http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress The Interstitial Arts Foundation Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:57:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en July is is the month we celebrate our independence, and that makes it a fine time to celebrate interstitiality's early roots in the culture of the American heartland.  One of the first to pilot the concept of 20th century multi-media performance art was that most American of American fantasists, Lyman ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=203 (Ed.: Continuing our series of profiles of IAF people, Mike Allen is a member of the IAF Working Group. Previous profiles in this series have included Christopher Barzak, Larissa N. Niec, Stephen H. Segal, Felice Kuan, Wendy Ellertson, Deborah Atherton, Erin Underwood, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman and Geoffrey Long.) Who are ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=202 Zoë Keating photograph by Lane Hartwell I wish I could remember when I first discovered Zoë Keating. It's hard to associate her work with a particular year, because there's something about it that seems to hail from either some almost-here future or some funky alternate history. If steampunk is Victoriana ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=201 People often ask me if I think I was born bitextual, or if something in my environment made me that way. Do I write both science fiction and mainstream novels, both fiction and nonfiction, because I had an absent father and an overbearing mother, or because I was exposed to ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=187 It wasn't so long ago that combining feminism and science fiction was considered interstitial. Things have changed since then, and women have established a solid presence in the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction fields. Still, this is an excellent example of how interstitial literature can evolve into a firmly ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=200 This week the IAF is pleased to share a guest essay from interdisciplinary artist-turned musician-turned writer Jorge Socarras, whom we met through mutual friends in the worlds of music, fashion and literature: a perfect interstitial meeting point! Jorge started as a painter, but is perhaps most known for his work as ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=198 Ron Pasquariello, whom IAF folk will know from his 'dog haiku' piece The Chipper Dialogues in the IAF Annex last fall, has his artwork up for viewing in two different California galleries this month. Here's the official invite: Ron Pasquariello is exhibiting his artwork at two galleries during the month of ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=197 I'm admittedly a little late to the party with this one, but we at the IAF are incredibly chuffed to have been cited in a March 18, 2010 piece in The Valley Advocate. In Sailing Off the Map: Valley author Robert V.S. Redick brings the literary and fantastic together ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=196 It's not sponsored by the IAF, but the interstitially-minded in New York City on June 15th won't want to miss this event: Neil Gaiman, Walter Mosley, Joe Hill, Jeffrey Ford at Columbia U Neil Gaiman will be in New York City, at Columbia University, to talk about the imagination and the increasingly ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=195 (Ed.: Continuing our series of profiles of IAF people, Christopher Barzak is both a member of the IAF Working Group and, with Delia Sherman, the co-editor of Interfictions 2, our 2009 anthology of interstitial fiction. Previous profiles in this series have included Larissa N. Niec, Stephen H. Segal, Felice ... http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=194