“…a cyber-​pioneer…“
”…[one of] literature’s elec­tronic vision­ar­ies…“
–Kelly Mil­ner Halls, “Explor­ing E-​zines: A Lit­er­ary Rev­o­lu­tion Online” 2001 Novel and Short Story Writer’s Mar­ket, inter­view w/​MacEwan

As the Lit­er­ary Assem­blag­ist, my role in the galaxy is to pre­pare the uni­verse for even­tual organic dis­cus­sions of evo­lu­tion­ary eco­nomic envi­ron­men­tal art projects. Really… I dreamed about it last night. My dreams are clus­ter­flux of imag­i­na­tion and form. It’s a new decade, it’s a new Flux, it’s a new day for us all! More IUOMA, more FluXus, more fun.

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“Yup, it’s true. More than a decade ago, my vision­ary genius — doc­u­mented and duly recorded — became pub­lic knowl­edge. Today the leg­end con­tin­ues. While my assem­blage art pro­foundly echoes the tran­sient themes of yesterday’s blog posts, record­ing the unre­spon­sive mul­ti­tudi­nous pres­ence of too many illit­er­ate masses, cur­rent dogma remains intact. Thusly sup­posed, cre­ation­ism relates not to mam­malian evo­lu­tion­ary processes but instead to the mixed media rep­re­sen­ta­tions of jux­ta­posed vir­tual and con­crete forms.“
–Valerie MacE­wan, “End­lessly Quot­ing Myself” 2011, inter­view w/​me

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Valerie is the editor/​publisher of the Dead Mule School of South­ern Lit­er­a­ture. She stud­ied cre­ative writ­ing in Hol­land at the Ploughshares Inter­na­tional Fic­tion Writ­ing Sem­i­nar; received a grant from the NC Arts Coun­cil to fund the orig­i­nal print issue of The Dead Mule, and is an out­spo­ken advo­cate of Linux and open source soft­ware Her writ­ing has appeared in numer­ous places like the Mis­sis­sippi Review, Tat­too High­way, The Asheville Poetry Review, Night Train Mag­a­zine and oth­ers. She spent 3 years as the Books Edi­tor and Fea­tured Colum­nist for Pop­mat­ters Mag­a­zine of Global Cul­ture. While she helped to incor­po­rate Web­Del­Sol as a non-​profit orga­ni­za­tion, work con­tin­ued on the sadly now defunct wow​-schools​.net project. Danc­ing with Uncle Vir­gil, a lit­er­ary work-​in-​progress, has been in the “edit” stage for over 17 years. Genius is slow to boil but mighty tasty when fin­ished cook­ing. Google Valerie MacE­wan. Apture Valerie MacE­wan. Image search for Valerie MacEwan.

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Her lit­er­ary blog, Men­tal Kudzu, is located at mace​wan​.net. Her most recent Assem­blage Col­lec­tion of Altered Vol­umes can be viewed at Schen­ley Farms Ter­race Gallery in Pitts­burgh, PA and on this web­site. Cur­rently, her work “Ann’s Head” is on dis­play at the Beau­fort County Arts Coun­cil [Wash­ing­ton NC].

Cur­rent project work­ing title: Pseudo-​Scientifica. Pho­tos of work-​in-​progress online were by April 15^th, just in time for when the tax­man cameth. Read Ideal Absolutes. After you read mace​wan​.org, pop on over to Janis Owen’s “Cracker Kitchen” web­site, check out the book and then leave a nice com­ment about how fan­tas­tic the site looks (as it was cre­ated by yours truly because Janis is one tal­ented woman. Curi­ously, when writ­ing in the third per­son I find myself at a loss for words…)

Assem­blage Projects:

Cur­rent Moti­va­tion — FREE ART. The “Take it! It’s Yours!” art project.

Art House Coop Projects [Atlanta, GA incar­na­tion, now in Brook­lyn, NY]
Mil­lion Lit­tle Pic­tures
Sketch­book Project
The Can­vas Project

Beau­fort County Arts Coun­cil:
Lit­tle Art Show [fundraiser, con­tributed 5 — 8“x10” can­vases]
Member’s Art Show 2008, 2009, 2010

Wash­ing­ton County Arts Coun­cil Fine Arts Show 2010
Hon­or­able Men­tion 3-​D

IUOMA [mail art]
Fluxus St. Louis
IUOMA

PROJET D’ART POSTAL ²⁰⁰⁹⁄₂₀₁₀
ILLUSTREZ UNE PERIODE OU UN EVENEMENT DE L’HISTOIRE DE VOTRE PAYS

and more… still counting…

Beau­fort County Art Coun­cil Fine Arts Show
Juried Com­pe­ti­tion
Fall 2008
First Place, 3D
Hon­or­able Men­tion, 3D

Beau­fort County Art Coun­cil Fine Arts Show
Fall 2006
Juried Com­pe­ti­tion
3^rd Place — 3D
Honrable Mention — 3D

Links to my genius:

Inter­view on Linux​.com

Mis­sis­sippi Review fiction

The Da Vinci Code