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Prelude.10 Live Writers
LIVE WRITING: Processing Performance in the Virtual
3.30 - 4.15PM | Segal Theatre
Johan Huizinga writes, "Let my playing be my learning, and my learning be my playing." Taking Prelude’s staging of the ‘play beforehand’ into the realm of Textus Ludens, a postlude in media processing is performed by our Writers across a variety of media formats on a diverse array of platforms. Rather than offer staid performance criticism or removed creative responses, the Prelude Writers enact a playful learning by reprocessing the live events of the festival: presenting the works performed anew, translated into the digital media that facilitates the learning of everyday life. From Second Life machinima to text-to-speech recognition scripts, from Google algorithms to live Max/MSP/Jitter patch processing, the Writers will port the liveness of Prelude performance into the playful reconfigurations of a highly mimetic textual condition.
Composing poems, reconstituting scores, and restaging virtual performances, the Prelude Writing component applies the tactics of this century’s innovative writing practices to the emerging theatrical arts of this year’s festival. In the tradition of Gertrude Stein’s Word Portraits, Frank Kuenstler’s Lens, and YouTube user sleepybum682’s recomposition of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” in The Sims 2 HD, the Prelude Writers engage in a creative ekphrasis freely employing the wealth of writing technologies of network culture. Look for writings in the form of Facebook status updates, poems that resemble inventories and databases, critical essays spoken by virtual avatars, and audio-visual recompositions that return the theatrical works to the social networks and digital systems from which they emerge.
Statement authored by Danny Snelson & Mashinka Firunts
Live Writing Artists:
Danny Snelson, Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Kareem Estefan, Lindsay Howard, and Steve Zultanski
Photo Courtesy of the Artist
Danny Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist happily located in Astoria. His online editorial work can be found on UbuWeb, PennSound, and Eclipse. He works with Alejandro Crawford as Ex Libris and with James Hoff as No Input Books. Screenings, readings, lectures, and performances at Semiospectacle, Centre Pompidou, Dispatch Bureau, Ontological Hysteric Theater, Subtext Series, Gallery D21 Leipzig, Capricious Space, CRG Gallery, Lisa Cooley Gallery, and with free103point9 Transmission Arts. Recent projects include Simultaneously Agitated Space (Mimeo Mimeo #3), Endless Nameless, my Dear coUntess, Equi Nox, The Book of Ravelling Women, No-Body Zone, Noise!2010, and Edit: Performing Network Publishing (with Tan Lin).
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Kareem Estefan is a writer and critic who lives in Brooklyn. He currently co-curates the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club and studies art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts. Previously, he hosted Ceptuetics, a WNYU radio show featuring readings and interviews with conceptually innovative poets, which is now archived at PennSound. His reviews and poems have appeared in BOMBlog, President's Choice, Sustainable Aircraft, and elsewhere.
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Lindsay Howard is a performance artist, writer and curator based in New York City. Her work explores the plasticity of identity within the realm of virtuality & nonexistence. She curates video/net art at look-im-lucid.tumblr.com and is an active contributor to facebook.com and dump.fm. She writes for BOMB Magazine's BOMBlog.
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Steve Zultanski is the author of the chapbooks Homoem (Radical Readout), This and That Lenin (BookThug), Pad (Make Now). He edits President's Choice magazine, a Lil' Norton publication. His poetry has appeared in Antennae, FO(A)RM, The Physical Poets, Shiny, and elsewhere.
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Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford is an artist, performer, and writer currently studying at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Portugal, the author of Morpheu(BlazeVOX 2009), and is currently the band MGMT's VJ. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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