Issue Two Launch Party | 11.16.2008 | 4 pm

You Are Invited to a Launch Party for
Digital Artifact Magazine
Issue Two: Transnationalism

Sunday, November 16th at 4 pm. $6.
Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia St., SF
(415) 824-3890, atasite.org
Wheelchair accessible

Please join us for a multidisciplinary evening of readings, performance, audio and visual works to celebrate Issue Two of Digital Artifact Magazine, a web-based journal that explores digital and global culture using hybrid aesthetic tactics. Focusing on transnationalism, Issue Two includes fiction, poetry, essays and translations along with sound pieces, video, and images. Whether lingering in airport waiting zones or interrogating the idea of a boundary line, the works in Digital Artifact’s latest issue question the conscriptions of nationalism, locality and genre and explore the possibilities of transnational artistic practices.

Readings: Renee Evans, Marco Lean, Chana Morgenstern and Camille Roy
Audio: Amanda Davidson and Nick Ott, Mamoru Okuno, and Lily Robert-Foley
Video: Linda Ford, Juliana Mundim, and Kirthi Nath
Performance: Youth Development Principals (Heidi Cunningham, Renee Evans and Cassie Riger)

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Digital Artifact is affiliated with the Artifact Reading Series and Press, online at artifactsf.org. Artifact is a member of the Incubator Program at Intersection for the Arts.

ATA Event: Friday, February 22, 8 pm

Digital Artifact Magazine
Friday, February 22, 2008. 8 PM. $6
Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia St., SF
(415) 824-3890, ata@atasite.org
Wheelchair accessible

Digital Artifact Magazine is a new, web-based journal that explores digital and global culture using hybrid aesthetic tactics. Join us for a reading and screening by contributors from Issue 1 (Summer 2007), as we solicit submissions for Issue 2.

Readings by David Christensen, Soledad De Costa, Camille Roy, Will Skinker, Sarah Fran Wisby. Screenings by Faye Driscoll, Kara Hearn, Jessica Lawless, Julianna Mundim, Kirthi Nath, Katina Papson, Sherri Wood.

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Digital Artifact benefits from the fiscal sponsorship of the Intersection for the Arts Incubator Program. We are affiliated with the Artifact Reading Series and Press, online at artifactsf.org.

Issue Two: Call for Submissions

DIGITAL ARTIFACT MAGAZINE
ISSUE 2: TRANSNATIONALISM
**Call for submissions**
Deadline: May 15, 2008

Digital Artifact Magazine interrogates narrative in contemporary culture through fiction, criticism, experimental prose, and web-based audio-visual work. We're specifically interested in the impact of digital culture and globalization on contemporary narrative(s). How do these phenomena create new forms of story, text, language, and literature? What kinds of narratives have emerged from specific elements such as web sites, chatrooms, video games, Myspace, internet porn, digital photography, web cams, blogs, internet media and cell phones, as well as broad trends such as the breakdown of national boundaries, the increased speed of communication, and the globalization of culture, capitalism, and war?

The second issue of Digital Artifact will examine the idea of transnationalism. What is the transnational space in literature and art? How do we describe the textual and digital interactions between countries, classes, cultures, languages, and identities? How do we write/track border crossings, migrations, translations, trans-cultural identities and conversations? In particular, we are interested in narratives that cross boundaries between the countries of the so-called first, second, and third worlds, narratives of migration, war, global society, cosmopolitanism and refugee culture. What does nationalism mean in our time? What is your (trans)nationality? We invite creative responses that explore these question through fiction, criticism, experimental prose, or web-based audio-visual work. Our aesthetic tendencies are always on display at digitalartifactmagazine.com.

Submission Guidelines
We accept e-mail submissions only. Send submissions to digitalartifact@gmail.com. In the subject heading, include your last name and the word “submission.” Do not send previously published work, and let us know if the work gets accepted elsewhere. One submission per person, please. Include a brief (50-100 word) bio with your work. We will read and respond to submissions between May 15 and July 15.

**We accept text pieces up to 2,000 words in length. Please paste your work as plain text directly into the e-mail. You may also send a text document as an attachment in addition to pasting the content, if formatting is important to the piece.

**For images, we accept visual files in pdf, jpeg, and gif format. Please send low-res (72 dpi) versions for submission review.

**For sound, send mp3 files, zipped if possible, at a length of 5 minutes or less.

**For video footage, email QuickTime files, compressed for web, again in the vicinity of 5 minutes or less. Links to videos posted online also work. If we have difficulty looking at your video due to compatibility issues, we will email you with information about uploading your submission to the Digital Artifact YouTube account.

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Digital Artifact benefits from fiscal sponsorship of the Incubator program at the Intersection for the Arts. We are affiliated with the Artifact Reading Series and Press, online at artifactsf.org.

Artifact : 6.09 : Beavers : Evans : Jordan : Tremblay-McGaw

Artifact presents . . .

A LAUNCH PARTY FOR DIGITAL ARTIFACT MAGAZINE!

David BEAVERS
Renee EVANS
Judith JORDAN
Robin TREMBLAY-MC GAW

Saturday, June 9th, 2007
7:30PM, reading begins at 8PM

2921B Folsom St. @25th St. SF 94110
$5 donation goes to Digital Artifact Magazine

www.artifactsf.org
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BIOS

David Beavers was born in Santa Rosa, and lives and works in San Francisco. He never considered himself a "city person" until he moved there, and has developed a growing obsession to write about sprawling, mythical cities and the bored, lonely, or interesting people who inhabit them. He lives in the Sunset District, which is a much more fascinating place than you might think it is.

Renee Evans was born and raised in Southern Virginia and currently resides in the Bay Area. She received her MFA in fiction from Bard College in 2006 and is the author of the prose chapbook, How it Burned, and the comic book series The Secret Life. Renee spends her spare time making books, checking the mail, cutting up instructional manuals and medical textbooks, and her indentured time as a line cook in San Francisco.

Judith Jordan can be reached at velcro.buttons@gmail.com. Pocket Myths published her short story "Skylla" in their Odyssey anthology last year; snippets of her poetry are up at the Lodestar Quarterly and SomArts Review; a critical essay appeared in The Abolitionist; she was a resident artist at the Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts (2005); and Prestel is planning to publish one of her interviews in the Learning to Love You More collection this fall.

Robin Tremblay-McGaw’s work has appeared in Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, HOW2, marks, Poetry Flash, Five Fingers Review, Mirage, and elsewhere. Currently she is at work on her dissertation which examines Bay Area Oppositional Writing. With Kathy Lou Schultz and Jim Brashear she edits Lipstick Eleven.

Artifact : 6.09 : Evans : Jordan : Others

Launch Party for Digital Artifact Magazine

Our dream is coming true! Digital Artifact Magazine will soon haunt the networks of cyberspace. And we’re celebrating with a party and reading here in the analog world. Please join us.

Readers: Judith Jordan, Renee Evans, and others!

When: Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Doors: 7:30.
Readings: 8:00

Where: 2921B Folsom St. at 25th, San Francisco

How: $5 donation, no one turned away.

Artifact : 5.12 : Banerjee : Kaipa : Wilson

Artifact presents . . .

Neelanjana BANERJEE
Summi KAIPA
Emily WILSON

Saturday, April 21, 2007
7:30PM, reading begins at 8PM

2921B Folsom St. @25th St. SF 94110

$5 donation goes to Digital Artifact online magazine - coming in June!

www.artifactsf.org
artifactsf@gmail.com

BIOS

Neelanjana Banerjee's writing has been published in the Asian Pacific American Writers' Journal, Kitchen Sink, Nimrod, Ellipsis, Suspect Thoughts and others. She is putting the finishing touches on her MFA thesis for San Francisco State University, a collection of short fiction entitled "Misbehaving." She also works as an editor and journalist for non-profit media organization New America Media and Hyphen magazine.

Summi Kaipa has authored several chapbooks, including "The Epics" (Leroy Press), "One: I Beg You Be Still" (Belladonna), and most recently "The Language Parable" (Corollary Press). For eight years, she was the editor of Interlope, a magazine publishing innovative writing by Asian Americans, and in 2002, she received a Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize to write and produce her first play. Once a resident of SF's bustling Mission District, Kaipa now resides in a quiet neighborhood in North Berkeley, where she studies for a doctorate in psychology, cooks delicious meals, and makes slow progress on her first full-length manuscript. Occasionally, she emerges from her shell to charm friends and admirers with a benshi or a reading.

Born in NYC and educated at UCBerkeley, Emily Wilson is a visual artist and writer. Chlorine, a photographic/prose collaboration with Amanda Davidson, may be found online at marjoriewoodgallery.com. Emily has shown her paintings at Southern Exposure and The Lab, as well as Portland's Pulliam-Deffenbaugh Gallery; the Mark Wolfe Gallery in San Francisco has scheduled a show of her work in October. Emily is currently working on Failure: A Novel.

**Launch Issue: Call For Submissions**

DIGITAL ARTIFACT
Call for Submissions
**Deadline April 30th**

Digital Artifact, a new, online journal created in conjunction with the Artifact Reading Series and Press, seeks work that interrogates the role of narrative in contemporary culture. We’re specifically interested in how the internet, digital culture, global and non-Western literature, pop culture, eroticism, documentary, philosophy, politics and war are creating hybrid texts and new forms of narrative and literature.

The first issue of the journal will be dedicated to examining Narrative and Global Digital Culture. What is the impact of the internet and global culture on language and conceptions of narrative? We invite creative responses that explore this question, whether through fiction, criticism, experimental prose, or web-based audio-visual work.

A series of salons focusing on related topics will be held in conjunction with production of the web journal. To find out more about participating in the salons, email digitalartifact@gmail.com. Find out more about Artifact online at artifactsf.org.

We look forward to reading your work!
The Digital Artifact Editorial Team
Neela Banerjee, David Beavers, David Brazil, Amanda Davidson, Renee Evans, Judith Jordan, Chana Morgenstern & Kirthi Nath

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We accept e-mail submissions only. Send submissions to digitalartifact@gmail.com by April 30th. In the subject heading, include your last name and the word “submission.” Do not send previously published work, and let us know immediately if the work has been accepted elsewhere. One submission per person, please. Include a brief (50-100 word) bio with your work. We will get back to you within three months.

**We accept text pieces up to 2,000 words in length. Please paste your work as plain text directly into the e-mail. You may also send a text document as an attachment in addition to pasting the content, if formatting is important to the piece.

**For images, we accept visual files in pdf, jpeg, and gif format. Please send a low-res (72 dpi) version for submission review.

**For sound, send mp3 files, zipped if possible, at a length of 5 minutes or less.

**For video footage, email QuickTime files, compressed for web, again in the vicinity of 5 minutes or less. If we have difficulty looking at your video due to compatibility issues, we will email you with information about uploading your submission to the Digital Artifact YouTube account.