Golden Boat Poetry Translation Workshop

The 11th annual Golden Boat Poetry Translation Workshop saw poets from several countries (Finland, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia, England) meeting in the beautiful karst region of Slovenia. After a week of mutual translation work, a reading was held at Trubar Literature House in Ljubljana.

Abîme

This filmpoem is a response to the environs of Škocjan, Slovenia. It was read in a pitch black cemetery after midnight, by the light of my phone.

Radio Before and After Radio Waves

Paper given at ISSTC 2013, the annual convocation of the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design, Ireland.

Radio was born in a brilliant burst of activity by amateur technicians, radiophonic artists, and Utopian thinkers (Khlebnikov, Weil, Marinetti, Arnheim), before being colonised as valuable property by private companies or as sovereign territory by state authorities. But where has radio gone in today’s digital world? This paper provides a particular definition of radio as both spectral and ubiquitous, allowing us to plot a through line from past to future forms.