Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about the state-of-the-art, when it comes to digitally archiving artworks and poetry on the internet, here’s a treat for you. “Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online” is a critically-oriented (lengthy) discussion of digital media and the future of archiving, featuring alternating models for poetry and visual media currently operating online.

Project Website (with 92 min. multimedia recording): https://slought.org/content/11144/

It features Craig Dworkin, Kenny Goldsmith, Brian Kim Stefans, Darren Wershler-Henry. This discussion is part of the Conversations in Theory Series at the Slought Foundation

Craig Dworkin edits Eclipse and is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern U.P.), a critical investigation of the politics of misuse. Recent articles have appeared in October, Sagetrieb, and American Letters & Commentary. Signature-Effects, a book of visual poetry, is available from Small Press Distribution, and PARSE is forthcoming from Atelos Press. Currently editing the selected poems of Vito Acconci and working on a book tentatively entitled Misreading: A User’s Manual, he teaches 20th and 21st century avant-gardes in the Department of English at Princeton University.

Kenneth Goldsmith is a poet living in New York City. He is a music critic for New York Press and a DJ on WFMU. He is founding curator of https://www.ubu.com/

Brian Kim Stefans runs the media mini-empire https://www.arras.net , which includes arras.net, Free Space Comix: The Blog (www.arras.net/weblog ) and Circulars (www.arrras.net/circulars ), a multi-author anti-war blog maintained by poets. He is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos, 2000). He edits the /ubu series of poetry ebooks on ubu.com (www.ubu.com/ubu ), and his forthcoming book of essays, Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, will be published by Atelos in the April 2003. He is a prolific critic and writes for the Boston Review among other publications. New work, including an interview, will soon be appearing on the Iowa Review web .

Darren Wershler-Henry, the former senior editor at Coach House Books, https://www.chbooks.com , is a writer, critic, and the author of two books of poetry, NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs, and the tapeworm foundry, shortlisted for the Trillium Prize. Darren is also the author/co-author of five books about technology and culture, including FREE as in speech and beer and Commonspace: Beyond Virtual Community. Darren teaches in the school of Communications Studies at York University.