Apple Pie is a lab for poetic artefacts: art objects, billposters, prints, CDs, photographs, as well as books. The list contains work from invited artists, poets, musicians and collaborators.
via Phil Davenport
Month: April 2009
Expresso Book Machine
It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible.
Richard Barrett reads The Rushes
The Other Room 6 was a night of technical meltdown. We’ve asked all readers to give us something to be representative of their fabulous readings. Here Richard Barrett reads the whole of his Rushes sequence. Filmed April 2009 outside The Old Abbey Inn, Manchester.
A Few Traces Left
As part of The European Night of Museums 2009 and Museums at Night, sound artists and musicians will perform a collaborative durational improvisation. Dense and sparse, loud and quiet, dialogues will evolve on and around one big table that will be their common work place in the gallery. Traces, marks, drawings plus projections of their actions will be left on the same table for the duration of the subsequent exhibition.
Venue: Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, Chapman Building, Peel Park Campus, Salford, M5 4WT
Curated by Helmut Lemke & Ben Gwilliam
Saturday 16 May – Friday 05 June
Mon – Fri 10.00am – 4.00pm
Admission:Free
Performance Date: Saturday 16 May, 7.00pm – 11.00pm
Geraldine Monk at The Other Room
Geraldine Monk at first The Other Room, April 2008
Next Openned
An advanced warning to get those cheap train tickets and call in sick to work to go down to London, get out of Mancunia or jump on a plane if you can to the always stunning Openned.
The next Openned night takes place at 7.15pm on Wednesday 27th May. Confirmed readers: Rebecca Cremin, Johanna Linsley, Ryan Ormonde, Michelle Naka Pierce, Chris Pusateri, Catherine Wagner. Join the Facebook event. Openned nights are held at The Foundry in London, UK.
Tom Jenks reading at The first ever The Other Room
The first part of Tom’s reading. Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk also kicked off the show. Videos of them are currently being transferred, uploaded and caressed.
The Other Room 2, June 2008
The Other Room’s second outing proved to be as wonderful as the the first thanks to the amazing line-up. At the start of the first part of Alex Middleton’s reading you can hear some people talking who proved difficult to bargain with but they do leave after about 3 minutes so persevere and enjoy.
Robert Sheppard
Alex Middleton reading translations of Inger Christensen
Harriet Tarlo
ctrl+alt+del
First issue of Rhys Trimble’s ctrl+alt+del e-sheet. The e-sheet is intended to be distributed by an e-list, download and friendly people printing and droplifting.
House of Bedlam and Matthew Welton
Performance at The Warehouse at the link below on the BBC until Saturday 18th April. Do it now.
New Gnoetry by Eric Scovel
Gnoetry is an on-going experiment in human/computer collaborative poetry composition.
Gnoetry synthesizes language randomly based on its analysis of existing texts. Any machine-readable text or texts, in any language, can serve as the basis of the Gnoetic process. Gnoetry generates sentences that mimic the local statistical properties of the source texts. This language is filtered subject to additional constraints (syllable counts, rhyming, etc.) to produce a poem.
For our early work with Gnoetry, we have used classic out-of-copyright texts like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class (obtained from the wonderful Project Gutenberg), as well as other sources such as rap lyrics, the complete lyrics of Bob Dylan and Reuters newswire stories.
A key aspect of the Gnoetry software is the ability of a human operator to intervene in the language generation cycle, helping to “guide” the artistic process and to produce a result that is a true collaboration of equals.
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