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Mass Production Machines: High, Low, and Avant-Garde

Mass Production Machines: High, Low, and Avant-Garde

Conférence EAM 2010 'High & Low'

Université Adam Mickiewicz

Poznan, Pologne

 9 – 10 septembre 2010.

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Mass Production Machines: High, Low, and Avant-Garde

In 1930, Bob Brown proposed in The Readies an electric reading machine
and strategies for preparing the eye for mechanized reading. His machine
fit neatly among other experimental machines produced by avant-garde
writers and artists like George Antheil and his music machine. Mass
production was filled with electric media machines producing the
low-brow culture, and the avant-garde's adoption of machines as utopian
literary and artistic devices, challenges the facile notion that the
vanguard poets, publishers, and culture was an absolute rejection of low
brow culture.

The panel seeks to illuminate specific reading experiments and
apparatus as well as general theoretical investigations into avant-garde
and modernist reading as distinct from traditional reading practices.

The focus, on the hand-eye link and the avant-garde publishers' interest
in intervening in the mass culture. The panel also means to reflect on
the role these experiments play in helping us rearticulate the concepts
of high and low in the modernist/avant-garde context(s).

  Papers may be on individual experiments and machines or the place of
these experiments in groups and movements. Interdisciplinary proposals
are welcome.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Sociopoetics
Simultaneity
Role of little magazines and manifestoes
Technological innovations
Orality/aurality
Effects/affects
Reader's literacy
Transmission, reception, interpretation
High and Low Brow Machines in relation to literary and artistic studies

Chair:  Professor Craig Saper, University of Central Florida

contact: cjsaper@gmail.com