E-POETRY, 2001

An International Digital Poetry Festival

Buffalo, New York

April 18-21, 2001

Presented by just buffalo literary center and the Electronic Poetry Center

FESTIVAL OVERVIEW

WEDNESDAY 4/18, 4:00 PM. Opening digital reading; reception.

THURSDAY 4/19. Full day of papers and digital readings/presentations; inaugural reception.

FRIDAY 4/20. Full day of papers and digital readings/presentations; evening reception.

SATURDAY 4/21. Full day of papers and digital readings/presentations; closing reception.

SUNDAY 4/22, Optional trip to Niagara Falls -- by arrangement

DAILY FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY 4/18

SCREENING ROOM, CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SUNY, AMHERST CAMPUS

4:00-5:30 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [Charles Bernstein, USA, Chair],

-- Jim Andrews, Canada

-- Komninos Zervos, Australia

-- Kenneth Goldsmith, USA

6:00-7:00 PM - Reception at Lebro's Restaurant, 330 Campbell Blvd., Getzville, NY (716-688-0404)

7:00-8:30 PM - Dinner (Self-pay) at Lebro's

THURSDAY 4/19

BALLROOM 4, Buffalo-Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway,

Amherst, New York 14226 (716-689-6900)

9:00-9:30 AM - COFFEE and REGISTRATION

9:30-10:15 AM - Festival Introductions

10:15-11:15 AM - Panel [Tim Shaner, USA, Chair]

-- Komninos Zervos, Australia, "Words in Three Dimensions - New

Literary Devices"

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

-- George Hartley, USA, "SCRIPT LANGUAGE='POETRY': the Poetic

Potential of JavaScript and DHTML"

11:30-12:15 PM - LUNCH at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required)

12:30-1:45 PM - Vocabularies, Objects, Procedures, Part I [Charles Bernstein, USA, Chair]

-- Loss Pequeño Glazier, USA, "Thinking Procedure"

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

-- Janez Strehovec, Slovenia, "The Digital Poetry Objects"

2:00-3:15 PM - Vocabularies, Objects, Procedures, Part II [Charles Bernstein, USA, Chair]

-- Katherine Parrish, Canada, "The Art of Noise: Randomness in

Automatic Poetry Generators"

-- Brian Kim Stefans, USA, "A Vocabulary for Web Poetics"

3:15-3:30 PM - COFFEE

3:30-3:45 PM - Presentation of "Jabber: The Jabberwocky Engine", Neil Hennessy, Canada

3:45-4:45 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [Jim Andrews, Canada, Chair]

-- Patrick-Henri Burgaud, The Netherlands

-- Nazura Rahime, Malyasia

-- Alan Sondheim, USA

-- Reiner Strasser, Germany

4:45-5:00 PM - Technical Q+A with Readers

6:00-7:00 PM - DINNER (Self-pay) at the Central Park Grill, 2519 Main Street, Buffalo 2519 Main Street, Buffalo (716-836-9466)

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Tri-Main Center,

2495 Main Street, Suite 425, Buffalo, New York 14214, (716-835-7362)

7:30-7:45 PM - Presentation of "Dinner Table" (Video), Marc Bohlen, USA

8:00-9:00 PM - 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, USA, Hallwalls

9:00-11:00 PM - INAUGURAL RECEPTION with the Jim Beishline Jazz Trio featuring Janice Mitchell, Hallwalls

FRIDAY 4/20

BALLROOM 4, Buffalo-Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway,

Amherst, New York 14226 (716-689-6900)

9:00-9:30 AM - COFFEE and REGISTRATION

9:30-10:45 AM - Reading/Writing E-Media [Tim Shaner, USA, Chair]

-- Miekal And & Maria Damon, USA, "eros(ion)"

-- Lawrence Upton, UK, "Spondees, Spondulicks and Sponsors"

-- Jonathan Minton, USA, "Digilogues: C++ and Algorithmic Writing"

10:45-12:15 PM - Inscriptions of E-Authority [Charles Bernstein, USA, Chair]

-- Joel Kuszai, USA, "Collaboration, Composition and

Distribution on the Web: Site-Building as Poetic Praxis"

-- Christopher Alexander, USA, "Moderating the Poetics Listserv"

-- Martin Spinelli, USA, "What Digital Audio Editing Isn't Doing"

-- Charles Bernstein, USA, "Electronic Pies in the Poetry Sky"

12:30-1:15 PM - LUNCH at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required)

1:30-2:45 PM - Papers [Jennifer Ley, USA, Chair]

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

-- Philippe Bootz, France, "Une Littérature du Processus

(Littérature Procédurale)"

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

Poet?"

2:45-3:00 PM - COFFEE

3:30-4:30 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [John Cayley, UK/Canada, Chair]

-- Lucio Agra, Brazil

-- Derek Beaulieu, Canada

-- Christopher Funkhouser (with images by Amy Hufnagel), USA

-- Thomas Swiss, USA

4:30-4:45 - Technical Q+A with Readers

6:00-7:00 PM - DINNER (Self-pay) at Lunetta's Restaurant, 1274 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo (716-873-7230)

Big Orbit Gallery, 30 Essex Street, (716-883-3209)

7:30-8:30 PM - UBU Digital Readings/Presentations [Kenneth Goldsmith, USA, Chair]

-- Brian Kim Stefans, USA, "The Dreamlife of Letters"

-- Neil Hennessy, USA

-- Darren Wershler-Henry, Canada

-- Christian Bök, Canada

8:30-8:45 PM - Technical Q+A with Readers

9:00-11:00 PM - EVENING RECEPTION, Big Orbit

SATURDAY 4/21

SALON C & D, Buffalo-Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway

Amherst, New York 14226 (716-689-6900)

10:00-11:30 AM - PARTICIPANT BRUNCH & SOCIAL GATHERING at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required),

11:45-1:00 AM - Web As Medium [Patrick Durgin, USA, Chair]

-- Deena Larsen, USA, "Exploring New Roles for Digital Poetry"

-- Alan Sondheim, USA, "Avatars, Programs, Lists, and Writing"

-- Barrett Watten, "Beyond the Demon of Analogy: www.poetics"

1:00-2:15 PM - E-Publishing Panel [Richard Deming, USA, Chair]

-- Chris Funkhouser, USA, "Editing and Design 2K+: the Cybertext Issue

of Newark Review"

-- Mike Kelleher, USA, "What Is Electronic Writing?"

-- Jennifer Ley, USA, "Sustainability: On Line Publishing and the Literary Gift Economy"

2:15-2:30 PM - Presentation of ALIRE, Philippe Bootz, France

2:30-2:45 PM - COFFEE

2:45-4:00 PM - UBU Panel [Kenneth Goldsmith, USA, Chair]

-- Derek Beaulieu, and Russ Rickey, Canada, "Abort; Retry;

Fail; Ignore: a Report on Internet Poetry and Poetics"

-- Craig Dworkin, USA, "Technologies of Translation"

4:00-5:00 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [Barbara Cole, USA, Chair]

-- Aya Karpinska, USA, "ek-stasis"

-- Tammy McGovern, USA

-- Xavier Leton, Belgium

-- Jennifer Ley, USA

6:00-7:00 PM - DINNER (Self-pay).

CEPA 617 Main Street, Suite 201, Buffalo (716-856-2717)

7:30-8:30 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations, [Kenneth Goldsmith, USA, Chair]

-- Loss Pequeño Glazier, USA

-- Jim Rosenberg, USA

-- Giselle Beiguelman, Brazil, "<Content=No Cache>"

-- John Cayley, UK/Canada, "RiverIsland"

8:30-8:45 PM - Technical Q+A with Readers

9:00 PM-11:00 PM - CLOSING RECEPTION with Tree-Lined Highway, CEPA

11:00 PM - ATTENDEES ARE INVITED TO AN AFTER HOURS PARTY with The Knowmatic Tribe at Club 658, 658 Main Street, Buffalo