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Poetics Plus: Talks & Performance | Contemporary Environmental Arts
February 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Joshua Schuster is Associate Professor of English at Western University in London, Ontario. His first book is The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant Garde Poetics (U of Alabama Press 2015). He has recently published essays on ecopoetics, Will Alexander’s exopoetics, Edward Burtynsky’s photography, and the philosophy of Derrida, Blanchot, Catherine Malabou, and Roberto Esposito. His current book project is What Is Extinction? A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals.
Judith Goldman is author of Vocoder (Roof 2001), DeathStar/Rico-chet (O Books 2006), l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011), and agon (The Operating System 2017). She is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo.
Evelyn Reilly is author of, among other works, Styrofoam, Apocalypso, and Echolocation (all Roof Books). Her work has appeared recently in Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change and The Supposium: Thought Experiments & Poethical Play in Difficult Times. Reilly lives in New York City where she has been a writer for natural history and cultural museums
Anna Scime is an award-winning artist based in Buffalo, who often experiments with moving-image-based work at the intersection of art, technology, and science. She has shown work at Burchfield Penney Art Center, Berlin International Directors Lounge, Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires), FLORA ars+natura (Bogotá), Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival, PS1 MoMA (NYC), and more.