Volume 2 Issue 4: Sci-fi
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The Mobile Library provides a multi-digital exhibiting experience for artists and writers to showcase their work during the pandemic closures. Each publication is unique, pairing artists and writers together at different stages in their career to build a collaborative experience.
This year, Volume 2 focused on the supernatural, spiritual, alchemic, and mythological. For the final issue of Volume 2, we curated work around our theme “Sci-fi.” Each of our contributors explored themes of technology, futurism, cyberpunk, space exploration, virtual reality, and inventive languages.
About
Akua Lezli Hope uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, and wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, adornments, and peace. She wrote her first speculative poems in the sixth grade and has been in print every year, since 1974 with over 400 poems published. Her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (ArtFarm Press, 1995; Writer’s Digest book award winner); Them Gone (The Word Works, 2018); Otherwheres: Speculative Poetry (ArtFarm Press, 2021 Elgin Award winner); and Stratospherics (a micro-chapbook of scifaiku available from the Quarantine Public Library). A Cave Canem fellow, her honors include the NEA, two NYFAs, an SFPA award, and multiple Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominations. She has twice won Rattle’s Poets Respond. She created Speculative Sundays, an online poetry reading series that presented 21 speculative poets in reading and conversation, 2020-2021. She is the editor of the record-breaking sea-themed issue of Eye To The Telescope #42, and of the historic first-of-its-kind anthology, NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, from Sundress Publications (2021). She won a 2022 Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council of the Arts for her project “Afrofuturist Pastoral Speculative Poetry”.
Website: www.akualezlihope.com
Antonio da Mata is a Brazilian artist and writer pursuing a master's degree in literary theory at the University of Brasilia. His work is interested in the exploration of hybrid artistic productions between human and non-human intelligences. In his short stories, poems and essays, we often see the intersection of the most varied genres (sci-fi, gothic and horror literature, poetry, information and computer theory, cybernetics and philosophy), to achieve the strangest and most unusual results. Lately, he has been co-authoring text composition techniques with non-human intelligences, such as the AI GPT-3.
Website: criptosistemas.wordpress.com
Instagram: @antoni0damata
Benna Gaean Maris is an interdisciplinary artist interested in raising awareness on metaphysical, human, social and environmental issues, favoring the use of poor materials through minimalism.
Website: www.aaaabeegimnnnrs.net
YouTube: @bennagaeanmaris
Jesse Farber’s disorienting inkjet prints of theatrically staged virtual constructions raise questions about photography’s relationship with truth. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Europe, and is currently a member of the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. He has attended residencies at Höherweg (Dusseldorf, Germany), Islip Museum of Art (NY), Yaddo (NY), and Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL). Since 2018, he has published an ongoing library of collage book zines through his imprint Vonconflon, which also releases works by his audio project, RNL. His sound works have also appeared in film scores, radio broadcasts, and live events.
Website: www.jessefarber.com
Instagram: @jesse.farber
Liu Entung was born in 1995 in Taipei, Taiwan. As an interdisciplinary artist, ENTUNG’s works explore the intersection of multiple fields: visual art, performance, and technology with various methods like paintings, photography, performances, installations, videos, and sounds. She received a BFA in Multimedia Art at Taipei National University of the Arts in 2018 and a MPS in Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in 2022. LIU has performed at Treasure Hill Artist Village, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Fuzhong15 Animation and Story Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan. She has also been an artist assistant in Micheal Lin Studio and Chen Shiau-Peng Studio and worked in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. Currently, she lives in NYC and shooting the series <Too Bright To Be Painful>.
Website: www.liuentung.com
Instagram: @liu_entung
A somewhat nomadic artist, Meraki Vagary works with ecological and sustainable practice within contemporary art to explore the connections and relationships humans have with each other as well as the natural world. Moving from the Marine Biology sector into Education and the Arts, this miscellany of interests often converge to produce interesting questions which are responded to by the artist, in an interdisciplinary fashion and largely using somatic-led performance; interacting with flora, fauna, organic materiality and found objects.
Website: www.merakivagary.com
Instagram: @merakivagary
Ndaba Sibanda is a Bulawayo-born poet, novelist and nonfiction writer who has authored twenty-eight published books of various genres and persuasions and coauthored more than 100 published books. Some of Ndaba`s works are found or forthcoming in Page & Spine, Piker Press , SCARLET LEAF REVIEW , Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Pangolin Review, Kalahari Review ,Botsotso, The Ofi Press Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Deltona Howl, The song is, JONAH magazine, Saraba Magazine, Poetry Potion, Saraba Magazine, The Borfski Press, East Coast Literary Review and Whispering Prairie Press. Sibanda has received the following nominations: the national arts merit awards (NAMA), the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize, the Best of the Net Prose and the Pushcart Prize.
Amazon: www.amazon.com/Books-Ndaba-Sibanda
Nelly Shullman is a writer currently based in Berlin. She is an author of six popular novels, including family sagas and Victorian mystery. She is working on her next novel and on the non- fiction book about the Russian revolution. She is a Hawthornden Fellow and a Fulbright scholar. Her work has appeared on JewishFiction.net, in the Vine Leaves Press Anthology of the Best 2021 Flash Fiction and in the various literary magazines. She is a winner of two writing awards. She loves traveling, reading, cooking and discovering something new. She speaks six languages and is always interested in learning more.
Website: https://nellyshulman.blog
Facebook: @nelly.shulman
Currently based in France, Papatheodorou Nausika was born in 1997 in Athens, Greece. She studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki University in the Traditional Printmaking Workshop with the artist Giannadakis Manolis as professor, and graduated in February 2022 with a mixed media, printmaking installation exhibition and a master. She has been attending courses at VSVU University/AFAD - Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and she is currently creating a sound archive, by travelling and exploring installative and performative aspects of the so- called ‘’traditional’’ art of manual Printmaking.
Instagram: @naus_mutalip
Richard Oyama’s poems, stories and essays have appeared in Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, The Nuyorasian Anthology, Breaking Silence, Dissident Song, A Gift of Tongues, About Place, Konch Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain, Tribes, Malpais Review, Anak Sastra, Buddhist Poetry Review and other literary journals. The Country They Know (Neuma Books 2005) is his first collection of poetry. He has a M.A. in English: Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Currently retired, Oyama taught at California College of Arts in Oakland, University of California at Berkeley and University of New Mexico. His first novel in a trilogy, A Riot Goin’ On, is forthcoming. He is currently at work on a young adult novel and a full-length poetry collection.
Serena Dzenis is a lens-based artist from Australia who resides in Iceland. She uses her work to tell stories about science, conservation, environmental issues and the future of mankind. Serena’s photographs depart from the traditional, with a focus on capturing the otherworldliness that is sometimes associated with nature and human constructions on our own planet. The emphasis of her art is on storytelling within the landscape – connecting with the land and exploring the outcomes of human desires while immersing oneself in the rhythms and dangers associated with the living presence of this world.
Website: www.serenavsworld.com
Instagram: @serenavsworld
Toti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. Born in Rome, living in Los Angeles, she is an author, artist, musician and dancer. Her mixed media have been exhibited in group and solo shows in Europe and the US since 1995, as well as featured in numerous magazines such as Still Point, Vayavya, and New Reader. She has created book covers and illustrations for children books, poetry collections, and memoirs.
Website: www.totihan.net
Facebook: @toti.obrien