"Literary fiction and the visual arts changed forever when August Highland..."

ABOUT AUGUST HIGHLAND

August Highland is the originator of over 12 genres of visual art and literature. See his online studio here. Highland presents his writing and visual work by using personae. There are over 80 personae, and each one writes in his or her own style. These personae are members of one of three simulated literary movements. This literary/art performance is called "Metapoetics Theatre". The projects of these literary movements span over 36 websites.

Each volume of literature is 500-1,000 pages in length and comes in a custom-designed box. The wood is available in three different wood types. Highland's literary works are in the collections of private collectors and have been acquired by the two of the most prestigious American special collection libraries at SUNY Buffalo and Ohio State University.

Tireless in his creative output and innovation, Highland has produced over 250,000 unique literary works. The concept of this vast output is called "Massive Media". Each literary work is a one-of-a-kind book, which elevates the value of each book to the status of an original artwork, like a painting or sculpture. Massive Media is Highland's own publishing model which counters the conventional publishing industry. The conventional publishing industry gives each reader a mass-produced product that is replaceable. Highland's massive production model gives each reader an unreplaceable one-of-a-kind literary work.

Highland has also originated a visual art style that is unprecedented with regard to the extent to which he is exploring and evolving this new visual genre. All the compositional elements of his visual work are text. The presentation of text ranges from straightforward printed words to complete abstraction. This genre of visual text is called "Alphanumeric Painting". All works are large-scale. They are in many private collections. Highland's visual work is on permanent display at Harvard, has been selected for exhibition by the curator of MOCA, and is being exhibited in solo and group shows. Contact Corina at "corina AT artadvice.com" for upcoming events and for purchasing information.

Current visual works are regularly updated and on display at Highland's online gallery at
www.august-highland.com. The work at Highland's online gallery may be available for purchase.

August Highland learns from everyone but follows no one. The number and variety of new literary and visual genres that he has originated is astonishing. What follows is a list of the genres and the online literary projects where you can read excerpts from the literary works.

"VIRUS Poetry", the newest genre that Highland has created, will be online soon at World War Web

"Formal Spam" is presented by Judith Matheson and Ian Mitchell at Operation Nobel Prize

"Next-Gen Nanopoetics" is presented by Jeff Moreland and Carla Houston at Encyclopoetica and by Shelly Rath, Lizzie Berry, and Irv Eastman at Go Ego Go

"Microlinear Storytelling" is presented by Alec Hearn, Lewis Evergreen and Joan Keating-Chambers at Digital E-Motions and by Alexi Waterhouse at COW Gallery

"Mediated Narrative Repatterning" is presented by Will Sorling, Claire Willowby, Henry Dorn and Maria-Rosa Paolini at the Academic Liberation Party

"Visual Information Processing" is presented by Teddy Warburg at Voice of the Village

"Transluminating Poetic Fusion" is presented by Sydney Lewis at Global Text Strategies

"Human Vibrational Matrices Mapping" is presented by Celia Curtis at Wired Paris Review

"Mediated Narrative Repatterning" is presented by Alvin Sachs at Web-Published Nation

"Linguistics Engineering" is presented by Paul Whitney at The Hyper Age

"Hyper-Literary Fiction" is presented at the following online projects:

Club Bibliotech

Afterhours Literati Cafe

Urban Text Kult

Amazon Salon

Atlantic Ploughshares

Book-Burning Department

Brain Juice Press

S.C.A.R.E.

Advanced Literary Sciences

Text Modification Studio

Anti-Genre Elite Corps

Ink Bomb Disposal Unit

Post-Mortem Telepathic Society

New Literary Underground

Pornalisa

Litob

The early visual works by August Highland are at
Alphanumeric Labs which have been spotlighted by Helen Thorington at Turbulence.

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