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Site:  CONTORTIONS Jennifer T. Ley - Bloomfield, New Jersey based, web.art, hypermedia, electronic literature, USA |
| Site Description: Using the aptly named software Poser and a grab bag of Javascript web effects, Contortions explores issues of Pornography, Free Speech, Gender Bending and Resource Utilization on the internet in the 21st century. |
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Site Creator: Ley's most recent web work, the amniotic meander, [ http://www.heelstone.com/amniotic] offered an auction of the props used to create its visuals to benefit the September 11th Children's Fund. She is a member of the Electronic Literature Organization's Literary Advisory Board. |
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Jennifer T. Ley 7 Ernst Avenue Hypermedia Publications/Web Design (1996 - 2001) Hypermedia Projects, Exhibits, Essays, Articles: the amniotic meander NEH Summer Seminar - 2001 - Literature in Transition: The Impact of Information Technologies, led by N. Katherine Hayles at UCLA [Non-resident participant] Participant in Brave New Word -- A two evening program of web.art and net.lit presentations at the Guggenheim Museum, sponsored by American Letters & Commentary, June 2001 War Games -- Catch the Land Mine !! BeeHive Volume 4: Number 2, June 2001. Premiered at E-Poetry 2000 sponsored by SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Department, April 2001 Chickenalia -- Musings on Menopause Ex[re]pression -- Who Speaks for the People, at Sunbrella.net as part of the D2K Image Event, Fall 2000 Upcoming in War DOCK(S) cd/rom and print The Birth of Detachment: A Postmodern Art History Meditation -- in a limited edition paper version from PaperBrain Press Online at the Iowa Review Web (Requires Netscape 4.0 or above), Fall 2000 Incubation in the Digital Lascaux -- created for the Ink.ubation Salon curated by Mark Amerika, sponsored by trAce online writing community, July 2000 In the Footsteps of the Father in Cauldron & Net, Spring 2000 Fool's Gold at EPC in Poems for April, Spring 2000 Daddy Liked His With Heart -- frAme4 -- Love in the Digital Revolution- curated by Christy Sheffield Sanford, February 2000; also in the Artist's Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2000 and at INFOS 2000 Guggenheim Museum as part of Brave New Word, June 2001 Home is Where the Heart(h) Is -- the Valentine Files, curated by David Knoebel at EPC, February 2000 On Gold and Silver Ages and the Elements of Hypertext -- an essay in Pif Magazine, January 2000 The Body Politic -- included in the web anthology, My Millennium, curated by Christy Sheffield Sanford and hosted by the trAce Online Writing Community, July 1999 Digital Arts and Culture, Artists Salon, sponsored by Georgia Tech, October 1999 Cauldron & Net, November 1999 Light is Silent -- featured at the Australian web and cd/rom magazine the Animist; archived by the Australian National Library, February 1999 Talking Hands -- featured at the online magazine Conspire, November 1998 Sky Ship -- featured at Snakeskin, an online magazine based in the UK, October 1998 Editor/Publisher/Web Designer (1996 - 2001) Riding the Meridian -- http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/ Online poetry magazine devoted to promoting new electronic literature. Launched May 1999. The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks -- http://www.heelstone.com/ A Hypertext poetry and graphics site featuring work by over 100 poets. Launched September 1996. Creator, Co-Founder and First Editor of Perihelion -- hosted by WebDelSol. Launched July 1998. Poetry (1995 - 2001) Publications: Nominated for two Pushcart Awards in 1998, a sampling of literary magazines and web sites which have published Ms. Ley's text poetry include: Rattapallax, Agnieszka's Dowry, Salt River Review, Terrain, Octavo, Tintern Abbey, the Poetry Calendar, Pif, Beehive, Mobius, Conspire, Recursive Angel, Gravity, 2River View, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Salonika, Moveo Angelus, Grist, The Melic Review, Zero City and PoetryMagazine.com, where she was the featured poet in August 1998. Essay in American Letters & Commentary, fall 2000. Print Anthologies: Silhouettes in the Electric Sky, Will Work for Peace, Athens Avenue Arts and Environmental Publishing (1990 - 1995) Executive Director/Editor: Crayon Power, a not-for-profit environmental education organization produced a nationally distributed activity journal used by elementary and middle school students. Each issue included illustrated pull-out letter pages published to raise environmental awareness, created by a rotating group of artists and illustrators including: Caroline Burton, Barbara Henry, Salem Krieger, Bryan Perrin. Endorsed by: the United Nations Environment Programme, Scholastic, Inc., the Rainforest Alliance and Rainforest Action Network, among many other environmental, educational and human rights organizations. Funded by: Aveda's Give to the Earth Foundation, PSE & G, the Puffin Foundation, Human-i-Tees, the United Methodist Church, and the Loretto Community. Paintings and Performance Art -- Representative Exhibitions (1982 - 1999) One Person Shows: Civilisation, New York City Greenwich House Pottery, New York City Selected Group Shows: Incorporated, New York City Parsons School of Design - Work Fellowship Education B.Sc. Art Education, studio concentration in ceramics and photography, Professional Associations: Founding member, ILEF -- the Internet Literary Editors' Fellowship
-- www.ilef.org An online version of this resume, with all web works linked, is available at: http://www.heelstone.com/resume/ |
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