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TALAN MEMMOTT
162 ½ A Franklin Street Winona MN 55987
talanmemmott.info / memmotttalan@gmail.com
(559) 668-1168 / Skype: t_memmott
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Interaction Design, Malmö University, 2012
Concentration: Digital Poetics, Electronic Literature
Dissertation: Digital Rhetoric and Poetics: Signifying Strategies in Electronic Literature
MFA, Literary Arts, Brown University, 2004
Concentration: Electronic Writing
Thesis: A “History” of “Art”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
08/2016 – Ongoing Winona State University
Instructor
Mass Communication / Transmedia
09/2015 – 03/2016 University of California, Santa Cruz
Lecturer
Computational Media
08/2007 – 06/2013 Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona Sweden
Associate Professor
Digital Culture and Communication Program
07/2006 – 07/2007 California State University, Monterey Bay
Assistant Professor of New Media
Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department
01/2006 – 05/2006 Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona Sweden
Visiting Professor of New Media
Literature, Culture, and Digital Media Program
01/2005 – 12/2005 University of Colorado, Boulder
Visiting Faculty
Department of Art and Art History, Digital Art
08/2004 – 12/2004 Georgia Institute of Technology
Distinguished Visiting Faculty
Literature, Communication, and Culture Department
Information Design and Technology Program, Science Technology and Culture Program
02/2003 – 06/2004 Rhode Island School of Design
Adjunct Professor of Digital Media
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Digital and Electronic Art, Digital Rhetoric, Digital Poetics, Digital Culture, Media History, Film
and Video, Electronic Literature, Digital Humanities
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Senior Research Associate, York University Augmented Reality Lab
Research Affiliate, University of Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group
08/2013 – 06/2014 Researcher University of Bergen, LLE CLARINO (Common Language
Research and Technology Infrastructure, Norway), ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a Model
of Creativity and Innovation)
07/2010 – 06/2013 Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
Co-‐Investigator, Co-‐Editor -‐-‐ Anthology of European Electronic Literature
06/2012 – (ongoing) Consortium for Electronic Literature (CELL): Database Interoperability
Initiative
Participating Researcher
11/2011 – (ongoing) UnderAcademy College
Project Leader, Pedagogical Research
04/2011 -‐ 04/2012 Artline South Baltic
Participating Artist
08/2008 -‐ 12/2011 Cultural Practice and Applied Technologies Lab (CP@T-‐LAB)
Project Director
INVITED LECTURES
03/2014 – Bergen Public Library / Presentation on Meme Culture and Combinatoric Poetry.
Part of the Digital Arena Electronic Literature Reading Series
02/2013 – University of Jyväskylä / One week of Lectures on The History of Digital Art 1962-‐
2012
09/2011 – Gdansk Polytechnic University / Erasmus Science and Technology Intensive
Program: Improbable Architecture
02/2011 – University of Bergen / One week of Lectures in Digital Culture courses
11/2008 – Umeå University HUMLab In[ter]venting Multi-‐Modal Rhetoric(s) / (a) Poetics of
Emergence
03/2008 – Kingston University Demonstration of work, and review of Graduate student
projects
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09/2006 – Blekinge Institute of Technology Two weeks of Lectures in Rhetoric and New
Media and Culture and Media courses
04/2006 -‐-‐ Göteborgs Universitet TAP Seminar Writing Beyond Writing … Writing through
New Media
04/2003 – Wayne State University New Poetics: New Genres/New Media Reading,
Performance, Lecture, and Discussion Series Presentation: Hypermedia Authorship: Subjects,
Perspectives, Practice
02/2003 – University of Washington ENGLISH 407A (Special Topics in Cultural Studies:
Cyberculture)
12/2002 – University of California, Santa Barbara Transcriptions Project | English
Department/ ENGL165LT (Hypertext Fiction & Digital Poetries)
09/2001 – trAce: Nottingham Trent University Nottingham, UK Lecture: Technontology and
the [Ap]Proximate Other
02/2001 – University of Colorado, Boulder Guest Artist Speaking in Digital Narrative and
Internet Art Histories courses ‘
PROFESSIONAL / EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Co-‐Editor, Special Issue Meme Culture, Alienation Captial, and Gestic Play
Rhizomes; Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
(http://www.rhizomes.net/)
Editorial Board, Rhizomes; Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
(http://www.rhizomes.net/)
01/2013 – 10/2013 Network Coordinator, Nordic Digital Culture Network
01/2011 – 04/2012 Co-‐Editor for the Anthology of European Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
08/2011 -‐ (ongoing) Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2012 Planning and
Programming Comittee Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints
01/2008 – (01/2010) Co-‐Editor for the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2
The Electronic Literature Organization
12/2008 – 11/2009 Steering Committee Electronic Literature in Europe Working Group
03/2008 – Nordic Digital Culture Network Co-‐Founder
06/2003 – (ongoing) The Electronic Literature Organization Board of Directors
(http://www.eliterature.org/)
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10/2002 – 08/2004 trAce Online Writing Centre Editorial Advisory Board
(http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/) Tutor trAce Online Writing School
05/1998 – 03/2003 BeeHive Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal Creative Director/Editor
(http://beehive.temporalimage.com)
05/1996 -‐-‐ 01/2002 Percepticon Corporation San Francisco CA
Vice President, Production Director
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Poster Designs Electronic Literature Organization Conferences (2012, 2014, 2015)
That Being Said… / Artist book In the Rare Book Collection, John Hay Library, Brown
University
Judge (web art) / Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards [2005]
Program Director/Coordinator/ Electronic Writing Festival Brown University [2004]
Cover Design for Stephanie Strickland’s V Wave Sonnets/Losing Luna Penguin Books [2002]
PUBLICATIONS / EXHIBITION
Critical Articles and Book Chapters
On Codework: A Phenomenology of an Anti-‐Genre
Crossing Borders, Crossing Genres: New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia
Expression, ed. Marcel Cornis-‐Pope. (John Benjamins 2014)
The Little Engine that Could: Poetry Generators and the Case of Nick Montfort’s Taroko
Gorge
Electronic Book Review (accepted)
Digital Rhetoric and Poetics: Signifying Strategies in Electronic Literature
Dissertation, Malmö Högskola (2012)
Revisiting Codework
Journal Of Writing In Creative Practice (2011)
Clutteralist Aesthetics and the Poetics of Whimsy: The Work of Jason Nelson
Iowa Review Web (2008)
Navigation, Investigation, and Inference: Donna Leishman's Deviant: The Possession of
Christian Shaw
Iowa Review Web (2008)
RE:Authoring Magritte: The Brotherhood of Bent Billiard
Second Person (MIT Press 2007)
Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading
New Media Poetics: Texts, Technotexts, and Theories (MIT Press 2006)
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On Herminutia: Digital Rhetoric and Network Phenomenology
Cybertext Yearbook (2002)
E_Rupture://Codework"."Serration in Electronic Literature
American Book Review (2002)
CD for Derrida: A Book/Ends Report
Jack Magazine (http://www.jackmagazine.com) (2001)
Toward Electracy: A Conversation with Gregory Ulmer
BeeHive (http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/archive/34arc.html) (2000)
Mise en Place: Hypersensual Textility and Polyvocal Narration
Riding the Meridian/ Progressive Dinner Party (http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/)
(2000)
Digital Media Work
DÉRIVEPEDIA / (combinatory web work)
New River Journal
Hosted by Virginia Tech’s Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture
HUCKLEBERRY FINNEGANS WAKE / (media performance)
E-‐Poetry Festival 2013, London; Mixing Realities Digital Performance Festival, Art Line,
Karlskrona
INTERMISSION / (media performance)
E-‐Poetry Festival 2011, Buffalo NY; Cabaret Voltage, ELMCIP, Karlskrona
(S)PACING / (media performance)
E-‐Poetry Festival, Barcelona Spain; Language Driven Media Art Seminar, Kingston Univesrity;
(installation) E-‐Poetry Festival, Buffalo NY
INDETERMINATE ANTI-‐POP / (media performance)
E-‐Poetry Festival, Barcelona Spain; Electronic Literature in Europe – University of Bergen,
Norway ; Codework Workshop, West Virginia University; Visionary Landscape Media
Exhibition
MY MOLLY (DEPARTED) / (media performance)
OpenPort Festival, Chicago Illinois; E-‐Poetry Festival, Paris France; Codework Workshop,
West Virginia University; Visionary Landscape Media Exhibition
THE HUGO BALL /
Drunken Boat (http://www.drunkenboat.com)
[N]+SEMBLE: RECOMBINANT TONE POEM /
Rhizome ArtBase (http://www.rhizome.org)
SELF PORTRAIT(S) [AS OTHER(S)] /
Iowa Review Web (http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/)
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THE BERTH OF V.NESS /
Korea WebArt Festival (http://www.koreawebart.org) [onsite / web]/ Iowa Review Web
(http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/)
TRANSLUCIDITY /
frAme #6 (http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame6/)
E_CEPHALOPEDIA // NOVELLEX /
Drunken Boat #3 (http://www.drunkenboat.com)
LEXIA TO PERPLEXIA
Institute of Contemporary Art – London [onsite / web] Technopoetry Festival – Georgia Tech
HT01 Reading Room (http://www.ht01.org) [onsite / web] Iowa Review / Electronic Book
Review / trAce (http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/)
DELIVERY MACHINE 1998-‐2000 2001
Digital Art and Culture Conference Salon
DELIMITED MESHINGS
Cauldron and Net (http://www.studiocleo.com/cauldron/index.html)
LUX – BRONZINO 1540
frAme #4 (http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame4/valentine.html)
SKY SCRATCHEZ
BeeHive 2:5 *Collaboration with Australian Media Artist – Mez [MaryAnne Breeze]
(http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/archive/25arc.html)
LOLLI'S APARTMENT
Riding the Meridian (http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/memmott.html)
NEXT: [N]EX(I)T
trAce – My Millennium Project (http://beehive.temporalimage.com/n_ex_i_t/)
REASONED METAGORIA
frAme#3 (http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame3/metagoria/index.html)
DELIVERY MACHINE 01
Perihelion/ Riding the Meridian
(http://www.heelstone.com/wherewewere/memmottpoetry.htm)
JILT; A ROMANCE BeeHive 1:3
(http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/archive/13arc.html)
MAPPING THE ACEPHALE BeeHive 1:1
*Collaborative critical/creative writing on Georges Bataille
(http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/archive/11arc.html)
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Video Work
THE EXQUISITE CORPUS: ISSUES IN ELECTRONIC LITERATURE /
(1-‐hour video-‐essay work) Contribution to ELMCIP, screened at ELO End(s) of Electronic
Literature Conference
TOUCHING WORDS /
(15min video-‐essay work) Contribution to ELMCIP
INTERROGATING ELECTRONIC LITERATURE /
(25min video-‐essay work) Contribution to ELMCIP
NONCE.EXECUTOR (disposable language) /
(6:30 video poem) exhibited at Language to Cover a Wall exhibition
SUNY Buffalo, UB Art Gallery
INGENSTANS /
(20min video-‐essay work) screened at ELO Archive/Innovate Conference
LANDWAVE SERIES /
(experimental signal processing video work) featured on dvBlog; screened at ELO
Archive/Innovate Conference
NAMELESS FILMS /
(short experimental narrative video works in collaboration with Sandy Florian) selections
shown at the Codework Workshop, West Virginia University; Seminar: Questions on Digital
Poetry/Questions autour des poésies numériques, University of Paris 8; Pixelerations
Festival, Providence Rhode Island)
Exhibitions
11/2016 – Shapeshifting Texts / Group Exhibition /
International Conference on Digital Media
and Textuality / Bremen, Germany
10/2016 – You/I / Group Exhibition / Paul Watkins Gallery
04/2013 – Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms/ Group Exhibition / United States
Library of Congress
11/2011 – 02/2012 – Language to Cover a Wall / Group Exhibition / SUNY, Buffalo
05/2008 – Visionary Landscapes / ELO Conference Media Arts Exhibition / University of
Washington, Vancouver
10/2006 – e and eye / series on visuality and poetry in programmable media / Tate Modern,
London
04/2005 – RE:([t|p]ro)SPECTIVE / Exhibition of seven works / Georgia Institute of Technology
04/2002 – Technopoetry Festival / Georgia Institute of Technology
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08/2001 – New (Media) Works / group exhibition / Institute of Contemporary Art, London
02/2001 – Korea Web Art Festival / group exhibition / Seoul Korea
Published Fiction
My Molly (Departed) (PRINT)
Free Dogma Press
Jack Waxing/JamJoy Dub (PRINT)
Free Dogma Press
Eye, Bataille (PRINT)
Encyclopedia
Trimalchio’s Diet
BeeHive 2:2 (http://beehive.temporalimage.com/archive/22arc.html)
Minute
Cauldron and Net (http://www.studiocleo.com/cauldron/index.html)
Charm School
Big Bridge (http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue2/Text/FictionMemmott.html)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
10/2016 – International Digital Media Arts Association – Winona State University US
Presentation: Vernacular Gestus: Meme Culture and Alienation Capital
06/2014 – ELO – University of Wisconsin US
Presentation: Pedestrionics: Meme Culture, Alienation Captial, Gestic Play
06/2012 – ELO – West Virginia University US
Presentation: Alternative Avenues in Digital Poetics Pedagogy
10/2011 – Media/Art/Culture/Innovation – Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona SE
Presentation: Interaction as Speculative and Metaphoric Simulation
06/2011 – ELMCIP, Pedagogy Workshop – Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona SE
Roundtable (Moderator): Teaching Digital Practice
05/2011 – E-‐Poetry Festival – SUNY, Buffalo
Presentation: Editorial and Curatorial Practices in Electronic Literature
07/2010 – Language Driven Media Art Seminar – Kingston University, London
Presentation: (s)Pacing
06/2010 – ELO Archive/Innovate Conference – Brown University
Keynote Address: Get off the Dead Horse and Start Walking
Screening: Ingenstans
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11/2009 – The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art
Practice Conference – – University of Bergen, Norway
Screening: Ingenstans
Panel Presentation: To begin with...In conclusion
05/2009 – E-‐Poetry Festival – Barcelona
Reading: Indeterminate Anti-‐Pop, (s)Pacing
10/2008 – Interrupt Conference and Festival – Brown University Panel Presentation That
Being Said… Reading: Molly (departed), Indeterminate Anti-‐Pop
09/2008 – Electronic Literature in Europe – University of Bergen, Norway
Reading: Molly (departed), Indeterminate Anti-‐Pop
Reviewer of Conference Papers
05/2008 – Visionary Landscapes – University of Washington, Vancouver
Panel: Transliteracy and Digital Media Research (Respondent)
Panel: Humanities + Technology + Science: The Use of Labs for the Production of Media Art
Reading: Molly (departed), Indeterminate Anti-‐Pop
04/2008 – CodeWork: exploring relations between creative writing and software
engineering A workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation – West Virginia
University
Paper: Con.Kludging Remarks by way of Introduction
Reading: Twittering, Indeterminate Anti-‐Pop, Nameless Films
02/2008 –Seminar: Questions on Digital Poetry/Questions autour des poésies numériques –
University of Paris 8
Paper: In Re:[t|p]rospect: Survey of the Ruins to Come
10/2007 – League of Worlds – Blekinge Institute of Technology
Paper: Identity to Adentity: Becom[e|ing] What You are Not
05/2007 – E-‐Poetry Festival – University of Paris
Panel: Practices of Digital Poetry
03/2007– Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference – Chicago Illinois
Paper: Technological Eschatology and the Problems of the 'Next'
11/2006– Society for Literature, Science and Art Conference – New York New York
Paper: Reading, Writing the Multimodal
11/2005– Society for Literature, Science and Art Conference – Chicago Illinois
Paper: Environmental Grammatology
Reading (Hypermedia Performance): 10 Lectures in 10 Minutes
04/2004 – Associated Writing Programs Conference – Chicago Illinois
Reading: The Brotherhood of Bent Billiard
Panel: State of Web ELiterature
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02/2004 – Electronic Writing Festival – Brown University
*Organizer, Curator, Presenter
01/2004 – Teknika Radica: Powering Up, Powering Down – UC San Diego
Performance/Lecture: Dislocution/Translocation/Electracy: The Pro[blem|mise](s) of
Electronic Writing
10/2003 – Society for Literature and Science – Austin Texas
Paper: Identity to Adentity: Network Phenomenology and the Poetics of Being Online
05/2003 – Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary
and Linguistic Computing University of Georgia, Athens
Reading: The Berth of V.ness, Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)], Lux
Paper: Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading
04/2003 – E-‐Poetry Festival – West Virginia University
Reading: The Berth of V.ness, Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)], Lux
Panel: Radical EPoetics
10/2002 – New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Institutions, and Audiences University of Iowa
Reading: The Berth of V.ness, Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]
07/2002 – Incubation 2 trAce / Nottingham UK, Nottingham Trent University
Keynote Address: A Theory of … [?]
Panel: Intermedialities Online: Codework and Beyond
Paper: Serration in Practice
07/2002 – Technotopias University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland
Panel: Intermedialities Online: Codework and Beyond
Paper: Serration in Practice
05/2002 – Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and
Emerging MindTechnologies (COCH/COSH) University of Toronto and Ryerson Polytechnic
Panel: Intermedialities Online: Codework and Beyond
Paper: Serration in Practice
04/2002 – State of the Arts Symposium Electronic Literature Organization UCLA /Los Angeles
CA
Panel: Writers Looking Ahead
07/2001 – BookTechWest San Francisco CA Publisher's
Panel: Publisher Case Studies: Marketing eBooks
05/2001 – TextOneZero Brooklyn NY
Electronic Literature Author Panel
04/2001 – Digital Art and Culture 2001 Brown University /Providence RI
Lecture: Lexia to Perplexia
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10/2000 – Book/Ends: Transformations of the Book and Redefinitions of the Humanities –
SUNY Albany
Lecture: Intertimacy and Metastrophe The 'Tweening of Identity
07/2000 – Incubation trAce / Nottingham UK, Nottingham Trent University
Lecture: Lexia to Perplexia
Demonstrations and Readings
Bergen Public Library [03/2014] Bergen Norway
E-‐Poetry Festival [06/2013] London UK
E-‐Poetry Festival [05/2011] Buffalo NY USA
E-‐Poetry Festival [05/2009] Barcelona Spain
Interrupt Conference and Festival [10/2008] Brown University
Electronic Literature in Europe [09/2008] University of Bergen, Norway
Visionary Landscapes [06/2008] University of Washington, Vancouver
E-‐Poetry Festival [05/2007] Paris France E-‐Poetry Festival [09/2005] London UK
Richard Stockton College [09/2004] New Jersey
AWP Web Fair [04/2004] Chicago IL
Hammer Museum [03/2004] UCLA, Los Angeles CA
ACM Hypertext ’03 [08/2003] University of Nottingham / Nottingham UK
ACH/ALLC [05/2003] University of Georgia / Athens GA
E-‐Poetry Festival [04/2003] West Virginia University / Morgantown WV
New Media Poetry [10/2002] University of Iowa / Iowa City IA
Brown University [10/2002] Providence RI
BookTechWest Conference [07/2001] San Francisco CA
Flying Saucer Café [05/2001] Brooklyn NY
A Night at the Cybertexts [04/2001] Brown University /Providence RI
Boston CyberArts Festival [04/2001] Boston
T1 Party / Boston MA
GIG 2.0 [12/2000] Electronic Literature Organization / Chicago IL
Big Bridge Celebration [03/1999] New College of California / San Francisco CA
My work has been the subject of a number of published articles and books, including:
Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media – Jessica Pressman
(Oxford University Press)
New Directions in Digital Poetry -‐-‐ Christopher Funkhouser
[Continuum Books]
From Synesthesias to Multimedia: How to Talk about New Media Narrative -‐-‐ Daniel Punday
in New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age
[University of Nebraska Press]
"Terminal Hopscotch": Navigating Networked Space in Talan Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia –
Lisa Swanstrom
[Contemporary Literature 52.3]
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META/DATA: A Digital Poetics -‐-‐ Mark Amerika
[MIT Press]
Avatars of Story -‐-‐ Marie-‐Laure Ryan
[Univ Of Minnesota Press]
Poetics In The Expanded field: Textual, Visual, Digital -‐-‐ Barrett Watten
in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories [MIT Press]
Talan Memmott's "Lexia to Perplexia" -‐-‐ Thomas Dreher
[Dichtung Digital] http://www.dichtung-‐digital.org/2005/2/Dreher/index-‐engl.htm
Narrative and the Split Condition of Digital Textuality -‐-‐ Marie-‐Laure Ryan
http://www.dichtung-‐digital.de/2005/1/Ryan/
Writing Machines -‐-‐ N. Katherine Hayles
[MIT Press]
Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework -‐-‐ Rita Raley
Electronic Book Review
Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia -‐-‐ N. Katherine Hayles
in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game [MIT Press]
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