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Assembling (magazine)
''Assembling'' is an American magazine launched in 1970 as an annual publication. The full run consisted of 12 issues (issue 8 split into parts 1-3). 1,000 copies of each issue were created, three going to each person that submitted work. The remaining issues were sold to recoup the cost of compilation. Assembling was billed as "A collection of otherwise unpublishable manuscripts." No contribution was rejected for publication. Contributors were invited to submit their work, which had to be printed at their own expense, in editions of 1,000. Submissions could be anything the contributors wanted, printed on up to four 8 1/2" x 11" pages. The stated goal of Assembling was to "open the editorial/industrial complex to alternatives and possibilities. The short-range goal is to provide the means for unpublished and otherwise unpublishable work to see print light and to consider what other kindred spirits and spooks are doing." Richard Kostelanetz stated he was influenced to create the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic. Birth and education Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. (1962) from Brown University and an M.A. (1966) in American History from Columbia University under Woodrow Wilson, NYS Regents, and International Fellowships; he also studied at King's College London as a Fulbright Scholar during 1964-1965.''Directory of American Scholars'', 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 350. He is the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation (1967), Pulitzer Foundation (1965), the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm (1981–1983), Vogelstein Foundation (1980), Fund for Investigative Journalism (1981), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001), CCLM (1981), ASCAP (1983 annually to the present), American Public Radio Program Fund (1984), and the National Endowment for the Arts with ten individual awards (1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Sondheim
Alan Sondheim is a poet, critic, musician, artist, and theorist of cyberspace from the United States. Biography Alan Sondheim was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from Brown University. He lives with his partner, Azure Carter, in Providence, Rhode Island. Works Sondheim's books include the anthology ''Being on Line: Net Subjectivity'' (1997), ''Disorders of the Real'' (1988), ''.echo'' (2001), ''Vel'' (Blazevox, 2004-5), ''Sophia'' (Writers Forum, 2004), ''The Wayward'' (2004), and "Writing Under" (2012), as well as other chapbooks, ebooks, and articles. Sondheim has long been associated with the trAce online writing community, and was their second virtual-writer-in-residence. His video and filmwork have been widely shown. Sondheim was an Eyebeam resident. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture and Wryting. Since 1994, he has been working on the "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bern Porter
Bernard Harden Porter (February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the avant-garde art movements Mail Art and Found Poetry. In 2010, his work was recognized by an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Biography Bern Porter was born in Maine and studied physics, chemistry, and economics at Colby College, and graduated in 1932. He went on to get an M.S. from Brown University. Porter's talent showed itself at Ricker Junior College and he soon received a scholarship at the prestigious private Colby College in Waterville, Maine. His main subjects were physics, chemistry and economics. Porter earned his master's degree at Brown University. In 1935, Porter received a job with the Acheson Colloids Corporation in New York. He worked on the development of the coating of the television picture tube with a graphite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Jacobsen
Ruth Jacobsen (8 April 1932 - 19 February 2019) was a German-born lesbian artist and a Hidden Child of the Holocaust. During the Second World War, she fled with her parents to the Netherlands where she was hidden by the Dutch resistance until she was reunited with her parents towards the end of the war. Traumatized by the war, her parents both committed suicide. In 1953, she emigrated to the United States to stay with distant family and there became a textiles designer. Working as the first female film projectionist in New York, she helped create a training program for women entering that profession. Jacobsen increasingly devoted her time to art using family letters and photographs in order to cope with her childhood traumas. She is remembered in particular for her collage works centred on the Holocaust. Biography Born in Frankenburg, Germany, on 8 April 1932, Ruth Jacobsen was the daughter of Walter Jacobsen and his wife Paula. Faced with the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davi Det Hompson
Davi Det Hompson (1939–1996), also known as David E. Thompson, born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, and raised in Warren, Ohio, was a Fluxus book artist, concrete poet, creator of mail art, sculptor and painter living and working in Richmond, Virginia. Hompson's chosen professional name was a ''nom d'art'' for David E. Thompson and a transposition of the letters of his name. Early mail art, posters, pamphlets, fluxus books, and performances An early collaborative audio performance by Davi Det Hompson was his 1969 participation in ''Various—Art by Telephone'', a vinyl Long-playing, LP compilation by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Museum curator David H. Katzive chose sound works by Davi Det Hompson and other notable artists of the time, including Arman, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Dick Higgins, Ed Kienholz, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Walter de Maria, and William Wegman (photographer), William Wegman for this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jochen Gerz
Jochen Gerz (born 4 April 1940) is a German conceptual artist who lived in France from 1966 to 2007. His work involves the relationship between art and life, history and memory, and deals with concepts such as culture, society, public space, participation and public authorship. After beginning his career in the literary field, Gerz has in the meantime explored various artistic disciplines and diverse media. Whether he works with text, photography, Video art, video, Artist's book, artist books, Installation art, installation, Performance art, performance, or on public authorship pieces and processes, at the heart of Gerz's practice is the search for an art form that can contribute to the res publica and to democracy. Gerz lives in Sneem, County Kerry, Ireland, since 2007. Career An autodidact, Jochen Gerz began his career in literature and later transitioned to art. He began writing and translating in the early 1960s (Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington), while occasionally working as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Federman
Raymond Federman (May 15, 1928 – October 6, 2009) was a French–American novelist and academic, known also for poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. He held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999, when he was appointed Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Federman was a writer in the experimental style, one that sought to deconstruct traditional prose. This type of writing is quite prevalent in his book ''Double or Nothing'', in which the linear narrative of the story has been broken down and restructured so as to be nearly incoherent. Words are also often arranged on pages to resemble images or to suggest repetitious themes. Biography Federman, who was Jewish, was born in Montrouge, France. He was 14 years old when his parents hid him in a small stairway landing closet as Gestapo arrived at the family home in Nazi-occupied France. His family was taken away, and his parents and two sisters were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Federman h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Edson
Russell Edson (né Edelstein; 12 December 1928 – April 29, 2014) was an American poet, novelist, writer, and illustrator. He was the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson and Gladys Cedar Edson. Born in Manhattan, New York City, Edson studied art early in life and attended the Art Students League as a teenager. He began publishing poetry in the 1950s. His honors as a poet include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, and several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Edson self-published several chapbooks and later, numerous collections of prose poetry, fables, two novels, ''Gulping's Recital'' and ''The Song of Percival Peacock'', and a book of plays under the title, ''The Falling Sickness''. His final book was ''See Jack'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). He lived in Darien, Connecticut with his wife Frances. Selected bibliography Full-length prose poetry collections * ''See Jack'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) * ''The Rooster's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Cohen (American Writer)
Marvin Cohen (July 6, 1931 – March 15, 2025) was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, poet, humorist, and Surrealism, surrealist. He was the author of numerous books, two of which were published by New Directions Publishing, and several plays. His shorter writings — stories, parables, allegories, and essays — have appeared in more than 80 publications, including ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Village Voice'', ''The Nation'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', Vogue (British magazine), ''Vogue'', ''Fiction (American magazine), Fiction'', ''The Hudson Review'', ''Quarterly Review of Literature'', ''Transatlantic Review (1959–77), Transatlantic Review'' and New Directions Publishing, New Directions annuals. His 1980 play ''The Don Juan and the Non-Don Juan'' was first performed at the Shakespeare in the Park (New York City), New York Shakespeare Festival as part of the Poets at the Public Series. Staged readings of the play have featured actors Richard Dreyfuss, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeline Gins
Madeline Helen Arakawa Gins (November 7, 1941 – January 8, 2014) was an American artist, architect, and poet. Early life and education Gins was born in New York City, November 7, 1941, and raised on Long Island, in the village of Island Park. She studied physics and Eastern philosophy at Barnard College. Career Gins met her partner and husband, artist Shusaku Arakawa, in 1963, while studying painting at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. One of their earlier collaborations, "The Mechanism of Meaning", was shown in its entirety at the 1997 Guggenheim exhibition, ''Arakawa/Gins – Reversible Destiny/We Have Decided Not to Die''. In 1987, as a means of financing the design and construction of works of architecture (that draw on The Mechanism of Meaning), Arakawa and Gins founded the Reversible Destiny Foundation. The Foundation actively collaborates with practitioners in a wide range of disciplines including, experimental biology, neuroscience, quantum physics, experimental phenom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Baxandall
Lee Raymond Baxandall (January 26, 1935 – November 28, 2008) was an American writer, translator, editor, and activist. He was first known for his New Left engagement with cultural topics and then as a leader of the naturist movement. Early life Lee R. Baxandall was born on January 26, 1935, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Neita Evelyn (née Lee) and Raymond W. Baxandall. He attended Oshkosh High School. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and a Master of Arts in 1958 in English, studied comparative literature at the doctoral level, and became one of the editors of '' Studies on the Left'', a New Left intellectual journal known for its free-wheeling qualities. In 1960, Baxandall traveled to revolutionary Cuba. Theatre work Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Baxandall demonstrated a strong interest in the relationship between culture, particularly theatre, and radicalism. He translated plays by Peter Weiss and Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
