an event series at the
 kelly writers house
 programmed by danny snelson
 featuring editorial practices
 in contemporary writing
 t e c h n o l o g i e s


“Edit” is a roving events series pairing innovative performances with focused critical responses toward an exploration of editorial practices in contemporary writing and the arts. Extended engagements relate these diverse occasions, with each event expanded online and occasionally drawn together in print or other media.

 

OCT.
14th
2013
 Edit: Sounding Algorithmic Composition

Jaap Blonk
Self-taught composer, performer and poet, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of poetic structure. His current research explores of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual animation and poetry.


OCT.
25th
2011
 Edit: Constructing Primary Dispersion

James Hoff
Artist, writer, and co-founder of Primary Information and No Input Books, presents "The Ah Oh My God," a media-saturated lecture on minor history as primary information, or rather, secondary information as primary history.


APR.
4th
2011
 Edit: Exploring Textual Conditions
Hosted in concert with Charles Bernstein's Unsettling the Word

Jerome McGann
The author of The Textual Condition, Romantic Ideology, Radiant Textuality, and The Point Is to Change It, presents a lecture entitled "Philology in a New Key: Poe, Decentered Culture, and Critical Method." He teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor.


MAR.
14th
2011
 Edit: Digitizing Material Aesthetics
Hosted in concert with Charles Bernstein's Guide to the Pataque(e)rical

Johanna Drucker
Presents "A Conversation about Aesthetics and Materiality: at the Kelly Wriers House, Penn, March 14, 2011." Drucker is an author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital aesthetics. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.


OCT.
20th
2010
 Edit: Staging Database Recomposition

Alejandro Crawford
with the students of Charles Bernstein's English 262
exploring tactics for Programming Poetry, Remixing Flash Clips, Python Scripted Poetry, and Creative Translation.


APR.
21st
2010
 Edit: Performing Networked Publishing

Handmade book, PDF, lulu.com Appendix, Powerpoint, Kanban Board/Post-Its, Blurbs, Dual Language (Chinese/English) Edition, micro lecture, Selectric II interview, wine/cheese reception, Q&A (xerox) and a film.

TAN LIN
A live publishing venture in 5 hours, with the editing aid of Danny Snelson, Matthew Abess, Chris Alexander, Alejandro Crawford, Cecilia Corrigan, Kareem Estefan, J. Gordon Faylor, Mashinka Firunts, Kristen Gallagher, Lawrence Giffin, Diana Hamilton, Eddie Hopely, Josef Kaplan, Steve McLaughlin, Matthew Landis, Gregory Laynor, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Patrick Lovelace, Carlos Soto, Kaegan Sparks, Michelle Taransky, Jeremy JF Thompson, Sara Wintz, and Al Filreis.


FEB.
18th
2010
 Edit: Processing Improvisatory Writing

ADACHI TOMOMI with radio artist TIANNA KENNEDY discussing Contingency, Sound Poetry, and Transmission Arts.


NOV.
17th
2009
 Edit: Strategizing Writing Technologies

JEREMY JAMES FOXTROT THOMPSON with ASTRID LORANGE considering Printmaking, Performance, and Editorial Practice