Turbulence Guest Curators: Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capilano Review by J.R. Carpenter; curated by Kate Armstrong

What are the creative and poetic possibilities of RSS syndication and how might the introduction of omnipresent, iterative publishing processes affect our experience of digital literature? How can a book be transformed and reworked through an exploration of the formal and aesthetic structure of the stream? In February 2007, Vancouver-based literary quarterly The Capilano Review published an issue dedicated to new writing and new technologies guest-edited by Andrew Klobucar and including essays by Andrew Klobucar, Global Telelanguage Resources, Sandra Seekins, Kate Armstrong, David Jhave Johnston, Laura U. Marks, Sharla Sava, Kevin Magee, Jim Andrews, Gordon Winiemko, Nancy Paterson and Darren Wershler-Henry. Commissioned by The Capilano Review, Tributaries & Text-fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capilano Review is a new artwork in which Montreal-based writer and artist J.R. Carpenter undertakes an experimental rereading of and response to this text.

Project launch: Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver; May 24, 2008; 7:30 pm.

BIOGRAPHIES

J.R. CARPENTER is a two-time winner of the CBC Québec Short Story Competition and a Web Art Finalist in the Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards 2006. Her electronic literature has been presented at the Musée des beaux-arts (Montréal) and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), and is included in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, the Rhizome ArtBase and the Web Biennial 2007 (Istanbul). Her short fiction has been broadcast on CBC Radio, translated into French and anthologized in Le livre de chevet, Short Stuff, Lust for Life and In Other Words, and has appeared in journals including Geist, The New Quarterly, Blood & Aphorisims and Matrix. A fellow of Yaddo, Ucross and the Banff New Media Institute, she has been awarded grants in literature and in new media from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She presently serves as President of the Board of Directors of OBORO, a gallery and new media lab in Montréal. Her first novel, Words the Dog Knows, is forthcoming from Conundrum Press in Fall 2008

KATE ARMSTRONG is an artist and writer working with networks, participatory systems, and computational poetics. Her projects have taken a variety of forms including net art, psychogeography, installation, audio, performance, painting, and robotics. Recent exhibitions include IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, US; Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, US; ISEA, San Jose, US; Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada; Centre A, Vancouver, Canada; Western Front, Vancouver, Canada; Open Space, Victoria, Canada; Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey; and Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Canada. She has written for P.S 1/MoMA, TrAce, Year Zero One, The Capilano Review, The Kootenay School of Writing, and The Thing, among others. Her first book, Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture, was published in 2002. Armstrong is the director of Upgrade Vancouver.