..and after the EUA event, you might want to hit this up

Honors ART FEST, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 7pm in Anne Arundel Lounge, featuring a reading of Christopher Louge’s All Day Permanent Red, a radical re-writing of The Iliad. After that there’s our famous OPEN MIC. ALL ARTISTS WELCOME, BRING FRIENDS, WE’LL HAVE BROWNIES AND HOT CHOCOLATE.

If you come to the EUA event beforehand, you can come to ART FEST as my date…what more could you want?

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and some shameless self (if myself has been subsumed by the EUA) promoting

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on art

Two great pieces from NPR on the nature of art.

Sports, the Rodney Dangerfield of Academia? (Full disclosure: I’m pretty skeptical about this. Prove me wrong).

and on art in a global context…

When ‘Lust’ Meets Caution, Is It Still Art?

Ang Lee’s struggle in China as a Taiwanese filmmaker making a Chinese language film about China. So is the version released here more authentic because it is not censored? Or does the Chinese audience endow the film with its authenticity. What makes art authentic anyway?

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literature in collaboration…with itself?

I heard this interview with Mark Z. Danielewski on the Kojo Nnamdi show today. Disclaimer: I have not read any of Mr. Danielewski’s work. But, this intrigued me. I’ve been thinking a lot about literature in collaboration, particularly in light on recent discussions in ARHU about the ways in which our various disciplines do and should inform each other. This seems to sort of be a kind of individual collaborative literature in that the writer is at the helm of the visual experience of the book. Have you read either Only Revolutions or House of Leaves? What do you think? Do they work as novels? As works of visual arts?

P.S. If any of you tech folk know how to upload the real player audio files directly to the blog, please let me know!

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…if you want to be a writer…

…check this out. Ouch.

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