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| Introduction | Christine Wertheim is a former painter with a PhD in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University, (UK). She teaches at the California Institute for the Arts for whom she co-organizes an annual conference: Séance (2004), Noulipo (2005), Impunities (2006), Feminaissance (2007), ArText (2008). With Matias Viegener she has co-edited two anthologies of contemporary experimental writing: Séance, Make Now Press, 2006, and The noulipian Analects, Les Figues Press, 2007. A third, Feminaissance is forthcoming in Fall 2008. The book of her own poetics +|’me’S-pace is published by Les Figues Press, 2007. Christine’s work is a poetic investigation of the English tongue, from both sides. Whilst the written version examines the side of its e|e, the spoken events highlight what’s sigh’d in the vO|dse. Christine also co-directs The Institute For Figuring, which organizes presentations and exhibitions on the intersections of art and science, recently The IFF’s Crochet Coral Reef was exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center Oct-Dec 2007. It will be at NYU and the Hayward Gallery in London, in 2008. |
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