[Newspoetry] GiG 2.0 December 9 2000 Chicago

Mon Nov 27 19:38:10 CST 2000

The thing Scott emailed about:

I'll be driving up and back. Probably in the Grape, maybe with Stratton in tow.
I might just go up and come back that night to avoid having to sleep in
Chicago. The gunfire always keeps me awake. Or I might crash at Tony's. I'm on
a kind of shoestring budget which always makes me want to avoid Chicago. Too
many good restaurants and bookstores.

The thing Sigfried emailed about:

I am also, at this juncture, planning on driving out to SUNY Buffalo and
E-Poetry 2001 around April 20th, specifically to recruit newspoets and to freak
out the academics with our raw hastily-written approach to the medium tenderly
known as newspoetry. I want to take a busload of newspoets but I might head
straight on to Providence for DAC 2001 so anybody riding with me will get
abandoned in Buffalo. I might have to kill a few days on the East coast, maybe
I'll visit Nick in Boston or my sister in Baltimore. I'll give you all more
info on this as facts unravel. I submitted a proposal  to read real live
newspoetry at e-poetry 2001, but poetry is pretty competitive. I mean, we're
still the best newspoetry site out there. The Onion would be stiff competition,
but they don't use line breaks and they're weekly, not daily. I mean, they're
also comedy not poetry but let's face it...

Anyway, there's a snowflake's chance on Mercury - about 50/50 -  that we'll get
Futrelle up there with a nametag in a conference room in front of a projector
screen to explain our paradigm and read "Time-Warner, AOL, shove each other up
each other's assholes: analysts stunned". I should know by the end of the year.
Anyone who's so desperate to come they're willing to risk driving or taking a
train back home should register now. It's free. I think. I'd love to flood the
conference with newspoets. We'll need newspoetry cards, maybe t-shirts. They
totally won't get it. We write poetry based on the news. It's all screwed up.
There's going to be so many radical experimentalists with kinetic poetry that
the fact that we write _about_ stuff is going to mark us as enviable outcasts.

Check it out: <http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2001/>

-yer founder

Scott Rettberg wrote:

> 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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