Has it Been This Long...
I realized today that I haven't even visited my website in months, let alone update it.
As many of you know, I graduated from my MFA program at Columbia College back in may of 2009, and about a month later started a job at a financial marketing agency. I have, however, continued to make artwork and progress on the novel. I hope to complete a second draft of the later in the next few months.
In any case, it is my hope that this short missive will reassure those people I haven't spoken with in a dog's age that I am indeed alive and well in spite of the frigid temperatures outside.
Happy Holidays!
Ken
As many of you know, I graduated from my MFA program at Columbia College back in may of 2009, and about a month later started a job at a financial marketing agency. I have, however, continued to make artwork and progress on the novel. I hope to complete a second draft of the later in the next few months.
In any case, it is my hope that this short missive will reassure those people I haven't spoken with in a dog's age that I am indeed alive and well in spite of the frigid temperatures outside.
Happy Holidays!
Ken
kennethgerleve.com is LIVE! It's ALIVE!
Ok. So I still have to add more images and give them all proper descriptions and etc., but the site is now available to the world.
Now I get to go back to packing and moving house and studio to Pilsen!
-Ken
Now I get to go back to packing and moving house and studio to Pilsen!
-Ken
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects
From 21-24 July, I will be attending the International Gothic Association's 9th Biannual Conference, a.k.a. 'Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects' in Lancaster, England. The following is from their website:
"Gothic forms and figures have long been bound up with different media, from the machinery of Walpole’s modern romance to Robertson’s phantasmagorical shows in the eighteenth century; from uncanny automata to ghostly photographs and monstrous kinetograms in the nineteenth; from cinematic shocks to digital disembodiments in the twentieth. More than merely exploiting new technical developments in cultural production and consumption, the Gothic mode, in adopting and adapting new media, engages with excitements and anxieties attendant on social and technological change."
"Examining conjunctions of literary, visual, spatial and digital texts in relation to spectral and visceral effects and affects, the conference aims to stimulate discussions of the relationship between the Gothic novel and other cultural forms, media and technologies. Doubling the monstrous with the spectral, it sets out to explore the cultural production and consumption of monsters and ghosts from the eighteenth century to the present."
"This interdisciplinary, international conference will be hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing and supported across the University by colleagues in English, Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and the Contemporary Arts. It is hoped that international scholars from diverse fields will participate."
Here is a link to their website:
http://www.monstrous-media.com/index.html
"Gothic forms and figures have long been bound up with different media, from the machinery of Walpole’s modern romance to Robertson’s phantasmagorical shows in the eighteenth century; from uncanny automata to ghostly photographs and monstrous kinetograms in the nineteenth; from cinematic shocks to digital disembodiments in the twentieth. More than merely exploiting new technical developments in cultural production and consumption, the Gothic mode, in adopting and adapting new media, engages with excitements and anxieties attendant on social and technological change."
"Examining conjunctions of literary, visual, spatial and digital texts in relation to spectral and visceral effects and affects, the conference aims to stimulate discussions of the relationship between the Gothic novel and other cultural forms, media and technologies. Doubling the monstrous with the spectral, it sets out to explore the cultural production and consumption of monsters and ghosts from the eighteenth century to the present."
"This interdisciplinary, international conference will be hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing and supported across the University by colleagues in English, Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and the Contemporary Arts. It is hoped that international scholars from diverse fields will participate."
Here is a link to their website:
http://www.monstrous-media.com/index.html
