Hello,

I am Gavin Stewart. I am research student at the University of Luton, UK. I
am just finishing off my PhD thesis at the moment. My work has involved me
in applying the conceptions of addressivity and meaning-making developed by
the Bakhtin Circle (Mikhail Bakhtin, Pavel Medvedev and V.N. Voloshinov) to
computer-mediated textual art. This journey has taken me into an engagement
with the concepts of participation, death-of-the author, hypertext,
cybertext, print culture and research methodologies for the creative arts.
More recently, Bakhtin has also led me into being interested in the
carnivalesque and the digital - in pseudo-blogs, MOOs and Flashmobs.  

I am also a writer. I have published two collections of poetry and a
non-fiction work 'Partnerships between Science and Industry: Collaboration
or Conflict-of-Interest' for the British Library. I have also been guilty of
the odd short story...and a book-length account of a 2,000 mile walk around
England (It was my early efforts to disseminate this work to a global
audience of friends that brought my into the 'digital' fold).

I say that I am a writer...Least ways I used to be a writer...Recently I
have found that my engagement with the digital has drawn my creative
energies into some interesting drainage channels. I find myself using
different parts of m{a}y self/ves. I listen/see/touch/conceive in a
different way! I have not got words to describe what I am now...and that
really excites me!

I am interested to hear more about everyone's creative processes - the
traditions, the skills, the tools, the locations and the wisdoms that we are
using - and how we think that these processes are modulating as we live our
digital lives.

Best regards

Gavin

http://www.gavinstewart.net