Abra joined forces with the VNiverse and Pry for a panel on the haptics of touchscreen reading at the inaugural Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Conference. Our panel was simultaneous with amazing panels on “Writing: The Poetics of Trash” and “Ecoskeletons of Language, Sound, and Impossibility,” so if we could have split the hive mind and attended all three, we… Read more →
Thanks to Kathi Inman Berens for documenting ABRA at ELO 2014 Milwaukee, where the book was displayed as part of the Hold The Light exhibition. Here, she discusses the material and conceptual features of the project with Amaranth. Co-organizers Kathi Inman-Berens and Stuart Moulthrop provide a wonderful conference overview here: Read more →
Ian and Amaranth traveled to Milwaukee in June to attend the Electronic Literature Organization conference, Hold the Light, where Abra was included in the Media Arts Show curated by Kathi Inman Berens. It was a pleasure to show both the prototype book created by Amy Rabas and the app Ian has been crafting these past few months, as well as… Read more →
The Expanded Artist’s Book edition is underway, with production on the physical book scheduled to begin in mid-January. Visitors to the 2014 Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago will have the opportunity to play with an alpha version of the app at the Electronic Literature Pathfinders exhibition, curated by Drs. Dene Griegar and Stuart Moulthrop. The exhibition will be held… Read more →
