Sloth Machines began as a poetic accidence-correspondence between two poets. The poem responses were situated in two columns that related in an organic non-prescriptive way. Then the pillars collapsed. The original separate poems have been super-imposed to create hyper-saturated ink clouds that challenge legibility, while its chance-residual tentacles finger through to imprint a new poet and a new poetry

General XOXO is an aleatoric audio-visual performance. Five sonically isolated artists produce strictly periodic audio and video oscillations at various predetermined tempos. Like planets circling a star they will from time to time align in pseudo-patterns (syzygies) that can be sensed by external observers, but not by the artists themselves.

What weighs 54 tons and fits in the palm of your hand?
AIDS Quilt Touch, a mobile web app developed by the University of Iowa’s Digital Studio for Public Humanities, allows the public to search, explore, and contribute to an online version of the AIDSMemorial Quilt on site or across the globe. In beta development.

Anthology is an all-inclusive, multi-genre reading and performance series co-hosted by the Nonfiction Writing Program and the Writers’ Workshop. Anthology showcases talent from the University of Iowa’s various writing MFA programs as well as Center for the Book, Film, Dance, and others. The series appears monthly at different local venues, and is always free and open to the public. www.facebook.com/groups/anthology.iowa/

A 24 hour Dance Marathon performance in Greensboro, NC, the Gate City. Historically, a substantial amount of cash was offered to the last couple standing. I’m attempting to revive this tradition; any type of dance is acceptable and the event is open to the public.

The project is an interactive work consisting of a large wall-mounted grid of prints made from circuit boards relief printed on colored paper; attendees can take home a print of their choosing. The planned obsolescence of the work not only mirrors, but also invalidates the planned obsolescence of common electronic components.

The Creature is an animation based on the Frankenstein story. As an animator, I am trying to give life to dead images in much the same way as my protagonist hopes to breath life into her creation.

As a Master`s Student in Jazz Performance at the University of Iowa, I`m required to record an CD that shows what have I have accomplished musically these two years in Iowa City. This is my work in progress. Since I expect to have everything recorded by February of 2013, now it is a time for the people involved in the recording to become familiar with the material. I will only be recording only original pieces, and here at the WiP Festival you will hear a trio composed of Jose Gobbo on guitar, Blake Shaw on bass, and Marcelo Moraes on drums.

Federico is the author of three short story collections, two poetry collections, and the 2011 novel Cielos de Córdoba. His La hora de los monos was chosen as one of the best Argentine books of 2010 by the magazine Revista Ñ. In 2010, Falco was among Granta magazine’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Currently he teaches in the Department of Cinema, Literature and Contemporary Art History at the Universidad Blas Pascal. Federico appears tonight, in collaboration with Sarah Viren, courtesy of the International Writing Program.

The dreck words. The words without content. The fill words. The empty qualifiers that are used so frequently they no longer qualify. Words like just and perhaps and rather and quite and indeed and clearly; phrases like kind of and sort of and pretty sure and pretty much.

Learning French With Jean Genet is an ongoing performance project requiring the reader to repeatedly ‘read’ Jean Genet’s untranslated one act play Les Bonnes in its entirety. The reader’s inability to understand French questions reading as an action, the consequences of repetition, comprehension, and communication with an audience.

Justin Jannise appears courtesy of the Anthology reading and performance series.

My project consists of two time-based, sequential pieces, which document fading color and waning light as the season turns from autumn to winter. In each piece I create a system for tracing my natural surroundings in order to measure and process passing time.

A progressively debilitating nutwork of sci-non-fi death qualms and imagined conversations, pumped fresh from the uncharted depths of a raw and tattered human vortex, taking precedent over one’s own well-being, in a realm where indifference knows no bounds, and the only way out is to dig deeper within… into WATERMELLONWORLD

When my grandmother passed away at 101, she left boxes of stained recipe cards. Each Christmas, I try to recreate her lefse, but a once-a-year dish can be hard to perfect. Try a few variations and help shape this family culinary tradition.

Using porcelain plates as canvas, the Supper Time plates project continues its efforts to create food events in historical or cultural venues, in effect creating pop-up art galleries. The next big event will be a reconciliation dinner in a small Iowa town where minor feuds continue to fester.

The traditional method of making a watermark involves making each mark out of copper wire that is bent and soldered to make the shape. This project entails creating watermarks using a cost-effective, quick and not necessarily handmade method in order to create the frames for an animation. Each mark is used to make a piece of paper and the resulting watermark (as seen in transmitted light) will then be photographed and used as a single frame for a stop-motion animation.

My recent paintings have involved text in some form or other. In this project I invite the community to collaborate by selecting text, making compositional decisions, and paintings words onto the canvas, with the hope of opening up new possibilities for working and decision making processes.

The project includes a series of recent drawings that depict surreal or dream-like figures and forms, while also exploring a variety of different mediums. So far these drawings have been a means to explore and experiment in order to push and develop myself as an artist.

Use Your Imagination is an art installation that examines the concepts of voyeurism, the tease, and warped reality. It challenges the mind to create images that are not truly there, but our minds want to be there. However, by creating these images, we have now delved into the realm of voyeurism in an uncomfortable way. Where reality makes the image normal, our mind takes us to a more perverse realm.

I am in the process of making a series of pages for a book. I started by taking a big sheet of handmade paper that I decided needed a new life, and cut it down into folios. I am now faced with a stack of unwieldy pages on which more work must be done…

My project is centered on combining acoustic instruments with live electronic manipulations of those instruments. I’ve tried to go beyond just looping sounds and create a piece that creates grooves but also a soundscape that will be slightly different each time the work is performed. I’m also experimenting using different found objects, for example a tin can.

Sarah Viren is a work in progress as well as a translator, writer and journalist. This semester, she’s collaborating with two international writers currently living in Iowa City: Federico Falco, from Argentina, and Paula Lamamie de Clairac Garrido, from Spain. Other projects include an essayistic Spanish grammar book and a kumquat tentatively named Balduino. Sarah appears tonight in collaboration with Federico Falco, courtesy of the Anthology reading and performance series.

My intention is to capture the works as it is happening. The show is meant to enhance the process behind the work, and there is nothing better to capture that with than polaroid pictures. The format of the pictures itself lends to the process as it develops instantly. The ability to showcase the pictures as the festival happens is a tangible way to document the progress of the artists.

The form of my work in progress is a deck 3×2.5 index cards that are shuffled before a reading then read in that random order. (No order or reading is like another– you do the math– especially because the form such that cards can easily be added and removed from the deck’s corpus. Therefore, in its permutations, it is always a version of “progress.”)

SpaceCamp has returned to the Earth after the end of their Cruise to the Moon and they’ve finally downloaded the pictures from the camera! Also, they wanted to talk to you about an investment opportunity(private spaceflight research and development) and a new mission for SpaceCamp.