Artist Biographies

 

William Allen is the author of The Man on the Moon, Poems and Sevastopol: On Photos of War (poems). He is a word artist as well as a poet, having published over ten editions with Mark Patsall Graphics, Inc. of Cincinnati, OH. Work can be seen at www.ekphrases.com. He has a show currently at the Clay Street Graphics Gallery in Cincinnati, OH with sculptor Barbara Westermann.

Sergio Montiero de Almeida lives in San Diego, CA, but will return soon to his home country of Brazil. He is a visual artist and poet who has exhibited his work in London (Bienal Internacional de Poesia Visual e Alternativa, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998), and for two years at Harvard’s Visual Poetry exhibition. His work has appeared in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, London, Belgium, and in the United States, including the Lost and Found Times, Plot, and the Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry. For more information, visit http://go.to.artefacto; to http://www.triplov.com; or http://tapin.free.fr.

mIEKAL aND is a longtime DIY cultural anarchist & the creator of an infoplex worth of visual-verbal lit, audio-art, preformance ritual & hypermedia for the Macintosh, all distributed by Xexoxial Editions. Recent work has focused on activating online collaborative workspaces where writers & media artists can create collective digital works in a real time environment. Recent books include Literature Nation with Maria Damon, published by Potes and Poets Press and advancienced snakespeared published by extant. mIEKAL aND and Camille Bacos contributed the short film “Entre pyrobiblios” to the 2004 visual poetry exhibition.

babel (www.babel.ca) is a digital writer and artist who has exhibited solo and collaborative work on and offline since 2002. He is editor of the post-dada 391.org, and a founding member of 404 (the404.org), a network of digital and traditional artists supported by Virginia Tech Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.

Jenny E. Balisle holds an MFA in Fine Art from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and now works in a studio in Oakland, California. She has shown her paintings and drawings at several exhibitions in California, Colorado, New York, and Wisconsin. She was a featured artist in Harvard’s 2004 Visual Poetry exhibition, “Errata and Contradiction.”

John M. Bennett has published over 200 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials, and is the Editor of the avant journal Lost and Found Times. He is also Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. He has performed and exhibited his work world-wide for many years.

Jules Boykoff co-edits the Tangent, a zine of politics and art, and co-hosts Tangent Radio: Poetry & Politics, a weekly radio show in Walla Walla, Washington. He is author of the multi-media chapbook Philosophical Investigations Inna Neo-Con Roots-Dub Styley (The Interrupting Cow Press, 2004) and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Tripwire, Extra!, Labor History, and Chain. He teaches in the Politics Department at Whitman College.

Nick Carbo is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry El Grupo McDonalds (1995), Secret Asian Man (2000), and Andalusian Dawn (2004). His awards include fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His poems have also been featured in the PBS television show “Heritage” and in National Public Radio’s show “Intersections.” He is currently teaching as Visiting Poet in the MFA program at the University of Miami.

David-Baptiste Chirot was born in LAfayette, Indiana, USA and grew up in Vermont. His travels took him to Arles and Paris, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Holland, and Boston before he settled in Milwalkee, WI fifteen years ago. His visual poetry, essays, stories, poetry and sound/performance scores have appeared in O!!Zone, Blackbird, Xtant, Crayon, Reflections (Kiev/Chicago), Kairan (Japan), Vortice Argentina, and many other places. He has participated in over 300 Mail Art Calls and Visual/Sound poetry exhibitions in 45 countries.

Peter Ciccariello is a visual artist and poet living in Providence, Rhode Island. He is interested in layered visual metaphors and the process of sentient light illuminating darkness. He has studied at: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; Parsons School of Design, New York, New York; Electron Movers — Research in the Electronic Arts, Providence, Rhode Island

Danielle De Feo, a dual citizen of the U.K. and the U.S., is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Regional Studies, East Asia. Apart from teenage phantasy mags and high school rags, her projects have included a London-wide whistlestop reading tour, Burning Bright magazine, plus tiny pamphlets that could at the very least be useful kindling when camping. Her interests include Chinese Literature, Gender Studies, Painting, Music, Politics, and Cooking (sometimes at the same time). In the future she hopes to move back to China, eventually curating and owning a gallery, if she does not become a doorstop first. See http://sirensmirror.blogspot.com for more.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent books are Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001). Her work has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” MPR’s “Writer’s Almanac,” and Bill Moyer’s PBS special “Fooling with Words.” A recipient of a 2001 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, she teaches at Florida International University.

Jeffrey Encke was born in Pittsburgh in 1971 and raised in Seattle. In 2003, he completed his PhD in English at Columbia University. His poetry has appeared in various journals, including American Writing, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Cream City Review, Octopus, Salt Hill, 3rd Bed, and Quarterly West. Encke has taught creative writing and criticism at both Columbia and Richard Hugo House in Seattle, where he currently resides. He thanks Vivek Chadaga for the design work on “Most Wanted (A Gamble in Verse).”

endwar is an entity producing visual poetry and other creative artifacts since 1990. A recent published work is Out of Words, published by the Runaway Spoon Press. Recently twelve-word images were displayed at Neopolis Gallery in Cleveland as part of the exhibit entitled “I, Foreign Eye.” Several works by endwar have been published by IZEN. For more information, see http://www.phys.psu.edu/~endwar/izen/izen.html.

Luc Fierens (born 1961 in Mechelen) lives in Belgium, centrally networked into a vast web of mail-artists & visual poets since 1982. Some of his work & publications can be found in The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive and MOMAlibrary.

Franco Focardi was born in Italy in 1953. In 1983 he founded the fanzine CRASH, an insane intersection of art, music, poetry with unique copies, recycled and ready made. Always attracted by poetry, painting and graphics, he mixes word, sound, movement. collage and Mail Art.

Christopher Fritton is a visual poet, sound poet, correspondence artist, and FLUXUS associate from Buffalo, NY. He currently resides in Bangor, ME, where he is the head of The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Histrionics, an affiliate of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, and a member of BuffFluxus.

Bob Grumman is a poet/ critic/ playwright/ psychological theorist/ high school substitute teacher who lives with his cat, Shirley, in Port Charlotte, Florida. Seriously involved in all forms of poetry for some twenty years, he has been specializing in visio-mathematical poetry in full color the past few years, bowled over by what computers can now do.

Dr. Hugo Heyrman is a Belgian painter, multimedia artist and a theorist of new media. He lives and works in Antwerp. Dr. Hugo developed a transformative vision, a pictorial investigation of perception and visual thinking, bridging the real and the virtual. See his online project ‘Museums of the Mind’ at http://www.doctorhugo.org.

August Highland is a literary and visual artist whose work is published and exhibited internationally. Please visit his online studio at www.august-highland.com.

Michael A. Hoerman is a current Fellow in poetry of the Mass. Cultural Council, has recently published in journals and anthologies such as Arkansas Literary Forum, Potomac Review and Chiron Review. His chapbook Bad Rotten was published in 2004 by Pudding House. Hoerman keeps a poetry blog at http://pornfeld.blogspot.com, addressing contemporary poetry and poetics.

Geof Huth is a writer of textual and visual poetry. He writes frequently about visual poetry, particularly on his weblog “dbqp: visualizing poetics” (http://dbqp.blogspot.com). His chapbooks of visual poetry include “Analphabet,” “The Dreams of the Fishwife,” “ghostlight,” and “Peristyle.” Huth recently edited the first-ever anthology of one-word poems. His micropress dbqp publishes minimalist, visual, and conceptual poetry.

jUStin!katKO is a visual/sound poet working out of ohio. He has two pieces of visual work forthcoming in david nemeth’s magazine inquisitions and a growing body of visual work on the web. www.justin-katko.tk / justin.katko@gmail.com.

Donna Kuhn is a widely published poet and an exhibiting artist. Much of her work is interdisciplinary and a combination of words and visual art is combined in collage, video and visual poetry because she can’t choose or even do one at a time.

Jean Kusina is a writer and network artist whose work has recently been featured in Xtant 3, the Fifth annual meeting of Experimental, Sound, and Visual Poetry (Buenos Aires), and &Now: a Festival of Writing as a Contemporary Conceptual Art at the University of Notre Dame. She also participates in numerous networked art projects and exhibitions.

Jim Leftwich is a poet, visual poet, and language artist who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was co-editor of JUXTA magazine, and is now editor of XTANT, both journals containing boundary-breaking language work of all kinds. He has published numerous books and has appeared in magazines and journals world-wide.

Inna Mattei is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her poetry has appeared in Trumpeter, Black Box, Koja and in the upcoming Writing on Globalization, an anthology from MIT Press (2005).

J. Michael Mollohan’s work has appeared in Lost & Found Times, Xtant 4, the LAFT Anthology, Loose Watch, and as the cover of an issue of Haiku Canada.  He has no formal training, only a vision and a will to create great art.  He has at times been a radio announcer and engineer, a computer operator and programmer, a manager, a pizza delivery person, a book store clerk, a sound man for various bands, a musician, and a professional driver.  Currently, he’s incapacitated and broke.

Sheila E. Murphy is a widely published and anthologized poet, whose most recent collections include Proof of Silhouettes (Stride Publications, UK, 2004), Concentricity (Pleasure Boat Studio, NYC, 2004), Letters to Unfinished J.. (Green Integer Press, Los Angeles, 2003), and Green Tea with Ginger (Potes & Poets Press, 2003). Her papers and publications are archived in the Rare Book Collections at The Ohio State University Libraries. Her visual poetry has appeared in several venues, including The University of Maine, the Segnini Gallery in Miami, and elsewhere. She resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

Clemente Padin was born in Lascano, Rocha, Uruguay (October 8th 1939). He is a poet, graphic artist, performer, videomaker, multimedia & networker. He edited the magazines Los Huevos del Plata (The Silver´s Eggs), 1965-1969; OVUM 10 and OVUM, 1969 -1975, Participación (Participation) 1984 -1986 and Correo del Sur (Southern Post), 2000 - 2003. He has shown his works in several individual exhibitions in United States of America, Italy, Korea, Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Belgium and Japan. Since “The Poetry should Be made for All,” (Montevideo, 1970), he has carried out countless performances in many places of the world. He has participated in multiple events in Internet since 1992 and have published two CD ROMs with Net Art. 

Lolita Paiewonsky is a poet and writer, Ed.M. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Arts in Education), and second-generation graduate of Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C. She has published several small volumes of poetry including the bilingual Lights Aglow/Luces Brillantes; appeared in numerous journals and print media; performed her poetry (often with musical accompaniment) in various venues, from St. Louis, Missouri (family home), to St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, to Cambridge/Boston. Her Tortoiseshell feline, Khari, concurs.

Shin Yu Pai is the author of Unnnecessary Roughness (xpress(ed), 2005), Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003), Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998), and two titles which are forthcoming in 2005, Nutritional Feed (Tupelo Press) and Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks). She has shown her visual work at the Three Arts Club of Chicago and Gallery 2. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Hilda Paz is an award-winning graphic artist who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Michael Peters’ various types of writing have appeared in Spinning Jenny, Rhino, Lungfull, Lost and Found Times, Castagraf, Generator Press, Davinio Art Electronics, Word for Word, American Weddings, and Xtant, among others. Visual works and limited edition books have appeared in numerous exhibitions and can be found in The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry and The Special Collections/Avant-Garde Libraries of both The Ohio State University and The University at Buffalo. Peters is also a member of the musical group Poem Rocket (Atavistic) and collaborates with the Be Blank Consort.

Nick Piombino’s collages were shown in a group show called “Poetry Plastique” at the Maryann Boesky Gallery in New York in 2001, curated by Charles Bernstein and Jay Sanders. He has been publishing a weblog called ::fait accompli:: at http://nickpiombino.blogspot.com since February, 2003, and his home page at the Electronic Poetry Center is at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/piombino/

Matthew Rose is a Paris-based (American) writer and artist. His most recent exhibition was “A Perfect Friend” at Art Vitam Galleryini Miami (www.artvitam.com), where he exhibited a series of large format digital prints from his collage book, A Perfect Friend. His work will next be seen with Art Vitam Gallery at the Affordable Art Fair in New York this October. He writes for several magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Premiere and is Paris Correspondent for Art & Antiques Magazine. Contact: mistahrose@yahoo.com or visit http://homepage.mac.com/mistahcoughdrop/

Janet Si-Ming Lee is an artist, writer, and media designer living in Somerville. Find her at www.jsiming.com.

Carol Starr is a conceptual artist who lives in Taos, New Mexico and works in a broad range of media including painting, photography, mail art, poetry, and computer art. Starr has participated in Fluxfest 2003, Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Deluth and the 49th Venice Biennale and the 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Her studies include the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Art Students League, NYC; the University of Hawaii and the Corcoran School of Art. Starr’s work is in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Harwood Museum of the University of New Mexico,Taos; Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan; Tate, London, UK; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. In 2004 she participated in “Errata and Contradiction,” Harvard University; FLOSS, A-1Waste Paper Company, Cheshire.U.K.; and Olympic Ideals,Cultural Center of Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki, Greece.

W. Mark Sutherland is a Canadian intermedia artist who claims “to make poetry that is visual art, visual art that is music, and music that is poetry.” Recent work includes his solo exhibition “Scratch” (The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada) and curating the Metalogos exhibition (La Spezia, Italy, Bari, Italy, Toronto, Canada).

andrew topel was born andrew topel, and he is still currently andrew topel. there was a point in time when he was the spy zendu voodakuaf, but that has nothing to do with this. he lives in colorado where he runs the unofficial avantacular press. andrew can be reached via email at andrewtopel@hotmail.com

Dan Waber's past efforts have appeared in print, in performance, and in digital and gallery exhibitions in places like MÖBIUS, Recursive
Angel, Vispo, Riding The Meridian, Drunken Boat, the 'Future ForWord', 2002 Seattle Poetry Festival/'Bumbershoot2003' art and music
festivals, the Electronic Poetry Center and more. His series of animated poems, Strings, appears on the syllabi of Hypermedia/New
Media classes worldwide (and makes people smile, too). Visit him at logolalia.com.

Derek White lives in New York City. He has recent or forthcoming work in Post Road, Diagram, Tarpaulin Sky, BlazeVOX, Call: Review, perspektive and elsewhere. He has some collected works and collaborations available from his own Calamari Press (www.calamaripress.com) and edits SleepingFish magazine (www.sleepingfish.net) and 5¢ense Reviews (www.5cense.com)

Lina Weiss is a graduate student in graphic design at Florida Atlantic University. She strives to depict language in two ways: first, by depicting the meaning of written language in a 3 dimensional sculptural form and second, in a multi-sensory pictorial form. Both of these forms when “successfully depicted” will ultimately fuse the word and the image with poetic sensibilities.

R. Richard Wojewodzki lives in an old house in Maryland. He spends a lot of time trying to maintain his composure.

Komninos Zervos, performance poet, has been poeting professionally since 1985. Komninos has published two adult collections of poetry with the university of queensland press, collection of poetry for children illustrated by peter viska and published by oxforduniversity press, and a hard cover illustrated children’s picture book published by harper/collins, high street, kew east. in 1995 komninos completed a masters of arts in creative writing at theuniversity of queensland, australia. komninos convenes the CyberStudies major, at the School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus.