J. R. Carpenter Explained

J. R. Carpenter
Birth Place:Nova Scotia, Canada
Occupation:Artist, writer, researcher
Awards:New Media Writing Prize (2016)

J. R. Carpenter (born 1972) is a British-Canadian artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. She was born in Nova Scotia in 1972. She lived in Montreal from 1990 to 2009. She emigrated to England in 2010, and became a British citizen in 2019. She now lives in Southampton, England.

Education

Carpenter studied Life Drawing and Anatomy at the Art Students League of New York in 1988. She graduated with a BFA in Studio Art, with a concentration in Fibres and Sculpture from Concordia University in Montreal in 1995. In 2015 she was awarded a practice-led PhD research degree from University of the Arts London in association with Falmouth University. Her thesis, Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks[1] "contributed to the creation of a new narrative context from which to examine a multi-site-specific place-based identity by extending the performance writing methodology to incorporate digital literature and locative narrative practices, by producing and publicly presenting a significant body of creative and critical work, and by developing a mode of critical writing which intertwines practice with theory."

Professional Life

Carpenter has worked across visual, media, and literary arts, with public-facing and academic institutions. She was President of the Board of Directors of OBORO, an artist-run gallery and new media lab in Montreal, from 2006 to 2011.[2] She was a faculty mentor for Performance Writing and Electronic literature on the In (ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge program at The Banff Centre from 2010 to 2014.[3] In 2015 she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, London, UK.[4] In 2019 she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUIG Galway, Ireland.[5] She was Writer in Residence in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta 2020–2021,[6] and Writer in Residence for the StreeLife project at University of York 2022.[7] In June 2022, she began a two-year postdoctoral Research Fellowship, working the AHRC & DFG funded, interdisciplinary research project, Weather Reports – Wind as Model, Media, and Experience[8] at Winchester School of Art.

Writing

Carpenter has written critically about place and displacement,[9] textile art,[10] media art,[11] digital literature[12] and internet history.[13] Her print essays, art reviews, poetry and short fiction have been broadcast on CBC Radio, translated into French, Italian, and Spanish, and published in numerous anthologies and journals across Canada, the US, the UK, Spain and Italy, including Oxford Poetry, ,[14] PRISM International, Arc Poetry Magazine, Fuse,[15] The New Quarterly,[16] Geist,[17] and The Capilano Review.[18]

Digital Writing

Carpenter has been writing electronic texts since 1993. She made her first web-based work for Netscape 1.1. in 1995. Since that time her pioneering works of Electronic literature have been published, performed, and presented in festivals, galleries and museums around the world, including: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Dare-Dare, OBORO (Art Centre) and Ada X (Studio), formerly known as StudioXX, in Montreal; Images Festival and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art[19] in Toronto; Arnolfini[20] in Bristol; Palazzo delle arti Napoli in Naples; Machfeld Studio in Vienna; The Web Biennial in Istanbul; Open Space, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; and Bibliothèque nationale de France and Le Cube in Paris.

Her digital work is also included in The Rhizome ArtBase,[34] the Electronic Literature Collection Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four,[35] and the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature.[36]

Books

Carpenter's first novel, Words the Dog Knows, was published by Conundrum Press in Montreal in 2008.[37]

Her second book, GENERATION[S], a collection of code narratives, was published in Vienna by Traumawien in 2010.[38]

In 2017 a print book based on her web-based work, The Gathering Cloud, was published in Axminster by Uniformbooks, featuring a foreword by Jussi Parikka and an afterword by Lisa Robertson.[39] The Belgian critic Jan Baetens situates The Gathering Cloud alongside Christian Bök's Crystallography, stating: "it is part of a newly emerging canon of art and science creations that help reshape the fundamental unity of the humanities."[40] Writing for the Italian journal Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta concurs: "…this book represents the kind of rewarding hybridity in writing and concepts that we'd expect much more often in contemporaneity."[41] Writing for Sabotage Reviews, Ryan Ormonde states: "By gathering together histories and theories on the 'cloud' in all its duality, and, in the process, dissolving that duality, Carpenter founds a whole new discipline. If Cloud Studies takes off, here is its primer."[42]

In 2018 Carpenter's debut poetry collection, An Ocean of Static, was published in London by Penned in the Margins.[43] Writing for Poetry London, Katie Evans-Bush describes An Ocean of Static as "a bravura piece of writing… a bit intimidating next to your average poetry collection.."[44] Writing for The Poetry School, Jade Cuttle calls An Ocean of Static "a poetic endeavour completely unlike any other."[45] Writing for Department of Feminist Conversations, Mary Paterson states: "Carpenter doesn't just take risks; she breaks things apart and creates them anew. Her poems' refusal to settle into one meaning undermines the truth-ambitions of language — shattering language into a multitude of possibilities — and lays bare the principles that make these ambitions persist."[46]

In 2020 her second poetry collection, This is a Picture of Wind, was published by Longbarrow Press, featuring a foreword by Johanna Drucker and an afterword by Vahni Capildeo.[47] This collection explores the paradox presented by our attempts to evoke through the materiality of language a force such as wind which we can only perceive indirectly through its affect. This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian Best Poetry Books of 2020.[48] Writing for The Guardian, Rishi Dastidar describes This is a Picture of Wind as "title that gives shape to the ineffable."[48] Writing for Spam Press, Alison Scott observes: "This language, always grappling with inadequacy, by abundance and concentration is forced to its visible edges, stretched, blown open – forming what Johanna Drucker calls in Carpenter's work 'a thick adjectival field of terms'."[49]

Awards

In 2003 Carpenter won the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition (now known as the Quebec Writing Competition)[50] for her short story "Precipice", which was later anthologized in Short Stuff: New English Writing From Quebec.[51] She won the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition again in 2005 for her short story "Air Holes", which was later anthologized in In Other Words: New English Writing From Quebec.[52]

In 2008 she won the Quebec Writers' Federation Carte Blanche Award[53] for "Wyoming is Haunted",[54] a work of creative nonfiction.

In 2009 she won the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book for her novel, Words the Dog Knows.[55] and was named a Montreal Mirror Noisemaker.

In 2012 her web-based work CityFish[56] was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize.[57] In 2015 she won the Dot Award for Digital Literature from if:book UK.[58]

She won the New Media Writing Prize 2016[59] for her web-based work The Gathering Cloud.[60] The Gathering Cloud was an Editor's Pick in the Wildcard Category in the Saboteur Awards 2017[61] and was shortlisted for the Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature 2017[62] and The Turn On Literature Prize 2017.[63]

In 2018 her web-app This is a Picture of Wind won the Opening Up Digital Fiction Competition's People's Choice Award[64] and was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize 2018[65] and the Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature 2018.[66]

Her debut poetry collection An Ocean of Static was Highly Commended for the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018.[67]

Her second collection This is a Picture of Wind was longlisted for the Laurel Prize for Environmental Poetry 2021.[68]

Selected bibliography

Books

Web-based works

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks. J.R. Carpenter. 23 July 2015.
  2. Web site: J. R. Carpenter Biography - Electronic Literature as a Model for Creativity and Innovation in Practice ELMCIP . ELMCIP. 15 January 2014.
  3. Web site: J. R. Carpenter Biography - The Banff Centre. banffcentre.ca. 12 January 2014.
  4. Web site: Eccles Centre Fellowships in North American Studies. www.bl.uk. 23 July 2015.
  5. Web site: Moore Institute announces Visiting Research Fellowship Scheme. 2018-10-09. Moore Institute. en-US. 2019-03-16.
  6. Web site: Meeting the moment in the time of pandemic: New Writer-in-Residence J.R. Carpenter at home in the digital sphere. 2020-09-14. University of Alberta. en-US. 2022-08-21.
  7. Web site: Project Team. StreetLife York. en-US. 2022-08-21.
  8. Web site: Wind as media, model, experience . WeRep. en-US. 2022-08-21.
  9. Web site: Mapping Place Troubling Space. The Digital Review. 7 June 2020.
  10. Web site: Art Textiles of the World: Canada . Telos. 16 January 2014.
  11. Web site: Massive Media: A Geology of Media book review. Furtherfield. 23 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150723190215/http://furtherfield.org/features/reviews/massive-media-geology-media-book-review. 23 July 2015. dead.
  12. Web site: From the Digital to the Bookbound . 6 August 2014 . The Literary Platform. 23 July 2015.
  13. Web site: xxxboîte. StudioXX. 16 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140116182553/http://www.studioxx.org/en/xxxboite. 16 January 2014. dead.
  14. Web site: Carpenter. J.R.. This Sea is Nothing In Sight But Isles. 3:AM Magazine. 29 March 2017.
  15. Web site: Carpenter. J.R.. Ingrid Bachmann: Digital Crustaceans v.0.2: Homesteading on the Web. Fuse. 23 July 2015.
  16. Web site: Carpenter. J.R.. Hennessy's High Pasture. tnq.ca. The New Quarterly. 23 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150723192649/http://www.tnq.ca/magazine/issue-98. 2015-07-23. dead.
  17. Web site: Carpenter. J.R.. Words Dogs Know. 2 April 2009 . Geist. 23 July 2015.
  18. Web site: Fall 2021: Weather. The Capilano Review. 21 August 2022.
  19. Web site: How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. 16 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140116213138/http://www.mocca.ca/blog/exhibition/imagesfestival/. 2014-01-16. dead.
  20. Web site: Performance Writing: J R Carpenter . Arnolfini. 16 January 2014.
  21. Book: Punday, Daniel . The Bloomsbury handbook of electronic literature . 2018 . Bloomsbury academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury publishing Plc . 978-1-4742-3025-4 . Tabbi . Joseph . London, UK . 141 . Chapter 7 Narrativity.
  22. Web site: Carpenter . J.R. . November 2012 . The process of creating new media: The Broadside of a Yarn . November 21, 2022 . Narrabase.
  23. Web site: Flores . Leonardo . 2013-01-03 . "Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl" by J.R. Carpenter . 2023-08-26 . I ❤️ E-Poetry . en-US.
  24. Book:
    1. WomenTechLit
    . West Virginia University Press Computing Literature . X . English.
  25. Web site: Electrifying Literature . Electronic Literature Organization. 16 January 2014.
  26. Web site: J.R. Carpenter. dtc-wsuv.org. 12 January 2014.
  27. Web site: Carpenter . JR . November 21, 2022 . The process of creating new media:Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie and JR . Narabase.
  28. Web site: The Gathering Cloud J. R. Carpenter. luckysoap.com. 2019-03-16.
  29. Web site: The Gathering Cloud. NEoN Digital Arts. 9 November 2016 . 22 January 2017.
  30. Web site: This is a Picture of Wind J. R. Carpenter. luckysoap.com. 2019-03-16.
  31. Web site: This is a Picture of Wind. IOTA. en-US. 2019-03-16.
  32. Web site: Scott . Alison . 2021-01-08 . (Review) This is a Picture of Wind by JR Carpenter . 2023-12-03 . Spam . en.
  33. Web site: 2020-04-20 . J.R. Carpenter . 2023-12-03 . Longbarrow Press . en.
  34. Web site: J. R. Carpenter's profile on The Rhizome ArtBase . January 1996 . Rhizome. 16 January 2014.
  35. Web site: Electronic Literature Collections . Electronic Literature Organization. 16 January 2014.
  36. Web site: ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature . ELMCIP. 16 January 2014.
  37. Web site: Words the Dog Knows. Carpenter. J. R.. 2008. Conundrum Press. 15 January 2014.
  38. Web site: GENERATION(S). Carpenter. J.R.. Traumawien. 23 July 2015.
  39. Web site: The Gathering Cloud. Uniformbooks. 18 May 2017.
  40. Web site: J.R. Carpenter's 'The Gathering Cloud'. culturalstudiesleuven. 2017-08-14. Cultural Studies Leuven. en. 2019-03-16.
  41. Web site: J. R. Carpenter – The Gathering Cloud Neural. Cianciotta. Aurelio. 7 March 2018 . en-US. 2019-03-16.
  42. Web site: The Gathering Cloud by J. R. Carpenter. 2017-11-06. Sabotage. en-US. 2019-03-16.
  43. Web site: Penned in the Margins An Ocean of Static. 2019-03-16.
  44. Web site: Autumn 2018: Issue 91 Poetry London. en-GB. 2019-03-16.
  45. Web site: Review: 'An Ocean of Static' by J.R. Carpenter • Poetry School. Cuttle. Jade. 2018-05-22. Poetry School. en-GB. 2019-03-16.
  46. Web site: An Encounter with An Ocean of Static by JR Carpenter. Paterson. Mary. 2019-02-01. Medium. 2019-03-16.
  47. Web site: This is a Picture of Wind. 2020-06-30. Longbarrow Press. 2022-08-21.
  48. News: Best poetry books of 2020. Dastidar. Rishi. 2020-11-28. The Guardian. 2022-08-21.
  49. Web site: (REVIEW) This is a Picture of Wind by JR Carpenter. Scott. Alison. 2021-01-08. SPAM Press. 2022-08-21.
  50. Web site: About the Quebec Writing Competition . CBC Montreal. 15 January 2014.
  51. Web site: Short Stuff: New English Writing from Quebec. vehiculepress.com. Véhicule Press. 23 July 2015.
  52. Web site: In Other Words: New English Writing from Quebec. vehiculepress.com. Véhicule Press. 23 July 2015.
  53. Web site: Past QWF Awards Winners. Quebec Writers' Federation. 12 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141031215450/http://www.qwf.org/awards/archive.html. 31 October 2014. dead.
  54. Web site: Carpenter. J.R.. Wyoming is Haunted. carte-blanche.org. Carte Blanche. 23 July 2015.
  55. Web site: 2008. Expozine. en. 2019-03-16.
  56. Web site: CityFish. J. R. Carpenter. 16 January 2014.
  57. Web site: New Media Writing Prize Shortlist 2012. New Media Writing Prize. 16 January 2014.
  58. Web site: Pope. Jim. Focus on the 2015 Dot Award. New Media Writing Prize. 9 November 2016.
  59. Web site: JR Carpenter takes the big prize at the 2016 New Media Writing Prize Awards. The Literary Platform. 19 January 2017 . 22 January 2017.
  60. Web site: Carpenter. J.R.. The Gathering Cloud. Luckysoap.com. 22 January 2017.
  61. Web site: Saboteur Awards 2017 Spotlight on the Best Wildcard Shortlist. Sabotage Reviews. 28 April 2017 . 18 May 2017.
  62. Web site: Announcing the 2017 ELO Prize Winners – Electronic Literature Organization. eliterature.org. 21 September 2017 . 2019-03-16.
  63. Web site: The Shortlist for The Turn on Literature Prize and Honorable Mentions. 4 July 2017 . en-GB. 2019-03-16.
  64. Web site: 2018 Winners of the Opening Up Digital Fiction Competition Announced!. 2019-03-16.
  65. Web site: 2018 – New Media Writing Prize. en-US. 2019-03-16.
  66. Web site: Announcing the Winners of the 2018 ELO Prize – Electronic Literature Organization. eliterature.org. 18 August 2018 . 2019-03-16.
  67. Web site: Forward Book of Poetry Forward Arts Foundation. www.forwardartsfoundation.org. 2019-03-16.
  68. Web site: 2021 Winners. The Laurel Prize. 2024-01-15.

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