Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capilano Review is a is a new work of electronic literature by Montreal-based fiction writer and web artist J. R. Carpenter commissioned by The Capliano Review. In February 2007 The Capilano Review published an issue dedicated to new writing and new technologies. TCR 2-50 “Artifice & Intelligence” was guest-edited by Andrew Klobucar and included essays by: Andrew Klobucar, Global Telelanguage Resources, Sandra Seekins, Kate Armstrong, David Jhave Johnston, Laura U. Marks, Sharla Sava, Kevin Magee, Jim Andrews, Gordon Winiemko, Nancy Patterson and Darren Wershler-Henry.
Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams is a personal, experimental and playful rereading of and response to these essays by J. R. Carpenter. In this work she explores the formal and functional properties of RSS, using blogging, tagging and other Web 2.0 tools to mark-up and interlink essays and to insert additional meta-layers of commentary in order to play with, expose, expand upon, and subvert formal structures of writing, literature, and literary criticism.
J. R. CARPENTER is the winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Award (2008), a two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition (2003 & 2005)and a Web Art Finalist in the Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards 2006. Her electronic literature projects are included in Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, Web Biennial 2007 (Istanbul) and Rhizome ArtBase (New York). Her short fiction has been anthologized in In Other Words, Short Stuff and Lust for Life, and has appeared in journals including: Geist, Matrix, The New Quarterly and Blood & Aphorisms. Her first novel, Words the Dog Knows, published by Conundrum Press in 2008, won the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book. She lives in Montreal where she serves as the President of the Board of Directors of OBORO, an artist run gallery and new media lab. http://luckysoap.com
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