*An Invitation to Attend E-Poetry 2011**!*
If you are interested in the emerging edge of language-informed arts
practice, whether as a poet, writer, artist, media innovator, scholar,
teacher, performer, or in any other disciplines, E-Poetry offers a
context for practice and analysis that can't be found anywhere else in
the world. For its tenth anniversary, E-Poetry has been brought back to
Buffalo, a central and accessible location for its activities. It will
provide a mix of practices, with the emphasis on emerging practices in
multiple disciplines that find themselves embedded or even just on the
edge of the digital. It will convene a celebratory (in the triumphant
spirit of preceding historic poetry festivals) and thought-filled
gathering of 150 artists, writers, and scholars from 40 countries -- a
diversity and culturally rich offering that won't be found elsewhere.
Please attend:
*E-POETRY 2011
International Digital Language | Arts Festival
/TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL/**
*May 18-21, 2011
University at Buffalo
http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2011/
Web registration now available! Specially-priced advance registration
offered during March 2011 only!
http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2011/register.html
E-Poetry is the definitive innovative digital language arts festival in
the world. With its emphasis on poetics, performance, engaged arts,
experimentation, and scholarly and artistic conversation, and with
previous events in West Virginia, London, Paris, and Barcelona, it has
defined international digital literature poetics today.
/The tenth anniversary festival of E-Poetry 2011 is set to launch a new
epoch in digital literature. E-Poetry, at its inception, was the first
to map this field. E-Poetry has been here since the beginning and
continues even stronger today. It has set out to organize the 2011
festival as a culmination of the first ten years as well as a model for
future years -- advancing the conversation of the digital into the
engaged scene of creative and scholarly activity that the field promises./
With its sponsoring organization, the Electronic Poetry Center
(http://epc.buffalo.edu), often recognized as the world's first and
preeminent Web-based poetry resource, E-Poetry will define the arts as
emerging practice in an interdisciplinary, aesthetically complex, and
materially delightful manner never before seen. We invite you to be there.
The Festival will take place from Weds. May, 18th to Saturday May 21st,
2011, with special conference events on Tues, May 17 and its Wednesday
"Scientific Committee" panels. Please come for as long as you can. The
cost of visiting Buffalo is quite reasonable. We will be glad to help
with suggestions for your travel and accommodation. E-Poetry offers the
chance for a prolonged immersion into considerations of the workings and
practices of digital poets, scholars, and artists. Buffalo is a
location, fervent with the great powers of the Niagara rushing through
the tranquil, flat, maple forested countryside of Western New York,
where we can come together, apart from the hustle of a devouring city,
to meet as artists and thinkers. It is a location that offers
celebration and contemplation. It is a quiet place but a location within
New York State's largest university, its programs direct descendants of
Black Mountain College, Language Poetry, various iterations of the
Poetics Program, Media Study at Buffalo, and the Electronic Poetry
Center. Buffalo is a prime leader in the U.S. in the innovative digital,
visual, sound, and language arts.
Information is available via the EPC
(http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2011/), where you will always find the
latest information on E-Poetry 2011.
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collaborative visual work:-
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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