20.274 online chats with Manuel Portela & Jason Nelson

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   [1] From: "Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu> (50)
         Subject: live chat with Manuel Portela 10/23

   [2] From: "Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu> (25)
         Subject: live chat with Jason Nelson 10/24

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         Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:57:31 +0100
         From: "Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu>
         Subject: live chat with Manuel Portela 10/23

_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_

:: Live chat with poet and critic Manuel Portela,
discussing concrete and digital poetics, and other topics.
:: Chat date: Monday, October 23.
:: 1 pm West Coast US / 4 pm East Coast USA / 10
pm Paris FR / 6 am Melbourne AU
:: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media
Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac=
  <http://leoalmanac.org/>

Chat instructions are here:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp.
PLEASE NOTE: The instructions are intended to
apply to all jabber chat clients, but there may
be some variation for individual clients. For
example, some clients may require the chat room
server "conference.jabber.org" and others clients
only "jabber.org." Also, please refer to the link
for a complete schedule of upcoming chats and for
instructions on joining chats.

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Manuel Portela Biography
Manuel Portela has written books of visual and
sound poetry, as well as a number of satirical
poems. His early poems have been collected in
Cras! Bang! Boom! Clang (1991) and Pixel Pixel
(1992). He organized an international exhibition
of visual and concrete poetry in 1993 - Wor(l)d
Poem/ Poema Mu(n)do, which was held at the Museum
of Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He has also
exhibited his own visual poetry and he has
created several digital poems. Since 1994 he has
published 10 volumes of translation, including
the first Portuguese editions of William Blake's
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1994) and
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy (2 vols, 1997-98). He was awarded
the National Prize of Literary Translation for
Tristram Shandy. Many other translations have
appeared in Portuguese and Brazilian journals and
anthologies, including poems by Samuel Beckett,
Edwin Morgan, Tony Harrison, John Havelda,
Charles Bernstein, Mike Basinski, Bill Howe, Ron
Silliman, Bob Perelman, Dennis Cooley, Robert
Kroetsch, Roy Miki, Don Paterson. He has written
short plays both for radio and stage. His latest
book is O Comércio da Literatura [The Commerce of
Literature] (2003), a study of representations of
the literary marketplace in eighteenth-century
England. Currently he works as an Assistant
Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
His latest research is concerned with textual forms in digital media.

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         Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:58:04 +0100
         From: "Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu>
         Subject: live chat with Jason Nelson 10/24

_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_

:: Live chat with digital artist and cyberpoet Jason Nelson, discussing
fictobiography, responsive poetry, and other topics.
:: Chat date: Tuesday, October 24.
:: 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am
Melbourne AU
:: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of
Leonardo Electronic Almanac <http://leoalmanac.org/>

Chat instructions are here:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp.
PLEASE NOTE: The instructions are intended to apply to all jabber chat
clients, but there may be some variation for individual clients. For
example, some clients may require the chat room server
"conference.jabber.org" and others clients only "jabber.org." Also,
please refer to the link for a complete schedule of upcoming chats and
for instructions on joining chats.

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Artist Biography

With work recently appearing in Singapore at the Asian Civilizations
Museum, St. Petersburg Florida, UCLA, Hermeneia from Barcelona, Spain,
Vancouver Washington, around Australia, and other worldly parts, Jason
Nelson is always charmed by how rarely he travels beyond the distance
provided by a tank of gas. Being a Digital Writing Lecturer at Griffith
University in the Gold Coast of Australia, he deeply misses the snows of
the Oklahoma plains, so miss the snows. Come explore his creatures at:
http://secrettechnology.com or http://heliozoa.com
Received on Tue Oct 24 2006 - 02:32:38 EDT