*I'm taking it back, what I said yesterday about New York not being as weird as San Francisco. New York is just weird in some *different mode,* that's all. It's like they're reading freaky Eastern European novels in a flooded basement in Brooklyn, instead of practicing feng shui in an quake-rickety ashram in Berkeley.
Triple Canopy is pleased to announce the recipients of our fourth annual round of commissions, initiated with an open call for proposals on December 11, 2012, with a record number of over 400 submissions: Rosa Aiello, Shane Anderson, Bloopers, Anna Della Subin, Alan Greenspan, Irene Lusztig, Dan Phiffer, Matt Sheridan Smith, and Ada Smailbegovic.
Triple Canopy aims to forge connections between books, manuscripts, lectures, performances, exhibitions, among other forms, (((why, when this is happening relentlessly anyway –it's like they're jumping out of a yellow-cab to push the hurricane))) and our online publishing practice—charting an expanded field of publication. Over the next year, recipients will work closely with editors toward the creative and technical realization of their projects, which may be published in a variety of formats, ranging from public performance to print pamphlet and beyond, before ultimately appearing in Web-specific form in Triple Canopy's online magazine.
Proposals are reviewed by Triple Canopy year-round via our online submission form. We thank everyone who applied to the call and congratulate this year’s recipients!
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Rosa Aiello is a writer and video artist. For her Triple Canopy commission, Aiello will create a digital piece, “A Deceitful Stick,” an exploration of the limits of humanness as raised by 3-D animation.
Shane Anderson is a Berlin-based poet, translator, and editor. For his Triple Canopy commission, Anderson will translate poet Ulf Stolterfoht’s Ammegespräche, or “Amme Talks,” a linguistic interchange with artist Peter Dittmer’s chatbot installation, Die Amme.
Bloopers comprises New York–based artists and musicians Michael Bell-Smith, Sara Magenheimer, and Ben Vida. For their Triple Canopy commission, Bloopers will hold their debut performance, “Bloopers #0,” in Triple Canopy’s space at 155 Freeman Street.
Anna Della Subin is a writer and Bidoun contributing editor. For her Triple Canopy commission, Della Subin will author an essay, “Not Dead but Sleeping,” on the failed 1935 Cairo production of Tawfiq al-Hakim's The People of the Cave and the possibility of sleeping through revolution.
David Greenspan is a renowned actor and playwright. For his Triple Canopy commission, Greenspan will present “Composition … Master-Pieces … Identity,” a solo performance of three works by Gertrude Stein.
Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. For her Triple Canopy commission, Lusztig will mine an extensive archive of 20th-century maternal training and childbirth films to create “The Motherhood Archives,” a mediated essay on the medicalization and institutionalization of childbirth and motherhood in America.
Dan Phiffer is a computer programmer and artist interested in hackable, inexpensive computer networks. For his Triple Canopy commission, Phiffer will deploy “Occupy.here,” a peer-to-peer network autonomous of the Internet and designed to facilitate open political discussion.
Matt Sheridan Smith is a Los Angeles-based artist. For his Triple Canopy commission, Sheridan Smith will create “You can't see any such thing,” an interactive fiction work and text-only computer game navigated using basic commands such as “examine,” “take,” “look,” or “go.”
Ada Smailbegovic is a poet and critic. For her Triple Canopy commission, Smailbegovic will compose “Of the Dense and Rare,” an investigation into the poetics of matter based on experimental procedures drawn from Francis Bacon’s 1623 treatise The History of Dense and Rare.
Triple Canopy is an online magazine, workspace, and platform for editorial and curatorial activities. Working collaboratively with writers, artists, and researchers, Triple Canopy facilitates projects that engage the Internet's specific characteristics as a public forum and as a medium, one with its own evolving practices of reading and viewing, economies of attention, and modes of interaction. In doing so, Triple Canopy is charting an expanded field of publication, drawing on the history of print culture while acting as a hub for the exploration of emerging forms and the public spaces constituted around them. Triple Canopy is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.
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