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SUMMARY:Contemporary Avant-Garde Publishing Communities in the Digital Age
  - Dr. Sophie Seita\, English\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Tellef S. Raabe
DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, which is based on one chapter in my forthcomin
 g book Provisional Avant-Gardes (Stanford UP\, July 2019)\, I will discuss
  a number of contemporary avant-garde projects that were published online 
 but emerge from and remain in conversation with a long history of avant-ga
 rde communities of print. I argue that the imagined printedness in contemp
 orary post-digital publishing allows editors and practitioners to expand d
 efinitions of ‘poetry’\, the ‘book’\, and the ‘magazine’\, and
  thus to offer a publishing poetics of the now rather than the new. I sugg
 est that these ‘magazine-ish’ projects as I call them (projects that a
 re both like and unlike a print magazine) must also include digital audio 
 archives of poetry\, which resemble magazines in their production of seria
 l content and their construction of an editorial identity and avant-garde 
 community. I then explore the new connections between materiality\, techno
 logy\, genre\, and sociality in these magazine-ish projects and on social 
 media. Attuned to new digital modes of distribution and reception\, a netw
 orked and interactive sociality emerges that is defined by a (supposed) hy
 per-immediacy and visibility. My talk will end with a reflection on the pe
 rsistent question of hospitality for practitioners and scholars alike in s
 uch deceptively open and accessible publishing networks\, in which the mag
 azine becomes a vivarium and the page a metaphor.\n\nBIO\nSophie Seita is 
 an interdisciplinary artist and academic whose practice spans text- and ar
 chive-based work\, translation\, performance\, lecture-performances\, and 
 multimedia collaborations. She is the author of Provisional Avant-Gardes (
 Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, is a JRF at Queens’\, and is current
 ly working on two new projects\; a book on ‘literary live art’\, and a
  series of lyric essays\, tentatively called Lessons of Decal. Other criti
 cal writing includes articles on feminist hospitality in the Journal of Mo
 dern Literature and on contemporary digital publishing in the Chicago Revi
 ew. She is the translator of Uljana Wolf’s i mean i dislike that fate th
 at I was made to where (Wonder\, 2015) and Subsisters: Selected Poems (Bel
 ladonna*\, 2017)\, for which she received a PEN Award\, and the editor of 
 The Blind Man (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2017)\, named one of the Best Art Bo
 oks of 2017 by The New York Times. Her poetry\, translations\, interviews\
 , and performative texts have appeared in chapbooks\, anthologies\, and ma
 gazines\; most recently in the artist book My Little Enlightenment (Chicag
 o: Other Forms\, 2019). Recent and upcoming readings and performances have
  taken place at Taller Bloc (Santiago\, Chile)\, Kunsthalle (Darmstadt\, G
 ermany)\, the Royal Academy\, the Serpentine\, Bold Tendencies (all London
 )\, the Arnolfini (Bristol)\, La MaMa Galleria (NYC)\, and Cité Internati
 onale des Arts (Paris). Her first solo exhibition\, My Little Enlightenmen
 t Plays\, will be shown at SPACE (London) in 2019.
LOCATION:17 Mill Lane\, Room E (2nd floor)
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