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LEA New Media Exhibition: Interview with Kate Pullinger

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LEA New Media Exhibition
Re-Drawing Boundaries
Focus On: Kate Pullinger
Curator: Jeremy Hight
Senior Curators: Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul

Kate Pullinger writes electronic collaborative literature using a combination of text, sound, images, and games.  These interactive episodes create digital fictions requiring user action to drive the story forward. LEA New Media Exhibition presents the new forms of digital storytelling: Novels as participatory media which connect technologies, languages, cultures, generations and curricula “across media and across the network.”

Kate Pullinger writes fiction for both print and digital media. Her most recent novel is The Mistress of Nothing which won the GG, Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2009. Other books include A Little Stranger (2006), Weird Sister (1999) and the short story collection My Life as a Girl in a Men’s Prison (1997). Pullinger’s many digital fiction projects include her multiple award-winning collaboration with Chris Joseph on ‘Inanimate Alice’, a multimedia episodic digital fiction and ‘Flight Paths’  a networked novel. Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University; she lives in London, England.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA),  ISSN No: 1071-4391
LEA International Curatoriate:
Lanfranco Aceti & Christiane Paul (Senior Curators), Jeremy Hight (New Media Curator), Vince Dziekan (Digital Media Curator)

Lea New Media Exhibition Interview with Kate Pullinger

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.