Thanks to Bronac Ferran for sharing this photo of my Bloomsday2023 performance in the Keynes Library at Birkbeck, University of London, overlooking Gordon Square; and for convening and introducing the event.
It was great privilege to celebrate Bloomsday in the former home of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and of John Maynard Keynes. Read more about Woolf’s reading of Joyce’s Ulysses here…
I did a half-hour set* under the watchful eyes/paintings of Duncan Grant (pictured) and Vanessa Bell, for a fantastic and enthusiastic audience, followed by a really fascinating talk from my fellow speaker, the pioneering computer artist Paul Brown (with interlocutor Dr Joel McKim, Director of the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology at Birkbeck).
(Just this week it had been announced that Paul Brown had won the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, ‘for his pioneering efforts in the fields of computational art, generative systems, and cellular automata.’)
Thanks, all.
*If you want a flavour of my set, I read two of my short stories: ‘Plain Speaking’ (from Best British Short Stories 2022, Salt Publishing, or read the story gratis here, via Irish Literary Society…); and ‘Apocryphal Fragment from the Lives of the Conquistadors’ (from Steven Hull’s Puppet Show for Glow:Santa Monica, not available in print, but audio here, with Gibby Haynes’ musical accompaniment); and rounded up with ‘The Willingdone Museyroom‘ from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
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