Introducing Wow Wow Wow Receiver

“Wow Wow Wow Receiver” is an event-based and multi-media publishing project that will create and publish original poetry in real-time curated by Duncan White and 2010Lab.tv in collaboration with the web-based publishers Poesipedia.

 

The four day event will feature four authors from three continents around the world – Pam Brown (Sydney), Kenneth Goldsmith (New York), Lawrence Upton (London) and Peter Hauff (Frankfurt) with illustrations by Touka Neyestani who will collaborate digitally during the course of the Fair.

 

The collaborators:

 

Australian poet, Pam Brown, has published sixteen books and nine chapbooks, and an e-book called The meh of z  z  z  z.  Her most recent title, Authentic Local, was published by papertiger media’s Soi3 Modern Poets in 2010 and another title, Anyworld, is forthcoming from Flying Island, Macau. Pam is an associate editor of Jacket2, Polari and Rubric online journals.

 

Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called "some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry" by Publishers Weekly. Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the co-editor of a new collection of conceptual writing Against Expression. His most recent book of essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age was published this month in the UK by Columbia University Press.

 

After a long period as editor of a monthly economic magazine in northern Baden-Württemberg and as press officer for the Association of German Chambers of Commerce (DIHK) in Brussels, Peter Hauff restarted as a free-lance journalist in April 2010. Since September 2010, he has been charged with the coordination of monthly news for E + Z / D + C.

 

Touka Neyestani is a cartoonist living in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from the Science and Industry University in Architecture in 1988. He began his collaboration with the press in 1980, working with Ketab-e-Jomeh, a weekly edited by Ahmad Shamloo. He has collaborated with more than forty monthly, weekly, and daily newspapers.

 

Lawrence Upton is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist. critic and curator. His books include unframed pictures (UK 2011), Pictures, Cartoon Strips (USA 2010), a song and a film (UK 2009), Water lines and other poems (USA 2009), Scat Songs on a text by Chris Funkhouser (USA 2008) and Wire Sculptures (UK 2003). He has presented text-sound composition with John Levack Drever in UK, Brazil, France and USA. Upton has been a director of Writers Forum since the death of its founder, Bob Cobbing.

 

The book will be designed in lavish colour by Erik Brandt at Typographika in Michigan, USA.

 

The Brief:

 

Each day the four poets will upload new texts, ‘snap-shots’ from their different time zones, which will be gathered and edited together in situ at the Book Fair, to be published and made available by print on demand for the final days of the Fair.

 

Writing in the moment, Wow Wow Wow Receiver will ask: has the digital changed the ‘nature of the momentary’ in contemporary culture? What is ‘real-time’? What impact does a culture of immediacy and speed have on writing in the 21st Century?

 

This unique, experimental intervention will challenge and reflect upon the implications of the digital shift. Do we now read, write and communicate in different ways because of the proliferation and availability of information on the media highway? How can we respond poetically in ‘real’ time and space?