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J. R. Carpenter is a web artist zine-maker and writer of poetry, very short fiction, long fiction, non-fiction and web-based non-linear intertextual hypermedia narratives. Sometimes she does these things separately sometimes all at once. She was raised on a farm in rural Nova Scotia and in New York City. She has been based in Montreal since 1990. She studied Life Drawing and Anatomy at the Art Students’ League of New York and Fibres and Sculpture at Concordia University in Montreal. She began using the Internet as a medium for the creation and dissemination of experimental texts in 1993. In 1995, she stumbled across the Web at the Banff Centre for the Arts Thematic Residency, "Telling Stories, Telling Tales." She made her first web-based art project for Netscape 1.1. It is still online and still works. Carpenter has worked in every aspect of the internet industry, as a writer, artist, designer, teacher, programmer, consultant, and manager of the web development team for a multi-national software company. Her pioneering works of electronic literature have been presented at museums, galleries, conferences and festivals around the world including the Musée de Beaux-arts de Montréal, OBORO, Dare-Dare and the Biennial de Montréal (Montreal), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and Images Festival (Toronto), Helen Pitt Gallery (Vancouver), The Rhizome ArtBase at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), Arnolfini (Bristol), Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland), The Web Biennial 2007 (Istanbul), Cast Gallery (Tasmania), Interrupt Festival 2008 (Brown), Media in Transition Conference 2009 (MIT), the Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2008 (Vancouver, Washington) and E-Poetry 2009 (Barcelona) and is included in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One and the forthcoming Volume Two. Her essays, art reviews, poems and short fiction have been broadcast on CBC Radio, translated into French and Spanish, and published in numerous journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally. Carpenter was named a Montreal Mirror Noisemaker in 2009 and is the winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Award (2008), the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition (2003 & 2005), and the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book for her first novel, Words the Dog Knows, published by Conundrum Press in 2008. She is a fellow of Yaddo, Ucross, Caldera, The Vermont Studio Center and the Banff Centre, and was E-Writer-in-Residence at Dartington College (UK) in the autumn of 2009. She currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of OBORO, an artist-run gallery and new media lab in Montreal. |
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