Featured Artist – No. 5
Richard Powers
Richard Powers is the author of to-date eight novels, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is one of the most important novelists currently working in the United States. Powers has fearlessly taken on many of the Big Ideas that define our times — racism (The Time of Our Singing), industrial pollution (Gain), the boundary between machine intelligence and human consciousness (Galatea 2.2) — and in the process has demonstrated that literature still matters in the 21st Century. He has a tendency to make intellectual leaps that result in startling connections, like intertwining the discovery of the DNA double helix with the keyboard music by J.S. Bach (The Goldbug Variations). His writing is heady and cerebral, but also lyrical and tender.
Presented here is a work of short fiction titled "They Come in a Steady Stream Now", Powers' meditation on spam and its phenomenal impact on network culture.
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Art Director
Jennifer Gunji & Joseph Squier
Designer
Jessica Mullen
Flash Programmer
Jessica Mullen
Assistant Designers
Jennifer Gunji, Lauren Hoopes, Chad Kellenberger, Val Lohmann
