J. R. Carpenter

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United Kingdom
GB
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Canada
CA
United Kingdom
GB
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1972
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J. R. Carpenter
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J. R. Carpenter is a British-Canadian artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. She was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1972. She lived in Montreal, Canada, from 1990 - 2009. She now lives and works in England.

Carpenter has been using the Internet as a medium for the creation and dissemination of experimental texts since 1993. Her work has been presented at museums, galleries, conferences, and festivals around the world and is included in The Rhizome ArtBase, the Electronic Literature Collection Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four, and the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature.

Her web-based work, The Gathering Cloud (2016) won the New Media Writing Prize, and was was short-listed for the Robert Coover Prize for a Work of Electronic Literature. A book by the same name was published by Uniformbooks in 2017. Her web-app This is a Picture of Wind (2018) won the Dot Award for Digital Literature and the Opening Up Digital Fiction People's Choice Award, and was shortlisted for for the Robert Coover Prize for a Work of Electronic Literature and New Media Writing Prize. A book by the same name published by Longbarrow Press in 2020 was listed in The Guardian's Best Poetry Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021.

Her essays, art reviews, poetry and short fiction have been broadcast on CBC Radio, translated into French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and published in numerous journals and anthologies. She is a winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition (2003 & 2005), the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Award (2008), and the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book for her first novel, Words the Dog Knows (2008). Her debut poetry collection An Ocean of Static was Highly Commended for the Forward Prizes (2018).

Carpenter has been awarded research and creation grants in literature and new media from the Conseil des Arts de Montreal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec and Canada Council for the Arts. She is a fellow of Yaddo, Ucross, Caldera, Struts, The Banff Centre, and The Vermont Studio Center. She was Writer-in-Residence in the Performance Writing area at Dartington College of Art (UK) in 2009. She served as President of the Board of Directors of OBORO, an artist-run gallery and new media lab in Montreal, from 2006-2011. She served on the faculty for In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge at The Banff Centre 2011-2014. She served on the Scientific Committee of Labex Arts-H2H at University of Paris 8, Paris, France 2016-2018.

In 2015 she completed a PhD in Performance Writing, Digital Literature, and Media Archaeology at the University of the Arts London (UK) and was awarded a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for North American Studies at the British Library. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute at NUI Galway in 2019. She was Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta 2020-2021, and Writer in Residence for the Street Life Project, University of York (UK) 2022. She is currently a Research Fellow at Winchester School of Art, working on Weather Reports -- Wind as Model, Media, and Experience.

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Works by this author:

Work title Publication Type Year
A Storm in 2K Published on the Web (online journal) 2020
The Pleasure of the Coast: A Hydro-graphic Novel Published on the Web (individual site) 2019
An Ocean of Static Presented at conference or festival, Print publication 2018
This is a Picture of Wind Twitter Bot Published on the Web (social network) 2018
This is a Picture of Wind: A Weather Poem for Phones Published on the Web (online gallery) 2018
The Gathering Cloud (book) Print publication 2017
The Gathering Cloud Exhibited at gallery or event, Performance, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online gallery) 2016
Notes Very Necessary Published on the Web (online journal) 2015
Once Upon a Tide Published on the Web (online journal) 2015
Walks from City Bus Routes Published on the Web (online journal) 2015
Eight Short Talks About Islands ...and by islands I mean paragraphs Performance, Presented at conference or festival, Print publication 2014
Etheric Ocean Performance, Published on the Web (online gallery) 2014
this sea is nothing in sight but isles Published on the Web (online journal) 2014
## READ WRITE GARDEN ## Print publication 2013
...and by islands I mean paragraphs Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online gallery) 2013
TRANS.MISSION [UN.DIALOGUE] Published on the Web (online journal) 2013
Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl Exhibited at gallery or event, Performance, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online gallery) 2012
The Broadside of a Yarn Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site) 2012
There he was, gone. Performance, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2012
Along the Briny Beach Exhibited at gallery or event, Performance, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2011

Critical writing by this author:

Title Publication Type Publisher Year
Nested Folders: On Birds in Digital Poetry Article in a print journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2022
Grappling With the Actual: Writing on the Periphery of the Real Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2020
Mapping Place / Troubling Space Article in an online journal The Digital Review 2020
In the Event of a Variable Text Article in an online journal Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 2017
Things Rarely Turn Out the Way I Intend Them To Article in an online journal, Keynote address The Writing Platform 2017
A Topographical Approach to Re-Reading Books about Islands in Digital Literary Spaces Article in an online journal, Conference paper or presentation MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 2016
Radio Silence Article in a print journal Hack Circus 2016
A Handmade Web Article on the author's website, Conference paper or presentation 2015
Becoming Digital Article or chapter in a book, Interview The Banff Centre 2015
Once Upon a Tide: An Introductory Essay Article in an online journal The Junket 2015
re: génération Invited lecture Laboratorie NT2 2015
Walks from City Bus Routes: A Circuitous Route Article in an online journal The Writing Platform 2015
Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks Book (Ph.D. dissertation) - online 2015
A Topographical Approach to Re-Reading Print Books About Islands in Digital Literary Spaces Conference paper or presentation 2014
Call and response: Towards a digital dramaturgy Article in a print journal Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 2014
Elvia Wilk in Conversation with J. R. Carpenter Interview Lemon Hound 2014
From the Digital to the Bookbound Review The Literary Platform 2014
J.R. Carpenter: Object-Oriented Interview by Andrea Zeffiro Interview Media Archaeology Lab 2014
Translation, transmutation, transmediation and transmission in TRANSMIISSION [A DIALOGUE] Article in an online journal, Conference paper or presentation Laboratorie NT2 2014
Whisper Wire: Code as a Medium for Sending and Receiving Un-Homed Messages Through Haunted Media Conference paper or presentation 2014
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