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Louis Armand
For the French engineer, see Louis Armand

Louis Armand (1972-) is a writer, visual artist and critical theorist. Born in Sydney, he has lived in Prague since 1994 where he is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Culture, Charles University.

His poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, Meanjin, Agenda, The Age, Stand, Poetry Review, Verse and Sulfur, as well as The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry(ed. John Kinsella 2008), Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poetseds. Michael Brennan and Peter Minter, 2000), and The Best Australian Poems(ed. Peter Rose, 2008. He is author of five volumes of poetry and a number of chapbooks including: Land Partition (2001), Inexorable Weather (2001), Malice in Underland (2003) and Strange Attractors (2003). The Garden, a work of experimental fiction was published in 2001.

Armand’s work has been described as “Avant-garde in the most literal sense, […] best appreciated by readers prepared to abandon the baggage of identity-driven poetry and systematically naturalist prose.” In 1997 he received the Max Harris prize for poetry at the Penola Festival (Adelaide) and in 2000 he was awarded the Nassau Review prize (New York). His screenplay Clair Obscur won honourable mention at the 2009 Trieste Film Festival. In 2004 he founded the Prague International Poetry Festival ; in 2009 he co-organised (with David Vichnar) a Micro-Festival Poetry Series in Prague and Brno.

His critical and theoretical work has been published in journals such as Ctheory, Triquarterly & Culture Machine. His most recent books include, Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (2008), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (2007) and Contemporary Poetics (2007). He is a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor (1994) of the online journal HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies).

References

Critical and Theoretical Work

Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2003.

Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2005/6.

Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.

Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture. (First edition 2005) Expanded and revised edition, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2008.

''Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers. Petr Škrabánek: Studies in Finnegans Wake''. Eds. Louis Armand & Ondrej Pilny. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2002.

Avant-Post. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

JoyceMedia: James Joyce, Genetics and Hypermedia. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2004.

Mind Factory. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005.

Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other. Eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. (2nd edition)

Technicity. Eds. Louis Armand and Arthur Bradley. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

Contemporary Poetics. Ed. Louis Armand. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

Language Systems: After Prague Structuralism. Ed. Louis Armand with Pavel Černovsky. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.

Poetry

Seances. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.

The Viconian Paramour. New York: x-poezie, 1998.

Erosions. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 1999. (chapbook)

Anatomy Lessons. New York: x-poezie, 1999. (chapbook)

Land Partition. Melbourne: Textbase Publications, 2001.

Base Materialism. New York: x-poezie, 2001. (chapbook)

Inexorable Weather. Todmorden, Lancs. (UK): Arc Publications, 2001.

Malice in Underland. Melbourne: Textbase, 2003.

Strange Attractors. Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2003.

Exhibitions

Galerie Artnatur (1999) Solo

Galerie Gambit (2002) Solo

Southern: 10 Contemporary Australian Artists, Home Gallery (2004) co-curator

Art Prague (2006)

External links

Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory

Arc publications

Salt publishing

Litteraria Pragensia Books

Micro-Poetry Festival 2009

Poetry

Selected poems: “The Prague Connection” Gangway 7

Poems: The Cortland Review 3 (1998) Poems: Shearsman Magazine 65/66 (2005)

Poems: Mudlark Poster No. 29 (2000 and 2002) by Louis Armand and John Kinsella

Poems: “Notes for a Prospectus” Cordite Poetry Review 2 Feb. (2005)

Poems: Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature

Poems: Foam: e5

Reviews

Jeroen Nieuwland review of Solicitations in Jacket 37 (2009)[http:jacketmagazine.com/37/r-armand-rb-nieuwland.shtml]

Vidhu Aggarwal review of Contemporary Poetics in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures

Review of Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity in Masters of Media (2008) Bridie McCarthy, “Cosmopoetics: ‘Dimensions Unknown’” Review of Strange Attractors in Jacket 31(2006)

Sandra Miller, review of Seances in Chicago Review 22 June 2001

Selected Articles

“2003 Chalupecky Prize Shortlist: The Jindrich Chalupecky Award Finalists.” Exhibition review: Art Margins Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture (2004)

“Cy Twombly: Fünfzig Jahre Arbeiten auf Papier” Art Margins Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture (2004)

“Hamlet/Machine” The Symptom 2 (2002)

“Intelligence and Representability” CTheory

“Jean-Michel Basquiat© Identity and the Art of (Dis)empowerment” “Ondrej Tucek & the Art of Redemption.” Exhibition review: Art Margins Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture (2004)

“Pierre Daguin: The Frank's Wild Years.”Exhibition review: Art Margins Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture (2004)

“Prague Biennale 1.” Exhibition review: Art Margins Contemporary Central and Eastern European Visual Culture (2003)

“Symptom in the Machine: Lacan, Joyce, Sollers” The Symptom 3 (2002)

”From Hypertext to Vortext / Notes on Materiality and Language” HJS 4.2 (2003-4) ttp://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/armand4.html

Special issue: “Codework/Surveillance” Rhizomes 6 (Spring 2003)