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J. R. CARPENTER is winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Award and two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition and a Web Art Finalist in the Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards 2006. Her electronic literature projects have been presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Dare-Dare, Jyväskylä Art Museum, and the Biennial de Montreal, 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 (Montreal: Conundrum Press) won the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book in 2008. 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

THE CAPILANO REVIEW 250 “Artifice & Intelligence” CONTRIBUTERS:

JIM ANDREWS has published vispo.com since 1995. It is his attempt to create a body of writing that can swim in the digital ocean. He is a poet, programmer, audio guy, commentator on digital writing, and designer of interfaces. He lives in Victoria.

KATE ARMSTRONG is an artist and writer with interest in networks, distribution, and poetics. Armstrong’s work examines the unexpected results that emerge when digital and analogue models are made to intersect, and looks to bring digital structures – both functional and metaphorical – into low-fi models and physical spaces as a way to interrogate contemporary culture. She is engaged with text and experimental narrative, especially open forms that bring poetics and computational function together. Her projects have taken a variety of forms including net art, psychogeography, installation, audio, performance, painting, and robotics. Armstrong has written for P.S 1/MoMA, TrAce, Year Zero One, and The Thing, as well as for catalogue publications. Her book Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture, was published in 2002. http://katearmstrong.com

GLOBAL TELELANGUARE RESOURCES Since 1972, Global Telelanguage Resources has operated as a fictional information network composed of both individual and collective aesthetic projects. GTR projects and performances have incorporated a wide variety of different media platforms and presentation forms, including academic lectures, audio/sound poems, chance generated poetry, and musical composition. Its mandate is to present an ongoing, dynamic engagement with language as an ever-changing system of signification and rhetorical performance. http://www.gtrlabs.org

ANTONIA HIRSCH was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Based in Vancouver since 1995, she has presented solo exhibitions across Canada, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Europe, Canada and Asia, including exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal and at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has presented solo exhibitions, amongst others, at the Or Gallery and Artspeak Gallery in Vancouver, Gallery 44 in Toronto, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. In 2004, her work was shown in Taipei and Shanghai as well as at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal, the Charles H. Scott Gallery in Vancouver, and the University of Toronto’s Blackwood Gallery. Hirsch was awarded the Canada Council Paris Studio, where she was in residence in the fall of 2004.

DAVID Jhave JOHNSTON is a digital poet and M.Sc. student at SIAT, SFU. In 2005 he completed www.etay.ca, www.maerd.ca, www.glia.ca/SAIC/ (a suite of interactive video poems as artist-in-residence at La Chambre Blanche’s weblab) and curated Code www.year01.com/code. His work has been featured at the Images de Nouveau Monde festival in Quèbec City, Champ Libre, Turbulence.org, and La Biennale de Montrèal. http://www.glia.ca/

ANDREW KLOBUCAR joined the English Department at Capilano College in 2001 in order to serve on the board of The Capilano Review. Since 1996, he has published a wide assortment of critical writings on contemporary North American poetry. He co-edited the Canadian poetry anthology Writing Class (New Star, 1999) on the work and early history of the Kootenay School of Writing, the important literary collective known internationally for its experimental poetry reading series, publications and writer residencies. Current critical work is based in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Digital Humanities, exploring various issues and innovations in new media, electronic publishing and the increasingly important role technology plays in today’s literary and pedagogical fields.

KEVIN MAGEE’s poems in 2007 are included in Conjunctions 48 and Conjunctions’ web issue, as well as Bird Dog, Parthenon West Review, 580-Split, and Indefinite Space. An essay on Olson and Vertov is included in Peter Lang’s Polish Studies in English Language and Literature. Since 2001 he has resided in Russia and Poland.

LAURA U. MARKS, a writer and a curator of artists’ media, is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (2002). She is Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/~lmarks

NANCY PATERSON is a Toronto-based electronic media artist working primarily in the field of interactive installations. Currently an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design she is also Facilities Coordinator at Charles Street Video, an artists media access centre in Toronto. Paterson has developed a course, “Creativity and New Media,�? in which students are required to work through various methodologies of creativity, at Seneca@York.

SHARLA SAVA is a writer and university educator based in Vancouver. In 2006 she completed a doctorate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has lectured, curated exhibitions, and published a variety of articles about art after modernism, discussing the works of Robert Filliou, Ray Johnson, N.E. Thing Co. and Jeff Wall, among others.

SANDRA SEEKINS has been with Capilano College since September 2001. She teaches Art History and Women’s Studies, and is currently the Studio Art Coordinator. She has an M.A. from U.B.C. and is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include art and technology, art and activism, and art and multiculturalism. When she’s not working, Sandra skulks through flea markets and garage sales looking for vintage ray guns, space toys, and robot art.

DARREN WERSHLER-HENRY is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His most recent books are The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting, and apostrophe (with Bill Kennedy).

GORDON WINIEMKO is an artist, writer, and educator whose films, performances, and installations have been exhibited internationally in film festivals, independent cinemas, and art spaces. His website is http://www.enjoythesign.com

TRIBUTARIES & TEXT-FED STREAMS VANCOUVER LAUNCH EVENT PARTICIPANT BIOS:

MICHAEL BOYCE is a writer from the east coast, living on the west coast, writing different kinds of things in different kinds of ways. His first novel, Monkey, was published by Pedlar Press, and he is now finishing a second one, called Anderson. Boyce has also published short stories, poetry, reviews, and critical theory about artists and their work.

J. R. CARPENTER is a two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition 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, is forthcoming from Conundrum Press in 2008. 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

GLOBAL TELELANGUAGE RESOURCES has operated as a fictional information network composed of both individual and collective aesthetic projects since 1972. GTR projects and performances have incorporated a wide variety of different media platforms and presentation forms, including academic lectures, audio/sound poems, chance generated poetry, and musical composition. Its mandate is to present an ongoing, dynamic engagement with language as an ever-changing system of signification and rhetorical performance. http://www.gtrlabs.org

MARIA LANTIN is the Director of the Intersections Digital Studios, a research space at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Prior to coming to Emily Carr, Dr. Lantin led the Visualization Lab within the Advanced Research Technology (ART) Labs at The Banff Centre where she helped produce digital media work with a variety of international artists. Alternating between academia and industry for a number of years, she has worked as a senior developer at Mainframe Entertainment, an assistant professor at the Technical University of British Columbia (now SFU), and the Director of Research at IDELIX Software Inc. Dr. Lantin continues to collaborate with many artists on media works, and also produces and exhibits her own work on language visualization.

BILLY MAVREAS is a Greek-Canadian artist living in Montreal. For almost twenty years, Mavreas has produced rock posters, comics, artist books, visual poetry, installation, mail art, web art, performance, essay writing and guerilla consultancy. His artwork and various projects have been shown and published internationally. He is the author of The Overlords of Glee (conundrum press, 2001), Hell Passport Commentary (Perro Verlag, 2006) and the upcoming Inside Outside Overlap (Timeless Books, 2008) among many others. Mavreas is also the proprietor of his enduring project, Monastiraki, a Mile-End magickal curiosity shoppe and art gallery. http://www.billymavreas.blogspot.com/

JERMEY VENDITTI is a river geomorphologist who conducts research on geomorphic and sedimentary processes that shape Earth’s surface. Dr. Venditti’s current work focuses on turbulence and sediment dynamics in sand-bedded rivers, sediment delivery to the ocean, scientifically-based stream naturalization, and sediment transport dynamics in gravel-bedded streams. He uses a spectrum of research approaches, including field observation and experimentation, physical modeling in laboratories, development of theoretical models, and numerical simulation. His work covers a range of temporal and spatial scales from detailed examinations of sediment dynamics occurring over fractions of a second in laboratory channels to monitoring annual river and watershed responses to human impacts.

Dr. Venditti holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph, a Masters of Science from the University of Southern California, and a PhD from the University of British Columbia. From 2004-2006 he held a research appointment at the University of California, Berkeley and was a senior scientist at Stillwater Sciences in Berkeley California. Dr. Venditti is currently a faculty member in the Department of Geography and leads the Landscape Dynamics Laboratory at Simon Fraser University.

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