I plucked this off the BadSignal list. It’s something Warren got in an e-mail. I thought it sounded like it could be rather fascinating, so I’m passing it on. I know there’s writers and artists here.
We are trying to reach graphic novel-comic-hybrid image fiction makers to call for graphic works. I am a digital media professor / artist at Hunter College, NYC, and i’m working on a collection of fiction and theory called _reskin_ with my collaborator austin booth (to be published with the academic publisher MIT Press this year). We mix fiction and theoretical works in the book dealing with body modification, skin, and technologies of the crossing of boundaries: transgender, transpecies, virtual and physical… the volume explores the fluidity-permeability between categories relating to skin and the body, especially how technology plays a role in these crossings. We’re especially interested on issues of race and technology. The current table of contents (sans graphic work) is located below…
We would love to include a graphic novel excerpt or short piece with the other works in the collection. There are some other visual works in the volume, such as the tattoo novel project in which participants in her large scale literary work tattooed themselves with an individual from the work; she then photographed the words on skin… Unf. MIT only publishes in B/W
We’d like to publish 1-2 excerpts or entire works of 3-20 pages in the _reskin_ collection.
As we’re working with a nonprofit publisher, the benefit to the artist would be exposure to your work in artistic, literary, and academic circles and hopefully more attention to the work of graphic novelists/storytellers in general. MIT Press has probably not published any graphic fiction and our collection could pave the way for more blurring of genre boundaries between art, literature, fiction, and theory.
We are also seeking pieces which explore the act of computer programming for a future volume called re:CODE; in this volume, we’re especially interested in the act of programming, the way the programmer makes worlds.
Please send links to work for either project (urls are best) to
mary.flanagan@hunter.cuny.edu
deadline for consideration is February 25th 2005.
many thanks all,
mary flanagan
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Reskin Table of Contents:
I. Inside, Outside, Surface
(non fiction) Alicia Imperiale, “Seminal Space: Getting Under the Digital Skin”
(fiction) L. Timmel Duchamp, “The Man Who Was Plugged In”
(non fiction) Melinda Rackham, “Soft Skinned Species”
(non fiction) Bernadette Wegenstein, “Making Room for the Body: From Fragmentation to Mediation” (non fiction) Vivian Sobchack, “On Morphological Criticism”
(fiction) Raphael Carter “Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation”
II. Transgression
(fiction / non fiction) Sara Diamond, “Fur Manifesto”
(fiction) Nalo Hopkinson, “Ganger”
(non fiction) Rebecca Cannon, “Perfect Twins: Transgender Avatars”
(fiction) Jewelle Gomez, “Lynx and Strand”
(fiction) Elisabeth Vonarburg, “Readers of the Lost Art”
III. Mapping
(non fiction) Christina Lammer, “Eye Contact: Fine Moving Hands and the Flesh and Flood of Image Fabrication in the Operating Theatres of Interventional Radiology”
(fiction / non fiction) Shelley Jackson, “SKIN”
(non fiction) Mary Flanagan, “Reskinning the Everyday”