IAS News

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Score for a Prison Town” is included in Of Texas, an exhibition and publication of instruction or score-based artworks, poems, and texts created by people who live in Texas, are from Texas, or are somehow deeply connected to Texas; or otherwise, “of Texas.” The exhibit will have an opening reception at ...

Hugo House published an interview with IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen and co-reader Kenji C Liu about their Spotlight Poetry reading at Hugo House in Seattle on Thursday, September 26, 2019 as well as their paths to poetry and recent books. Spotlight readings feature ...

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen's "Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu" was chosen as Split This Rock's Poem of the Week and was published in the Quarry: a Social Justice Poetry Database.  The poem uses the Japanese hybrid form of zuihitsu to explore connections and kindnesses among strangers in the context of ecological disaster.

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is represented in the current exhibition at the KunstTempel in Kassel, Germany, curated by Friedrich Block. POESIS: Sparchekunst/Language Art (August 29–October 6, 2019) is "snapshot of international language art," featuring 63 artists from 17 countries. The show celebrates the 20th anniversary of the gallery and Block's p0es1s project. Borsuk's text generator Book of Dust will be one of the digital artworks shown. Book of Dust pays homage to Alison Knowles and James Tenney’s A House of Dust (1967), one of the earliest examples of computationally-generated poetry. The original program generated imaginative art installations as venues for happenings and community building using the following structure:

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk gave a short interview on the Beyond the Book podcast this week. She and host Chris Kenneally discussed the book as both an interface and material container, touching on its changing form and its future. Listen here.