Danny Snelson
Danny Snelson is an editor and archivist living in Brooklyn. As a contributing editor to PennSound audio archive, Danny has produced essential collections of recordings from a diverse range of writers including Louis Zukofsky, Gregory Whitehead, Robert Duncan, William Carlos Williams, Clark Coolidge, Robert Filliou, Adachi Tomomi, bill bissett, and Craig Dworkin. As the editor of /ubu editions at UbuWeb, Danny has released free republications of previously scarce/unavailable works by Maurice Blanchot, Robert Wilson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Bernard N\'9ael (Paul Buck), Bruce Andrews, Severo Sarduy, Dick Higgins, and Claude Simon. In February 2004, he began his online archival work as a scanner for Craig Dworkin's eclipse project.
Recent works include my Dear coUntess (Drunken Boat, 2007), an internet specific video-text recomposition of a fin-de-si\'8fcle letter to Lord Kelvin, and The Book of Ravelling Women (Aphasic Letters, 2008), a fraudulent digital reproduction of a book by Djuna Barnes originally republished in 1948 (forged in collaboration with Phoebe Springstubb, an architect & visual artist based in Manhattan). These writings, like much of Danny's work, feature an intensive attention to a multitude of discrete creative moments -- rigidly defined acts of invention.
Circulating through all of Danny's work is an engagement with forms & structures of dissemination in various currents of utopian information distribution systems. A recent radiophonic essay (Also this: no title) highlights the transmission reflexivity & multivalent intertextuality of the readings available in the PennSound archive of recorded poetry.
Recent works include my Dear coUntess (Drunken Boat, 2007), an internet specific video-text recomposition of a fin-de-si\'8fcle letter to Lord Kelvin, and The Book of Ravelling Women (Aphasic Letters, 2008), a fraudulent digital reproduction of a book by Djuna Barnes originally republished in 1948 (forged in collaboration with Phoebe Springstubb, an architect & visual artist based in Manhattan). These writings, like much of Danny's work, feature an intensive attention to a multitude of discrete creative moments -- rigidly defined acts of invention.
Circulating through all of Danny's work is an engagement with forms & structures of dissemination in various currents of utopian information distribution systems. A recent radiophonic essay (Also this: no title) highlights the transmission reflexivity & multivalent intertextuality of the readings available in the PennSound archive of recorded poetry.