Louis Armand (writer)
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Louis Armand is a writer, visual artist and critical theorist. Born in Sydney
, he has lived in Prague
since 1994 where he is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Culture, Charles University.
Armand’s work has been described as “Avant-garde in the most literal sense, […] best appreciated by readers prepared to abandon the baggage of identity-driven poetry and systematically naturalist prose.” In 1997 he received the Max Harris prize for poetry at the Penola Festival (Adelaide) and in 2000 he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize (New York). His screenplay Clair Obscur won honourable mention at the 2009 Trieste Film Festival. In 2004 he founded the Prague International Poetry Festival; in 2009 he co-organised (with David Vichnar) a Micro-Festival Poetry Series in Prague and Brno.
His critical and theoretical work has been published in journals such as Ctheory, Triquarterly and Culture Machine. His most recent books include, Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (2008), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (2007) and Contemporary Poetics (2007). He is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor (1994) of the online journal HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies). He is editor of VLAK magazine.
Agendas Unreported Poetics ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.
Joyce eds. David Vichnar & Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.
Return of Kral Majales Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010 An Anthology ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.
James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2003.
Devices: Discourses of the Other. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2005/6.
Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
States: Discourse, Time, Mediality. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.
Essays on Criticism & Culture. (First edition 2005) Expanded and revised edition, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2008.
Joyce of a Thousand Tiers. Petr Škrabánek: Studies in Finnegans Wake. Eds. Louis Armand & Ondrej Pilny. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2002.
http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/avant_postAvant-Post. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
James Joyce, Genetics and Hypermedia. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2004.
Factory. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005.
Joyce: Envoys of the Other. Eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. (2nd edition)
http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/technicityTechnicity. Eds. Louis Armand and Arthur Bradley. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
Poetics. Ed. Louis Armand. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Systems: After Prague Structuralism. Ed. Louis Armand with Pavel Černovsky. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.
Poetry
http://www.twistedspoon.com/seances.htmlSeances. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.
The Viconian Paramour. New York: x-poezie, 1998.
Erosions. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 1999. (chapbook)
Anatomy Lessons. New York: x-poezie, 1999. (chapbook)
Land Partition. Melbourne: Textbase
Publications, 2001.
Base Materialism. New York: x-poezie, 2001. (chapbook)
Weather. Todmorden, Lancs. (UK): Arc Publications, 2001.
Malice in Underland. Melbourne: Textbase
, 2003.
Attractors. Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2003.
Picture Primitive. NY: Antigen, 2006.
from Ausland Sydney: Vagabond, 2011.
Fiction
Garden. Cambridge: Salt, 2001.
http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/menudo_20101118_233100Menudo. NY: Antigen, 2006.
Exhibitions
Galerie Artnatur (1999) Solo
Galerie Gambit (2002) Solo
Southern: 10 Contemporary Australian Artists, Home Gallery (2004) co-curator
Art Prague (2006)
Hunger Gallery (2010) Solo
Sydney
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, he has lived in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
since 1994 where he is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Culture, Charles University.
Works
His poems have appeared in Meanjin, Agenda, The Age, Stand, Poetry Review, Verse and Sulfur, as well as Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (ed. John Kinsella 2008), 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (eds. Michael Brennan and Peter Minter, 2000), and Best Australian Poems (ed. Peter Rose, 2008). He is author of five volumes of poetry and a number of chapbooks including: Land Partition (2001), Inexorable Weather (2001), Malice in Underland (2003) and Strange Attractors (2003). The Garden, a work of experimental fiction was published in 2001.Armand’s work has been described as “Avant-garde in the most literal sense, […] best appreciated by readers prepared to abandon the baggage of identity-driven poetry and systematically naturalist prose.” In 1997 he received the Max Harris prize for poetry at the Penola Festival (Adelaide) and in 2000 he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize (New York). His screenplay Clair Obscur won honourable mention at the 2009 Trieste Film Festival. In 2004 he founded the Prague International Poetry Festival; in 2009 he co-organised (with David Vichnar) a Micro-Festival Poetry Series in Prague and Brno.
His critical and theoretical work has been published in journals such as Ctheory, Triquarterly and Culture Machine. His most recent books include, Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (2008), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (2007) and Contemporary Poetics (2007). He is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor (1994) of the online journal HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies). He is editor of VLAK magazine.
Publications
CriticismAgendas Unreported Poetics ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.
Joyce eds. David Vichnar & Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.
Return of Kral Majales Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010 An Anthology ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.
James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2003.
Devices: Discourses of the Other. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2005/6.
Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
States: Discourse, Time, Mediality. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.
Essays on Criticism & Culture. (First edition 2005) Expanded and revised edition, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2008.
Joyce of a Thousand Tiers. Petr Škrabánek: Studies in Finnegans Wake. Eds. Louis Armand & Ondrej Pilny. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2002.
http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/avant_postAvant-Post. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
James Joyce, Genetics and Hypermedia. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2004.
Factory. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005.
Joyce: Envoys of the Other. Eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. (2nd edition)
http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/technicityTechnicity. Eds. Louis Armand and Arthur Bradley. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
Poetics. Ed. Louis Armand. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Systems: After Prague Structuralism. Ed. Louis Armand with Pavel Černovsky. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.
Poetry
http://www.twistedspoon.com/seances.htmlSeances. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.
The Viconian Paramour. New York: x-poezie, 1998.
Erosions. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 1999. (chapbook)
Anatomy Lessons. New York: x-poezie, 1999. (chapbook)
Land Partition. Melbourne: Textbase
Textbase
Textbase is a collective of writers and artists in Melbourne, Australia that have been producing collaborative artworks in text and visual arts since 1996. The group has been advancing an avant-garde poetics and art practice since its inception. In 1998 Textbase ventured into small press publishing...
Publications, 2001.
Base Materialism. New York: x-poezie, 2001. (chapbook)
Weather. Todmorden, Lancs. (UK): Arc Publications, 2001.
Malice in Underland. Melbourne: Textbase
Textbase
Textbase is a collective of writers and artists in Melbourne, Australia that have been producing collaborative artworks in text and visual arts since 1996. The group has been advancing an avant-garde poetics and art practice since its inception. In 1998 Textbase ventured into small press publishing...
, 2003.
Attractors. Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2003.
Picture Primitive. NY: Antigen, 2006.
from Ausland Sydney: Vagabond, 2011.
Fiction
Garden. Cambridge: Salt, 2001.
http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/menudo_20101118_233100Menudo. NY: Antigen, 2006.
Exhibitions
Galerie Artnatur (1999) Solo
Galerie Gambit (2002) Solo
Southern: 10 Contemporary Australian Artists, Home Gallery (2004) co-curator
Art Prague (2006)
Hunger Gallery (2010) Solo
External links
- Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
- Arc publications
- Salt publishing
- Litteraria Pragensia Books
- Micro-Poetry Festival 2009
- Textbase Publications
- A. K. Drees, rev of Louis Armand, Mind Factory. rhizomes.20 (summer 2010)http://www.rhizomes.net/issue20/reviews/drees.html
- Vidhu Aggarwal, rev. of Contemporary Poetics. Ed. Louis Armand. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2007: xxx + 396. Hyperhiz: new media cultures 5 (2008): http://www.rhizomes.net
- Andrei Codrescu, review of Land Partition by Louis Armand, Exquisite Corpse number 10 (2002): http://corpse.org/issue_10/critiques/codrescu.html
- Jeroen Nieuwland rev. of Solicitations: Essays on Criticism and Culture, Jacket 37 (2009) http://jacketmagazine.com/37/r-armand-rb-nieuwland.shtml