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eredienThis was from the Warren Ellis email list. Anyone out there who does graphic novels or comics interested? I'm interested that they're doing this. Are we--gasp--'going mainstream?' [Crossposted to next_of_kin]
*Subject:* CALL FOR GRAPHIC NOVELISTS IN ACADEMIC BOOK
We are trying to reach graphic novel-comic-hybrid image fiction makers
to call for graphic works. I am a digital media professor / artist at
Hunter College, NYC, and i'm working on a collection of fiction and
theory called _reskin_ with my collaborator austin booth (to be
published with the academic publisher MIT Press this year). We mix
fiction and theoretical works in the book dealing with body
modification, skin, and technologies of the crossing of boundaries:
transgender, transpecies, virtual and physical... the volume explores
the fluidity-permeability between categories relating to skin and the
body, especially how technology plays a role in these crossings. We're
especially interested on issues of race and technology. The current
table of contents (sans graphic work) is located below...
We would love to include a graphic novel excerpt or short piece with the
other works in the collection. There are some other visual works in the
volume, such as the tattoo novel project in which participants in her
large scale literary work tattooed themselves with an individual from
the work; she then photographed the words on skin... Unf. MIT only
publishes in B/W
We'd like to publish 1-2 excerpts or entire works of 3-20 pages in the
_reskin_ collection.
As we're working with a nonprofit publisher, the benefit to the artist
would be exposure to your work in artistic, literary, and academic
circles and hopefully more attention to the work of graphic
novelists/storytellers in general. MIT Press has probably not published
any graphic fiction and our collection could pave the way for more
blurring of genre boundaries between art, literature, fiction, and theory.
We are also seeking pieces which explore the act of computer programming
for a future volume called re:CODE; in this volume, we're especially
interested in the act of programming, the way the programmer makes worlds.
Please send links to work for either project (urls are best) to
mary.flanagan@hunter.cuny.edu
deadline for consideration is February 25th 2005.
many thanks all,
mary flanagan
_______
Reskin Table of Contents:
I. Inside, Outside, Surface
(non fiction) Alicia Imperiale, “Seminal Space: Getting Under the
Digital Skin”
(fiction) L. Timmel Duchamp, "The Man Who Was Plugged In"
(non fiction) Melinda Rackham, “Soft Skinned Species”
(non fiction) Bernadette Wegenstein, “Making Room for the Body: From
Fragmentation to Mediation” (non fiction) Vivian Sobchack, "On
Morphological Criticism"
(fiction) Raphael Carter "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation"
II. Transgression
(fiction / non fiction) Sara Diamond, "Fur Manifesto"
(fiction) Nalo Hopkinson, “Ganger”
(non fiction) Rebecca Cannon, “Perfect Twins: Transgender Avatars”
(fiction) Jewelle Gomez, “Lynx and Strand”
(fiction) Elisabeth Vonarburg, "Readers of the Lost Art"
III. Mapping
(non fiction) Christina Lammer, "Eye Contact: Fine Moving Hands and the
Flesh and Flood of Image Fabrication in the Operating Theatres of
Interventional Radiology"
(fiction / non fiction) Shelley Jackson, “SKIN”
(non fiction) Mary Flanagan, "Reskinning the Everyday"
*Subject:* CALL FOR GRAPHIC NOVELISTS IN ACADEMIC BOOK
We are trying to reach graphic novel-comic-hybrid image fiction makers
to call for graphic works. I am a digital media professor / artist at
Hunter College, NYC, and i'm working on a collection of fiction and
theory called _reskin_ with my collaborator austin booth (to be
published with the academic publisher MIT Press this year). We mix
fiction and theoretical works in the book dealing with body
modification, skin, and technologies of the crossing of boundaries:
transgender, transpecies, virtual and physical... the volume explores
the fluidity-permeability between categories relating to skin and the
body, especially how technology plays a role in these crossings. We're
especially interested on issues of race and technology. The current
table of contents (sans graphic work) is located below...
We would love to include a graphic novel excerpt or short piece with the
other works in the collection. There are some other visual works in the
volume, such as the tattoo novel project in which participants in her
large scale literary work tattooed themselves with an individual from
the work; she then photographed the words on skin... Unf. MIT only
publishes in B/W
We'd like to publish 1-2 excerpts or entire works of 3-20 pages in the
_reskin_ collection.
As we're working with a nonprofit publisher, the benefit to the artist
would be exposure to your work in artistic, literary, and academic
circles and hopefully more attention to the work of graphic
novelists/storytellers in general. MIT Press has probably not published
any graphic fiction and our collection could pave the way for more
blurring of genre boundaries between art, literature, fiction, and theory.
We are also seeking pieces which explore the act of computer programming
for a future volume called re:CODE; in this volume, we're especially
interested in the act of programming, the way the programmer makes worlds.
Please send links to work for either project (urls are best) to
mary.flanagan@hunter.cuny.edu
deadline for consideration is February 25th 2005.
many thanks all,
mary flanagan
_______
Reskin Table of Contents:
I. Inside, Outside, Surface
(non fiction) Alicia Imperiale, “Seminal Space: Getting Under the
Digital Skin”
(fiction) L. Timmel Duchamp, "The Man Who Was Plugged In"
(non fiction) Melinda Rackham, “Soft Skinned Species”
(non fiction) Bernadette Wegenstein, “Making Room for the Body: From
Fragmentation to Mediation” (non fiction) Vivian Sobchack, "On
Morphological Criticism"
(fiction) Raphael Carter "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation"
II. Transgression
(fiction / non fiction) Sara Diamond, "Fur Manifesto"
(fiction) Nalo Hopkinson, “Ganger”
(non fiction) Rebecca Cannon, “Perfect Twins: Transgender Avatars”
(fiction) Jewelle Gomez, “Lynx and Strand”
(fiction) Elisabeth Vonarburg, "Readers of the Lost Art"
III. Mapping
(non fiction) Christina Lammer, "Eye Contact: Fine Moving Hands and the
Flesh and Flood of Image Fabrication in the Operating Theatres of
Interventional Radiology"
(fiction / non fiction) Shelley Jackson, “SKIN”
(non fiction) Mary Flanagan, "Reskinning the Everyday"
