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Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online

Craig Dworkin, Kenny Goldsmith, Brian Kim Stefans, Darren Wershler-Henry

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Event Date: Thursday, April 10, 2003
Location: Slought Foundation
Conversations in Theory Series | Organized by Aaron Levy

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

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A critically-oriented roundtable on digital media and the future of archiving, featuring alternating models for poetry and visual media currently operating online.


Craig Dworkin edits Eclipse (http://www.princeton.edu/eclipse) and is the author of _Reading the Illegible_ (Northwestern U.P.), a critical investigation of the politics of misuse. Recent articles have appeared in October, Sagetrieb, and American Letters & Commentary. _Signature-Effects_, a book of visual poetry, is available from Small Press Distribution, and _PARSE_ is forthcoming from Atelos Press. Currently editing the selected poems of Vito Acconci and working on a book tentatively entitled _Misreading: A User's Manual_, he teaches 20th and 21st century avant-gardes in the Department of English at Princeton University.

Kenneth Goldsmith is a poet living in New York City. He is a music critic for New York Press and a DJ on WFMU. He is founding curator of http://ubu.com

Brian Kim Stefans runs the media mini-empire http://www.arras.net, which includes arras.net, Free Space Comix: The Blog (www.arras.net/weblog) and Circulars (www.arrras.net/circulars), a multi-author anti-war blog maintained by poets. He is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos, 2000). He edits the /ubu series of poetry ebooks on ubu.com (www.ubu.com/ubu), and his forthcoming book of essays, Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, will be published by Atelos in the April 2003. He is a prolific critic and writes for the Boston Review among other publications. New work, including an interview, will soon be appearing on the Iowa Review web (www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/).

Darren Wershler-Henry, the former senior editor at Coach House Books, http://www.chbooks.com, is a writer, critic, and the author of two books of poetry, _NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs_, and _the tapeworm foundry_, shortlisted for the Trillium Prize. Darren is also the author/co-author of five books about technology and culture, including _FREE as in speech and beer_ and _Commonspace: Beyond Virtual Community_. Darren teaches in the school of Communications Studies at York University.


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MLA Style: Craig Dworkin, et al. "Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online." Slought Foundation Online Content. [10 April 2003; Accessed 4 July 2009]. <http://slought.org/content/11144/>.






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