Lives in New York, NY
Born 1957. Seattle, WA
Writer, Professor
My principal aim in the past fifteen years has been to produce an "ambient" literature, really a mode of literature rather than a recognizable genre, that would be permeable and could disable the rigid categorization of work into such categories as poetry, fiction and literary criticism/poetics. This project is grounded in relaxing certain parameters and engaging a set of (generic) practices that I see functioning in the culture at large, but that are not normally regarded as productive for the making of serious literature or literary criticism. Those practices center around but are not confined to sampling, communal production and social networks. They link to issues as diverse as relaxed copyright, boredom, plagiarism and the commodification of attention. Working against avant-garde notions of difficulty, the work takes its cue from various popular cultural forms, including yoga, disco, the decorative arts, television, twentieth century sound poetry and electronica. I am presently working to complete a sampled novel, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand.
1995 Ph.D, Columbia University
1981 M.A., Columbia University
1979 B.A., Carleton College
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, New Jersey City University
1999 Visiting Poet-in-Residence, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1993 - 1999 Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia
2011 BIB., Rev. Ed., Vienna, AT: Westphalie Verlag
2011 Heath Course Pak, Denver, CO: Counterpath Press
2011 Insomnia and the Aunt, Chicago, IL: Kenning Editions
2010 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004: The Joy of Cooking, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press
2007 Plagiarism/Outsource: Notes Towards the Definition of Culture: Untilted Heath Ledger Project: A History of the Search Engine: Disco OS, La Laguna, Canary Islands: Zasterle Press
2003 BlipSoak01, Berkeley, CA: Atelos Press
1996 Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, Los Angeles, CA: Sun and Moon Press
2010 The Evryali Score, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
2010 The Baghdad Batteries, MoMA/P.S. 1, Greater New York Rotating Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Chinese Chalk in a Parking Lot, and TwitterChalk, Performa 09, New York, NY
2005 Code Residue, VertexList, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Input, with Maya Lin, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2002 Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2001 Poetry Plastique, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2006 - 2007 Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant, The Andy Warhol Foundation
2006 - 2007 Urban Artist/Initiative/NYC Grant, The Asian American Arts Alliance
2004 The J. Paul Getty Visiting Scholar Fellowship, The Getty Trust
2004 Honorable Mention for Fiction, The Pushcart Prize
