The SynThink Fall Colloquium for 1999 will bring together writers, multimedia artists and musicians instrumental in pushing the practice of writing in new directions.  "Unwriting the Word" grows out of a seminar entitled "A Brief History of Writing," offered in Fall '99 by Dr. Paul Harris of the English Department.

5-7pm                  Opening Reception

7                          Welcome by Fr. Robert P. Lawton, President, LMU

7:15                      Manuel Schwab (U.C. Santa Cruz), spoken word

7:45                      A.L. Nielsen (LMU), poetry performance

8:15 - 10:30          Jazz/poetry concert by L.A. Artists TBA

10 a.m.    Alex Ross   (M.A. in English Program, LMU)
    "Writing That Isn't Here"

10:30      Merlin Lembong (Graduate Program, Multimedia, ArtCenter)
    "The Lesson"

11-11:30  coffee

11:30      Rob Wittig ( In.s.omnia, Tank20)
     "Dangerous [crossed out] Digital Liaisons"

12-30 – 2    Lunch   (Bird's Nest, LMU)

Session II:  Imagining Prehistory

2        Paul Harris, Introduction

2:15           Raymond Federman  (Emeritus, SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program)
     "ChouChou in the Cave"
 

3:15 - 3:45  coffee

Session III: Inscribing the Unwritten

3:45    Marc Lony (Modern Languages, LMU), Introduction

4         Jeffrey Graham  (Graduate Program in English, LMU)

4:30    Oulipian texts by LMU students

5          Marcel Benabou (OuLiPo; Dept of Classics, U of Paris 8)
 

Closing Reception

6 – 9pm   LMU Sculpture Garden

    reception & jazz poetry performance by Raymond Federman w/Fritz Wise Trio