[x] Sunday July 8 at x: David Jhave Johnston

[Jim Andrews]

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DAVID JHAVE JOHNSTON, SUNDAY JULY 8
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Jhave Johnston is one of the leading lights of digital poetry. I'm happy to 
be able to introduce some of you to his work. I published some of his work 
at http://vispo.com/jhave and you can see more of his work on his site at 
http://glia.ca . Jhave has been a digital poet for a long time. Even before 
he did a degree at Concordia in Computer Science. He then did a Masters at 
SFU and SIAT. He recently finished his doctorate in Montreal at Concordia 
studying with Jason Lewis. He has focussed mainly on net art. He knows Flash 
and ActionScript inside and out.

Alain Lioret from Paris may possibly join us at 10 pm via Skype. He teaches 
generative art at the U of Paris 8.

JHAVE JOHNSTON BIO:

Jhave is a Montreal-based digital-poet.
Focus: Language-based online digital art. Combinatorial poetics, multimedia 
poetry. Currently, developing works that feature typographic experiments 
built through a synthesis of Flash, Mudbox, Vegas, Ableton, After Effects 
and Mr. Softie.
Exhibition history: Agence Topo, Chambre Blanche, Champ Li bre , ELO, FILE, 
FOFA, Incident, Oboro, Turbulence among others. His work has been exhibited 
at 4 new media Biennales: Montreal '03, '09, '11 & Toronto '04. For more 
details see CV ( http://glia.ca/resume/David_Jhave_Johnston_CV.pdf )
Education: an undergrad degree in Computer Science; a Masters of Science in 
interactive art; & a PhD from Concordia University where he works as a 
research affiliate with OBX, TML & NT 2 .
Philosophy: Jhave uses algorithms as aesthetic tools; and believes that 
moist matter is quasisentient. His work is an attempt to harmoniously 
reconcile computation, emotion, concepts, and the ancient idea of artist as 
conduit. Since 1999, he has published language-art online (instead of on 
paper) at www.glia.ca . In the spring of 2011 he is releasing a usb-key 
version of a decade of this web-work.

GROUP OF X TALK:

I will show and discuss the making-of a set of recent works including MUPs 
(a mashup sound poetry gui), a short video-poem "Reading the Wind" made for 
the 2012 ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) conference, and an 
experiment built during last couple weeks. Talk will probably focus on the 
opportunities available and perils integral for literature as digital tools 
evolve.

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LOCATION
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The talk is at my place, which is at 811 Helmcken St. in the 'Imperial
Tower' (!). Buzz 247. I am in #1502 on the 15th floor. I'm at 604 209 1728.

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UNDERGROUND PARKING
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If you're coming by car, there is underground parking. The entrance to the
underground parking is off Helmcken. You turn into an alley between Howe and
Hornby. You then see an underground entrance to your right. You take that
and then buzz me at 247. Park in the visitor's section, proceed to the
elevator area, and then buzz me again at 247 to get access to the elevator.

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OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
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Friday August 24: Steve DiPaola (unconfirmed)
September: Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art