Surfaces

By Eric Schmaltz

Where does the body go when we write to one another thru digital channels? How and what do we feel when information is realized through taps, clicks, and pressures? What happens to meaning within a digital economy when information is considered to be bodiless? Concerned with these questions, Surfaces is at turns playful and unsettling as it explores the processes, interactions, and erasures that occur on and below the surface of writing with machinery.

"An uncanny reminder of what language could be, if only we let it.”—Derek Beaulieu

“In Canada […] there are poets to stun like Eric Schmaltz ”—Ian Williams

Second prize, 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada

• Language: English
• Publisher: Invisible Publishing
• Release date: Apr 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781988784083

Eric Schmaltz

Eric Schmaltz is a Toronto-based artist and writer who works with language in a variety of forms and media including print, sound-performance, and video. His work has been published and exhibited internationally in Canada, the United States, and Europe. More at ericschmaltz.com

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