Christine Wertheim is the Chair of the MFA Writing Program at Cal Arts. She is the author of “+|‘me’S-pace” (Les Figues Press), a book of poetics, and a chapbook from Triage. With Matias Viegener she has edited the anthologies “Seancé,” “Noulipo,” and “Feminaissanc“e from these events. “Untitled” is forthcoming. Recent critical work on art and literature is published in “X-tra,” “Cabinet” and “The Quick and the Dead,” Walker Art Centre. Recent poetry appears in” Drunken Boat,” “Tarpaulin Sky” and “Veer.” Works-in-progress include a poetic suite on mothers, and a book of conceptual poetry.
Christine Wertheim is a poet, critic, performer and curator with a doctorate in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University. Before joining the faculty at CalArts, she taught critical theory and studio practice at Goldsmiths College. In 2004 she received a grant from The Annenberg Foundation to design and run a series of annual conferences on experimental writing. With Matias Viegener she has edited the anthologies Seancé, Noulipo, and Feminaissance from these events. Untitled is forthcoming. She is the author of +|‘me’S-pace (Les Figues Press), a book of poetics, and a chapbook from Triage. Recent critical work on art, literature and aesthetics has been published in X-tra, Cabinet and The Quick and the Dead, exhib. cat., The Walker Art Centre. Recent poetry appears in Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Veer. Christine has lectured and performed internationally, most recently at Soundeye poetry conference in Ireland, and The Walker Art Center. She co-directs the Institute For Figuring (IFF), which curates exhibitions and seminars on the intersection of art, science and mathematics, most recently for The Hayward Gallery London and The Scottsdale Civic Center, with shows forthcoming at Trinity College, Dublin and The Smithsonian. The IFF has received grants from The Andy Warhol, The Annenberg, and numerous other foundations. Research and teaching interests include verbo-visual poetry, contemporary experimental writing, feminist art history, aesthetic theory and Pataphysics. Works-in-progress include a new poetic suite on mothers, and a book of conceptual poetry.
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