J. R. CARPENTER || Digital Literature

	An Island of Sound >>> by J. R. Carpenter with a soundscape by Jules Rawlinson commissioned by : Edinburgh Futures Institute 2022 presented at : Inspace, Edinburgh, UK, 2 December 2022 SpokenWeb, University of Alberta, May 2023 British Library, 7 July 2023 ELO Coimbra, Portugal, July 2023
	This is not a good sign. >>> an augmented reality poetry app by J. R. Carpenter & Tomo Kihara commissioned by : Now Play This 2021 presented at : Next Level Festival for Games, Essen, Germany, 2021 Digital Design Weekend V&A, London, UK, 2022 Everything Will Be Fine, an outdoor exhibition by Tactical Tech, Berlin, Germany, 2022 Sea Art Festival, Busan, South Korea, 2023
	A Storm in 2K >>> Published in: Taper #5 : Pent Up Fall 2020
	The Pleasure of the Coast: A Hydro-graphic Novel >>> Commissioned by: Mondes, interfaces et environnements à l’ère du numérique Université Paris 8, in partnership with les Archives Nationales, Paris, France Launched at: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival University Collage Cork, Ireland 15-17 July 2019 Shortlisted for: New Media Writing Prize 2019 Bournemouth University, UK Review of The Pleasure of the Coast, by David Thomas Henry Wright The Digital Review issue 00, 7 June 2020 print book adaptation published by Pamenar Press, London: 1 November 2023 featured in Words from the Wild: the Nature of Poetry Royal Holloway, London, UK 17 January 2024 - 24 March 2024
	This is a Picture of Wind: A Weather Poem for Phones >>> Commissioned by: IOTA Institute Halifax, NS, Canada, 2018 Winner of: Dot Award for Digital Literature Opening Up Digital Fiction Competition People's Choice Award 2018 Shortlisted for: Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature 2018 New Media Writing Prize 2018 Further Reading: DYNAMIC POETICS: JR CARPENTER’S THIS IS A PICTURE OF WIND (PDF) an essay by Johanna Drucker Twitterbot companion @apictureofwind Print book iteration of This is a Picture of Wind Sheffield: Longbarrow Press June 2020. (SOLD OUT) Exhibited in: Digital Storytelling British Library, London, UK June-October 2023
	The Gathering Cloud >>> Commissioned by: NEoN Digital Arts Festival Dundee, UK, 9-13 November 2016 Interview: NEoN speaks with JR Carpenter Launched at: Pecha Kucha Night Dundee (video) Creative Dundee, 8 November 2016 winner of the New Media Writing Prize 2016 NEoN commission wins New Media Writing Prize editor's pick for the Saboteur Awards 2017 shortlisted for the Turn on Literature Prize shortlisted for The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature 2017 print iteration published in print in Hack Circus 12 Shefield, UK, March 2016 book iteration published by Uniformbooks PURCHASE The Gathering Cloud book online Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Mary Paterson Furtherfield, 22 June 2017 Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Jan Baetens Cultural Studies Leuven, 14 August 2017 Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Ryan Ormonde Sabotage Reviews, 6 November 2017 Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Tom Jeffreys The Learned Pig, 29 May 2018 Review of The Gathering Cloud, by Brian Lewis Longbarrow Press, 31 May 2018
	Notes Very Necessary >>> [ a collaborative essay co-authored with Barbara Bridger ] Appears in: conjunctions : experiments in collaboration The New River: a journal of digital writing & art Virginia Tech, Blacksberg, VA, USA 16 December 2015 Writ Large Digital Arts Research Center University of California Santa Cruz 17-21 May 2016 Next Horizons Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2016 University of Victoria, BC, Canada 10-12 June 2016 MozEx a collaboration between Mozilla Festival, Tate Exchange and V&A Ravensbourne, London, UK 28-20 November 2016 Download the exhibition catalogue: MozEx
	Once Upon a Tide >>> Presented in: The Junket - Issue 14 Cambridge, UK 23 May 2015 Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series Experiments with Form Liverpool University 14 March 2016 Reading the Internet Camden People's Theatre 18 March 2016 Arc Poetry Magazine 82 Ottawa, Canada, March 2017 Artist's Statement: Once Upon a Tide
	Walks from City Bus Routes >>> Appears in: The New River: a journal of digital writing & art Virginia Tech, Blacksberg, VA, USA January 2015 Walks from City Bus Routes: A Circuitous Route The Writing Platform, May 2013 Uniformannual 2018 Uniformbooks, 6 December 2017 Artist's Statement: Walks from City Bus Routes
	Etheric Ocean >>> Appears in: Etheric Ocean : un environnement sonore sous-marin et multimédia HYBRID 3 : Cultures numériques : alternatives Labex-H2H, Paris 8 March 2016 No Legacy \| Literatura Electrónica (NL\|\|LE) Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library University of California Berkeley 11 March - 2 September 2016 Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics CRASSH, Cambridge, UK 8 - 10 July 2015 The Other Room performance at The Castle Hotel, Manchester, UK 30 April 2015 event poster YouTube video documentation of a live performance of Etheric Ocean this sea is nothing is sight but isles an excerpt of Etheric Ocean published in 3:AM Magazine 2 September 2014 Museum of Water performance at Somerset House, London Saturday 21 June, 2014 Comissioned by Electronic Voice Pheneomena Mercy and Penned in the Margins Liverpool & London, UK Launched May 2014 Artist's Statement: Etheric Ocean
	...and by islands I mean paragraphs >>> Appears in: DP on DB (Digital Poetry on Drunken Boat) curated by Jhave December 2014 Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Volume 7, Number 1. September 2014 Modular Form: A Symposium on Crative Practice Roehampton University, in conjunction with Writing-PAD 14 March 2014 The Island Review 4 October 2013 Chercher le texte: Virtual Gallery Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France 24 September - 1 December 2013 Artist's Statement: ...and by islands I mean paragraphs
	Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl >>> Appears in: Trapped in the Ice, Frozen in Time an evening of performance and talks The British Library, London, UK 5 February 2015 Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review 20.2 - 2014 (print iteration) Poetry Connection: Link Up with Canadian Poetry a project by Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah description and performance of Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl (YouTube) discussion topics and writing ideas based on Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl (PDF) Chercher le texte: Electronic Literature Organization 2013 Le Cube, Paris, France 26 September 2013 Avenues of Access: An Exhibit & Online Archive of New 'Born Digital' Literature curated by Dene Grigar & Kathi Inman Berens Modern Language Association Convention 2013 Boston, MA, USA 3-5 January 2013
	The Broadside of a Yarn >>> Appears in: The Print Map as a ‘literary platform’ The Literary Platform 22 May 2013 The Broadside of a Yarn: A Situationist Strategy for Spinning Sea Stories Ashore Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 18:5, 88-95. Published online: 13 Mar 2014 commissioned by ELMCIP for Remediating the Social Inspace, Edinburgh, UK 1-25 November 2012 Performance: 1 November 2012 8PM - late. Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Court Authoring Software entry on The Broadside of A Yarn Artist's Statement
	There he was, gone. >>> Appears in: Code und Konzept Berlin: Frohmann 2016 Dramaturgy and the Digital article by Barbara Bridger Exeunt, February 2013 Joyland Poetry: A Hub for Poetry June 2012 &Now 2012: New Writing in Paris: Exchanges and Cross-Fertilizations Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France 6 - 10 2012 Performance Writing Weekend PW12 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 4-6 May 2012
	TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] >>> Appears in: TRANS.MISSION [UN.DIALOGUE] French translation by Ariane Savoie bleuOrange 07, revue de littérature hypermédiatique NT2, UQAM, Montreal September 2013 &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing anthology Davis Schneiderman, ed. &Now Books, Lake Forest, IL, USA, May 2013 Dramaturgy and the Digital article by Barbara Bridger Exeunt, February 2013 A Global Visuage visual poetry anthology Jörg Piringer & Günter Vallaster, eds. Vienna: edition ch, September 2012 Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show Featuring a retrospective of the works of J. R. Carpenter The Art Museum of West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 20-23 June 2012 Performance Writing Weekend 2012 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 4-6 May 2012 Vertaallab (TranslationLab) Ooteoote, Amsterdam 29 April 2012 Network Archaeology Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA 19-21 April, 2012 Aesthetic strategies as critical interventions Perdu Theater, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam, 10 December 2011 in conjunction with ELMCIP Seminar on Digital Poetics and the Present University of Amsterdam, 9-10 December 2011 Artist's Statement
	Wanderkammer: A Walk Through Texts >>> Appears in: Walk Poems: A series of reviews of walking projects edited by Louis Bury and Corey Frost Jacket2, Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA November 2011
	STRUTS >>> Appears in: SOUCHES French translation by Ariane Savoie et. al. bleuOrange 08, revue de littérature hypermédiatique NT2, UQAM, Montreal September 2013 Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show Featuring a retrospective of the works of J. R. Carpenter The Art Museum of West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 20-23 June 2012 Third Hand Plays Open Space, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commissioned by Brian Stefans launched 15 September 2011 Authoring Software entry on STRUTS
	Muddy Mouth >>> Appears in: Speak an iPhone/iPad app created by Jason E. Lewis and Bruno Nadeau Poems for Excitable [Mobile] Media (P.o.E.M.M.) May 2011 more about Mudy Mouth download the Speak app from iTunes (free)
	Along the Briny Beach >>> Appears in: Shapeshifting Texts an exhibition about electronic and experimental literature Bremen, Germany 3-5 November 2016 Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3 Electronic Literature Organization MIT, USA, 2016 Electronic Literature: A Matter of Bits The Stedman Gallery Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts Camden, NJ, USA 19 January - 21 April 2016 ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden November 2012 Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show Featuring a retrospective of the works of J. R. Carpenter The Art Museum of West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 20-23 June 2012 Words in motion De Balie, Amsterdam, 9 December 2011 in conjunction with ELMCIP Seminar on Digital Poetics and the Present University of Amsterdam, 9-10 December 2011 Boulder Pavement The Banff Centre Press Issue 4, July 2011 E Poetry 2011 SUNY Buffalo, May 2011 Artist's Statement
	CityFish >>> Appears in: Reading Interfaces: Inquiries at the Intersection of Literature and Technology Case Western Reserve University, USA April 8-10, 2015 The New Media Writing Prize 2012 Bournemouth University, UK November 2012 Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show Featuring a retrospective of the works of J. R. Carpenter The Art Museum of West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 20-23 June 2012 Re-Drawing Boundaries Leonardo Electronic Almanac New Media Exhibition curated by Jeremy Hight, with senior curators Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul Forthcomming. soundsRite A journal of online sound and writing University of Western Sydney, Australia Volume 3, April 2011 Officina di Letteratura Elettronica Palazzo delle arti Napoli January 20-21, 2011 Archive & Innovate The 4th International Conference & Festival of the Electronic Literature Organization Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 3-6, 2010. Interventions: Literary Practice at the Edge: A Gathering The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, February 18, 2010. Artist's Statement
	GENERATION[S] >>> a print book of code narratives published by TRAUMAWIEN Vienna, Austria, September 7, 2010 PURCHASE ONLINE Download PDF (free)
	Whisper Wire >>> a javascript poetry generator performance version presented at Inspace ...no one can hear you scream Edinburgh, October 31, 2010 a short essay about and an excerpt of Whisper Wire were published in: Rampike, Vol. 20 / No. 2 "Scientific Wonders" University of Windsor, Windsor, ON Canada November 2011
	Gorge >>> javascript poetry generator performance version presented at txt/performance/net MACHFELD Studio, Vienna, 26 June 2010 view video excerpt: live performance of Gorge an excerpt of Gorge was published in: GENERATION[S] a print book of code narratives TRAUMAWIEN, Vienna, Austria, September 7, 2010
	I've Died and Gone to Devon >>> Exhibited at Performance Writing Weekend 2010 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, May 2010. also published in: GENERATION[S] a print book of code narratives TRAUMAWIEN, Vienna, Austria, September 7, 2010 Artist's Statment I've Died and Gone to Devon
	Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR >>> Appears in: Generating Books: Paradoxical Print: Snapshots of Digital Literary Processes (PDF) Congrés Internacional Mapping e-lit: Lectura i anàlisi de la literatura digital Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 24-25 November 2011 Authoring Software entry on Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR Exhibited at Performance Writing Weekend 2010 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, May 2010. GENERATION[S] a print book of code narratives TRAUMAWIEN, Vienna, Austria, September 7, 2010 Artist's Statment Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR
	in absentia >>> Appears in: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show Featuring a retrospective of the works of J. R. Carpenter The Art Museum of West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 20-23 June 2012 Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2 available online & on CD-ROM Spring 2011. Reading Rebooted \| Installation and web exhibit of digital literature Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA November 30, 2009- December 4, 2009 E-Poetry 2009 Barcelona, Sapain may, 2009 A Slow Reveal... The Art Gallery, The University of Maryland, USA March 2009. Live Herring '08 Media Art Exhibition Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland October 29 - November 23, 2008. DARE-DARE Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal Dis/location : Projet d’articulation urbaine June 24 - November 30, 2008.
	Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams >>> A Feed-Reading of The Capilano Review - January - May 2008 Subscribe to the Tributaries RSS Feed Commissioned by The Capilano Review LAUNCH EVENT: Helen Pitt Gallery 102-148 Alexander Street, Vancouver, BC Saturday, May 24th, 2008 @ 7:30pm Curated by Kate Armstrong Curatorial statement: Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams Tributaries on Turbulance.org The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice Landmark Café, Bergen Kunsthall Bergen, Norway, November 8, 2009
	Les huit quartiers du sommeil >>> : : : : GOOGLE MAPS VERSION the text of Les huit quartiers du sommeil appears in: Drunken Boat #14 October 2011 and in French translation in: Le Livre de chevet an anthology edited by Daniel Canty published by Le Quartanier Montreal, QC, Fall 2009
	ENTRE VILLE >>> Appears in: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show Featuring a retrospective of the works of J. R. Carpenter The Art Museum of West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 20-23 June 2012 Entre Ville: This City Between Us Redux Media : Culture : Pedagogy :: Born Digital and Digital Generation University of British Columbia July - December 2011 Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2 available online & on CD-ROM Spring 2011. PW10 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK May 2010. HYPERRHIZ.06 Special Issue: Visionary Landscapes Summer 2009. A Slow Reveal... The Art Gallery, The University of Maryland, USA March 2009. Searching for a New(er) Digital Literature Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, USA, January 15, 2009 Visionary Landscapes: Media Arts Show Electronic Literature Conference, May 29 - June 1, 2008 Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver WA Web Biennial 2007 Space 1: Saime Izmiroglu Gallery Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey ENTRE VILLE: this city between us MiT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age MIT, Cambridge MA, USA, April 27-29, 2007. Rhizome ArtBase The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY OBORO, Laboratoire nouveaux médias Commissioned work/ Une commande d'oeuvre 2006 Conseil des arts de Montréal produite dans le cadre des activités spéciales du 50e anniversaire Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal LAUNCH / LANCEMENT: le jeudi 27 avril 2006 Artist's Statement
	THE CAPE >>> Appears in: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show Featuring a retrospective of the works of J. R. Carpenter The Art Museum of West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 20-23 June 2012 Re-Drawing Boundaries Leonardo Electronic Almanac New Media Exhibition curated by Jeremy Hight, with senior curators Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul Forthcoming. Open Online Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Thrapston, UK, December 2010 Visionary Landscapes: Media Arts Show Electronic Literature Conference, May 29 - June 1, 2008 Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver WA Hunter_Gatherer Stock Site, CAST Gallery, Tasmania Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, USA available online & on CD-ROM Fall 2006. Rhizome ArtBase The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY BathHouse Magazine Eastern Michigan University, USA, Spring 2006 function: feminism 2006 in conjunction w. the The Feminist Art Project Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA First Independent Free Internet Art Gallery Turin, Milan and Venice, since January 2006 published in print in Carve Magazine, Montréal, Québec, Fall 2005.
	HOW I LOVED THE BROKEN THINGS OF ROME >>> Appears in: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Toronto, ON - April 13 - 22, 2006. Transposing Geographies - Mapping on the Internet 19th Annual Images Festival, 2006. Drunken Boat PanLiterary Awards Web Art Finalist, 2006. Rhizome ArtBase The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY Nuevas Geografias / new Geographies Mexico City, May 2005. The OBORO New Media Lab production residency, Montreal, January 2005. Artist's Statement \|\| VIEW
	Send more than words ... EVERYBODY LOVES PICTURES April - May, 2003. Artist's statement
	Rope Trick January, 2003. Artist's statement
	The Orchard of Innumerable Plans The Orchard of Innumerable Plans has appeared in: Rhizome ArtBase, The New Media Art Resource Since June 2002. ENGAGING THE VIRTUAL, Curated by Doug Porter Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada March 9 - April 23, 2000. Artist's statement
	a sleep I fell ENGAGING THE VIRTUAL, Curated by Doug Porter Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada March 9 - April 23, 2000. Artist's statement
	Mythologies of Landforms and Little Girls Re-Drawing Boundaries Leonardo Electronic Almanac New Media Exhibition curated by Jeremy Hight, with senior curators Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul Forthcoming. "digital me: constructed identity in Canadian new media" Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada October, 1999. http://www.edvideo.org/ 3e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique Une présentation de Champ Libre, Foufounes Électriques, Montréal, Quebec, Canada September 23 - 29, 1997. Maid in Cyber Space, le Festival d'art WWW 4324, boul St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec, Canada May 31 & June 1, 1997.
	(a grammar of signs has replaced a botany of symptoms) "Maid in Cyberspace - Encore !", A Studio XX presentation. 372, Ste-Catherine W. #410, Montréal, Quebéc, Canada November 6 - 28, 1998. Artist's statement
	Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment ENGAGING THE VIRTUAL, Curated by Doug Porter Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada March 9 - April 23, 2000. Gallery Oboro 4001 Berri, #301, Montréal, Quebéc, Canada May 1997 - 1999. Artist's statement
	Jennifer "NightLight", StudioXX online gallery Montréal, Quebéc, Canada 1996 - 2000
	I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X The Seasons, in ten parts. TechnOboro, 1996.
	Fishes & Flying Things Created at The Banff Centre for the Arts, 1995. Published in Boulder Pavement The Banff Centre Press Issue 4 - 2011
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