Brian Kim Stefans

Person

Residency: 
Los Angeles
United States
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Short biography: 

B.A., Literature, Bard College, 1992; M.F.A., Electronic Literature, Brown University, 2006.

Assistant Professor at the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include creating a "bridge" between the concepts and traditions of various 20th-century avant-gardes -- Language writing, the Oulipo, concrete poetry, conceptual art, Situationism, metafiction, etc. -- and various genres of digital literature, including animated poems, interactive texts, algorithmically-generated and manipulated texts, "nomadic" writing, hacktivism and experimental blogs. Presently working on a series of wall projections called "Scriptors" which will appear as gallery and environmental installations in the coming years. 

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Year
Comedies of Separation: Toward a Theory of the Ludic Book Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal 2011
Exchange on Curriculars (2003) Article or chapter in a book 2006
Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics Book (monograph) 2003
Interview with Brian Kim Stefans Interview 2012
Saul Bass Title Sequences (selections) Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays Series, Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: "Repeat After Me" by joerg piringer Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: "Scrape Scraperteeth" by Jason Nelson Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: An Introduction to Electronic Literature Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: Putting it All Together, the" Comedy of Separation" Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Association Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Automation Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Duplication Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Dysfunction Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Encryption Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Exhaustion Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Recursion Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Reduction Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Simulation Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Subjection Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: “automatype” by Daniel C. Howe Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: “Bodies of Water” by David Clark Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: “Out of Touch” by Christine Wilks Weblog 2011
Third Hand Plays: “Struts” by J. R. Carpenter Weblog 2011
Toward a Poetics for Circulars Article or chapter in a book 2006
What is Electronic Writing? Other 2006
William Poundstone and the Aesthetics of Digital Literature Conference paper or presentation 2010

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