Glitch Almanac Publication 2024

This interdisciplinary work emerges from poet Katy Lewis Hood’s responses to Martina O’Brien’s durational artwork of ephemeral measure. Between 2021 and 2023, O’Brien installed twelve digital cameras in different locations in Contae Chill Dara / County Kildare. Engaging with scientific practices of phenology (the observation of periodic/cyclical ecological processes) and the increasing use of technology to collect environmental data amid intensifying climate change, of ephemeral measure took a DIY approach to environmental sensing and monitoring. Katy Lewis Hood’s sequence of poems responds to O’Brien’s project through experimental poetic methods, attending to the glitches and poetic possibilities of digital mediation, colonial environmental histories in Ireland, and remote and embodied practices of environmental knowledge and care. The publication consists of: a prose-poem essay; a sequence of 15 poems by Katy Lewis Hood, interspersed with 13 gridded images from Martina O’Brien’s of ephemeral measure.

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