Hazel Smith

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Australia
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Australia
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United Kingdom
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Hazel Smith is a poet, performer, new media artist and academic. She has published extensively in national and international literary magazines including The Age Monthly Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Brisbane Review, Cordite, Crayon (US),  Cyphers (UK) , Figs (UK), First Offense (UK), Heat, How2 (US), Jacket, Mascara Literary Review, Meanjin, Milk (US) Molly Bloom (UK), Otoliths, Outlet (US), Overland, Pages (UK), Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Salzburg,Pores (UK), Reality Studios (UK),  Seizure, Shampoo, Shearsman (UK), Slope, Southerly, Southern Review, Strange Mathematics (UK), Stilts, Stride (UK), Stylus Lit, Sugar Mule (US), Tears in the Fence (UK), Text, Thylazine  Tinfish (US), W/Edge.  Her poetry has been included in many anthologies such as An Educated Desire (UK), Ashbery Mode (US), Australian Mosaic, Floating Capital: New Poets from London (UK), Homo Sonorus (Russia), The Material Poem, The Other Room Anthologies 5 and 7 (UK), Shuffle, Women, Poetry and Migration, (US). 

 

Hazel has published four volumes of poetry Abstractly Represented: Poems and Performance Texts 1982-1990, Sydney, Butterfly Books, 1991, Keys Round Her Tongue: short prose, poetry and performance texts, Soma Publications, Sydney, 2000, The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works, Tinfish Press, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 2008, with accompanying CD Rom, and Word Migrants, Giramondo, Sydney, 2016. In 2020 a small selection of poems was also published by SOd Press.  Hazel has published two CDs of poetry and performance work, Poet Without Language, Rufus Records, 1994 and Nuraghic Echoes, Rufus Records,1996 (the title track of Poet without Languagewas nominated by the ABC for the international Prix Italia prize). 

 

Hazel has published numerous collaborative multimedia works, including motions, with Will Luers and Roger Dean, selected in 2016 for the Electronic Literature Organisation Collection 3. She is a member of austraLYSIS, the sound and intermedia arts group, and has performed, broadcast and presented her work extensively nationally and internationally, including several ABC commissions.  She has been co-recipient of numerous Australia Council grants for austraLYSIS and in 2012 was the recipient of an Australia Council Digital and New Media Writing grant. In 2017, her multimedia collaboration with Will Luers and Roger Dean, novelling, was shortlisted for the Turn on Literature Prize, an initiative of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. In 2018 novelling was awarded First Prize in the US-based Electronic Literature Organisation’s Robert Coover Award. In 2020 Hazel collaborated on a major exhibition, Heimlich Unheimlich, with artist Sieglinde Karl-Spence, at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney.  A video which formed part of the exhibition was selected for the virtual (un)continuity exhibition at the Electronic Literature Organisation Conference/Festival in Orlando, USA, 2020. 

 

From 2007-2017 Hazel was a Research Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University where she is now an Emeritus Professor. She is the author of several academic and pedagogical books including Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, difference, homosexuality, topography, Liverpool University Press, 2000, The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing, Allen and Unwin, 2005 and most recently The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: intermedia, voice, technology, cross-cultural exchange, Routledge, 2016. With Roger Dean she co-authored Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945, Routledge, 1997 and co-edited Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh University Press, 2009. She is a co-editor of the creative arts journal of online sound, text and image, soundRite, based at Western Sydney University. Hazel previously pursued a career as a professional violinist. Her website is at http://www.australysis.com/

 

Works by this author:

Work title Publication Type Year
Heimlich Unheimlich Published on the Web (online gallery) 2020
The Lips Are Different Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2020
The Character Thinks Ahead Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2017
Novelling Installation, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2016
text, sound, electronics, live coding Performance, Presented at conference or festival 2015
Motions Performance, Published on the Web (individual site) 2013
Film of Sound Exhibited at gallery or event 2012
Clay Conversations Non-linguistic digital art, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2010
Instabilities 2 Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2009
Time the Magician Performance, Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2005
The Egg The Cart The Horse The Chicken Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online gallery) 2004
soundAFFECTs Performance, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2003
Wordstuffs: the City and the Body Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online gallery) 1998
Intertwingling Exhibited at gallery or event, Performance, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal)

Critical writing by this author:

Title Publication Type Publisher Year
Creative Collaboration, Racial Discrimination and Surveillance in “The Lips are Different" Article in an online journal The Digital Review 2020
The Character Thinks Ahead: Creative Writing With Deep Learning Nets and Its Stylistic Assessment Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal Leonardo 2018
The Computer as Improviser: Computational Text-Generation in Electronic Literature Article in a print journal Rabbit 2017
The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship:Intermedia, Voice, Technology, Cross-Cultural Exchange Book (monograph) - print Routledge 2016
Live Performance, Voicescapes, and Remixing the Under Language: Sounds and Voices at the End(s) of Electronic Literature Conference panel or roundtable 2015
Musico-literary miscegenations: relationships between words and sound in new media writing Conference paper or presentation 2014
The Griot and the Renku : Interactive Generative Media and Algorithmic Imagetext in the Work of D. Fox Harrell Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal Intellect Ltd. 2013
A Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and New Media Writing Article in an online journal Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 2012
A Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and New Media Writing Article in an online journal Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 2012
Sound Rites: Relationships Between Words and Sound in New Media Writing Conference paper or presentation 2012
Affect, Emotion and Sensation in New Media Writing: The Work of John Cayley, MD Coverlry and Jason Nelson in Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing Article or chapter in a book Cambridge Scholars Press 2009
Affect, Emotion and Sensation in New Media Writing: The Work of John Cayley, MD Coverlry and Jason Nelson in Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing Article or chapter in a book Cambridge Scholars Press 2009
SoundAFFECTs: transcoding, writing, new media, affect”, Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture,vol 4. no. 1 Article in an online journal Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture 2007
Posthuman collaboration: multimedia, improvisation and computer mediation Article in an online journal M/C Journal 2006
Cursors and Crystal Balls: digital technologies and the futures of writing Article in an online journal TEXT 2004
The Egg The Cart The Horse The Chicken: cyberwriting, sound, intermedia Article in an online journal Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning 2002
Spatial Relationships, Cosmopolitanism and Musico-Literary Miscegenation in the New Media Work of austraLYSIS Article in an online journal

Editorial work:

Title Year Publisher
Inflect 3 2006 Inflect

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