nettime: word bombs

[heath bunting <heath@cybercafe.org> (www.irational.org) (by way of Pit Schultz <pit@contrib.de>)]

WORD BOMBS
fictionalising the nineties

a conference and a night of spoken word

CONFERENCE
date:  Saturday 11th May, 10am - 5pm
venue:  Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval, London

Speakers include:
Ronald Sukenick,  Stewart Home,  Sadie Plant,  Graham Harwood,  Eurudice,
Mark Amerika,  Matthew Fuller,  TechNET,  London Psychogeographical
Association,  Linda Dement,  Pat Cadigan

SPOKEN WORD
date:  Saturday 11th May, 8pm
venue:  Covent Garden Centre,  46 Earlham Street,  (off Neal Street),
London WC2

Performers include:  Ronald Sukenick,  Pat Cadigan,  Mark Amerika,  Eurudice

PRICES
waged:
15pounds whole event, 10pounds day conference only, 7pounds evening only

unwaged:
10pounds whole event, 8pounds day conference only, 5pounds evening only

WORD BOMBS
fictionalising the nineties

a) A conference
b) A night of spoken word
c) A celebration of writing that has an instrumental effect on the world.
Writing that is meant to bless, heal, curse, inflict pain, incite Eros,
predict the future, create terror, change lives, suggest options, arouse
guilt, give advice, notice the unnoticed, direct attention, solve problems,
project dreams and nightmares, embody desires, destroy restrictive
viewpoints, speak the unspeakable, celebrate occasions, shake stale habits,
promote justice, civilise culture, ward off evil, embody evil castigate
society, cast out the devils of the psyche, give vent to sorrow, fuck up
politics as usual, pulverise doctrine, promote freedom, create visionary
connections with the dead, attack and uphold tradition as needed, propagate
joy, make life worth living, etc.
(Ronald Sukenick)
d) all of the above

The conference is divided into three panels:  'porno-', 'anarcho-' and
'techno-', three prefixes producing the thematic lines of sex, politics and
machines, in and out of an inclusive definition of contemporary fiction -
including some of the most exciting literary and multimedia work being made
for the internet and for CD ROM.  Operating from outside both the academy
and state sponsorship this conference is a globally unique meeting of the
literary and cyberculture undergrounds.

Pushing the techno-literary crossover to extremes will be the inclusion of
three of the most innovative and exciting pieces of work in this area:
'Rehearsal of Memory' by Graham Harwood
'CyberFlesh GirlMonster' by Linda Dement
WORD BOMBS will also see the launch of issue three of I/O/D.  Consistently
the most inventive and challenging interactive multimedia publication.  It
has achieved cult status amongst both multimedia designers and literary
mutants.  With this issue the editors claim to have pushed multimedia
software way beyond even its own expansive boundaries.

Featuring rare or first time visits to the UK by some of the US's most
uncompromising authors, WORD BOMBS will introduce you to some of the most
hardcore fiction on the face of the planet.

CONFERENCE PANEL PARTICIPANTS

PORNO -

Eurudice
author of 'f/32, the second coming',

Stewart Home
author of  'The Assault on Culture'; 'Pure Mania'; 'Defiant Pose'; 'No
Pity'; 'Red London'.  'Slow Death'

Chair: Linda Dement
artist, producer of interactive CD ROMs, 'Typhoid Mary' and 'CyberFlesh
GirlMonster'


ANARCHO -

Ronald Sukenick
Author of '98.6'; 'The Endless Short Story'; 'Up'; 'Doggy Bag'

techNET and the London Psychogeographical Association
A  joint presentation on ephemeral publishing; zines, flyers, flyposters etc.

Chair: Graham Harwood
artist, producer of 'Rehearsal of Memory' CD ROM



TECHNO -

Sadie Plant
author of 'The Most Radical Gesture, the Situationist international in a
postmodern age' and forthcoming, 'Zeros and Ones'

Pat Cadigan
author of, 'Mindplayers'; 'Synners'; 'Fools'

Mark Amerika
author of 'The Kafka Chronicles',; 'Sexual Blood'; editor of 'Degenerative
Prose' and 'In Memorium to Postmodernism, essays on the Avant-Pop'; founder
of AltX, on-line literature site based on the internet at
http://www.altx.com

Chair: Matthew Fuller
editor, 'Unnatural, techno-theory for a contaminated culture',
'UNDERGROUND', I/O/D, etc.


LOCATIONS
Oval House Theatre is opposite the Oval Cricket Ground, London.  It is one
minute's walk from the Oval tube on the Northern Line.  Buses: 3, 36, 109,
133, 159, 185, 355

Covent Garden Community Centre
46 Earlham Street, WC2
Part of the Seven Dials Warehouse, just off Neal Street.  It is easily
accessible from all over London via bus; the nearest tube is Covent Garden,
Piccadilly Line



FURTHER INFORMATION
email:   matt@axia.demon.co.uk


PLEASE PASS THESE DETAILS ALONG TO ANYONE THAT YOU THINK MIGHT BE
INTERESTED.  THANKS.




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