Nick Thurston, United Kingdom

(c) Jules Lister

Nick Thurston (b.1982, UK) is a writer and editor who makes artworks. He is the author of two experimental poetry books and writes regularly for the literary and arts press as well as for independent and academic publications. His most recent book is the co-edited collection, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right (Transcript, 2019). His last book of poetry, Of the Subcontract, explores ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ in an age of computational capitalism. Recent exhibitions include shows at Transmediale (Berlin, 2018), Q21 (Vienna, 2018), MuHKA (Antwerp, 2018) and HMKV (Dortmund, 2019).

Publications:
Ed., Somebody’s Got To Do It: Selected Writings by Pavel Büchler Since 1987. Ridinghouse, 2017
Of the Subcontract. Information As Material & Coachhouse Books, 2013
Reading the Remove of Literature. Information As Material, 2006

Residencies:
Artist in Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2014
Writer in Residence, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2011–12

Festival Content

DIGITAL POETRY

POLITICALLY PROGRAMMED

The works being presented are threefold born-digital – they are generated by and with the machine. They explore the possibilities of language, poetry and communication in the digital age. And they draw attention to the problems, be it with an explanatory gesture or by way of activism, inherent in the social, political and social accompanying phenomena of the digital age.

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Kathrin Passig • Álvaro Seiça • Nick Thurston