Published 26 May 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts Meanland extract – Poetry, gaming, science and more: reading in a time of technology Jacinda Woodhead Heading to the @wheelercentre for @Mean_land Reading in a Time of Technology. Should be interesting.less than a minute ago via TweetieSuzanneSteinbrucknerOfficialSuze Apologies to anyone unable to attend last night’s second official Meanland event at The Wheeler Centre, because it was a fantastic adventure. Not only was it riveting and engaging, it was positively electrifying; every panelist, a captivating speaker with a unique perspective and relationship to possibility and exploration in reading, writing and creating with technology. As Overland editor Jeff Sparrow said as he launched the ‘Reading in a time of technology’ panel, the time has come to move the discussion beyond a resistance to technology and the digital medium because of an attachment to the smell of old books. This panel was about thinking about how reading and writing has already exceeded the expectations of the ‘book’. You are your own audience. First take home message from tonight’s #Meanland.less than a minute ago via mobile webAnne Treasureannetreasure Writer, editor, performer and technology pioneer Klare Lanson immediately threw the audience in the deep-end with her poetic rendition of ‘the talk’, an amazing performance. As Jeff left the stage, his voice lingered, on repeat, and was then interwoven into a soundscape of the previous Meanland panel’s speculation on the future of reading (Marieke Hardy, Peter Craven, Margaret Simons and Sherman Young). Mixed with sound, this aural landscape became the background for Klare’s performance. (Unfortunately, not all technology was on her side last night and the audience was deprived of the accompanying visuals). This landscape evolved into her poem, ‘Whatever’. Klare explored how reading shapes us, makes us do things. ‘The screen wants us to do things with words and it’s hard not to feel like a machine in this day and age.’ She focused on cut-up, mash-up, reforming, on all of this concern about the misrepresentation of the individual book. About the fear that the digitisation of a singular book will result in all of the books in the world merging into one, a kind of collective consciousness with no beginning, no end, no individuality. Read the rest of the post over at Meanland. Jacinda Woodhead Jacinda Woodhead is a former editor of Overland and current law student. More by Jacinda Woodhead › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.