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……….Exquisite_Code…………February 15 - 19th & 20th 2010……..10-6pm daily……..E:vent Gallery, 96 Teesdale St. London. E2………………8 Writers pitched 8 hours a day for 5 days against despotic edit-code…………Yield: one book……………Print. Launch. Read. Evaluate……
Forget insulation from the cold nagging existential doubt or refuge in stories comforting the General Intellect; a dark Forest of Things is foregrounded in exquisite_code, a radical constructivist experiment that hothouses a collaborative writing production.
Eight international writers will work eight hours a day for five days generating text-prompts, text and edit-software in unrelenting micro-sessions to create a cadaverous exquisite_code life-novel . Text will be produced in response to prompts conspired by the writers at the end of each session. But only after bespoke edit-software has wormed its way through it, cutting, chewing and spitting gobbets of the text into a dump from which the life-novel will be elaborated. This edit-worm is itself interrogated and re-written in scheduled code writing sprints by the writers. At all times all participants are available for public scrutiny and interaction, and all writing will be on live display whilst continuously extruded as hardcopy from line printers.
The event will culminate in a Saturday night exquisite_code Launch Party (7.30 -11.30pm) on 20th February at E:vent Gallery. with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements made from the week's accumulated materials. Publication of all code, prompts and final text will be by way of print-on-demand publication in collaboration with Mute.
Leif Elggren [SWE] writer/artist/performer http://www.leifelggren.org; Mara Goldwyn [US] writer/performer http://maragoldwyn.wordpress.com/writing/; Dave Griffiths [UK/FI] artist/coder/performer http://www.pawfal.org/dave/; Brendan Howell [US/DE] writer/coder/artist http://wintermute.org/brendan/; Jonathan Kemp [UK] writer/artist http://xxn.org.uk; Laura Oldfield Ford [UK] writer/artist http://www.savagemessiahzine.com/; Eleanora Oreggia [IT/NL] writer/coder/artist/performer http://xname.cc/; Sabrina Small [US] writer/artist http://www.foodandfootage.com; with additional performances from Martin Howse [UK/DE] http://www.1010.co.uk/org; Preslav Literary School [UK/DE] http://www.preslavliteraryschool.co.uk; and Ryan Jordan [UK] http://ryanjordan.org/
This is an exquisite_code production in collaboration with E:vent Gallery, London, Openmute.org, and supported by Arts Council England
http://exquisite-code.com http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk
E:vent Gallery is near Bethnal Green Tube Station. Buses 106, 254, 253, 48 and 55 pass close by. see map
Press Contact:
Jonathan Kemp
+44(0)2088060226
j@xxn.org.uk
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Forget insulation from the cold nagging existential doubt or refuge in stories comforting the General Intellect; a dark forest of things is foregrounded in exquisite_code, a radical constructivist experiment that hothouses a collaborative writing production. Nine international writers, including serial art drifter Laura Oldfield Ford and Leif Elggren, the King of Elgaland-Vargaland, will work eight hours a day for five days generating text-prompts, text and edit-software in unrelenting micro-sessions. At the end of each session the bespoke and reconfigurable edit-software will worm through the chunks, selecting and adding to the text repository to elaborate the exquisite_code life novel. This edit-software is interrogated and re-written in scheduled code writing sprints by the writers, and all output will be on live display as hardcopy continuously spits from line printer. The event will culminate in a final night launch on Saturday 20th February at E:vent, with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements made by participants from the weeks accumulated materials. Publication of all code, prompts and final text will by way of print-on-demand publication in collaboration with Mute. This is an exquisite_code production in collaboration with E:vent Gallery, London, Openmute.org, and supported by Arts Council England.
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Forget insulation from the cold nagging existential doubt or refuge in stories comforting the General Intellect; a dark forest of things is foregrounded in exquisite_code, a radical constructivist experiment that hothouses a collaborative writing production. Nine international writers, including serial art drifter Laura Oldfield Ford and Leif Elggren, the King of Elgaland-Vargaland, will work eight hours a day for five days generating a cadaverous text in unrelenting micro-sessions. Text will be produced in response to writers prompts made at the end of each session and after the bespoke edit-software has wormed its way through the chunks, cutting, chewing and spitting out its selections into a text dump from which the exquisite_code life-novel will be elaborated. This edit-worm is itself interrogated and re-written in scheduled code writing sprints by the writers, and all their labours will be on live display and extruded as hardcopy from line printers. The event will culminate in a final night launch on Saturday 20th February at E:vent, with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements made by participants from the week's accumulated materials. Publication of all code, prompts and final text will by way of print-on-demand publication in collaboration with Mute. This is an exquisite_code production in collaboration with E:vent Gallery, London, Openmute.org, and supported by Arts Council England.
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