E-POETRY, 2001 Program

Wednesday, April 18

4-5:30 p.m.

Open Reading, Screening Room, Center for the Arts, UB North (Amherst) Campus

Digital Readings, presentations chaired by Charles Bernstein

Featuring Jim Andrews (Canada), Chris Cheek (UK), Kenneth Goldsmith (U.S.)

6-7 p.m.

Reception, Lebro's Restaurant, 330 Campbell Blvd., Getzville

7-8:30 p.m.

Dinner (Self-pay) at Lebro's

Thursday, April 19

9-9:30 a.m.

Coffee, registration, Ballroom 4, Buffalo-Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst

9:30-10 a.m.

Festival introductions

10-11:30 a.m.

Panel chaired by Tim Shaner

Komninos Zervos (Australia), "Words in Three Dimensions: New Literary Devices"

Christian Bök (Canada), "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed"

Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), "What You See is What You Get? (On Line Writing and The Loss of Inscription)"

George Hartley (U.S.), "SCRIPT LANGUAGE='POETRY': the Poetic Potential of JavaScript and DHTML"

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Lunch at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required)

12:30-1:45 p.m.

Panel, "Vocabularies, Objects, Procedures, Part I," chaired by Charles Bernstein

Loss Pequeño Glazier (U.S.), "Thinking Procedure"

Inna Kouper (Russia), "Constringent meanings: temporal aspect of e-poetry"

Janez Strehovec (Slovenia), "The Digital Poetry Objects"

2-3:15 p.m.

Panel, "Vocabularies, Objects, Procedures, Part II," chaired by Charles Bernstein

Kenneth Goldsmith (U.S.), TBA

Katherine Parrish (Canada), "The Art of Noise: Randomness in Automatic Poetry Generators"

Brian Kim Stefans (U.S.), "A Vocabulary for Web Poetics"

3:15-3:30 p.m.

Coffee

3:30-3:45 p.m.

TBA

3:45-4:45 p.m.

Digital Readings/Presentations

Lucio Agra (Brazil)

Nazura Rahime (Malaysia)

Xavier Leton (Belgium)

Reiner Strasser (Germany)

4:45-5:00 p.m.

Technical Q+A with Readers

6-7 p.m.

Dinner at the Central Park Grill (self-pay), 2519 Main St,, Buffalo

7:30-11 p.m.

All events: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Tri-Main Center, 2495 Main St., Suite 425

7:30-7:45 p.m.

Presentation of Mark Bohlen's (U.S.) video, "Dinner Table"

8-9 p.m.

Purkinge Group Reading, "The Awopbop Groupuscle and the Forms of Improvisation". Featuring Sandy Baldwin, Don Byrd, Nancy Dunlop, Chris Funkhouser, Belle Gironda, Thomas Mackey, Christina Milletti, Derek Owens, among others.

9-11 p.m.

Inaugural Reception with the Jim Beishline Jazz Trio featuring Janice Mitchell,

Friday, April 20

9-9:30 a.m.

Coffee and registration, Ballroom 4, Buffalo-Niagara Marriott.

9:30-10:45 a.m.

Panel, "Reading/Writing E-Media," chaired by Tim Shaner

Miekal And and Maria Damon (U.S.) "eros(ion)"

Lawrence Upton (UK), "Spondees, Spondulicks and Sponsors"

chris cheek (UK), TBA

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Panel, "Inscriptions of E-Authority," chaired by Charles Bernstein

Joel Kuszai (U.S.), "Collaboration, Composition and Distribution on the Web: Site-Building as Poetic Praxis"

Christopher Alexander (U.S.), "Moderating the Poetics Listserv"

Martin Spinelli (U.S.), "What Digital Audio Editing Isn't Doing"

Charles Bernstein (U.S.), "Electronic Pies in the Poetry Sky"

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Lunch at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required)

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Presentation of papers, chair to be announced

Jim Andrews (Canada), "Nio and the Art of Interactive Audio for the Web"

Jorge Luiz Antonio (Brazil), "The Digital Poetry Genre"

Philippe Bootz (France), "Une Littérature du Processus (Littérature Procédurale)"

Juan José Diaz Infante (Mexico), "¿Donde Esta el Poeta?/Where Is the Poet?"

2:45-3 p.m.

Coffee

3-3:15 p.m.

Presentation of "Jabber: The Jabberwocky Engine," Neil Hennessy (U.S.)

3:15-4:15 p.m.

Digital Readings/Presentations, chair to be announced

Patrick-Henri Burgaud (The Netherlands)

Komninos Zervos (Australia)

Christopher Funkhouser, with images by Amy Hufnagel (U.S.)

Thomas Swiss (U.S.)

4:15-4:30 p.m.

Technical Q+A with Readers

6-7 p.m.

Dinner at the Anchor Bar, (self-pay) 1047 Main St,, Buffalo

7:30-8:30 p.m.

UBU Digital Readings/Presentations, Big Orbit Gallery, 30 Essex St., chaired by Kenneth Goldsmith

Brian Kim Stefans (U.S.), "The Dreamlife of Letters"

Derek Beaulieu (Canada)

Darren Wershler-Henry (Canada)

Christian Bök (Canada)

8:30-9 p.m.

Technical Q+A with Readers

9-11 p.m.

Evening Reception, Big Orbit Gallery

Saturday, April 21

10-11:30 a.m.

Participants' Brunch at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required), Salons C&D, Buffalo-Niagara Marriott

11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

Panel, "Web As Medium," chaired by Patrick Durgin

Deena Larsen (U.S.), "Exploring New Roles for Digital Poetry"

Alan Sondheim (U.S.), "Avatars, Programs, Lists, and Writing"

Barrett Watten (U.S.), "Beyond the Demon of Analogy: www.poetics"

1-2:15 p.m.

E-Publishing Panel, chaired by Richard Deming

Chris Funkhouser (U.S.), "Editing and Design 2K+: the Cybertext Issue of Newark Review"

Mike Kelleher (U.S.), "What Is Electronic Writing?"

Jennifer Ley (U.S.), "Sustainability: On Line Publishing and the Literary Gift Economy"

2:15-2:30 p.m.

Presentation of alire, Philippe Bootz (France)

2:30-2:45 p.m.

Coffee

2:45-4 p.m.

UBU Panel chaired by Kenneth Goldsmith

Derek Beaulieu, and Russ Rickey (Canada) "Abort; Retry; Fail; Ignore: a Report on Internet Poetry and Poetics"

Craig Dworkin (U.S.), "Technologies of Translation"

Darren Wershler-Henry and Bill Kennedy (Canada), TBA

4-5:15 p.m.

Digital Readings/Presentations, chaired by Barbara Cole

Aya Karpinska (U.S.), "ek-stasis"

Tammy McGovern (U.S.)

Jonathan Minton (U.S.), "Digilogues: C++ and Algorithmic Writing"

Alan Sondheim (U.S.)

Jennifer Ley (U.S.)

6-7 p.m.

Dinner at the Pearl Street Brewery (self-pay), 76 Pearl St., Buffalo

7:30-8:30 p.m.

Closing Digital Readings/Presentations, CEPA, 617 Main St., Suite 201, Buffalo, chaired by Kenneth Goldsmith

Loss Pequeño Glazier (U.S.)

Jim Rosenberg (U.S.)

Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), ""

John Cayley (UK/Canada), "RiverIsland"

8:30-9 p.m.

Technical Q+A with Readers

9-11 p.m.

Closing Reception with Tree-Lined Highway, CEPA

11 p.m.

After-hours party with The Knowmatic Tribe at Club 658, 658 Main St., Buffalo