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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: AYA KARPINSKA and TIM PETERSON at the FLYING SAUCER 8/12
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:14:16 -0400 (EDT)
The FLYING SAUCER CAFE reading/media series is starting again! TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 7:00, At the FLYING SAUCER CAFE in BROOKLYN - AYA KARPINSKA and TIM PETERSON (See below for details) *** AYA KARPINSKA Aya Karpinska's research and creative work focus on the impact of technology on artistic practice, in particular computer-mediated music and literature. Her diverse output includes computer music, fiction, poetry, web and graphic design, and game design. She recently performed at Tonic in New York City with her electronic music instrument, container for sound. Ms. Karpinska received her Master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. http://www.technekai.com/aya/ notes for container for sound A box containing sounds waiting to be released. The performer unleashes the composition by opening doors, flapping them like wings to manipulate sound samples. This electronic instrument was built to explore new interfaces for musical expression. Although it was designed to be simple to play, the performer's physical gestures translate into a wide musical palette. More information on the development of this instrument can be found at: http://www.technekai.com/aya/nime/ TIM PETERSON Tim Peterson currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He attended Wesleyan University where he majored in art history and then went on to get his MFA at The University of Arizona. He currently works at M.I.T. Press. This is Tim's first poetry reading in New York, and to mark this event Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published his debut chapbook titled CUMULUS. The Flying Saucer Cafe series pares up new media artists with poets who instead of giving a reading present a talk relating to their poetry and ideas. Tim's talk is titled "Spontaneous Generation." It focuses on writing a gender by writing a world, and it also deals with issues of private language, the dialogic, and spatial metonymy: issues concerning Peterson's identity and his writing process. He says of this, "the two poles of understanding are on the one hand the urge "to be some body," an ideal self enforced by society, and on the other hand the limiting specificity of the question: whose body? in what situation?" *** THE FLYING SAUCER READING/MEDIA SERIES We will be having readings the first Tuesday of each month (August an exception). Please come and support us! Contact Brenda Iijima or Alan Sondheim for further information. Brenda Iijima <yoyolabs@hotmail.com> Alan Sondheim (sondheim@panix.com) The Flying Saucer is located at 494 Atlantic Ave. between Nevins and 3rd Avenues, in Brooklyn. You can subways to the Pacific or Atlantic stops, including the 2, 3, 4, 5, W, N, R, Q, and anything else that runs there. Telephone at the Flying Saucer Cafe is 718-522-1383. ___