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- Global Telelanguage Resources (GTR)
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Global Telelanguage Resources (GTR) is an ongoing experimental art project directed by two artists/writers (David Ayre and Andrew Klobucar ) who work exclusively in digital media. The primary objective of each GTR work is to explore creatively different theoretical and aesthetic directions in digital technology as both a field of writing and mode of literary production/distribution. Parallel with most western processes of modernisation, technologies of writing or signification remain highly dependent, both politically and culturally, on how particular societies process, produce and distribute knowledge. It is within this context that each GTR project prioritises the creation of new forms of representation, i.e., new instruments of language, over any simulated product or art piece. Through the actual construction and application of different methodologies of writing, GTR hopes to draw its audience's collective attention to the vital significance of technological formats in the everyday creation of cultural meaning. To understand more fully how concepts of modern culture and social reasoning continue to evolve, one must consider the forms of representation and organisation that inevitably allow these concepts to cohere. At the centre of GTR's work, accordingly, is the construction of different media platforms able to simulate the various ways writing organises itself technologically as a mode of representation and thus as a social discipline able to authorise and regulate cultural skills, attitudes and even moral values.
- David Ayre
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David Ayre is a writer and software engineer living in Vancouver, Canada. Throughout the 1990’s, David was an active member in Vancouver’s writing community. Through his CJSF radio show birthmark, David recorded dozens of literary events, interviewing numerous writers from Vancouver and North America. His work at the Kootenay School of Writing, a non-profit artist run writing center of which David was a collective member from 1991-1995, involved event planning, promotion, funding acquisition and day to day administration. He was responsible for KSW’s first web site which archived the organizations events for the four year period. He also initiated one of the first RealAudio web broadcasts of Vancouver writers, an event featuring Michael Turner and Deanna Ferguson. From 1995-1997 he created two small presses, treeplantsink and Lounge press, publishing the works of Vancouver writers Lisa Robertson, Lissa Wolsak, Naomi Foyle and Kimberly Klass. In 1997, David began the conceptual art project Global Telelanguage Resources (GTR) with fellow Vancouver writer Andrew Klobucar. The project makes use of a fictional corporate identity to explore creatively different theoretical and aesthetic directions in digital technology as both a field of writing and mode of literary production/distribution. His current interests lie in leveraging the recent advancements in Computational Linguistics to further the exploration of writing and digital technology. The arena for this exploration is the development of the GTR Language Workbench, a software application for the generation, transformation and analysis of natural language texts. David holds a BSc in Computing Science with a specialization in software engineering from Simon Fraser University.
- Andrew
- Andrew Klobucar is a Vancouver based writer, who currently teaches full-time in the English Department at Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC. For the past ten years, he has worked extensively within Vancouver’s prominent writing and visual art communities. As a member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he has participated in and helped organise various distinguished reading programmes, lecture series, residences and panel discussions with such writers as Charles Bernstein, Nathaniel Mackey, Nicole Brossard, Lisa Robertson, Robin Blaser, Susan Howe and Steve McCaffery among others. He continues to work on the conceptual art/writing project, Global Telelanguage Resources, with fellow Vancouver-based writer, David Ayre. The project explores creatively and academically different theoretical and aesthetic directions in digital technology as both a field of writing and mode of literary production/distribution. Klobucar holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of BC, where he completed a thesis on the poetry of Charles Olson and ecological politics. Since 1996, he has continued to publish a wide assortment of academic papers on contemporary North American poetry, including, Writing Class (1999), a history of the Kootenay School of Writing between the years 1983 and 1992.
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