New Media Workshop

In collaboration with Chicago Review and Poem Present, the New Media Workshop will be co-sponsoring a multimedia reading this Thursday by Stephanie Strickland and Judd Morrissey.

Thursday, May 31, 2012
7:30 PM
Rosenwald Hall, Room 405
1101 E. 58th Street

Refreshments will be served.

Please see the Chicago Review website, www.chicagoreview.org, for further details.

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Stephanie Strickland has published six books of print poetry, most recently Zone : Zero, and seven electronic poems, most recently Sea and Spar Between, a poetry generator written with Nick Montfort. Award-winning works include The Red Virgin, slippingglimpse, True North, V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una, and Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot. She is interested in the relations between mathematics, science, technology and literature and has written critically about the new kinds of reading and writing the computer makes possible. A member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization, she co-edited the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection (2006). Two of her collaborative digital pieces appear online in Electronic Literature Collection/2 (2011).

Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist whose practice incorporates elements of experimental text generation, internet art, live performance, site-responsive installation, collective authorship and structured public participation. He is the creator of widely studied and anthologized digital literary works including The Precession (2011), The Last Performance [dot org] (2009), The Jew’s Daughter (2006), and My Name is Captain, Captain (2002). His projects are presented nationally and internationally in festivals, exhibitions, conferences and commission contexts. Judd is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a collaborator of the international performance collective, Goat Island, and is a fellow of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant program.

On Friday, June 1st, the New Media Workshop will join with the Ludic Union for the Investigation of Gaming Interfaces in co-sponsoring the inaugural showcase of the University of Chicago Library’s newly-established videogame collection.

A six-hour event spanning from 3 PM to 9 PM, the showcase will be broken into half-hour sessions, each of which will focus on a specific genre, gameplay element, visual idiom, or subject matter. Positioned at the intersection of art and technology, videogames have seen astounding formal changes throughout their fifty-year history.  This showcase has been designed to highlight both what videogames have drawn from other media and what makes them uniquely worthy of study and preservation.

Visitors will have opportunities both for hands-on play or simple viewing, and are encouraged to drop in an out at their convenience.

On Friday, May 11, Márcia Cristina da Silva Sousa and Wilson Oliveira da Silva Filho will be presenting their paper Projecting in the streets: From the cinema indoor to films “calling out around the world” and the memory: a few notes about live cinema at the New Media Workshop. Márcia and Wilson are PhD students at the Programa de Pós-graduação em Memória Social at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

The paper is available here

To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

The New Media Workshop meets from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM in Cobb 310.