
A roadtrip gone terribly wrong, the cowinner of the 1998 trAce/AltX
international hypertext competition is a silly novel about hopes, American
dreams, the cult of celebrity, and downright decadence. The interactive live
reading of this near-classic story of three or four writers on a publishing
adventure with a lot of ambition and a few bad habits could make you laugh.
Or shudder.

Michelle Citron
As American As Apple Pie
http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/faculty/citron/
Citron will give us a taste -- perhaps quite literally -- of a narrative
CD-ROM about food, sex, family, and what happens after the first kiss is
over.  Animated with dry wit, the work reveals how we build stories from
fragments overheard; along the way we also learn how to make an apple pie.
Citron teaches at Northwestern University.

Bob Holman
http://www.worldofpoetry.com
Live (link) from New York through the e-poets network.
Bob Holman is a poetry MC, online poetry consultant, raconteur, author, and
media poetry impresario from New York. He is co-producer of "United States
of Poetry" (PBS) and a poetry guide for About.com. He also leads the
People's Poetry Project (peoplespoetry.com) and World of Poetry
(worldofpoetry.com).

Rob Wittig
Friday's Big Meeting
http://www.tank20.com
Water-cooler politics, sexual intrigue, and panic management converge on one
big day and Wittig's website is there to chronicle it all... as a catty
fiction. People replace emoticons, and viscera replace abstract literary
principles as the plot thickens. Wittig's Tank20 Literary Studio is a
think-tank lab for high concept writing in new media.

Talan Memmott
BeeHive
http://beehive.temporalimage.com/index.html
San Francisco's renowned master of hyperliterature makes a very special
appearance in Chicago for this year's GiG. Memmott is known around the world
for his insights in hypermedia critique, as well as for his energetic and
creative webzine, BeeHive.

Nick Montfort and William Gillespie
The Ed Report
http://www.edreport.com
An adaptation of the CIA intelligence report format, delivered in deadpan,
where the obsession of the form is a sublime comedy. Agents Montfort and
Gillespie will field "questions" from the "audience" about a certain
"declassified" action undertaken with a guileless newbie recruit.

Niki Nolan, Wade Roberts, Karen Lee Osborne and Maureen Seaton
Chaosity
Columbia College maestros of multimedia Roberts and Nolan take wing with the
renowned poetry of Osborne and Seaton. Seaton was a winner of the Iowa
Poetry Prize for her poetry volume, "Furious Cooking," which also won a
Lambda Literary Award in 1997.  Osborne's  novels include "Carlyle Simpson"
(Academy Chicago, 1986), which was a winner of the Friends of American
Writers Award and a Chicago Foundation for Literature Award; and
"Hawkwings" (Third Side Press, 1991).

Tyehimba Jess and Lisa Hemminger
http://www.e-poets.net
Featured artists from the e-poets Book of Voices, in live performance.
Tyehimba Jess is a performance poet who has earned his niche in
Chicago-style slam, and was also once a Sister Cities poetry ambassador to
Accra, Ghana. Lisa Hemminger teaches performance poetry at the College of
DuPage, and is the weekly host of Chicago's notorious and spirited "Yammer"
poetry open-mike, Wednesday eves at Joy Blue, in Southport Village. Both
artists are prominently featured in the e-poets Book of Voices audiopoetry
website.

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