[Newspoetry] START HERE> E-Lit at the MCA Chicago this Thursday, Friday the 18th and 19th

[Scott Rettberg]

NEWSPOETS, esp. CHICAGO interested in reading a BRIEF POEM at the MCA Friday
night, email me.

S

(apologies for cross-post)

Thursday April 18, 2002 * 2:30 PM * MCA Chicago

START HERE> Chicago Writers Share Their Favorite Works of E-Lit

  The Electronic Literature Organization will conclude its Interactions
series with some culminating events this coming weekend April 18-20th
at the Version>02 Festival Digital Culture Festival at the Museum
of Contemporary Art Chicago. On Thursday, April 18th at 2:30 PM
in the Version>02 Festival LAB, the ELO presents "Start Here: Chicago
Writers Share Their Favorite Electronic Literature" a panel discussion
of a gallery of electronic literature curated by Chicago electronic
writers and digital artists Michelle Citron, Kurt Heintz, Niki Nolin,
Scott Rettberg, Andrew Stern, Joe Tabbi, and Rob Wittig. The Interactions
series has been sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council and the
Illinois Arts Council.

The START HERE> Gallery will go live on the web the morning of Thursday
April 18th at

<http://www.eliterature.org/interactions/starthere>

and will be available as a salon installation on several computers during
the duration of the festival. It will also appear on the Version>02 site
<http://www.versionfest.org> following the festival.

Featuring

Michelle Citron presenting
* Queer Feast: Cocktails & Appetizers; As American As Apple
Pie by Michelle Citron
<http://www.rtvf.northwestern.edu/faculty/citron/apple_movie.html>
* Home by Annette Barbier and Drew Browning <http://www.unreal-estates.com>
* Modern Mother by Arlene Stamp <http://www.vanitygallery.com/stamp>
* Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy by Marsha Kinder
<http://www.annenberg.edu/labyrinth/electronic.html>

Kurt Heintz presenting
* The e-poets network <http://www.e-poets.net>
* The Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) <http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/>
* The Book of Voices <http://voices.e-poets.net>
* Slamming the Sonnet by Jayne Fenton Keane
<http://www.poetinresidence.com/slamming>

Niki Nolin presenting
* CHAOSity by Niki Nolin, Karen Osborne, Wade Roberts and Maureen Seaton
<http://acweb.colum.edu/projects/chaosity/>
* Literal Drift by Niki Nolin and Maureen Seaton
<http://206.69.161.29/literaldrift/introall.swf>
* Fearless Little Love Poems by Vicki Wong
<http://www.beetleblue.com/fear.html>
* Iloveyou 2000 by Louise McKissick <http://flow-digital.com/iloveyou.shtml>

Scott Rettberg presenting
* The Unknown, a hypertext novel by William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt,
Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton <http://www.unknownhypertext.com>
* Alternumerics by Paul Chan <http://www.nationalphilistine.com>
* Exhale by Orit Kruglanski and Raquel Paricio
<http://www.soymenos.com/respira/exhale/>
* E-Mail Lit by Alan Sondheim <http://www.google.com/search?q=Alan+Sondheim>

Andrew Stern presenting
* Façade (work-in-progress) by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern
<http://www.interactivestory.net>
* PARRY by Kenneth Colby
* The Playground by Scott Reilly, Joseph Bates, Bryan Loyall, and Peter
Weyrauch 
<http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html>
* Dogz, Catz and Babyz by Adam Frank, Rob Fulop, Ben Resner, Andrew Stern,
et al (PF.Magic)
<http://www.petz.com , http://www.babyz.net>

Joseph Tabbi presenting
* Litmixer: The Literary Remediator by Trace Reddell
<http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/litmix/index.htm>
* Hot Threads from the Electronic Book Review
<http://www.altx.com/ebr>

Rob Wittig presenting
* Blue Company by Rob Wittig
<http://www.tank20.com/bluecompany>
* The Doll Games by Shelley and Pamela Jackson
<http://www.ineradicablestain.com/dollgames/>
* -][selec][text: co][deP][1][oetry] _ by Mez
<http://netwurkerz.de/mez/selectext/index.htm>
* Selected works by Barry Smylie
<http://www.barrysmylie.com>

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LIVE READING * Friday, April 19th * 11PM * MCA Chicago

 The ELO presents a reading from Newspoetry, the Unknown, and a live
crosscontinental videophone poetry reading from the e-poets network.

 Newspoetry <http://www.newspoetry.com> is an alternative online news source
and writing community, presenting a new poem every day about the news.

 The Unknown <http://www.unknownhypertext.com> is a hypertext novel for the
Millennium by William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, Scott Rettberg and Dirk
Stratton. This comic, interlinked, multilayered, encyclopedic novel of a
book tour gone terribly wrong was judged by novelist Robert Coover to be
"genuinely multisequential and massively rich in story material" when he
selected it as the cowinner of the 1999 trace/AltX hypertext competition.
Gillespie, Rettberg and Stratton will perform an interactive live reading
from the novel.

 e-poets <http://www.e-poets.net> is a network of performance poets who use
the Internet and other technologies to share their work with each other and
a global audience. Using a videophone, Kurt Heintz will connect us
cross-continent for a poetry reading from Martha Cinader
<http://cinashere.com> in Vallejo, California.

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All events in the Version Lab * (Kanter Educational Center - next to lower
level lobby) * The Museum of Contemporary Art * 220 East Chicago Avenue *
Chicago, IL 60611 * Phone: 312.280.2660

A Three-day pass to panels, film festival, Version Lab performances and
workshops is $10.
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Version>02 is a tour through "the digital commons" and offers an opportunity
to meet those who tend to the gardens, fences, and pathways, and to
investigate the threats and opportunities that the digital commons face. The
MCA Theater offers three days of musical performances, films, and a series
of panel discussions. The Version Lab, adjacent to the theater, provides
performance space for multimedia artists, video makers, and musicians, and
The Lobby is transformed into an informational space for web installations
and demonstrations by some of the best in the emergent media arts cultures.


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