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Project Website (with 77 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11141/
"Dimensional Text" is an event series collaboration between Chain Arts and Slought Foundation. The dimensional text series is an investigation into the ways that language can be presented off the page. It presents language work that steps away from the book, the podium, or the conventional reading.
Janet Zweig is an artist who makes sculpture, books, and public art. In her sculpture, she uses computers
to permute text, connecting the results to mechanical and kinetic
elements. Her public art is often participatory and generative. Zweig's sculpture and books have been exhibited widely in such places
as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Exit Art, PS1 Museum, and Cooper Union. She has installed public artworks at the University of Minnesota, at Santa Fe Community College for New Mexico Arts, and at Walton High School in the Bronx for New York's Percent for Art. She is currently working on several other public projects including a frieze at the Prince Street subway station for New York's Arts for Transit, an open-air library in South Philadelphia for the Fairmount Park Art Association, and a system-wide interactive project for the new Light Rail Line in Minneapolis. She has received numerous awards including the Rome Prize Fellowship and two NEA fellowships, as well as
residencies at PS1 Museum and the MacDowell Colony. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1982 and at Yale University from 1991 to 2000. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Jena Osman is a poet and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University. Her book, The Character, won the Barnard New Women Poets prize in 1998 and was published by Beacon Press. She is co-editor of the award-winning interdisciplinary arts journal, Chain, with Juliana Spahr. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Fund for Poetry, and has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, The Blue Mountain Center, and the Djerassi Foundation. She received her Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo and a Masters in Creative Writing from Brown University.
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