[CS] Fwd: Fwd: Kenneth Goldsmith talk - March 11

Paula Harmon pharmon at hampshire.edu
Thu Jan 30 13:25:14 EST 2014


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Subject: 	Kenneth Goldsmith talk - March 11
Date: 	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:20:55 -0500
From: 	Sara Rafferty <sgrHA at hampshire.edu>


Hi all
Happy new year!   Mark your calendar -- this should be a great talk!
Sara


Poet Kenneth Goldsmith
Tuesday, March 11, 6:30 pm
East Lecture Hall
Hampshire College
in association with the Adventures in Reproduction studio arts class
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KG UW

Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called some of the most exhaustive 
and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry by Publishers Weekly 
<http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/pw.html%22>. Goldsmith is the 
author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive 
UbuWeb <http://ubu.com>, and the editor I'll Be Your Mirror: The 
Selected Andy Warhol Interviews 
<http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Your-Mirror-Interviews/dp/078671364X/ref%3Dsr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195050444&sr=8-1>, 
which is the basis for an opera, "Trans-Warhol," premiered in Geneva in 
March of 2007. An hour-long documentary on his work, Sucking on Words 
<http://ubu.com/film/goldsmith_sucking.html> premiered at the British 
Library in 2007. From 1996-2009,  Goldsmith was the host of a weekly 
radio show on New York City's WFMU <http://wfmu.org>. He is a senior 
editor of PennSound <http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/>, the 
online poetry archive here at Penn.  He held the The Anschutz 
Distinguished Fellow Professorship in American Studies 
<http://www.princeton.edu/ams/anschutz/> at Princeton University for 
2009-10 and received the Qwartz Electronic Music Award in Paris in 2009. 
In 2011, he co-edited, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual 
Writing 
<http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/Title/tabid/68/ISBN/0-8101-2711-3/Default.aspx> 
(Northwestern University Press) and published a book essays, Uncreative 
Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age 
<http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14990-7/uncreative-writing> 
(Columbia University Press). In May 2011, he was invited to read at The 
White House for President and Mrs. Obama's "A Celebration of American 
Poetry." Goldsmith participated in dOCUMENTA(13) 
<http://d13.documenta.de/#participants/participants/kenneth-goldsmith/> 
in Kassel, Germany, 2012. In 2011, dOCUMENTA(13) published his book 
Letter To Bettina Funcke 
<http://www.artbook.com/blog-excerpt-documenta-goldsmith.html> as part 
of their 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts 
<http://www.hatjecantz.de/documenta13/en/notebooks/index.html>. In 2013, 
he was appointed theMuseum of Modern Art 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art>'s first Poet Laureate.

More about Goldsmith can be found at:

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith


Some media:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428010/july-23-2013/kenneth-goldsmith
http://www.studio360.org/story/310817-aha-moment-kenneth-goldsmith-john-cage/

-- 
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Assistant Professor of Art
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
893 West Street
HU
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA  01002
Phone:  413-559-6877
Fax:  413-559-5481
Email:sgrHA at hampshire.edu




-- 
Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413.559.5502
fax: 413.559.5438
http://cs.hampshire.edu


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