JRC on CKUT

Hey, tune in to CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal today at 11:30 AM. The nice people at Studio XX are going to ask me all kinds of questions on their show The XX Files. A follow up of sorts to the artist's talk I gave at Studio XX last week. See below for more on that.

Here's what they say about the XX Files: "The XX Files is the Studio’s weekly radio show exploring all aspects of the digital revolution from the perspective of the women living it. XX Files was conceived by Deborah Van Slet and Kathy Kennedy. Our first show aired on May 29, 1996 and has been going strong ever since."

For more information check out out the Studio XX website: http://studioxx.org

You can listen to CKUT at 90.3 FM in Montreal or online at: http://www.ckut.ca

And if you're in the CKUT archives, you might want to hunt down the Monday February 13 - 11AM edition of Dialects. In the second half (11:30) Jeffrey Mackie and I had a chat about the Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome (DC Books, editor: Todd Swift), which we're both in, and I read my poem "Searching for Volcanoes". For more information on that book visit: http://luckysoap.com/publications.html
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Lust for Life Launch Tonight

I'll be reading "The Prettiest Teeth" tonight at the Montreal launch of Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love at the Sergent Recruteur (4801 St-Laurent, corner Villeneuve).

The event will begin at 7:30 p.m., and will feature readings by contributers: Matthew Anderson, J.R. Carpenter, Tess Fragoulis, Harold Hoefle, Nairne Holtz, Neil Kroetsch, Mark Paterson, Neil Smith, and Barry Webster.

See you there!
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Strata of Data: Digging Through A Dozen Years Onine

Show-And-Tell was my favorite subject in grade school. I especially loved the unprepared kids who took whatever they had in their knapsack - like an apple, or a hairbrush - and made a really great show out of it. In University I worked in the Visual Arts Slide Library -170,000 tiny pictures of art, and my job was to find and file them. Heaven! So, as you can imagine, I got pretty excited when Studio XX in Montreal invited me to give a presentation at:

Salon Femmes Br@nchées #61 :: ART.chives : art, archives, & databases.

"In this era of sampling and access to «public» information archives increasingly represent a source of artistic material. Studio XX invites you to a «5 à 7» for informal discussions with artists whose work makes diverse artistic use of archives and databases… Featuring presentations from: Aesha Hameed, J. R. Carpenter & Projet Matricules."

Thursday, February 16th, 2006
5pm-7pm, Studio XX

Strata of Data: Digging Through A Dozen Years On Line: J. R. Carpenter got her first Unix account in 1993 and has been making web art projects since 1995. She constructs her online fictions with Internet flotsam and jetsam: found images, found audio, found data, and found scripts. Carpenter lurks in listserves, prowls developer-sites, copy and pastes and habitually Views Source. She collects old textbooks in the alleyway and photographs other people’s graffiti. She alters slick blocks of CSS, and tweaks cheesy javascript effects for narrative purposes. Her web projects retain a low-tech aura. She uses a lot of black and white images (because that’s what colour photocopies come in), uses DHTML when Flash would do nicely, avoids software solutions, embraces cross-browser/cross-platform vagaries, and aims for scalability and graceful fails. In this presentation she’ll lead us on a tangential tour through her archive of web art projects, pointing out the "borrowed" bits along the way.

If you can't make it on Thursday, that's okay. You can dig through my data any time, at: http://Luckysoap.com

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Founded in 1996, Studio XX is Montreal’s foremost women’s digital resource centre. Through a variety of creative activities and initiatives, the Studio works with women to demystify digital technologies, to critically examine their social aspects, to facilitate women’s access to technology, and to create and exhibit women’s new digital art.

STUDIO XX
338 Terrasse Saint-Denis, Montréal (Québec) H2X 1E8
À deux pas au sud de l'intersection Sherbrooke et St-Denis.
Métro Sherbrooke, ou autobus 24 (Sherbrooke) ou 125 (Ontario).
(514) 845-0289 / http://www.studioxx.org
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THE CAPE goes on the road

THE CAPE has been included in: THE FIRST INDEPENDENT FREE INTERNET ART GALLERY - a cultural non-profit association operating between Turin, Milan and Venice promoting international art.

Cape Cod is a real place, but the characters and events of THE CAPE are fictional.

"The Cape, as Cape Cod
is often called,
is, as you may know,
a narrow spit of land." [JRC]

I built THE CAPE out of Internet flotsam and jetsam: found images, found audio, found data, and found scripts.

Visit THE CAPE: http://luckysoap.com/THECAPE
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The Prettiest Teeth

One of my short stories called "The Prettiest Teeth" has been published in the anthology Lust for Life, edited by Claude Lalumière and Elise Moser and published by Véhicule Press, January 2006.

"The Prettiest Teeth" is not about boys or girls or love or lust or sex or sexuality. It's really all about the teeth. Here's the opening paragraph:

"Beth Wharton sits across the aisle from me. She has the prettiest teeth in the sixth grade. My teeth are a mess. One eyetooth is misshapen and the other one never came in; one front tooth pokes through my lips if I smile, so I try not to. I try to keep my mouth shut altogether, but it's a losing battle. I can't stop myself. I crack lame joke after lame joke on the off chance that Beth Wharton will crack a smile."

For the whole story, drop by the Toronto and/or Montreal launch events or visit: http://luckysoap.com/publications.html

The Toronto launch will take place on Saturday, February 11th in the upstairs pool room at Rivoli (334 Queen Street West) at 7:00 and will feature readings by: Nalo Hopkinson, Barry Webster, J.R. Carpenter and Harold Hoefle.

The Montreal launch will take place on Monday, February 13th at Sergeant Recruteur (4801 St-Laurent) at 8:00 and will feature readings by: Matthew Anderson, J.R. Carpenter, Tess Fragoulis, Harold Hoefle, Nairne Holtz, Neil Kroetsch, Mark Paterson, Neil Smith and Barry Webster

Véhicule Press says: Lust for Life is a smart, witty, and fascinating anthology celebrating the diversity of the human sexual experience. These stories are daring, playful, funny, romantic, genderbending, sensual, mysterious, and sexy, and explore and celebrate love and sex in all its forms. It includes stories from Matthew Anderson, Catherine Lundoff, Neil Kroetsch, Robin Evans, Mark Paterson, Ashok Banker, Dan Rafter, Scott D. Pomfret, Neil Smith, Tess Fragoulis, Vic Winter, Harold Hoefle, Joel Hynes, Nalo Hopkinson, Nairne Holtz, Barry Webster, Ray Vukcevich, Holly Phillips, J.R. Carpenter, Maya Stein, and Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia.

For more information about the anthology visit: Véhicule Press
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