Thanks very much for this information Jim. I'm hoping Kenneth
Goldsmith will be coming to Rhode Island School of Design, where I
teach, in the spring, to read and to visit the Visual Poetry class I
will be team-teaching with Graphic Design professor Jan Baker. Kenny
is actually a sculpture graduate of RISD. RISD is pronounced
"Riz-dee"! And Mairead is pronounced "muh-rayde" or "mah-rayde"!
I usually say: It rhymes with parade or grenade or afraid. Someone
else suggested "charade." Thanks for asking though. You get left out
of conversations if people can't pronounce your name. Jim is a very
good name in this respect. It's not good to be a blur or an
embarrassment or a knot in somebody's tongue.
Happy New Year!
Mairead
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:14:53 -0800, Jim Andrews <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I didn't know there was a ubu list -- is it connected to UbuWeb? I'd
> > be keen to know more about it.
>
> Hi Mairead,
>
> It's run by Kenneth Goldsmith, the main person behind ubu.com. I just
> subscribed about a week or two ago, so I'm not really up on it, but Neil
> Hennesey is on it. He is a poet programmer from Toronto or thereabouts who
> just did a pretty non-language piece called pac mondrian which is a computer
> game on the web which uses a mondrian as the background game environment. I
> think the idea of the ubu list may be to develop a forum concerning electric
> work, which would be nice. It's at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ubuweb .
>
> On the other matter, I am confused and not particularly eloquent but
> curious. It seems poetry 'functions' mostly intensely at a local or
> international level. Very close or very far. What does that mean? Ian
> described it pretty well. My own main poetical interests for the last ten
> years have centred on work that's done for the Web. Work that is synthetic
> of media and arts and programming. I look for it all over the Web while
> sitting on my bum. Nationalism/regionalism doesn't tend to be much of a
> factor in such work. I maintain a list of links at
> http://vispo.com/misc/links.htm if you'd like to check out some of this
> work.
>
> There are sufficiently few poets around the world doing media poetry that
> there isn't much of a local scene anywhere, that I'm aware of, except maybe
> in the biggest of cities. This isn't so much true of media art more
> generally (with emphasis on the visual or the sonic or video etc as opposed
> to intense emphasis on language); there do tend to be 'media art scenes' in
> lots of cities, and language is part of the brew but the emphasis tends to
> be from a film or visual art or sonic art base. And these scenes tend to be
> interestingly international but also considerable energy is put into
> creating local resources and a sense of what's happening locally.
>
> A lot of this work finds its nexus of relevance to an audience widely flung.
> Though with stuff beginning to happen like wireless networks within cities,
> I suspect there'll be stronger local scenes develop around the world over
> the next twenty years.
>
> But like I said at the outset, mostly I'm confused about matters of
> locality, nationality, and place in poetry and other arts.
>
> How is your name pronounced, Mairead?
>
> ja
>
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