J. R. Carpenter

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Residency: 
United Kingdom
GB
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Canada
CA
United Kingdom
GB
Born: 
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.

Source: http://luckysoap.com/bio.html

Works by this author:

Work title Publication Type Year
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
Mythologies of Landforms and Little Girls Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 1996
les huit quartiers du sommeil Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2007
in absentia Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Print publication, Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal), Other venue 2008
I've Died and Gone to Devon Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2010
How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome Exhibited at gallery or event, Installation, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2005
Gorge Performance, Print publication, Published on the Web (individual site), Other venue 2010
GENERATION[S] Print publication 2010
Fishes and Flying Things Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 1995
Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Print publication, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2009
Etheric Ocean Performance, Published on the Web (online gallery) 2014
Entre Ville Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal), Other venue 2006
Eight Short Talks About Islands ...and by islands I mean paragraphs Performance, Presented at conference or festival, Print publication 2014
CityFish Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2010
An Ocean of Static Presented at conference or festival, Print publication 2018
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
A Storm in 2K Published on the Web (online journal) 2020
...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
(a grammar of signs has replaced a botany of symptoms) Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online gallery) 1998
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Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort ascending Publication Type Publisher Year
Notes on the Voyage: From Mainframe Experimentalism to Electronic Literature Invited lecture 2013
Nested Folders: On Birds in Digital Poetry Article in a print journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2022
Mapping Place / Troubling Space Article in an online journal The Digital Review 2020
Mapping a Web of Words Invited lecture 2008
Kac, Cayley, and Kargl on Translation Article in an online journal Jacket2 2011
J.R. Carpenter: Object-Oriented Interview by Andrea Zeffiro Interview Media Archaeology Lab 2014
In the Event of a Variable Text Article in an online journal Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 2017
Grappling With the Actual: Writing on the Periphery of the Real Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2020
Getting in on the Ground Floor: A Hazy History of How and Why We Banded Together Article or chapter in a book Studio XX 2007
Generating Books: Paradoxical Print Snapshots of Digital Literary Processes Conference paper or presentation 2011
From the Digital to the Bookbound Review The Literary Platform 2014
Entre Ville: this city between us redux Article in an online journal Media: Culture : Pedagogy 2011
Entre Ville: This City Between Us Article in an online journal Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 2009
Elvia Wilk in Conversation with J. R. Carpenter Interview Lemon Hound 2014
Conversations with Poets about Technology (CAPTA) Video Interview with J. R. Carpenter Interview 2012
CONT3XT.NET is Everything Article in an online journal Jacket2 2011
Collecting digital literature in Europe Article in an online journal Jacket2 2011
CityFish Article or chapter in a book 2011
Call and response: Towards a digital dramaturgy Article in a print journal Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 2014
Becoming Digital Article or chapter in a book, Interview The Banff Centre 2015
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