Entre Ville

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URL of Work	http://luckysoap.com/entreville
Title of Work	Entre Ville
Author	J. R. Carpenter
Year of Publication	2006
Language	English, French
Description	Entre Ville is a web art poetry video project by J. R. Carpenter. It was commissioned by the OBORO New Media Lab on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Conseil des Arts de Montreal. It launched at the Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal in April 2006. It has since been included in the Rhizome ArtBase at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Web Biennial 2007 at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum in Turkey and was presented at the MiT5 conference at MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2007. Entre Ville is based on a poem called "Saint-Urbain Street Heat" that was first published in the UK-based online journal Nth Position. The 17 Quicktime videos included in Entre Ville were edited at the OBORO New Media Lab in Montreal.

Additional Notes

"I work at home. My office window opens onto a jumbled intimacy of back balconies, back yards and back alleyways. Daily my dog and I walk through this interior city sniffing for stories. Poetry is not hard to find between these long longs of peeling paint fences spray painted with bright abstractions and draped with trailing vines. I have tried to present Entre Ville in the vernacular of my neighbourhood, where cooking smells and noisy neighbours crisscross the alleyway one sentence at at time." J. R. Carpenter, 2006.