The MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts is pleased to present Lost and Found: On Translation, curated by Diana Isabel Colón. This exhibition presents the work of a diverse group of artists who explore language’s dual role as a means to foster intimacy and as a political tool for exerting power.
Lost and Found: On Translation examines translation as a critical medium for cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication, while also acknowledging its limitations in capturing the historical and contextual nuances essential for genuine understanding. It argues that empathy is an essential complement to translation, underscoring the importance of the desire to understand each other in fostering global connections. Through a variety of artistic approaches, the works highlight themes of identity, the challenges of mistranslation, the influence of prejudice and power, and the ability of language to transcend its traditional barriers.
1 March 2024 - 23 April 2024
I’m pleased to have my work exhibited in the Vision Unbound online exhibition curated by Dene Grigar and hosted by The NEXT and the Electronic Literature Lab. “A dictionary of the revolution” is included along with work by Melody Mou Peijing, Priti Pandurangan, and Marisa Parham.
“Coastal Carolina University writer-in-residence Amira Hanafi is living
evidence that traditional artistic genres are not only flexible, but
boundless; for example, poetry is art, and art, poetry.
Hanafi has long operated on this principle and taught it in her writing
classes, yet her accomplishment at ArtFields, a regional art competition
held annually in Lake City, S.C., has reinforced the concept and
solidified it within a broader public.”
A dictionary of the revolution is included in this summer’s Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library in London, UK. Learn more at Fine Books Magazine.
25 May 2023
The computer is “utterly a human artifact,” according to poet Robert
Pinsky. “It reeks of us, as do our trombones, cars, scissors, parades,
pizzas.” The poets, writers, and artists in this series use this “human
artifact”—the computer—to produce creative texts. Some provoke machine
learning models; others write alongside them. Some shape digital texts
from the ground up, bit by bit, while others use the Internet to
facilitate community participation. We find that the concerns and the
aura of their works are unmistakably human—not despite their use of
computation, but because of it.
Human Artifacts is the title of the Spring 2023 Broadside Reading Series curated by Allison Parish.
Happening twice annually, it features six writers from various
backgrounds and writing disciplines, collaborating with Center for Book
Arts’ Artists-in-Residence to create a collection of limited edition
letterpress-printed broadsides. Each collaboration explores the
relationship of text, image, and design, incorporating the artists’
visual conveyance of writers’ poetry and prose. To celebrate these
collaborative broadsides, CBA will host two online readings by the
authors accompanied by the artists they worked with.
Of the work, the judges commented: “For the grand prize, we ultimately selected a forward-thinking, cutting-edge piece that speaks to the future of the visual arts. The artist’s work bridges technical skill, wit, and ingenuity to provide a subtle yet forceful commentary about migration, dislocation, and possible human connectivity.”
The Words to Say It Writers Series presents a faculty showcase reading by writer-in-residence Amira Hanafi on Tuesday, March 21, at 5:30 PM in the Alford Ballroom (Atheneum Hall, Room 105) at Coastal Carolina University.
17 March 2023
If, Then: Technology and Poetics is a working group and workshop series that meets monthly over Zoom. Register for the event.
On Friday, March 17th at 1PM, I will lead an online session
on my project, CreaTures Glossary, “a set of tools for giving
meaning to a lexicon of terms related to creative practice and
transformational change.” An interactive project that calls users to
imagine a radical digital commons, the CreaTures Glossary understands
language “as a site where displays of power are continuously produced
and contested. Rather than produce fixed definitions, the Glossary
distributes power to define language throughout the community or
collective that interacts with it.” Check out the project and
accompanying toolkit on the website here.
This event is part of If,
Then: Technology and Poetics, a collaborative, public, and
interdisciplinary virtual working group and workshop series promoting
inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation. Supported
by Carolina Seminars and the Digital Literacy and Communications Lab at
UNC.
Carly Schnitzler
is the founder and co-director of If, Then. When she is not writing her
dissertation, she can be found daydreaming about future If, Then events
and walking around listening to an audiobook. She can be reached at
cschnitz [at] live [dot] unc [dot] edu.
Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram joined If, Then as a co-director in the spring of 2021, after hosting the group’s first large event the previous fall. They are a brilliant poet and teacher, whose books include Travesty Generator and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise.
The aim of the webinar E-LITERATURE: EXPLORATIONS IN LITERARY CREATIVITY is to deliberate on the problematization of
literary and theoretical canons by E-lit, the practice of intertextuality and
interdisciplinarity, the social and cultural parameters of literary
production, the practical approaches to teaching digital literature and the
emergence of this form in the developing world.
Organized by Prof. Simi Malhotra, Dr. Shimi Moni Doley, Dr. Sumaiyah Naaz, and Dr. Shazia Salam.
A dictionary of the revolution is on view in the 5th Casablanca
International Biennale, titledThe Words Create Images
and curated by the Cameroonian art historian and critic Christine
Eyene. The exhibition runs from 17 November to 17 December at the
American Arts Center in Casablanca.
I just arrived here in Lafayette, Indiana to attend the SLSA 2022 Annual Meeting (Society for Literature, Science and the Arts). The theme of the conference is Reading Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and the Reading Human. I’m excited to connect with other artists and scholars who are working with computers, language, reading, and writing
I’ll be presenting on a panel entitled “Socially Transformative Art and Literature” this Saturday at 2:30pm, along with Cole Adams and Li Qi Peh. I’ll talk about my work building the CreaTures Glossary and how my approach is connected to recent social, political, and personal upheavals.
4 Sep 2022
I spent a beautiful morning on Zoom with a lovely group of people including RE-PEAT organizers and participants of Peat-Fest 2022. I led a co-creation workshop for the CreaTures Glossary on the closing day of the annual festival. It was a delight to bathe in the creative wisdom this group generated over the past days of lectures and workshops.
This afternoon, I diligently documented the language we generated on the Glossary platform. Check it out and participate at https://glossary.languagin.gs.
4 Sep 2022
I’m excited that I’ve just started the coming school year as Writer in Residence in the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University and to work with students with this semester to co-create nurturing workshop spaces.
Image
of a blackboard with chalk notes for a creative nonfiction workshop
taking place at the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts in
Conway, South Carolina, US.
