{"id":11981,"date":"2021-11-03T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2021-11-03T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:55:14","slug":"amaranth-borsuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/amaranth-borsuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaranth Borsuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1364\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11981-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AmaranthBorsuk.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AmaranthBorsuk.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AmaranthBorsuk.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1602&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Borsuk-Headshot-Vertical-credit-Brad-Bouse-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amaranthborsuk.com\/\">Amaranth Borsuk<\/a>\u2019s work focuses on textual materiality\u2014from the surface of the page to the surface of language.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Her most recent projects are the chapbook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovegroundpress.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/new-from-aboveground-press-w-s-h.html\">W\/\\SH: Initial Contact <\/a>(Above\/Ground, 2021), a speculative ecopoetic collaboration with Terri Witek;\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anteism.com\/shop\/the-book-101-definitions-amaranth-borsuk\">The Book: 101 Definitions<\/a> <\/i>(Anteism, 2021), a collection of definitions of the book by artists, writers, scholars, librarians, and book artists; and <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quarantinepubliclibrary.com\/curt-curtal-sonnet-corona-by-amaranth-borsuk\">Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona <\/a><\/i>(QPL, 2020), a printable chapbook of computer-generated curtal sonnets. Borsuk is also the author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Book<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Press, 2018), a brief introduction to the book as object, content, idea, and interface published in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series.<\/p>\n<p>Her books of poetry include\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.korepress.org\/AmaranthBorsuk.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Pomegranate Eater<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(Kore Press, 2016),\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0977769879\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0977769879&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=betpagandscr-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Handiwork<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Slope Editions, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize; and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-song-cave.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Tonal Saw<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(The Song Cave, 2010), a chapbook-length erasure.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal1913.org\/publications\/abra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Abra<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(1913 Press, 2016), a book of mutating poems created with Kate Durbin, received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists\u2019 Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago and was released as a limited-edition book with a free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-b-r-a-.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iPad \/ iPhone app<\/a>\u00a0created by Ian Hatcher. The collaboration\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.as-we-know.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>As We Know\u00a0<\/i><\/a>(Subito Press, 2014), selected by Julie Carr for the Subito Prize, reshapes 60 entries from Andy Fitch\u2019s summer diary into a collective confessional\/constructivist collage that foregrounds the tensions of authorship.<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration and materiality are central to Borsuk\u2019s practice. Together with Brad Bouse, she created\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betweenpageandscreen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Between Page and Screen<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(Siglio Press, 2012; Springgun Press, 2016), a book of augmented-reality poetry. It has been featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/\">Salon.com<\/a>, BrainPickings, Wired, and other media sites and has been exhibited widely. Through a grant from CT@Work and SiteProjects, Inc., Borsuk and Bouse completed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amaranthborsuk.com\/projects\/whispering-galleries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Whispering Galleries<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(2014), a site-specific interactive text work for the New Haven Free Public Libraries that uses the Leap gestural controller to invite visitors to brush the dust from a historic diary, revealing poems hidden within it. Borsuk\u2019s other digital collaborations include\u00a0<i>Wave Signs<\/i>, an immersive sound installation with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carriebodle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carrie Bodle<\/a>; and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amaranthborsuk.com\/projects\/the-deletionist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Deletionist<\/i><\/a>, an erasure bookmarklet created with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Montfort<\/a>\u00a0and Jesper Juul.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Borsuk is currently an Associate Professor in the School of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/about\/faculty-staff\/amaranthborsuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also serves as Associate Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/mfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>The book mentioned at the end of the interview was by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reneegladman.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Renee Gladman<\/a>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dorothyproject.com\/book\/renee-gladmans-houses-of-ravicka\/#:~:text=In%20Houses%20of%20Ravicka%2C%20the,missing%20house%2C%20remains%20appropriately%20invisible.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houses of Ravicka<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11986\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11986 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-669x1024.jpeg?resize=640%2C980&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=669%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 669w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=1003%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1003w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=1337%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1337w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=696%2C1066&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1636&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?resize=274%2C420&amp;ssl=1 274w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?w=1672&amp;ssl=1 1672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pomegranate-Eater-scaled.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11987\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Book.jpeg?resize=640%2C818&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Book.jpeg?resize=801%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 801w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Book.jpeg?resize=235%2C300&amp;ssl=1 235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Book.jpeg?resize=768%2C982&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Book.jpeg?resize=696%2C890&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Book.jpeg?resize=328%2C420&amp;ssl=1 328w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Book.jpeg?w=840&amp;ssl=1 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Book (MIT Press, 2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AmaranthBorsuk.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listAmaranth Borsuk\u2019s work focuses on textual materiality\u2014from the surface of the page to the surface of language. 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