J.R. Carpenter Things Rarely Turn Out the Way I Intend Them To (Or the Internet Will Never Catch On)
© J.R. Carpenter, 2018
Performance
November, 1st, 2018, 4PM TO 5:30PM (Doors at 3:30PM)
A collaboration of Studio XX (Ada X) and OBORO
Twenty-one years after participating in the first HTMlles Festival, J. R. Carpenter returns with Things Rarely Turn Out the Way I Intend Them To, a performance/lecture copresented by the HTMlles Festival and OBORO. Social media has exponentially expanded the audience for web-based art and writing, but the hashtag operates largely within proprietary zones of the internet governed by neoliberal corporations. What does it mean to write into spaces we don’t own? When does success constitute a failure? Will the new ever get old? Things Rarely Turn Out the Way I Intend Them To reflects with humour on failures and becomings engendered by women web artists and writers over the past quarter of a century or so. It prompts us to think about how far we’ve come, to figure out how far we have yet to go.
This event is presented as part of the HTMlles Festival, a feminist festival in media arts and digital culture produced by Studio XX (Ada X). Discover the rest of the programming here.
© J.R. Carpenter, 2018
J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, researcher, and lecturer working in print and digital media based in Plymouth, UK. Her web-based work has been exhibited, published, performed, and presented in journals, galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. She’s a winner of the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, the Carte Blanche Award, the Expozine Alternative Press Awards, the Dot Award for Digital Literature (UK), and the New Media Writing Prize (UK).
