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Limited Fork

Thylias Mosswww-personal.umich.edu
The Limited Fork show featuring POAMs: Products of Acts of Making in fulfillment of principles of Limited Fork Poetics: the study of interacting language systems, where the visual, sonic, tactile, and olfactory meet to form and reform (compelling) structures. Where focus on an intensely stabilizing area can still produce (forms of) sonnets that will maintain a particular form for only a limited period of time after which other structure(s) emerge, some of the emergence occurring across physical, sensory, and other dimensions. This podcast is the place where POAMS, products of acts of making, will evolve, for the idea (as well as the poams that come out of the idea) is dynamic, seeking ways to fulfill the need for expression that coincides with unfolding understandings of existence. At the end of one of the branching roots of LFP and at the tip of one of the branches is belief in the pleasure of making things, a pleasure increased by acts of making that understand and try to take advantage of the range of what is possible and available. BY FOCUSING ON INTERACTIONS, THE WHOLENESS OF THE ORGANISM IS EMPHASIZED. The LFP experiment will showcase successes and failures, for the dead ends, the branches that do not bear sweet fruit, edible fruit, or any fruit at all, nevertheless contribute meaningfully to the recognizable structure of the tree. Perhaps the beauty of the tree depends on the presence of some dead ends. Every week, there will be a visual or sonic episode (a branch) that reflects the current status of the ongoing study of interacting language systems. The LFP show will always present what is within its changing limits. Not (just) poems, but POAMS. To hear more music of Limited Fork, visit the Limited Fork Music podcast. For more Limited Fork movies, visit the Limited Fork Video Anthology to download the video work of student and other practitioners of what Limited Fork Poetics enables and encourages.
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Episodes

"Mother's Day" Graphic Prose Poam

Slideshow of "Mother's Day," a graphic prose poam in eight 20x30 panels, part of the Place.Mark exhibition opening 7 March 2008 at the Work Gallery on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Features text extracted from conversations that took place between Thylias Moss and Ansted Moss, beginning in 1999 when he was eight-years-old, and features images captured with a digital SLR camera, a digital point-and-shoot camera, a 50x USB microscope, a camera phone, and a Polaroid camera. Images of Thylias...

Mar 07, 20080

Detroit Intersections Project: Cogs in the Glass Machine

Slideshow of the window installation at Work Gallery - Detroit featuring "Cogs in the Glass Machine," a Detroit Intersections Project on which Jim Cogswell, visual artist, and Thylias Moss, text artist, collaborated. The text may be downloaded in pdf format in another episode of this podcast.

Mar 07, 20080

Cogs In The Glass Machine

Text of the window project in collaboration with Jim Cogswell for an installation on the windows of the Work Gallery - Detroit. A slideshow of the installation may be experienced in another episode of this podcast.

Mar 07, 20080

Heat Dozens ELEMENTS OF DAMAGE

Video poam stanza of the longer video study "Heat Dozens with Lightning Wings," with sound by Strexx of http://www.strexx.com who wrangled the sound produced by an Empire toy stove and used it to form the basis of damage control audio for the soundtrack. This poam explores a system trying to organize itself, seeking a point of unification for its population, a theme that will have some joyousness tethered to it, too, for emerging, for existing, and for functioning as connective tissue so while t...

Dec 22, 20074 min

Heat Dozens with Lightning Wings

A video poam exploring the mapping of neural networks in the mind through the linking of memory, a toy stove, the body's physiological responses to neurological temporary neurological damage, and imagination. Ideas about heat from one hub of this network, a hub which allows this hub to connect with other idea hubs in the mind. Anyone watching "Heat Dozens" has an opportunity to form a memory of the video poam and to form a network of associations formed by elements in the video poam linking with...

Nov 15, 200714 min

Bubbling to Memphis (low res)

EGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs in this low resolution version of the "Bubbling to Memphis" video poam for those with storage issues. The compression will be strained on those large LCD and plasma monitors, but on a portable device, it should look fine. A video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces that may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series ...

May 08, 20073 min

Bubbling to Memphis (high res)

EGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs. A limited fork video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces which may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series investigates what happens to notions of containment in such situations. This video poam is for Primus. Thank you for asking me for a video poam when I was in a location (the middle of an investigation) that ...

May 08, 20073 min

LFMK

LFMK is a video poam made for the SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center & SafeHouse Center) "rEVOLUTION" show in the Duderstadt Center Gallery to launch the LFMK brand. LFMK (Looking for My Killer) is a (type of) PSA that hopes to call attention to the vulnerability of humanity through an extreme selfless act, that of a woman using herself to attract the attention of an attacker in order to protect other women the attacker might pursue if she were not willingly available. Bec...

May 08, 20075 min

In Your Face

A video poam that explores what is just out of reach, at the 50x scale where there is enough resemblance to soothe and enough enhancement to unsettle. What is seen of the eye, by the way, at the 50x scale is the (magnified) iris and the (magnified) pupil. The white part of the eye is not visibile except for a fraction of it for a second. Made in attempts to distract myself from the recent loss of 600GB of data when a 1TB external hard drive failed at the moment that I was trying to move what I a...

Mar 02, 200754 sec

Monday Aardvark of Laundry DETONATED (updated)

Short form of the longer update, both of which feature more images by Ansted Moss. This video poam explores how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location. The update became necessary when external hard drive failure caused the loss of some of the source files. This piece is the outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention. Thank you, Evie, for asking for a poam when I was doing laun...

Mar 01, 20073 min

Monday Aardvark of Laundry (updated)

This updated version of the full-length video poam is about how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location. Featuring more images by Ansted Moss, the update became necessary to make when an external hard drive failure destroyed some of the source files. The update is an outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention. The sound poam portion comes from a print piece prepared for MiPO (mi...

Mar 01, 200712 min

Monday Aardvark DETONATED

Short video poam form of "Monday Aardvark of Laundry." Features images by Ansted Moss and faces of Martha, Mattie, and Donna --thanks for the likenesses. Thanks also to Evie of MiPO who got this bifurcating Aardvark bifurcation started.

Feb 16, 20073 min

Monday Aardvark of Laundry

A video poam exploration of some of the visual potential of some of the content of the sound & text poams of the same name. This video poam is also for Evie of MiPO who asked me to submit some work. Thanks for getting this tine of the fork in motion. This video poam is not likely to be the final bifurcation. "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" contains images by Ansted Moss (see more of his visual work at abstract-projections.com) and Thylias Moss. The "Monday Aardvark" sound poam is available in t...

Feb 16, 200712 min

Verde: the greening of electrons

Video poam treatment of "Verde," a prose piece available at poetrymagazine.org. The video includes Spanish by Federico Garcia Lorca from the poem "Somnambule Ballad," and a still image by Ansted Moss whose image work may be seen at abstract-projections.com. The soundtrack is available in Limited Fork Music.

Feb 15, 20075 min

Pi Complex (short)

Video poam short of the installation projection piece in three parts, each about 9.42 minutes long. Related to "Pi Song" and to the video poam "Tornado Pi," and features close-ups of two of the human vortices. Explores merging, diverging, and fluctuating identities. Dreams of golden ratios. Also related to the video poam "Place Value." I am grateful for the generous participation of two University of Michigan practitioners of Limited Fork Poetics: Rachel Harkai and Nate Barron who has two video ...

Feb 03, 20072 min

Rush Hour

A video poam of "Rush Hour," from my first collection of poetry, and a companion piece to the sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space. Intersects with and departs from "Rush Hour (too)," a video poam available in this podcast. The soundtrack of this video poam is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.

Jan 30, 20073 min

Rush Hour (too)

Video poam companion to "Rush Hour" sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space and for the adult literacy students who used "Rush Hour" in their program. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to revisit a poem from my first book.

Jan 25, 20073 min

Limited Fork Quality Control (CREW 2.0)

A spoken poam for practitioners, dabbler or immersed, the curious and for the attendees --also for those who could not attend-- my CREW (Collaboratory for Reseach in Electronic Work) Seminar last week in the School of Information (north campus), a session during which an attendee in the remote West Hall (central campus)location asked me about the challenge of judging the quality of Limited Fork poams if there are no boundaries to what may achieve the status of poam. This audio poam comes from fu...

Dec 07, 200625 min

Why Fork? (Cheryl's Q, My A)

An answer poam for Cheryl's question about why a fork is the instrument of this poetics of interacting language systems, why a fork is the tool of choice for making. An answer poam for Cheryl that is also for the participants of the CREW seminar (for whom this answer poam is also a ladder).

Dec 01, 200624 min

Forks & Ladders (an introductory audio map of LFP structure)

This sonic poam is for Profjr!, and for any others curious about the basics of what happens when formal poetic structures are forked. Just a little bare-bones map of fork possibilities to consider when laboring through an act of making and hoping for multiples, but not necessarily identicals or even twins at all. If something's born on/in/over/under/through/with/navigating/zigzagging/climbing/opening/folding/unfolding [& so forth] the ladder, and you'd like to share it with me (and possibly ...

Nov 09, 200618 min

Ostrich Culture of Snowmen video poam

This video poam, dedicated to Haesong Kwon and the CREAM CITY REVIEW where "The Culture of Snowmen" appeared as a print object poam, is a product of investigations of scale and simultaneity of activity in interactions in language systems, and is part of the Limited Fork Simultaneity Studies Series. This video poam forms different structures (including structures of meaning) when it interacts with static and focused platforms (also achievable by pause functions) such as document forms such as the...

Nov 02, 200615 min

Ostrich Culture of Snowmen picture book

A book of still poams, images from "Ostrich Culture of Snowmen" from the Limited Fork Poetics simultaneity studies video series. Companion poams are available in this podcast and in the Limited Fork Music podcast. This visual poam, dedicated to Haesong Kwon and the CREAM CITY REVIEW where "The Culture of Snowmen" appeared as a print object poam, is a product of investigations of scale and simultaneity of activity in interactions in language systems. The print object poam "The Culture of Snowmen"...

Nov 02, 20062 sec

Tornado Pi

A video poam for Mikel Alvarez whose request for the sound poam "Tornados" led to the creation of this video poam. I hope you like it, Mikel. "Tornado Pi" contains an image of the mother of Limited Fork Poetics taken by Ansted Moss. "Tornado Pi" also contains footage of the "Pi Song" ENG 429 players: Nate Barron, Rachel Harkai, Jennifer Obidike, Julia Ris, and Jennifer Sharkey. Nate and Jennifer Sharkey's video poams are available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast. The soundtrack of "T...

Oct 24, 200616 min

[the look of] (Incredible) ACCESS

This video poam reconfigures, in a context of access, images taken by the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio on the occasion of their visit to the north campus of the University of Michigan. The MADD Poets are Making a Direct Difference in their community with positive actions. Their Director is David Bush.

Oct 06, 200610 min

[the sound of] (Incredible) ACCESS

Audio extraction from the (Incredible) ACCESS video poam; a sound poam of only the words spoken about access, inspired by the occasion on which the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio came to the north campus of the University of Michigan. David Bush is Director of the MADD Poets Society.

Oct 06, 20069 min

Tines Three

A medley of three video poams made by three teams of members of the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio during their single day of access to Limited Fork Poetics and the north campus of the University of Michigan in April 2006. The MADD Poets Society is a group of teens Making A Direct Difference through positive actions in their community. David Bush is the director of the MADD Poets Society.

Oct 04, 200614 min

Pleasurable Complexity

This movie poam debuted at the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event on 14 September at the University of Michigan. The theme is "place value: implications of the lattice." 37 layers (communities) of interacting language systems (communities) are latticed in the making of this poam. Poams related to this theme, including a "Pleasurable Complexity event book," may be found throughout all three Limited Fork podcasts: Limited Fork, Limited Fork Music, and Limited Fork Video Anthology. ...

Sep 26, 20067 min

"Lattice Looking" book

This visual poam is a companion to the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event that considered notions of place value and implications of the lattice. Some of Ansted's lattice looking images were part of a larger lattice or woven piece featuring the poam "Shadowbox Suite" by KC Trommer. This larger piece, "Latticed Shadowbox Suite," is available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast and in the Limited Fork podcast. Other pieces related to the "Pleasurable Complexity" are also av...

Sep 24, 20062 sec

"Lattice Looking" slideshow

A video poam exploring implications of the lattice in conjunction with the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork event on 14 September. A variation of the image sequence is also woven (interacting) into "Latticed Shadowbox Suite" which also features work by KC Trommer, a Limited Fork practitioner, and cellist Pablo Casals performing a suite for cello by Bach. Related poams are available in this and other Limited Fork podcasts. These poams are part of a lattice of inquiry considering notions of p...

Sep 24, 20068 min

Place Value

A video poam (product of an act of making) exploring scale and the simultaneity of experience in interacting language systems which form and reform poetic structures as a consequence of the ways in which their existences fold and unfold. "Place Value" is also about the location of poetry and the need for people to be (more) receptive to the incredible readiness for poetry exhibited by all that exists. The poam considers how value both is and isn't assigned to instances of this incredible readine...

Sep 24, 200630 min
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