Panel: Are Books Obsolete?

Audio/Visual recording of Panel discussion "Are Books Obsolete?" at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. In this recording, Art Spiegelman, Cecelia Condit, and Deena Larsen discuss how New Media has affected modern culture, how New Media affects Old Media (specifically comics), learning how to read New Media, and the possibilites of translating Old Media into New Media.

Panel moderated by Victor Lieberman.

Presentation: Deena Larsen

Audio/Visual recording of Deena Larsens lecture at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010. In this recording, Larsen talks about reading, writing, and understanding electronic literature in a variation of her lecture “See Spot Link, Link Spot Link”. She reads from her literature such as, “I’m Simply Saying”(2004) published in Inflect. Other works she discusses are “Disappearing Rain”(2000), “Intruder”(2001).

Introduction by Dr. Heidi Czerwiec.

A transcription of this reading is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/Larsen_2010.html

A Conversation with Art Spiegelman

Audio/Visual recording of Art Spiegelman reading at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010. In this recording, Spiegelman discusses the history of comix, as well as IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS (2004), MAUS: A SURVIVORS TALE: MY FATHER BLEEDS HISTORY (1986), and MAUS II: A SURVIVORS TALE: AND HERE MY TROUBLES BEGAN (1992).

Conversation moderated by Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein.

Introduction by President Robert O. Kelley.

Panel: Beyond the Page

Audio/visual recording of “Beyond the Page” panel discussion. The panel is comprised of Mark Amerika, Nick Montfort, Frank X. Walker and Deena Larsen at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on March 24, 2010.

Panel moderated by Dr. Kyle Conway

A transcription of this recording is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/BeyondthePage_2010.html

Reading by Mark Amerika

Audio/visual recording of Mark Amerika reading at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on March 24, 2010. In this reading, Amerika reads “Village Tripping” from THE KAFKA CHRONICLES, HOW TO BE AN INTERNET ARTIST, and 29 INCHES.

Introduction by by Brian Maxwell

A transcription of this reading is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/Amerika_2010.html

Reading by Cecelia Condit

Audio/Visual recording of Cecelia Condit at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on March 24, 2010. In this recording, Condit has a conversation with North Dakota Museum of Art director Laurel Reuter. There is also a screening of the film “Annie Lloyd.”

Conversation moderated by Laurel Reuter

A transcription of this recording is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/Condit_2010.html

Panel: Beyond the Screen

Audio/Visual recording of Panel discussion "Beyond the Screen" at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on Thursday, March 25, 2010. In this recording, Nick Montfort, Cecelia Condit, Stuart Moulthrop, Mark Amerika, and Scott Miller discuss new media in art, music, literature, and culture.

Panel moderated by Professor Joel Jonientz

A transcription of this recording is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/BeyondtheScreen_2010.html

Reading by Nick Montfort

Audio/Visual recording of Nick Montfort at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on Thursday, March 25th, 2010. In this recording, Montfort shows a short film "Filip a Guinea: The Elephant and Castle", and reads from Ad Verbum, 2002: A Palindrome Story, Implementation, and from his poetry generators: Taroko Gorge & ppg256.

Introduction by Nick Gowan

A transcription of this recording is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/Montfort_2010.html

Reading by Frank X. Walker

Audio/video footage of Frank X Walker reading at the 41st annual UND Writers Conference on March 25, 2010. In this footage, Walker reads selected poems from BUFFALO DANCE: THE JOURNEY OF YORK and WHEN WINTER COME: THE ASCENSION OF YORK, his series giving a voice to York, William Clark’s slave who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Walker also reads selections from a forthcoming book entitled NO MORE FEAR: THE REBIRTH OF MEDGAR EVERS, discussing the assassination of Medgar Evers, an African American civil rights activist and NAACP secretary in Mississippi.

North Dakota Humanities Council Lecture

Introduction by Dr. Kim Donehower

A transcription of this recording is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/Walker_2010.html

Panel: From Page to Stage

Audio/Visual recording of “From Page to Stage” panel at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference in 2010. In this recording, Saul Williams and Frank X. Walker talk about the relationship between poetry, spoken word and performance.

Panel moderated by Dr. Brett Ommen

Reading by Stuart Moulthrop

Audio/Visual recording of Stuart Moulthrop reading at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference on Friday, March 26, 2010. In this recording, Moulthrop plays the video “Shorewood Lip Dub” posted on Youtube on December 17, 2009, RADIO SALIENCE (2007), UNDER LANGUAGE (2008), and a series of recently created hypertext fiction works including SLOW FOOD.

Introduction by Tyler Stolt

A transcription of this recording is available at http://www.undwritersconference.org/Moulthrop_2010.html

Performance: Saul Williams

Audio/Visual recording of Multicultural Awareness Committee Performance by Saul Williams at the 41st Annual UND Writers Conference in 2010. In this recording, Saul Williams answers questions from the audience. He also performs a number of his poems, including selections from THE DEAD EMCEE SCROLLS.

Multicultural Awareness Committee Performance

Introduction by Dr. Crystal Alberts