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by Dylan Kinnett: a writer, performer, web developer, and museum professional who makes chapbooks, performances, photos, and videos. The creative work blends literary practice with new media, hypertext, and theater. Recent publications include chapbooks: Portraits and Landscapes , and Litanies and Reiterations ; with short plays anthologized in American Theatre in the Twenty-First Century .
Publications
Two Short Plays
anthologized in American Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: a farcical, dark comedy about astronauts, Party Planet; and The Piece of Real Estate at the Top of the Tallest Building on Earth, a mouthful of a title set in a too-fast near-future.
Augury
published in The Art of Everyone. 2020. Video with spoken word, with sound design by Curt Seiss.
Portraits and Landscapes
self-published. 2019. Chapbook of poems that consider people and places. The works about people are written with shorter lines, stacked together. illustrations by Volodymyr Bilyk.
Litanies and Reiterations
self-published. 2015. Chapbook of short, formally experimental works that address themes of iteration, reiteration, futility, and frustration.
Strange Punctuation
Magnanimous Records. 2009. sound design by Curt Seiss; also featuring Dani Seiss, Ian Patterson, and Lars Wigren; album art by Kevin Dooley.
Performances
If You See Something, Say Something
featured in Bromo Arts Walk, 12 Sept. 2024, Le Mondo, Baltimore. Spoken word performance with suitcase and ambient music.
Microfictions and Movie Previews
performances at Thunder BRidge in Lexington, VA; and in Baltimore, MD at Current and Normals. Summer, 2024. Short prose pieces and parodies of movie preview announcements, to celebrate the release of the book by Joseph Young entitled "The Thing I Was Trying to Tell You." With Joseph Young and Jennifer DuMars.
Day One At The Airport Motel
featured in Crosscurrence: Labor, Lapse and Error, 9 Sept. 2023, Current Space, Baltimore. Spoken word performance with found footage video and music by Ryan Snyder.
Telephone Piece
Spoken word performance art featuring an overhead projector and an array of analogue telephones. Various venues.
Posts
R.I.P. Kindle Vella 2021-2025
Kindle Vella , a platform for serialized storytelling, is winding down its service this month, after only a few years of existence. Despite its promise to revolutionize the reading experience with bite-sized episodes unlocked via tokens, Vella has failed. Why?
Embracing Discord: A Digital Haven for Literary Gatherings
Discord has evolved into a versatile communication platform, offering a unique avenue for hosting online literary events. Discord has the potential to become a conduit for enriching literary experiences.
I'm a YouTube Beginner
Starting a YouTube channel has been an exciting and challenging journey for me. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the experience so far.
Multiverse Writing
Language models like GPT-3 have advanced to a level where they can work together with humans to write content. In a recent article, two authors suggest creating interfaces that allow humans to collaborate with AI to generate and understand nonlinear stories.