{"id":1677,"date":"2011-05-18T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2011-05-18T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:36:53","slug":"wheel-on-in-downtown-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/wheel-on-in-downtown-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wheel On&#8221; in Downtown Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here in Buffalo for the E-Poetry Festival at UB. Last night I got to present work downtown at the Sqeuaky Wheel, a media arts center that has been helping artists produce video, film, and digital work since 1985.<\/p>\n<p>With my collaborator Stephanie Strickland, I presented <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/dearnavigator\/winter2010\/nick-montfort-stephanie-strickland-sea-and-spar-between\/\">&#8220;Sea and Spar Between,&#8221;<\/a> our recent poetry generator which offers an unusual interface to about 225 trillion stanzas arranged in a lattice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squeaky.org\/events\/2011\/summer\/epoetry2011\">The full program for the evening<\/a> included Alan Bigelow&#8217;s presentation of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webyarns.com\/ThisIsNotAPoem.html\">&#8220;This Is Not a Poem,&#8221;<\/a> which allows you to become a &#8220;treejay&#8221; and modify Joyce Kilmer&#8217;s &#8220;Trees&#8221;; a presentation of the voice-acted, distributed disaster narrative <a href=\"http:\/\/laflood.citychaos.com\/\"><i>L.A. Flood<\/i><\/a> project by Mark Marino; and a tribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/vispo.com\/millie\/index.htm\">Millie Niss<\/a> presented by her mother and collaborator, Martha Deed. These were followed by a very nice set of motion pictures, including, for instance, Ottar Ormstad&#8217;s &#8220;When,&#8221; featuring hulks of cars, the lowercase letter y, and the color yellow.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to present with Stephanie in this context. Thanks particularly to Sandy Baldwin for introducing us and to Tammy McGovern at the Squeaky Wheel for hosting us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here in Buffalo for the E-Poetry Festival at UB. Last night I got to present work downtown at the Sqeuaky Wheel, a media arts center that has been helping artists produce video, film, and digital work since 1985. With my collaborator Stephanie Strickland, I presented &#8220;Sea and Spar Between,&#8221; our recent poetry generator which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/wheel-on-in-downtown-buffalo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Wheel On&#8221; in Downtown Buffalo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,17,24,4,42,13],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collaboration","tag-digital","tag-gatherings","tag-poetry","tag-web","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}