{"id":1463,"date":"2011-03-09T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2011-03-09T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T23:35:08","slug":"march-15-in-philadelphia-oulipolooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/03\/march-15-in-philadelphia-oulipolooza\/","title":{"rendered":"March 15 in Philadelphia: OuLiPoLooZa"},"content":{"rendered":"

[An announcement from Penn’s Kelly Writers House:<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n

We\u2019re pulling out all the constraints for our OULIPOLOOZA next Tuesday,
\nMarch 15, at 7:00 pm. Organized by our own Sarah Arkebauer (C\u201911) and
\nMichelle Taransky, this celebration of all things Oulipo will feature five
\nexperts and aficionados talking about the \u201cOuvroir de litt\u00e9rature
\npotentielle,\u201d the highly-influential French school of avant garde poetry.
\nThe evening will be rounded out by the launching \u201cAn Oulipolooza,\u201d a
\ncollection of new Oulipian writing, and a constraint-inspired reception.
\nThis is one celebration you should not A Void!<\/p>\n

The Kelly Writers House presents<\/p>\n

OULIPOLOOZA
\na celebration of potential literature<\/p>\n

featuring<\/p>\n

KATIE PRICE
\nLOUIS BURY
\nJEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ
\nGERALD PRINCE
\nand NICK MONTFORT<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 15, at 7:00 PM in the Arts Café
\nKelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA
\nNo registration required – this event is free & open to the public<\/p>\n

Come help us celebrate the continuing potential of literatures by attending
\nthe OULIPOLOOZA, a Kelly Writers House-style celebration of all things
\nOulipo. The OuLiPo, or “Ouvroir de littérature potentielle” (workshop of
\npotential literature), is a group of experimental French poets founded in
\n1960, devoted to exploring the potential of literature, language and freedom
\nthrough the lenses of different constraints.\u00a0Oulipolooza will include
\nreadings about the Oulipo by five experts and aficionados, a reception full
\nof Oulipo-inspired foods, and the launch of “An Oulipolooza”: a collection
\nof oulipian texts.<\/p>\n

KATIE L. PRICE is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Pennsylvania’s
\nEnglish Department completing her dissertation, tentatively titled “‘The
\nTangential Point’: Pataphysical Practice in Post-War Poetry.” She is also an
\nassociate editor for Electronic Poetry Center, co-coordinator of the Poetry
\n& Poetics graduate group, and will teach a course in the fall entitled
\nPoetry, Technology, Gender and Globalization.<\/p>\n

LOUIS BURY teaches literature at New York University, is a part-time
\nprofessional poker player, and is completing a constraint-based dissertation
\nabout constraint-based writing, titled Exercises in Criticism, at the
\nGraduate Center of the City University of New York.<\/p>\n

JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania. \u00a0Co-founder and curator of Slought Foundation,
\nhe is a senior editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. A fellow of the
\nAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has authored or edited more than
\nthirty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art and philosophy.
\nRecent titles include Lacan Literario \u00a0(2007), 1913: The cradle of modernism
\n(2007), \u00a0The Ethic of the Lie \u00a0(2008) and Etant donnes: 1) l\u2019art, 2) le
\ncrime (2010). Currently, he is editing a collection of essays on Modernism
\nand Theory. He is the president of the Samuel Beckett Society and completing
\na book on Samuel Beckett and philosophy.<\/p>\n

GERALD PRINCE is Professor of Romance Languages and Head of the French
\nsection at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many articles
\nand reviews on narrative theory and on modern (French) literature as well as
\nof several books (including A Dictionary of Narratology and Guide du roman
\nde langue fran\u00e7aise: 1901-1950) and his work has been translated into a
\ndozen languages. A co-editor of the “Stages” series for the University of
\nNebraska Press and a member of a dozen editorial and advisory boards, Prince
\nis working on the second volume of his Guide du roman (1951-2000).<\/p>\n

NICK MONTFORT writes computational and constrained poetry, develops computer
\ngames, and is a critic, theorist, and scholar of computational art and
\nmedia. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing
\nand Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is
\nnow serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He
\nearned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of
\nPennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[An announcement from Penn’s Kelly Writers House:] We\u2019re pulling out all the constraints for our OULIPOLOOZA next Tuesday, March 15, at 7:00 pm. Organized by our own Sarah Arkebauer (C\u201911) and Michelle Taransky, this celebration of all things Oulipo will feature five experts and aficionados talking about the \u201cOuvroir de litt\u00e9rature potentielle,\u201d the highly-influential French … <\/p>\n

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