http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/poetry_marathonsaturday_and_su.html#hollypester Holly Pester is a performance poet currently working on a project with the Barry Museum in Manchester. I, raven, the is about the relationship between words and sound, and the title itself inevitably brings to mind Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in which the refrain “Never More” reads increasingly, as the poem progresses, as less like words and more like sounds. Pester’s poem attempts to capture the “shape of words” and as she reads, her mouth contorts into shapes. The result is a series of sounds from everyday life that seem disconnected from the actual meaning of the words. “The… ]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:29:00 -0700 http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/poetry_marathonsaturday_and_su.html#hollypester http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/poetry_marathonsaturday_and_su_1.html The Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon is an ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians. An international group of major figures will be brought together to perform in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009, designed by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the acclaimed Japanese practice SANAA. The event will include performances of new work, collaborations, discussions and experiments. ]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:04:00 -0700 http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/poetry_marathonsaturday_and_su_1.html