Edward Picot

name Edward Picot

website http://edwardpicot.com

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Bio

I was born in 1958. Originally I come from Hertfordshire in the UK, but I now live in Kent, with my wife and one daughter. In 1992 I was awarded a Ph.D in English Literature, and in 1997 I published my thesis in book-form, under the title Outcasts from Eden: Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry since 1945. Since the year 2000, when I set up my first website, I've been working in the health service and self-publishing online in my spare time. I started my second website, The Hyperliterature Exchange, in 2003: it's a review and directory of hyperliterature for sale on the Web, with links to the places where it can be bought.

I try to publish something new every month: usually a piece of criticism one month, followed by a piece of creative work the next. Many of my recent creative pieces have been either entirely or partially inspired by the games I play with my daughter Rachel. They therefore feature a lot of jokes and toys. Online, the groups with which I have been most heavily involved have been the WebArtery group (groups.yahoo.com/group/webartery/), the TrAce organisation (which I published several articles for when it was still based in Nottingham at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/), and Regina Celia Pinto's Museum of the Essential (and Beyond That), which has a gallery at http://www.arteonline.arq.br/and a newsletter at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/museum_newsletter/. These communities have been inspirational and supportive to me over a period of several years, and through them I have formed a number of online friendships with other artists and critics.

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Publishing and the Digital Revolution

Edward Picot guides us through some of the major developments in ePublishing. He gathers favourable and sceptical arguments about the impact of the digital revolution on the publishing industry and reviews some of the major (usually corporate) projects such as Google Books, iPad, Vooks, etc. Picot tries not only to think how the digital age affects the packaging of literature but also how it transforms the practice of writing itself.

Is the blockbuster model of publishing now doomed? Is electronic text finally going to overtake print-and-paper? Can printed books survive, and if so, in what form?

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Edward Picot's visually playful, web art interpretation of Wallace Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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Mixing it: Michael Szpakowski's 12 Remixes

Edward Picot reviews Michael Szpakowski's 12 Remixes, a series of 12 pieces mixing audio and sometimes video, that the artist submitted to a competition every month. Picot carefully analyses Szpakowski's creative method and shows how in almost every instance Szpakowski's remixes have a more resonant and spacious feel than the originals; the sounds are dirtier, fuzzier, more textured; and the rhythms are more complex.

By Edward Picot - 27/09/2012

The Last Collaboration

"The United States loses more American lives to patient safety incidents every six months than it did in the entire Vietnam War." Edward Picot introduces The Last Collaboration an art documentary book by artists and poets Martha Deed and Millie Niss. This work is a construction of Millie’s hospital experiences in the last hospital she ever visited.

By Edward Picot - 26/01/2012

Schoolboy Daze- Andy Campbell's Nightingale's Playground

Edward Picot reviews Andy Campbell's four-part digital mystery-story, "Nightingale's Playground", which appeared online last year. "Campbell has always been at pains not to place his text in front of his images, or beneath them or to one side, like labels on tanks at the zoo or explanatory plaques next to pictures in a gallery; instead he puts his words inside his graphical environments, sometimes hidden or partially-hidden inside them, so that we have to explore to read. It pulls us in, and it makes his work inherently immersive and interactive... His central characters are often living in a reality with two layers: the "ordinary" everyday world which is mean, dull, shoddy and constricting, but relatively safe; and an inner or underlying reality which can only be glimpsed rather than viewed as a whole, possibly because it is so dangerous and frightening - a reality which emerges fitfully via dreams, games, imaginings and doodles."

By Edward Picot - 02/03/2011

Publishing and the Digital Revolution

From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from print-on-demand to new styles of writing, Edward Picot attempts to analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing industry, and to make some educated guesses about how things may develop in the next few years.

By Edward Picot - 28/09/2010

Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009)

Edward Picot discusses here the work of writer and new media artist Millie Niss: "She preferred work which didn't reach for the hi-tech solution when a lo-tech one would do - work, in other words, which didn't employ technology for its own sake, and where form was dictated by content rather than the other way round."

By Edward Picot - 08/01/2010

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21 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 23 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 360º Conference: Time around Space

Call for Papers and Contributions:Theme: The development of new technologies has made more possible the production and presentation of visual images and sound within the 360 degree environment...

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14 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 30 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - Currents 2013: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival

The "collection" project has been selected for inclusion as a web based art work in the new media festival.

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5 Jun 2013 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm - or-bits.com presents On the Upgrade – WYSIWYG at Banner Repeater, London

or-bits.com is pleased to present On the Upgrade – WYSIWYG at Banner Repeater, London, on Wednesday June 5 2013, 6:30-8:30pmOn the Upgrade – WYSIWYG is a POD book, also distributed as a PDF, which...

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3 Jun 2013 - 9:45am - 4:45pm - Owning the Arts Conference (Are the Arts for everyone?)

A conference for anyone who thinks the arts should be for everyone.

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31 May 2013 - 11:00am - 10 Jul 2013 - 6:00pm - Cyland + Digicult + CSAR = New Media in Venice

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New Media parallel to the Venice Biennale...

added by thewye on 20/05/13

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Edward Picot

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Publishing and the Digital Revolution

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Articles/Reviews/Interviews

Mixing it: Michael Szpakowski's 12 Remixes

The Last Collaboration

Schoolboy Daze- Andy Campbell's Nightingale's Playground

Publishing and the Digital Revolution

Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009)

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