Certain Circuits

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Founded by artists, Certain Circuits Magazine publishes poetry, experimental prose, art, and new media. We are especially interested in documenting multimedia collaborative work between artists.

Michelle Frazier resides in Maryland.  She received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture (2004), BFA from the Corcoran School of Art (1999).   She is a Visual Arts Teacher in Annandale, Va., Adjunct Faculty for Continuing Education, Community College of Baltimore County, and Co-President WCA-DC. MichelleFrazierSculptures.webs.com Doodle drawings started with my students. It was a way to get them drawing without thought.  The doodles took on a life of their own, mostly done in black and white, incorporating words and some cut out pieces into the imagery. In some ways, they help me with the complexity of my sculptures and are a way to express myself without any formalities. High-res

Michelle Frazier resides in Maryland.  She received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture (2004), BFA from the Corcoran School of Art (1999).   She is a Visual Arts Teacher in Annandale, Va., Adjunct Faculty for Continuing Education, Community College of Baltimore County, and Co-President WCA-DC. MichelleFrazierSculptures.webs.com

Doodle drawings started with my students. It was a way to get them drawing without thought.  The doodles took on a life of their own, mostly done in black and white, incorporating words and some cut out pieces into the imagery. In some ways, they help me with the complexity of my sculptures and are a way to express myself without any formalities.
Certain Circuits Workshop:  Creating Collaborative Multimedia Poetry (Saturday, August 4 at Big Blue Marble Bookstore) Founded by artists, Certain Circuits Magazine publishes poetry,experimental prose, art, and new media. We are especially interestedin documenting multimedia collaborative work between artists. Our twoprint issues feature work from artists in Australia, Brazil, France,Mexico, India, Japan, Korea, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, and theUnited States.  Our collaborative work in text, print, and exhibitionshas been documented by Arcadia University Bulletin, Apiary, CityPaper, Duotrope, Et Al Projects, Fifth Wednesday Journal, MoonstoneArts, New Pages, New Purlieu Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer, PhillySide Arts, Philadelphia Weekly, Spew Jersey, Tyler Fiber, and UrbanArts Projects, among others.Editors Lora Bloom and Bonnie MacAllister will guide you through the steps to create and score your own multimedia poetry .gifs and videos. The workshop will consist of creating new work through a series of multimedia poetry prompts and composing to the original music of Bloom.  Participants will perform their texts in the workshop setting, and they will learn free and easy animation techniques. Final products to be eligible for submission to the magazine.Lora Bloom writes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and abstract rants, and is a musician and performance artist.  Currently she is the lead vocalist of the experimental rock band Radio Eris  and she helps run Eris Temple Arts, an art gallery and music space in West Philadelphia.  She has been recently published by 13 Myna Birds, received a prize for her writing by the Beat Museum, was featured at the 25th Anniversary of the Shubin Theatre, and has performed and curated music and poetry widely in Europe and the United States.Bonnie MacAllister renders moments through a variety of media. Often pieces are multi-genre, fusing painting, photography, slide installations, spoken word, video, and performance.  She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, poetry slam champion in the United States and France, and Fulbright-Hays awardee to Ethiopia.  Her poetry has been published in Esque, 10,000 Poets for Change/Fieralingue, Grasp (Czech Republic), nth position (UK), and Paper Tiger Media (Australia). She has performed her original writing and plays at New York Foundation for the Arts, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Raandesk Gallery in Chelsea, Adrienne Theater in Philadelphia, and Cat Cat Club in Paris. She is currently showing work at the Sandy Spring Museum in MD. To register contact: Big Blue Marble Bookstore551 Carpenter LanePhiladelphia, PA 19119215.864.1870 www.bigbluemarblebooks.com  $35 for 2 hours on Saturday, August 4 from 2-4 High-res

Certain Circuits Workshop:  Creating Collaborative Multimedia Poetry
(Saturday, August 4 at Big Blue Marble Bookstore)

Founded by artists, Certain Circuits Magazine publishes poetry,
experimental prose, art, and new media. We are especially interested
in documenting multimedia collaborative work between artists. Our two
print issues feature work from artists in Australia, Brazil, France,
Mexico, India, Japan, Korea, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, and the
United States.  Our collaborative work in text, print, and exhibitions
has been documented by Arcadia University Bulletin, Apiary, City
Paper, Duotrope, Et Al Projects, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Moonstone
Arts, New Pages, New Purlieu Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly
Side Arts, Philadelphia Weekly, Spew Jersey, Tyler Fiber, and Urban
Arts Projects, among others.

Editors Lora Bloom and Bonnie MacAllister will guide you through the steps to create and score your own multimedia poetry .gifs and videos. The workshop will consist of creating new work through a series of multimedia poetry prompts and composing to the original music of Bloom.  Participants will perform their texts in the workshop setting, and they will learn free and easy animation techniques. Final products to be eligible for submission to the magazine.

Lora Bloom writes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and abstract rants, and is a musician and performance artist.  Currently she is the lead vocalist of the experimental rock band Radio Eris  and she helps run Eris Temple Arts, an art gallery and music space in West Philadelphia.  She has been recently published by 13 Myna Birds, received a prize for her writing by the Beat Museum, was featured at the 25th Anniversary of the Shubin Theatre, and has performed and curated music and poetry widely in Europe and the United States.

Bonnie MacAllister renders moments through a variety of media. Often pieces are multi-genre, fusing painting, photography, slide installations, spoken word, video, and performance.  She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, poetry slam champion in the United States and France, and Fulbright-Hays awardee to Ethiopia.  Her poetry has been published in Esque, 10,000 Poets for Change/Fieralingue, Grasp (Czech Republic), nth position (UK), and Paper Tiger Media (Australia). She has performed her original writing and plays at New York Foundation for the Arts, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Raandesk Gallery in Chelsea, Adrienne Theater in Philadelphia, and Cat Cat Club in Paris. She is currently showing work at the Sandy Spring Museum in MD.

To register contact: 
Big Blue Marble Bookstore
551 Carpenter Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215.864.1870 
www.bigbluemarblebooks.com 

$35 for 2 hours on Saturday, August 4 from 2-4

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS  certaincircuits: To be published on certaincircuits.org  (as appears on certaincircuits.tumblr.com) Art: all genres considered, send link to portfolio Video/film/audio: send embed code or link Poetics: all genres considered, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered for concrete poetry Prose:  1500 words or less, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered Cross-genre:  encouraged Collaborations: encouraged Email to certaincircuits@gmail.com. High-res

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS

 certaincircuits:

To be published on certaincircuits.org 

(as appears on certaincircuits.tumblr.com)

Art: all genres considered, send link to portfolio

Video/film/audio: send embed code or link

Poetics: all genres considered, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered for concrete poetry

Prose:  1500 words or less, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered

Cross-genre:  encouraged

Collaborations: encouraged

Email to certaincircuits@gmail.com.

(via certaincircuitseditorial)

Thank you!  Because of you, we are now 100% funded.  Please note that the Kickstarter is the only way to pre-order the issue.  We can use any additional donations for postage, printing, and towards our issue launch. A “Subscriber” donation gets the issue at a discounted rate.  We have only 11 days left for this type of pre-sale.  Thank you for helping us print our second issue of a cross-genre multimedia magazine featuring work from artists in Korea, India, UK, and North America.  Several of our contributors are being published for the first time while others publish frequently and exhibit internationally.  We encourage international collaborations and cross-genre publication.  We would love to offer our contributors print copies, and your contribution directly funds our artists’ copies of the magazine.  $1 is not too small to donate toward the issue.  Every dollar goes a long way on a lean budget. Thank you so much for supporting Certain Circuits!

 Art: all genres considered, send link to portfolio Video/film/audio: send embed code or link Poetics: all genres considered, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered for concrete poetry Prose:  1500 words or less, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered Cross-genre:  encouraged Collaborations: encouraged Email to certaincircuits@gmail.com. High-res

 Art: all genres considered, send link to portfolio

Video/film/audio: send embed code or link

Poetics: all genres considered, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered for concrete poetry

Prose:  1500 words or less, send in the body of an email or as a MS Word document, PDF considered

Cross-genre:  encouraged

Collaborations: encouraged

Email to certaincircuits@gmail.com.

Acceleration Polluted minds like racing cars Restless in complications, I would be one, I would be one Who’s gonna break the rule of circumstances. Human paper dolls packed in a box Perfect plastic sense complete by labels, I would be one, I would be one Who’s gonna burn it all without hesitation. Accelerate my speed and run away I free my heart from paper cuts. Accelerate my speed and run away I free my soul from dirty fingerprints. Accelerate my speed and run away This dull illusion not for me Not gonna hold me here. Don’t waste this golden dream on me This boring frame gives me irritation. Order and confusion just like an annoying fly Keep measuring my patience. Your trying to escape, but they want you to obey Your trying to get out, but they want you to stay . I would be one, I would be one Who’s gonna burn it all without hesitation. Accelerate my speed and run away I free my heart from paper cuts. Accelerate my speed and run away I free my soul from dirty fingerprints. Accelerate my speed and run away This dull illusion not for me Not gonna hold me here. I see you choosing the same direction You choose to create house of imagination,  You choose to break it through, against conspiracy of odds. We have to cross this bridge of doubts, Let’s walk together trough this adventure Away from boring frames, away from sticky labels. I would be one, I would be one Who’s gonna burn it all for you without hesitation. Image: “Faith” Blueberry Crush is a local emerging artist who is always try help the art community of Philadelphia.  She volunteers as one of the art curators in the Community Culture Exchange, a nonprofit South Philadelphia organization. She is truly happy that she has a connection with such great, creative people like the CCE. Usually she is involved in many art projects and always looking for more.  http://blueberrycrush.yolasite.com High-res

Acceleration

Polluted minds like racing cars

Restless in complications,

I would be one, I would be one

Who’s gonna break the rule of circumstances.

Human paper dolls packed in a box

Perfect plastic sense complete by labels,

I would be one, I would be one

Who’s gonna burn it all without hesitation.



Accelerate my speed and run away

I free my heart from paper cuts.

Accelerate my speed and run away

I free my soul from dirty fingerprints.

Accelerate my speed and run away

This dull illusion not for me

Not gonna hold me here.



Don’t waste this golden dream on me

This boring frame gives me irritation.

Order and confusion just like an annoying fly

Keep measuring my patience.

Your trying to escape, but they want you to obey

Your trying to get out, but they want you to stay .

I would be one, I would be one

Who’s gonna burn it all without hesitation.



Accelerate my speed and run away

I free my heart from paper cuts.

Accelerate my speed and run away

I free my soul from dirty fingerprints.

Accelerate my speed and run away

This dull illusion not for me

Not gonna hold me here.



I see you choosing the same direction

You choose to create house of imagination,

 You choose to break it through, against conspiracy of odds.

We have to cross this bridge of doubts,

Let’s walk together trough this adventure

Away from boring frames, away from sticky labels.

I would be one, I would be one

Who’s gonna burn it all for you without hesitation.




Image: “Faith”

Blueberry Crush is a local emerging artist who is always try help the art community of Philadelphia.  She volunteers as one of the art curators in the Community Culture Exchange, a nonprofit South Philadelphia organization. She is truly happy that she has a connection with such great, creative people like the CCE. Usually she is involved in many art projects and always looking for more.  http://blueberrycrush.yolasite.com


In my work, the theme of skin and its impermanence has always been a constant — starting from the use of wax in painting, to create a textural body, which then emerged from the canvas to the elastic skin of a model I collaborated with and photographed for 7 years until his death. I am now continuing with these themes of impermanence while relating them to women’s issues regarding aging, “ideal beauty”, sexuality, eternal youth, and cosmetic surgery. I am also inspired by African sculpture, ritual objects and painting references. For many years I was working with latex and vinyl in the form of sheet latex or fragments of Halloween masks — very tactile and sensuous mediums in which to convey impressions of skin and flesh. With these materials I was able to reference aging, deformities, discolorations, decay and exaggerated features as they are used to create the “horrific”. The use of hair seemed to be a natural progression from the skin and relates to the impermanence theme by being the most “permanent” and lasting, but tangenital part of the body. The hair which is what remains after a body has decomposed. The hair is what starts to turn grey with the onset of the aging process, yet is eternal. Janice Sloane 2011

In my work, the theme of skin and its impermanence has always been a constant — starting from the use of wax in painting, to create a textural body, which then emerged from the canvas to the elastic skin of a model I collaborated with and photographed for 7 years until his death. I am now continuing with these themes of impermanence while relating them to women’s issues regarding aging, “ideal beauty”, sexuality, eternal youth, and cosmetic surgery. I am also inspired by African sculpture, ritual objects and painting references.

For many years I was working with latex and vinyl in the form of sheet latex or fragments of Halloween masks — very tactile and sensuous mediums in which to convey impressions of skin and flesh. With these materials I was able to reference aging, deformities, discolorations, decay and exaggerated features as they are used to create the “horrific”.

The use of hair seemed to be a natural progression from the skin and relates to the impermanence theme by being the most “permanent” and lasting, but tangenital part of the body. The hair which is what remains after a body has decomposed. The hair is what starts to turn grey with the onset of the aging process, yet is eternal.

Janice Sloane 2011

Anne of Green Gables  Andrew Abbott okay, well, here’s my bio: Andrew Abbott lives in Maine.He got kicked out of the army.  Now he paints pictures.and artists statement:I don’t believe in resumes.  I don’t believe in references.  I don’t have a car.  I don’t have a gun.  I don’t have a computer.  People pay me for pictures I drew.  Thank god.allabbott.com High-res

Anne of Green Gables  Andrew Abbott

okay, well, here’s my bio:

Andrew Abbott lives in Maine.He got kicked out of the army.  Now he paints pictures.
and artists statement:
I don’t believe in resumes.  I don’t believe in references.  I don’t have a car.  I don’t have a gun.  I don’t have a computer.  People pay me for pictures I drew.  Thank god.
allabbott.com

Adah Gorton 
http://heartinsound.wordpress.com/

Poet. Art-lover. ((Good)) friend. Singer ((when no one can hear)). Housewife ((though oddly unmarried)). A fan of tall boys and tall boys. Coffee enthusiast. Fan girl. Mostly just poet, though.

Adam Zucker
http://www.adamzucker.com/
b.1984
Lives and works in New York City

Many of our daily experiences are temporal, yet they have become repeated as ritual, as a habit of function amongst humanity. I am interested in presenting certain rituals and repeated contemporary trends like mass media, industry, popular culture, and social media. I view my work as relics of personal expression commenting on the world I experience around me. The way that I view myself, or feel about my place in the collective environment dictates the expression in my artwork.

For the complete project:  www.ErikVP.com/G11/Speaking-In-Tongues.html  Erik Von Ploennies began experimenting with art in 2004, after visiting the Guggenheim Museum - New York, and seeing Vasily Kandinsky’s, “Painting With White Border”. His formal education is in electrical engineering and has no art training. Erik moved from California to Brooklyn, New York in July 2007 to pursue his interests in art. He is actively exhibiting in New York City. www.ErikVP.com High-res

For the complete project:  www.ErikVP.com/G11/Speaking-In-Tongues.html 

Erik Von Ploennies began experimenting with art in 2004, after visiting the Guggenheim Museum - New York, and seeing Vasily Kandinsky’s, “Painting With White Border”. His formal education is in electrical engineering and has no art training. Erik moved from California to Brooklyn, New York in July 2007 to pursue his interests in art. He is actively exhibiting in New York City. www.ErikVP.com

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