When Jonathan Ball published his first book, EX MACHINA, he issued it under a Creative Commons license that allows for non-commercial, unauthorized derivations.
So far, elements of the book have been remixed into other poems (by Colin Smith and Ryan Fitzpatrick), a children’s book (by John Toone), industrial music (by Patrick Short of Electric Candles), and a graphic fiction chapbook (by GMB Chomichuk).
BookThug, EX MACHINA’s publisher, is considering an anthology of further remixes in some form. This notice serves as an open invitation for artists of all stripes to engage with the text of this open source, open-ended book.
EX MACHINA has been called a “very unique long poem ... exploring the interface between man and machine” (Calgary’s FFWD) that “complicat[es] in a real and tangible way our relationship to the book” (Ryan Fitzpatrick, author of Fake Math). Governor General’s Award-winning author Robert Kroetsch has called Ball “one of our most exciting young poets” and EX MACHINA “fresh, daring, [and] original.”
Submissions to jonathan@jonathanball.com by November 4, 2010.
More information:
About EX MACHINA
www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=200915
A long poem at the fringes of the Canadian tradition, EX MACHINA is a latticework of poetic and philosophical statements concerning the symbiosis of humans, books, and machines. A series of three intertwining sequences, the reader is encouraged to move back and forth from statement to statement, seeking development but meeting frustration. The reader thus becomes a larval stage in the poem’s development, forging connections between its disparate parts during the course of this mental processing, as the text evolves over multiple readings.
About Jonathan Ball
www.jonathanball.com
Jonathan Ball holds a Ph.D. (English) from the University of Calgary and teaches creative writing in the city of Winnipeg. He is the author of EX MACHINA (BookThug, 2009) and the forthcoming CLOCKFIRE (Coach House, 2010). His film SPOONY B appeared on The Comedy Network, and the independent feature film SNAKE RIVER is based on a screenplay he co-wrote. He is the former editor of the literary journal dandelion, and the former short films programmer of the Gimli Film Festival.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Comic Chapbook remix of Ex Machina
GMB Chomichuk (of Alchemical Press) remixes Ex Machina as an endless chapbook: http://comicalchemy.blogspot.com/2010/06/doompilot-mobilis.html
The comic loops -- the physical book is a single page, double-sided, and you keep turning the book over and over as you read.
The comic loops -- the physical book is a single page, double-sided, and you keep turning the book over and over as you read.
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