JR Carpenter
This presentation will ponder the difficulty of writing for contextual awareness when the context is one borne of distance, displacement, and fracture. Mass migrations of peoples, languages, and cultures have created multi-layered territories and multi-site-specific identities. The global digital communications networks of today are in significant part engendered by these generations of migration, born of our need to communicate across vast distances. This presentation will ask: How might digital networks form or inform narrative structures for writing resonating between sites, beyond nations? What might constitute a site-specific web-based ambient literature?
J.R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, performer, researcher working in performance writing, digital literature, and media archaeology. Her pioneering works of digital literature have been exhibited, published, performed, and presented in journals, galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. She is a winner of the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, the Carte Blanche Quebec Award, the Expozine Alternative Press Award, the Dot Award for Digital Literature, and the New Media Writing Prize 2016. http://luckysoap.com