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Welcome to Mina's Creator Spotlight: Dr. Ray Hsu and Jonathon Dalton

Welcome to Mina’s Creator Spotlight: Dr. Ray Hsu and Jonathon Dalton

Dr. Ray Hsu and Jonathon Dalton are two of the creators featured in our latest anthology, Welcome to Mina’s. Ray Hsu, author of two award-winning books of poetry, is co-founder of Phare, a venture that seeks to democratize mental health. Join them at https://wearephare.com/. Jonathan Dalton is Cloudscape’s current president. He is the creator behind the webcomic Phobos and Deimos. sat down with…

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Optimizing Industrial Networks for HD IP Surveillance: An In-Depth Case Study

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Poets Among Artists: Ray Hsu on “i do not later 5″ by Clint Burnham - Part 1

When I invited Ray Hsu to respond to “i do not later 5″ by Clint Burnham, I knew Ray would come up with a creative and critical “reading” of Clint’s visual text / art / poem. Ray’s concerns with the means and length of the response were clear in our chat: 

We chatted some more and decided against beginning with interpretation and classification. After a conversation about Fredric Jameson, depth, homogeneity, and surfaces, I noticed that Ray was still drawn to using various apps and/or technologies to “read” Clint’s art. We chatted some more and Ray had the idea of changing the file extension to create another layer, another glitch, another reading...

I was trying to make Ray’s ideas happen, so I researched apps that would turn images to sound... 

Ray played with the “readings” to produce one that had the most variation in sound. We joked about making it an eight-minute-long ambient track, and then a symphony, but finally decided to keep the reading to three minutes; the average length of a pop song.

Time to turn up your speakers: Part 2. 

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Part 2

Poets Among Artists: Ray Hsu on “i do not later 5″ by Clint Burnham

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What you ask of me

is only my story. Yes,  I say, I want closure too. I want a seam to give me meaning. I too want something ferociously true. But somewhere I am only a document, an argument about the very experience that makes me so particular.  Deep in there is a ghost deep inside the cave. What others mistake for my integrity they know now is just a body we bring under control.

— from "This illness of an earlier time", Ray Hsu

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On Censorship

Dec 7, Saturday

Doors at 7:30pm, show runs from 8-10pm.

REDACTED, Art for Impact's 11th event, is a multimedia performance night at Tian Jin Temple in Burnaby, BC (near Canada Way and 26th) with an interesting group of artists including Renee Sarojini Saklikar and Ray Hsu. The evening explores the idea of censorship and is a fundraiser for Evidence for Democracy, a group supporting the free, transparent release of scientific, and other, information.

I'll be reading poems of my own about political repression in Central and South America as well as a suite of poems by Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar written while he was in solitary confinement in Sadnaya prison. Some of the poems were written on onion skin with a toothpick dipped in tea; others were smuggled out on the lips of visitors. The selection is from the Arabic to English translation of Bayrakdar's work Mirrors of Change by John Asfour, forthcoming from Guernica Editions.

Throughout the evening I will be reading at scheduled intervals in a space measuring roughly 8.5 x 6 and draped with blackout curtains. I have never had the experience of such an intimate reading and am curious to feel how it affects the work. 

Tickets are available here and at the door.

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One of the unique opportunities I've had at UBC was taking a Directed Studies course; one where you create your own syllabus, take charge of your learning and have a professor help guide you along the way. 

Ray was my professor for my Creative Writing Directed Studies class in my second year and helped guide me through the process. What struck me initially were his thought provoking questions about my writing and art that prompted me to rethink my creative process. Over the last two years, my conversations with Ray always leave me curious about Googling a topic or inspired to take action on a creative project.

Two of the most important things that I have learned from Ray deal with collaboration and creativity. First, he prompted me to rethink of collaboration as a process in which the result could not have been created without the knowledge and contributions of the initial collaborators. With this view in mind, I am more willing to collaborate with those I may not have initially, in hopes of sparking a new idea or project.

The second lesson is one which is still abstract in my mind and one that I know I will continue to attempt to integrate into my life. Ray has helped me fundamentally change my thoughts on creativity; not only what constitutes creativity but also how one can live creatively each day. Ray is a writer but not necessarily in the traditional sense of the word. He has taken the title of "writer" and transformed it into what he sees it as, and this translates both through his work or through the numerous (and amazing) side projects he is always working on. While I try and integrate creativity into my daily life, I know I have a long way to go. Ray is someone who I look to for inspiration on what I hope to achieve one day.

Ray, thank you for continuously pushing my creativity forward and for always providing a fresh perspective. I am forever grateful that you have helped cultivate my insatiable curiousity of the role creativity can play in my life and the lives of those around me.

A most grateful grad, SH

P.S. The quote on the painting is from Ray's TEDxSFU talk and represents how collaboration can help us live creative lives.