The Limited Fork show featuring POAMs: Products of Acts of Making in fulfillment of principles of Limited Fork Poetics: the study of interacting language systems, where the visual, sonic, tactile, and olfactory meet to form and reform (compelling) structures. Where focus on an intensely stabilizing area can still produce (forms of) sonnets that will maintain a particular form for only a limited period of time after which other structure(s) emerge, some of the emergence occurring across physical, sensory, and other dimensions.
This podcast is the place where POAMS, products of acts of making, will evolve, for the idea (as well as the poams that come out of the idea) is dynamic, seeking ways to fulfill the need for expression that coincides with unfolding understandings of existence. At the end of one of the branching roots of LFP and at the tip of one of the branches is belief in the pleasure of making things, a pleasure increased by acts of making that understand and try to take advantage of the range of what is possible and available.
BY FOCUSING ON INTERACTIONS, THE WHOLENESS OF THE ORGANISM IS EMPHASIZED.
The LFP experiment will showcase successes and failures, for the dead ends, the branches that do not bear sweet fruit, edible fruit, or any fruit at all, nevertheless contribute meaningfully to the recognizable structure of the tree. Perhaps the beauty of the tree depends on the presence of some dead ends.
Every week, there will be a visual or sonic episode (a branch) that reflects the current status of the ongoing study of interacting language systems. The LFP show will always present what is within its changing limits. Not (just) poems, but POAMS.
To hear more music of Limited Fork, visit the Limited Fork Music podcast. For more Limited Fork movies, visit the Limited Fork Video Anthology to download the video work of student and other practitioners of what Limited Fork Poetics enables and encourages.
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The Limited Fork show featuring POAMs: Products of Acts of Making in fulfillment of principles of Limited Fork Poetics: the study of interacting language systems, where the visual, sonic, tactile, and olfactory meet to form and reform (compelling) structures. Where focus on an intensely stabilizing area can still produce (forms of) sonnets that will maintain a particular form for only a limited period of time after which other structure(s) emerge, some of the emergence occurring across physical, sensory, and other dimensions.
This podcast is the place where POAMS, products of acts of making, will evolve, for the idea (as well as the poams that come out of the idea) is dynamic, seeking ways to fulfill the need for expression that coincides with unfolding understandings of existence. At the end of one of the branching roots of LFP and at the tip of one of the branches is belief in the pleasure of making things, a pleasure increased by acts of making that understand and try to take advantage of the range of what is possible and available.
BY FOCUSING ON INTERACTIONS, THE WHOLENESS OF THE ORGANISM IS EMPHASIZED.
The LFP experiment will showcase successes and failures, for the dead ends, the branches that do not bear sweet fruit, edible fruit, or any fruit at all, nevertheless contribute meaningfully to the recognizable structure of the tree. Perhaps the beauty of the tree depends on the presence of some dead ends.
Every week, there will be a visual or sonic episode (a branch) that reflects the current status of the ongoing study of interacting language systems. The LFP show will always present what is within its changing limits. Not (just) poems, but POAMS.
To hear more music of Limited Fork, visit the Limited Fork Music podcast. For more Limited Fork movies, visit the Limited Fork Video Anthology to download the video work of student and other practitioners of what Limited Fork Poetics enables and encourages.
Slideshow of "Mother's Day," a graphic prose poam in eight 20x30 panels, part of the Place.Mark exhibition opening 7 March 2008 at the Work Gallery on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Features text extracted from conversations that took place between Thylias Moss and Ansted Moss, beginning in 1999 when he was eight-years-old,
and features images captured with a digital SLR camera, a digital point-and-shoot camera, a 50x USB microscope, a camera phone, and a Polaroid camera.
Images of Thylias Moss shot by Strexx, all others taken by Thylias Moss.
An audio file of the Artist's Statement is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.
Slideshow of the window installation at Work Gallery - Detroit featuring "Cogs in the Glass Machine," a Detroit Intersections Project on which Jim Cogswell, visual artist, and Thylias Moss, text artist, collaborated.
The text may be downloaded in pdf format in another episode of this podcast.
Text of the window project in collaboration with Jim Cogswell for an installation on the windows of the Work Gallery - Detroit.
A slideshow of the installation may be experienced in another episode of this podcast.
Video poam stanza of the longer video study "Heat Dozens with Lightning Wings," with sound by Strexx of http://www.strexx.com who wrangled the sound produced by an Empire toy stove and used it to form the basis of damage control audio for the soundtrack.
This poam explores a system trying to organize itself, seeking a point of unification for its population, a theme that will have some joyousness tethered to it, too, for emerging, for existing, and for functioning as connective tissue
so while there may be multiple forms of elements of damage, the system functions and as a (newly) functioning system perhaps is headed toward refined function, toward further blossoming of increasingly illuminating ways to map the possible configurations of the members tethered to this system on multiple scales to varying degrees.
This is the situation in which the elements seek and locate connection points (that can also become, may have already been, may concurrently behave as bifurcation points --a network of activity that also establishes itself as a neural network and so is capable of acquiring forms of meanings.
Multiple forms of damage on multiple scales; the connection points themselves may be damaged, supporting configurations of a community functioning within compromise, which can be a generous habitat.
This video stanza is also a map.
There are locations of beautiful elements
and location of beautiful damage.
A video poam exploring the mapping of neural networks in the mind through the linking of memory, a toy stove, the body's physiological responses to neurological temporary neurological damage, and imagination. Ideas about heat from one hub of this network, a hub which allows this hub to connect with other idea hubs in the mind. Anyone watching "Heat Dozens" has an opportunity to form a memory of the video poam and to form a network of associations formed by elements in the video poam linking with experiences already mapped in the mind and with environmental experiences occurring while watching the poam.
The non-human produced sounds in the music track were produced by manipulating the oven door and heating elements switches of the Empire toy stove; these sounds were recorded by Ansted Moss and are the only sounds used in the instrumental portion of the soundtrack.
Made in conjunction with the November 2007 University of Michigan "Arts and Minds""learning studio" event in which leading international artists, scientists, scholars, activists, and students explored the interactions of art and mind. The actual Empire toy stove was part of the "Heat Dozens" presentation, the oven filled with a small format booklet (soon to be available in this podcast in psd format) featuring video poam stills pulled from moments of video frame interface. The keepsake memory booklet was available to any participant who opened the oven and removed a booklet from it.
EGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs in this low resolution version of the "Bubbling to Memphis" video poam for those with storage issues. The compression will be strained on those large LCD and plasma monitors, but on a portable device, it should look fine.
A video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces that may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series investigates what happens to notions of containment in such situations. This video poam is for Primus. Thank you for asking me for a video poam when I was in a location (the middle of an investigation) that lent itself to making one. Look for the "Bubbling to Memphis" soundtrack and the a cappella version of the soundtrack in the Limited Fork Music podcast.
EGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs. A limited fork video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces which may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series investigates what happens to notions of containment in such situations.
This video poam is for Primus. Thank you for asking me for a video poam when I was in a location (the middle of an investigation) that lent itself to making one. Look for the "Bubbling to Memphis" soundtrack and the a cappella version of the soundtrack in the Limited Fork Music podcast.
LFMK is a video poam made for the SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center & SafeHouse Center) "rEVOLUTION" show in the Duderstadt Center Gallery to launch the LFMK brand. LFMK (Looking for My Killer) is a (type of) PSA that hopes to call attention to the vulnerability of humanity through an extreme selfless act, that of a woman using herself to attract the attention of an attacker in order to protect other women the attacker might pursue if she were not willingly available. Because she enters into her humanitarian mission joyfully, the music is spirited, the colors of the embedded ads (by Ansted Moss of abstract-projections.com) are vivid.
Look for LFMK T-shirts, mouse pads, mugs, picture frames, tote bags.
Read some of the LFMK print poams in The Canary, Callaloo, NOR, and the Oleander Review.
The LFMK soundtrack is available in the Limited Fork Music podcast.
A video poam that explores what is just out of reach, at the 50x scale where there is enough resemblance to soothe and enough enhancement to unsettle.
What is seen of the eye, by the way, at the 50x scale is the (magnified) iris and the (magnified) pupil. The white part of the eye is not visibile except for a fraction of it for a second.
Made in attempts to distract myself from the recent loss of 600GB of data when a 1TB external hard drive failed at the moment that I was trying to move what I arrogantly deemed my "best video work ever" to another drive. Perhaps arrogance got what it deserved, perhaps not, but The "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" updated pieces are the poams that came out of my attitude adjustment.
Short form of the longer update, both of which feature more images by Ansted Moss. This video poam explores how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location.
The update became necessary when external hard drive failure caused the loss of some of the source files. This piece is the outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention.
Thank you, Evie, for asking for a poam when I was doing laundry. Thank you, Ansted for all the dirty socks and for images of me draped with laundry.
The print poam may be read at mipoesias.com.
This updated version of the full-length video poam is about how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location.
Featuring more images by Ansted Moss, the update became necessary to make when an external hard drive failure destroyed some of the source files. The update is an outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention.
The sound poam portion comes from a print piece prepared for MiPO (mipoesias.com), guest edited by Evie Shockley. Thanks, Evie, for the occasion that led to these makings and remakings.
Short video poam form of "Monday Aardvark of Laundry." Features images by Ansted Moss and faces of Martha, Mattie, and Donna --thanks for the likenesses. Thanks also to Evie of MiPO who got this bifurcating Aardvark bifurcation started.
A video poam exploration of some of the visual potential of some of the content of the sound & text poams of the same name. This video poam is also for Evie of MiPO who asked me to submit some work. Thanks for getting this tine of the fork in motion. This video poam is not likely to be the final bifurcation. "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" contains images by Ansted Moss (see more of his visual work at abstract-projections.com) and Thylias Moss. The "Monday Aardvark" sound poam is available in the Limited Fork Music podcast. Thanks Mattie, Martha, and Donna for your wonderful faces.
Video poam treatment of "Verde," a prose piece available at poetrymagazine.org. The video includes Spanish by Federico Garcia Lorca from the poem "Somnambule Ballad," and a still image by Ansted Moss whose image work may be seen at abstract-projections.com. The soundtrack is available in Limited Fork Music.
Video poam short of the installation projection piece in three parts, each about 9.42 minutes long. Related to "Pi Song" and to the video poam "Tornado Pi," and features close-ups of two of the human vortices. Explores merging, diverging, and fluctuating identities. Dreams of golden ratios. Also related to the video poam "Place Value."
I am grateful for the generous participation of two University of Michigan practitioners of Limited Fork Poetics: Rachel Harkai and Nate Barron who has two video poams in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast.
A video poam of "Rush Hour," from my first collection of poetry, and a companion piece to the sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space. Intersects with and departs from "Rush Hour (too)," a video poam available in this podcast. The soundtrack of this video poam is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.
Video poam companion to "Rush Hour" sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space and for the adult literacy students who used "Rush Hour" in their program. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to revisit a poem from my first book.
A spoken poam for practitioners, dabbler or immersed, the curious and for the attendees --also for those who could not attend-- my CREW (Collaboratory for Reseach in Electronic Work) Seminar last week in the School of Information (north campus), a session during which an attendee in the remote West Hall (central campus)location asked me about the challenge of judging the quality of Limited Fork poams if there are no boundaries to what may achieve the status of poam. This audio poam comes from further consideration of the question and my response at the time. This is extended collaboration with the asker of the question. This audio poam also suggests ways to respond to work created outside the system of evaluation within which student forkers explore my Limited Fork learning opportunities. To the attendee whose name I don't know, thanks for asking. Thanks also to Mick and David for arranging my participation in CREW.
An answer poam for Cheryl's question about why a fork is the instrument of this poetics of interacting language systems, why a fork is the tool of choice for making. An answer poam for Cheryl that is also for the participants of the CREW seminar (for whom this answer poam is also a ladder).
This sonic poam is for Profjr!, and for any others curious about the basics of what happens when formal poetic structures are forked. Just a little bare-bones map of fork possibilities to consider when laboring through an act of making and hoping for multiples, but not necessarily identicals or even twins at all. If something's born on/in/over/under/through/with/navigating/zigzagging/climbing/opening/folding/unfolding [& so forth] the ladder, and you'd like to share it with me (and possibly other Limited Fork podcast subscribers), please send it to thyliasm@umich.edu. Thanks.
The Limited Fork show featuring POAMs: Products of Acts of Making in fulfillment of principles of Limited Fork Poetics: the study of interacting language systems, where the visual, sonic, tactile, and olfactory meet to form and reform (compelling) structures. Where focus on an intensely stabilizing area can still produce (forms of) sonnets that will maintain a particular form for only a limited period of time after which other structure(s) emerge, some of the emergence occurring across physical, sensory, and other dimensions.
This podcast is the place where POAMS, products of acts of making, will evolve, for the idea (as well as the poams that come out of the idea) is dynamic, seeking ways to fulfill the need for expression that coincides with unfolding understandings of existence. At the end of one of the branching roots of LFP and at the tip of one of the branches is belief in the pleasure of making things, a pleasure increased by acts of making that understand and try to take advantage of the range of what is possible and available.
BY FOCUSING ON INTERACTIONS, THE WHOLENESS OF THE ORGANISM IS EMPHASIZED.
The LFP experiment will showcase successes and failures, for the dead ends, the branches that do not bear sweet fruit, edible fruit, or any fruit at all, nevertheless contribute meaningfully to the recognizable structure of the tree. Perhaps the beauty of the tree depends on the presence of some dead ends.
Every week, there will be a visual or sonic episode (a branch) that reflects the current status of the ongoing study of interacting language systems. The LFP show will always present what is within its changing limits. Not (just) poems, but POAMS.
To hear more music of Limited Fork, visit the Limited Fork Music podcast. For more Limited Fork movies, visit the Limited Fork Video Anthology to download the video work of student and other practitioners of what Limited Fork Poetics enables and encourages.
