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Melinda Barlow is a professor in the film studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has published widely on avant-garde films and is the editor of Mary Lucier: Art and Performance and author of the forthcoming Lost Objects of Desire: Video Installation, Mary Lucier and the Romance of History.
Lee Ann Brown is a poet and filmmaker of mostly kitchen table films whose latest manuscript, Philtre: Writing in the Dark, 1987-2007, gathers associative writing during movies over the past twenty years. Her other books include Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press), The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press) and with Laynie Browne, Nascent Toolbox (The Owl Press). She teaches at St. John''s University in New York City and has been associated with the Naropa Institute where she had the good fortune of assisting Stan Brakhage, Harry Smith and Nathaniel Dorsky. Her film and poetry were presented at the Centre International de Posie Marseille''s conference: "Posie & Cinma Amricains" in October 1998.
Abigail Child is a filmmaker and writer who has made more than 30 films and published four books of poetry. Her forthcoming projects include Cake and Steakan experimental sound film on suburbia, gender and assimilationand This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film from the University of Alabama Presss Modern and Contemporary Poetics series.
Joshua Clover teaches English literature, film studies and critical theory at UC Davis. Recent published work includes The Totality for Kids: Poems and The Matrix. He writes the column "Marx & Coca-Cola" for Film Quarterly. His favorite movies are Band of Outsiders and Caddyshack.
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible and the coeditor of a collection of early writings by Vito Acconci. He curates the digital archive Eclipse (http://www.english.utah.edu/eclipse/).
Peter Gizzi is the author of four books of poetry, including Some Values of Landscape and Weather, and the editor of The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and a fellowship in poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Tan Lin is the author of two books of poetry, Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe and BlipSoak01. Lin is the recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant for 20042005 and a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. His video and LCD work have been shown at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, the Yale Art Museum, the Sophienholm Museum in Copenhagen and the Whitney Museum of American Arts Sound Check Series. He has taught at the University of Virginia, CalArts and Centre College. He currently teaches creative writing at New Jersey City University.
Lydia H. Liu is the W.T. Tam professor in the humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her work is focused on literary modernity in translation; the movement of words, ideas and artifacts across cultures; and the evolution of writing, textuality and technology. She has published numerous books and articles in English and Chinese, including Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity; The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making; Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations; and Writing and Materiality in China.
Tyrus Miller is Professor of Literature and Provost, Cowell College at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is author of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics of the Neo-Avantgarde (forthcoming), and the editor of Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context (forthcoming).
Organized by Daniel Tiffany (English) and David E. James (Cinematic Arts).
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