J. R. Carpenter
J. R. Carpenter
Interests
Electronic Literature, Locative Narrative, Media Archaeology, Networked Art Practices, Performance Writing
Bio
Artist, Writer, Performer, PhD Researcher
Research Centre & Group Affiliation
Performance Writing Research Group
Research Interests
Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks. Can a juxtaposition of coastlines create a new narrative context from which to examine a multi-site-specific place-based immigrant identity? What narratives resonate in the spaces between places separated by time, distance and ocean yet inextricably linked by generations of immigration? Can digital networks can serve as narrative structures for writing resonating between sites, beyond nations? Writing Coastlines incorporates strategies from performance writing, literary fiction, electronic literature, locative narrative and networked art practices to investigate: networks as places, placeholders, sites of exchange and narrative structures; forms of very short fiction capable of travelling through networks intact as narrative units; and ways in which the syntax and grammar of code languages inflect born-digital literary texts. Writing Coastlines aims to build a new networked narrative structure for stories of place and displacement that resonate between sites, confusing and confounding boundaries between physical and digital, code and narrative, past and future, home and away.
Research Outputs
Books:
GENERATION[S] (2010) a collection of code narratives. Vienna: Traumawien http://luckysoap.com/generations/
Words the Dog Knows (2008) a novel. Montreal: Conundrum Press http://luckysoap.com/stories/wordsthedogknows.html
- Winner of the Expozine alternative Press Award for Best English Book (2009) Montreal
- excerpted in Geist 71 (2009) Vancouver
Digital Literature:
TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] (2011) http://luckysoap.com/generations/transmission.html
- presented at Digital Poetics, an (ELMCIP) Seminar, University of Amsterdam, December 9-10, 2011
STRUTS (2011) http://luckysoap.com/struts
- commissioned for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Launched 15 September 2011. http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/09/third-hand-plays-struts-by-j-r-carpenter/
- based on research conducted as Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Centre Open Studio Artist in Residence, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada May 22 – June 26, 2011
Muddy Mouth (2011) a P.o.E.M.M. [Poems for Excitable [Mobile] Media] published in an iPhone/iPad app created by Jason E. Lewis and Bruno Nadeau at Obx Labs in Montreal, available for download from iTunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/speak/id406078727?mt=8#
Along the Briny Beach (2011) http://luckysoap.com/alongthebrinybeach
- performed at E-Poetry Festival (2011) SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA
- presented at Digital Poetics, an (ELMCIP) Seminar, University of Amsterdam, December 9-10, 2011
- published in Boulder Pavement 4 (2011) The Banff Centre Press
Wanderkammer: A Walk Through Texts (2011) http://luckysoap.com/wanderkammer
- published in Walk poems: A series of reviews of walking projects. Jacket2 (www) http://jacket2.org/feature/walk-poems
Whisper Wire (2010) http://luckysoap.com/generations/whisperwire.html
- print excerpt published in Rampike Vol. 20 / No. 2 “Scientific Wonders.” University of Windsor, Windsor, ON Canada, November 2011
- presented at the Third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Inspace, Edinburgh, UK, October 31, 2010.
CityFish (2010) http://luckysoap.com/cityfish
- created with the support of a new media production grant from Canada Council for the Arts
- exhibited in Re-Drawing Boundaries (2011) Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press
- published in soundsRite (2011) University of Western Sidney, Australia
- presented at OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica (2011) Palazzo delle arti Napoli, Naples
- exhibited at Archive & Innovate: The 4th International Conference & Festival of the Electronic Literature Organization (2010) Brown University, Providence
- performed at In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge: A Gathering (2010) The Banff Centre
Conference Papers:
"Generating Books: Paridoxical Print Snapshots of Digital Literary Processes," presented at Congrés Internacional Mapping e-lit: Lectura i anàlisi de la literatura digital, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 24-25 November 2011
"Writing Coastlines: The Operation of Estuaries, Islands and Beaches as Liminal Spaces in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop," conference paper presented at "It Must Be Nova Scotia," Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop (2011) Kings College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
"CityFish," essay published in: Lello Masucci e Giovanna Di Rosario. Eds. Lavori del Convegno OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica. Palazzo Arti Napoli. 20-21 gennaio 2011 (2011) Napoli: Atelier Multimediale editrice
GENERATION[S] (2010) a collection of code narratives. Vienna: Traumawien http://luckysoap.com/generations/
Words the Dog Knows (2008) a novel. Montreal: Conundrum Press http://luckysoap.com/stories/wordsthedogknows.html
- Winner of the Expozine alternative Press Award for Best English Book (2009) Montreal
- excerpted in Geist 71 (2009) Vancouver
Digital Literature:
TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] (2011) http://luckysoap.com/generations/transmission.html
- presented at Digital Poetics, an (ELMCIP) Seminar, University of Amsterdam, December 9-10, 2011
STRUTS (2011) http://luckysoap.com/struts
- commissioned for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Launched 15 September 2011. http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/09/third-hand-plays-struts-by-j-r-carpenter/
- based on research conducted as Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Centre Open Studio Artist in Residence, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada May 22 – June 26, 2011
Muddy Mouth (2011) a P.o.E.M.M. [Poems for Excitable [Mobile] Media] published in an iPhone/iPad app created by Jason E. Lewis and Bruno Nadeau at Obx Labs in Montreal, available for download from iTunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/speak/id406078727?mt=8#
Along the Briny Beach (2011) http://luckysoap.com/alongthebrinybeach
- performed at E-Poetry Festival (2011) SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA
- presented at Digital Poetics, an (ELMCIP) Seminar, University of Amsterdam, December 9-10, 2011
- published in Boulder Pavement 4 (2011) The Banff Centre Press
Wanderkammer: A Walk Through Texts (2011) http://luckysoap.com/wanderkammer
- published in Walk poems: A series of reviews of walking projects. Jacket2 (www) http://jacket2.org/feature/walk-poems
Whisper Wire (2010) http://luckysoap.com/generations/whisperwire.html
- print excerpt published in Rampike Vol. 20 / No. 2 “Scientific Wonders.” University of Windsor, Windsor, ON Canada, November 2011
- presented at the Third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Inspace, Edinburgh, UK, October 31, 2010.
CityFish (2010) http://luckysoap.com/cityfish
- created with the support of a new media production grant from Canada Council for the Arts
- exhibited in Re-Drawing Boundaries (2011) Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press
- published in soundsRite (2011) University of Western Sidney, Australia
- presented at OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica (2011) Palazzo delle arti Napoli, Naples
- exhibited at Archive & Innovate: The 4th International Conference & Festival of the Electronic Literature Organization (2010) Brown University, Providence
- performed at In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge: A Gathering (2010) The Banff Centre
Conference Papers:
"Generating Books: Paridoxical Print Snapshots of Digital Literary Processes," presented at Congrés Internacional Mapping e-lit: Lectura i anàlisi de la literatura digital, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 24-25 November 2011
"Writing Coastlines: The Operation of Estuaries, Islands and Beaches as Liminal Spaces in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop," conference paper presented at "It Must Be Nova Scotia," Negotiating Place in the Writings of Elizabeth Bishop (2011) Kings College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
"CityFish," essay published in: Lello Masucci e Giovanna Di Rosario. Eds. Lavori del Convegno OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica. Palazzo Arti Napoli. 20-21 gennaio 2011 (2011) Napoli: Atelier Multimediale editrice
Selected Earlier Outputs
in absentia (2008) http://luckysoap.com/inabsentia
Entre Ville (2006) http://luckysoap.com/entreville
The Cape (2005) http://luckysoap.com/thecape
Entre Ville (2006) http://luckysoap.com/entreville
The Cape (2005) http://luckysoap.com/thecape
Current Research / Forthcoming Outputs
"up form the deep," a P.o.E.M.M. [Poems for Excitable [Mobile] Media] to be published in an iPhone/iPad app called "Know" created by Jason E. Lewis and Bruno Nadeau at Obx Labs in Montreal, Canada, spring 2012
"Performing Digital Text in European Contexts," commentary column, Jacket2, Kelley Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, September 2011 - ongoing. (www) https://jacket2.org/commentary/j-r-carpenter
"TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks," conference paper to be presented at Network Archeology, Miami University, Oxford Ohio, USA, 19-21 April 2012.
"The Broadside of a Yarn," new work of augmented reality, commissioned for Remediating the Social, an ELMCIP Exhibition and Conference to be held in Edinburgh, UK, November 2012
"Performing Digital Text in European Contexts," commentary column, Jacket2, Kelley Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, September 2011 - ongoing. (www) https://jacket2.org/commentary/j-r-carpenter
"TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks," conference paper to be presented at Network Archeology, Miami University, Oxford Ohio, USA, 19-21 April 2012.
"The Broadside of a Yarn," new work of augmented reality, commissioned for Remediating the Social, an ELMCIP Exhibition and Conference to be held in Edinburgh, UK, November 2012
Membership of Learned Societies
Procida Academy Project – Scientific and Artistic Committee Member
OBORO Gallery and New Media Lab – Board Member, past President (2006-2010)
Electronic Literature Organization – Member
Quebec Writers Federation – Writer Member
OBORO Gallery and New Media Lab – Board Member, past President (2006-2010)
Electronic Literature Organization – Member
Quebec Writers Federation – Writer Member
Other Matters of Research Relevance
Faculty for In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge, Literary Arts Residency Program, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2011, 2012.
Guest speaker at the award ceremony for the 2nd international New Media Writing Competition, Bournemouth University, UK, 23 November 2011.
Guest speaker at the award ceremony for the 2nd international New Media Writing Competition, Bournemouth University, UK, 23 November 2011.
