[NetBehaviour] live chat with Manuel Portela 10/23 (Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion)

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live chat with Manuel Portela 10/23 (Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion)

_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_

:: Live chat with poet and critic Manuel Portela, discussing concrete 
and digital poetics, and other topics.
:: Chat date: Monday, October 23.
:: 1 pm West Coast US / 4 pm  East Coast USA / 10 pm Paris FR / 6 am 
Melbourne AU
:: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of 
Leonardo Electronic Almanac <http://leoalmanac.org/>

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Manuel Portela Biography
Manuel Portela has written books of visual and sound poetry, as well as 
a number of satirical poems. His early poems have been collected in 
Cras! Bang! Boom! Clang (1991) and Pixel Pixel (1992). He organized an 
international exhibition of visual and concrete poetry in 1993 - Wor(l)d 
Poem/ Poema Mu(n)do, which was held at the Museum of Figueira da Foz, 
Portugal. He has also exhibited his own visual poetry and he has created 
several digital poems. Since 1994 he has published 10 volumes of 
translation, including the first Portuguese editions of William Blake’s 
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1994) and Laurence Sterne’s The 
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (2 vols, 1997-98). He was awarded 
the National Prize of Literary Translation for Tristram Shandy. Many 
other translations have appeared in Portuguese and Brazilian journals 
and anthologies, including poems by Samuel Beckett, Edwin Morgan, Tony 
Harrison, John Havelda, Charles Bernstein, Mike Basinski, Bill Howe, Ron 
Silliman, Bob Perelman, Dennis Cooley, Robert Kroetsch, Roy Miki, Don 
Paterson. He has written short plays both for radio and stage. His 
latest book is O Comércio da Literatura [The Commerce of Literature] 
(2003), a study of representations of the literary marketplace in 
eighteenth-century England. Currently he works as an Assistant Professor 
at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His latest research is concerned 
with textual forms in digital media.