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EL Putnam
@fleshandcircuit.bsky.social
artist-philosopher; performer; creative coder www.elputnam.com
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Wine! Cheese! Fruit! Knowledge! What more could you want?

Amateurs! at @maynoothuniversity.ie, the institution that supported my work on the book, with my excellent colleagues @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social and @jeneen.bsky.social

6 November, 1pm, open to all!
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
New publication out!!
incredibly honoured that @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social wrote about my writing and digital work in the new Routledge Companion to Irish Art!
May 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Does anyone know of research pertaining to the history of big garden centres in Ireland and if there is a connection to the Celtic Tiger/being part of EU?
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My brain is fried
December 23, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Livestreaming from @uminnpress.bsky.social in the wild! Someone just sent me this photo from a bookstore in Berkeley!
December 11, 2024 at 9:24 PM
cold water / golden light
December 9, 2024 at 7:52 PM
In that glorious stage of just starting a new book project, where the ideas are fresh as the thoughts are still forming; the theories are weaving together as the patterns are coming into place and every art work is rich with the potential for analysis..... working title: Trading in Visions
December 9, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Let the Mirror Express the Room, the Westmeath Artists Award Exhibition at Luan Gallery Atholone curated by Benjamin Stafford (with over 30 Westmeath artists) opened last night. Show is up until 2 February and you can also check out my piece Displacement from the bridge next to the Gallery.
November 30, 2024 at 11:15 AM
I honestly thought Thanksgiving was this past Thursday
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Big research deadlines (plural) approaching...

me: hey look at that other topic over there!
November 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
magic on the surface
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I also got around to updating website with Imbue with Spirit: www.elputnam.com/imbue-with-s...

The video will be screening this weekend at Bankley Gallery in Manchester as part of the exhibition Planetary Thinking with the Cosmotechnics Group.
Imbue with Spirit – EL Putnam
www.elputnam.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:25 PM
My video work Displacement has been selected for inclusion in the Westmeath Artists' Award exhibition, Let the Mirror Express the Room, curated by Benjamin Stafford at Luan Gallery in Athlone, opening next Friday 29 November at 6 pm. Show is up until 2 February 2025.
November 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
breaking through the surface
November 20, 2024 at 8:51 PM
the underside of rain
November 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
watching an oak leaf drift
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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I’m re-reading Parable of the Sower for a workshop and from the moment of opening the first page to ‘2024’ my face has just been the grimace emoji 😬 page after page, paired with a very quiet eeenggghghhhhg
November 15, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Currently reading. Highly recommend.
November 13, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Driving country roads in early morning/night when foggy is both terrifying and thrilling; I feel like I am in a ghost story.
November 13, 2024 at 7:58 PM
I just closed Acrobat with about 15 tabs open of unread journal articles that I was planning to read.....
michael scott from the office is wearing a suit and tie .
ALT: michael scott from the office is wearing a suit and tie .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:33 PM
I am looking forward to this
First look at "Did you read about
Erskine Fogarty?". A film adapted from a short story I wrote back in 2017. Directed by James Cotter and starring Robert Sheehan. I also composed the soundtrack.
November 13, 2024 at 7:12 PM
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) Myth, tech and speculative fiction in Ireland
2) comparing gestures of influencers to early silent cinema
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) New book on robots, labor, and gender

2) Alien Santa erotica
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) the less-dead in relation to the Canonical Five women killed by Jack the Ripper

2) the rhetoric of dinosaurs
November 13, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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First look at "Did you read about
Erskine Fogarty?". A film adapted from a short story I wrote back in 2017. Directed by James Cotter and starring Robert Sheehan. I also composed the soundtrack.
November 11, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Renewing my account on Bluesky and finding all the wonderful folks in Ireland making, doing, and producing amazing creative work. My initial stab at a starter pack for Creative & Cultural Ireland. Suggestions welcome!

go.bsky.app/3bwvaMZ
November 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM