Talan Memmott

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United States
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1964
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Talan Memmott is a hypermedia writer/artist, his hypermedia work is generally Web-based and freely accessible on the Internet. Memmott has taught digital art, electronic writing, and new media studies in the Digital Culture and Communication Program at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, the Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department at California State University Monterey Bay; the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Colorado Boulder, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently a researcher at University of Bergen. Memmott holds an MFA in Literary Arts/Electronic Writing from Brown University and a PhD in Interaction Design from Malmö University. Memmott was a co-editor for the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 (ELO), and the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature.

Works by this author:

Work title Publication Type Year
Delivery Machine 01 Published on the Web (individual site) 1998
Bread.Crumbs Published on the Web (online journal) 1998
Reasoned Metagoria Published on the Web (online journal) 1999
A Machicolated Body Published on the Web (online journal) 1999
Lexia to Perplexia 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) 2000
E_cephalopedia // novellex Published on the Web (online journal) 2001
Delimited Meshings: a White Paper Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (online journal) 2001
Translucidity Exhibited at gallery or event 2001
Lux: Bronzino 1540 Published on the Web (online gallery) 2002
Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)] Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (online journal) 2003
The Hugo Ball Published on the Web (online journal) 2006
my Molly (departed) Application, Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival 2007
(S)PACING Exhibited at gallery or event 2009
Ingenstans Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2009
Land/Wave Series Non-linguistic digital art, Presented at conference or festival 2010
Disposable Language Performance 2011
[JJ.BS]GENERATIVE RE:EDIT/ATOR Published on the Web (individual site) 2011
Toy Garbage Published on the Web (individual site) 2011
NONCE.EXECUTOR (disposable language) Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2011
Intermission Presented at conference or festival 2011

Critical writing by this author:

Title Publication Type Publisher Year
Congress of Fakery Conference panel or roundtable 2018
Dank Memes and Tactical Media Conference panel or roundtable 2018
Pedestrionics: Meme Culture, Alienation Capital, and Gestic Play Conference paper or presentation 2014
ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature (Report) Article or chapter in a book 2013
The Exquisite Corpus: Issues in Electronic Literature Video essay / documentary ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice 2013
Alternative Avenues in Digital Poetics and Post-Literary Studies Conference panel or roundtable UnderAcademy College 2012
Presentation of ELMCIP European Anthology of Electronic Literature Conference paper or presentation 2012
Presentation of the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature (Rap version) Conference paper or presentation 2012
Taroko Gorge Remixed: Repetition and Difference in Machine Texts Conference panel or roundtable 2012
Touching Words Video essay / documentary ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice 2012
An Interview with Talan Memmott Interview Cordite Poetry Review 2011
Codework: Phenomenology of an Anti-Genre Article in a print journal Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 2011
Creative Communities: Nooks, Niches, and Networks Conference paper or presentation 2011
Digital Rhetoric and Poetics: Signifying Strategies in Electronic Literature Book (Ph.D. dissertation) - online 2011
Interrogating Electronic Literature Video essay / documentary ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice 2011
In[ter]venting Multi-Modal Rhetoric(s)/(a) Poetics of Emergence Conference paper or presentation HUMlab 2008
Practical Play: Research and Invention Conference paper or presentation 2008
Process-Intensive Literature Conference panel or roundtable 2007
RE: Authoring Magritte: The Brotherhood of the Bent Billiard Article or chapter in a book The MIT Press 2007
Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading Article or chapter in a book The MIT Press 2006

Events arranged:

Event City Date Event type Link to edit content
Cabaret Voltage Karlskrona 16.06.2011 Reading
Cabaret Voltage Karlskrona 16.06.2011 Performance
ELMCIP Electronic Literature and Pedagogy Workshop Karlskrona 14.06.2011 Workshop

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