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• those the again, one image tongue
• Breathing Room

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SEPT 24, 2013
Prosthesis in Chercher le texte (ELO 13)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

JUNE 17-20, 2013
Prosthesis (solo) and Body Text/Voiced/Unvoiced (with Catherine Siller)
E-Poetry Festival, Kingston University, London

MAY 10, 2013
Reading in 'Phantastische Gebete' alongside Andrew Durbin & Jennifer Tamayo (info)
7pm, Bureau of General Services--Queer Division, 27 Orchard St, New York NY

MAY 4, 2013
Reading in 'SHITLUCK VII' alongside Macgregor Card, Farnoosh Fathi, Jenny Zhang, Christine Kanownik, & Stephanie Willis
8pm, Tip Top Bar, 432 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn NY

APR 13, 2013
Prosthesis in 'The Book That Was To Come' (info)
1pm, Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL

MAR 25, 2013
Prosthesis in 'An Evening with Electronic Literature Organization' (info)
7pm, The Kitchen, New York NY

[ past shows ]

MAR 9, 2013
GET LIT (Mental Marginalia reading series)
5-8pm, Club Cafe, Napoleon Room, Boston MA

MAR 8, 2013
LIT Journal at MIT: Reading & Performance
6-7:30pm, room 6-120, MIT, Boston MA

FEB 7-9, 2013
Two Worlds with the Moving Architects
8pm (all three nights), BalletMet Performance Space, Columbus OH

DEC 26, 2012
Music set (opening for & accompanying Chris Riffle)
8pm, The Triple Door, 216 Union St, Seattle WA

NOV 16 & 17, 2012
Body Text (with Catherine Siller) at The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn NY
Friday 11/16 at 9pm, Saturday 11/17 at 7pm, $18

OCT 13, 2012
Prosthesis at Pixilerations v.9
8pm, Granoff Center, 154 Angell St, Providence RI

SEPT 8, 2012
Prosthesis at TOTEM IV
8pm, Cantina Royale, 58 N 3rd St, Brooklyn NY

JUN 20-23, 2012
Prosthesis and "Future of ELO" panel
ELO 2012, Morgantown WV

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MAY 2-6, 2012
Assisting with Ultra-red's "What is the sound of freedom?" at the Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum, NYC

MAY 5, 2012
Prosthesis in ITINERANT Performance Art Festival
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island NYC

APR 28, 2012
Prosthesis in ITINERANT Performance Art Festival
Floor4Art, Manhattan NYC

APR 19-21, 2012
Excerpts from Prosthesis and Public Cloud
Network Archaeology, Miami University, Oxford OH

FEB 10-12, 2012
Excerpts from Prosthesis and Public Cloud
Interrupt II, Brown University, Providence RI

FEB 3-4, 2012
Signal Box (with Hayley Sunshine) & Prosthesis
Language to Cover a Wall, Electronic Poetry Center, UB Buffalo NY
Dance show: Feb 3, 7:30 & 9pm, $10 door; Reading: 7:30pm, free

JAN 7, 2012
PLUCK (with the Moving Architects)
APAP 2012, Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway NYC
5:30pm, free - please RSVP

Prosthesis is a suite of solo vocal/text/media poems exploring feedback loops between digital systems and human cognition. Each live iteration has a different setlist. Some performances are simple readings, while others include software-driven projections, lights, and sound.

Collaborative performances with Catherine Siller using motion-tracking hardware, custom software, and live vocal processing.

Opening Sources is an online poem continuously written by anonymous authors.

In live performance, the poem is projected on a screen and the audience is invited to edit the text while it is read aloud repeatedly. A loop of feedback forms as the audience takes uncertain control over its collective voice.

Web:  [ Launch ]

Cornfield in Dear Sir, 13 (forthcoming)
Safe Word, Attachments, Circuits, i++ in LIT 23 (print only)
Discover Poetry in The Claudius App 4
Drop-Down Menu of Sleep (with Emily Dorman) in The Claudius App 3
Gene Study in Indefinite Space 2012 (print only)  [ PDF ]
An Ailment That I Will Not Treat in Web Conjunctions 3.6.12
[][ ][  ] in The Claudius App 2
Working Memory () in SpringGun 5
Twelve Panes & iceTime in e·ratio 15
Mast (with Aaron Kovalchik) in A/M/T/S (print only)  [ PDF ]
Flock Behaviors in Anomalous Press 3
Working Memory Array in Glasschord 10
Signal to Noise in Streamflow Conditions (Subito Press)
In the Air in The New Yinzer (Summer 09)
Null Method in Counterpath Online 3

A 2013 duet by the Moving Architects, which I scored and accompanied live on electric guitar.

A 2011-2012 dance work by the Moving Architects. I scored the piece with live remixes of compositions by Ryoji Ikeda, Christian Fennesz, Alva Noto, and Atlas Sound.

More info & video on the Moving Architects site: [link]

This music was written and recorded for a 2010 piece by the Moving Architects. What began as a formal piece based on cathedral architecture gradually became a very personal project, focused on the ritualized defense of sacred spaces and the weathering of storms. The score consists of noise, drums, heartbeats, electric piano, field recordings, and samples (see below).

Video excerpts & more info: [link]

∴ Remixes of "Sun" by the Microphones
∠ Featuring an excerpt of "Agate" by Coppice
⊥ Featuring an excerpt of "Ragout: Küchen Rezpt Von Einstürzende Neubaten" by Einstürzende Neubauten
≈ Remix of "Cinq Etudes De Bruits: Etude Violette" by Pierre Schaeffer

This 2009 project with the Moving Architects was a study of American transit and transience by way of Chicago's Union Station. I scored Stops with 48 minutes of solo instrumental music, performed live on acoustic guitar, melodica, and glockenspiel.

Recording and studio flute parts by John Goldman.

A short simple score, my first project with the Moving Architects.
Composed in summer 2008 at a residency at Wilson College, PA.

Music for six sections of a film by Nadia Oussenko.
Recorded in part at the 2009 Harold Arts residency in Chesterhill OH.

A duet with Asimina Chremos.
The text in this excerpt is derived from Susan Howe's The Midnight.

An algorithmically composed remix of Beckett's How It Is.
Performed with (and conceptualized by) John Cayley, video by Peter Bussigel.

processProse: theimage.literalart.net

Ian Hatcher is a text, code, and sound farmer living in New York City.

[ CV (PDF) ]

In Fall 2010 and Spring 2011, I taught "Electronic Writing II" [LITR-0210D] at Brown University. The course was an undergraduate creative writing workshop which focused on conceptualism, media, and performance. It included a lab which covered basics of programming (HTML/JS, Processing) and audio/video editing.

Syllabus: [ LITR 0210D ]

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