J.R. Carpenter

J.R. Carpenter
Born 1972 (age 43)
Canada
Other names Carpenter, J. R.
Occupation artist, writer, researcher, performer

J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian artist, writer, researcher, performer and maker of maps, zines, books, poems, fiction, non-fiction, non-linear hypermedia narratives, and computer-generated texts. She was born in Nova Scotia in 1972, and lived in Montreal from 1990 to 2009. She studied Life Drawing and Anatomy at the Art Students League of New York in 1988 and Fibres and Sculpture at Concordia University in Montreal 1990–1995. She served on the Board of Directors of OBORO, an artist-run gallery and new media lab in Montreal, from 2006 to 2011.[1]

She has written extensively about textile art[2] and internet history.[3] Her print essays, art reviews, poetry and short fiction have been broadcast on CBC Radio, translated into French, Italian, and Spanish, and published in numerous journals and anthologies across Canada, the US, the UK, Spain and Italy.

She has been writing electronic texts since 1993. She made her first web-based work for Netscape 1.1. in 1995. Since that time her pioneering works of Electronic literature have been published, performed, and presented in festivals, galleries and museums around the world, including: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Dare-Dare, OBORO and StudioXX in Montreal; Images Festival and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art[4] in Toronto; Arnolfini[5] in Bristol; Palazzo delle arti Napoli in Naples; Machfeld Studio in Vienna; The Web Biennial in Istanbul; Open Space, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; and Bibliothèque nationale de France and Le Cube in Paris. Her digital work is also included in The Rhizome ArtBase,[6] the Electronic Literature Collection Volumes One and Volume Two,[7] and the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature.[8]

She was named a Montreal Mirror Noisemaker in 2009. She is a winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Carte Blanche Award (2008),[9] the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition (now known as the Quebec Writing Competition) (2003 and 2005),[10] and the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book for her first novel, Words the Dog Knows (2008).[11] Her web-based work CityFish[12] was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize[13] in 2012. A retrospective of her web-based work was presented at Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints[14] an exhibition held in conjunction with the Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2012 in Morgantown, West Virginia.[15]

She now lives in South Devon, England. She serves as faculty for Performance Writing and Electronic literature on the In (ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge program at The Banff Centre. She is a PhD researcher at Falmouth University in association with University of the Arts London.[16]

Selected Works

Books

Words the Dog Knows (Montreal: Conundrum 2008)
GENERATION(S) (Vienna: TRAUMAWIEN 2010)

Web-Based Works

Fishes & Flying Things (1995)
Mythologies of Landforms and Little Girls (1996)
(a grammar of signs has replaced a botany of symptoms) (1998)
How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome (2005)
The Cape (2005)
Entre Ville (2006)
in absentia (2008)
CityFish (2010)
Along the Briny Beach (2011)
TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE] (2011)
Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl (2012)
There he was, gone. (2012)
...and by islands I mean paragraphs (2013)
Etheric Ocean (2014)

References

  1. ↑ "J. R. Carpenter Biography - Electronic Literature as a Model for Creativity and Innovation in Practice ELMCIP". ELMCIP. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Art Textiles of the World: Canada". Telos. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "xxxboîte". StudioXX. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art". Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Performance Writing: J R Carpenter". Arnolfini. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "J. R. Carpenter's profile on The Rhizome ArtBase". Rhizome. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Electronic Literature Collections". Electronic Literature Organization. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  8. ↑ "ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature". ELMCIP. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "Past QWF Awards Winners". Quebec Writers' Federation. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "About the Quebec Writing Competition". CBC Montreal. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  11. ↑ "Le Gala Des Prix Expozine De L’Édition Alternative 2008". Expozine. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  12. ↑ "CityFish". J. R. Carpenter. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "New Media Writing Prize Shortlist 2012". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Electrifying Literature". Electronic Literature Organization. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  15. ↑ "J.R. Carpenter". dtc-wsuv.org. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  16. ↑ "J. R. Carpenter Biography - The Banff Centre". banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

External links

See also

Internet art
Electronic literature
Performance Writing