Hi, Friends! Happy Christmas! Happy Holidays! Happy New Year! 1. Another historical book is under construction! The best of Karenina.it Project. If you like to be involved by publishing a teoretical or critical short essay about new media / experimental poetry, in the new book I am preparing, send your piece, READY FOR PUBLICATION, to me by e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not more than 3-4 pages long). It will published before in the web site, then, within this new year 2003, in a 150 pages paper version, which will be the catalogue of the exhibition, of which I explain in the point 2. Please join a 10 lines bio with your former publications. Dead line: January 31st 2003
2. We are working at a great world wide visual / digital visual poetry exhibition, at the Bottonera Mill (SO, I) in the next spring, on the theme: Poetry Migrations/Transit/E-Fluxes/. General Curator: Caterina Davinio. The exhibition will present historicized experimental artists and young artists. To submit for this initiative send your piece, with your signature, ready to be shown, format A4, A3 to: Davinio Art Electronics, V. Sassi 10, 23900 Lecco (LC) Italy. Join a 10 lines bio and an artist's statement. Your work will not be returned, it will remain as archives material for further itinerant developments of the exhibition. It will not be given for sale, it will be shown only for cultural purpose. Please specify on you mail "Cultural Material/No Commercial Value". To send materials means to accept all the conditions. Dead line: February 15th 2003. For what concerns my last essay, Techno Poetry and Virtual Reality (Tecno-poesia e realta virtuali, bilingual Italian / English), I know I promised to some of you to send a copy of the book, unfortunately I myself received no single copy from the publisher yet. I protested, but with no chance, so I'm waiting. Please, be not angry with me. I remember the essay is about the international new media poetry landscape and presents 130 international artists + a special section dedicated to the video festivals and web projects curated by me since 1990. Publisher: Sometti, Mantova, 2002 Preface by Eugenio Miccini. pp. 320 ISBN 88-88091-85-8 To order the book write to: Editoriale Sometti c/o Centro Culturale "Baratta" Corso Garibaldi 88 46100 MANTOVA - ITALY Price: Euro 6 + mail cost. Fax: 0039 (0)376 352714 Or to: Davinio Art Electronics Via Sassi 10 23900 Lecco (LC) - Italia Here you pay nothing, friends, but I will have only a very limited number of copies to send free to journals, friends, cultural institution (for international archives). To read the list of the enclosed artists and more information see Karenina.it: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/daviniobook.htm Last but not least! If you like to read poetry, take a look to my "Serial Phenomenologies", a recent poetry work translated into English, in the review "Generatorpress" N. 12 (Cleveland OH, USA, John Byrum Publisher ). Follow the link here: http://www.generatorpress.com/pages/3/index.htm And of course let me know what you think. Happy, happy Holiday from the far Italy to you all. Caterina Davinio -- KARENINA.IT (poetry in phatic function) A web project by Caterina Davinio [EMAIL PROTECTED] on line since 1998 - By Jakobson, phatic is the use of the language which has the finality to maintain open and operative the communication channel among the interlocutors. On the confine between art and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is a virtual meeting place around the theme of the writing and the new technologies, in which experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians converge, in a net that counts thousands of contacts in the world. http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html
