A night of literature, new media, and performance at the intersection of art and awareness. As Marshall McLuhan put it: we “live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.” Power Up is about coping with information overload and fueling it. Power Up begins with short readings by students of the Spring graduate workshop in Fiction: Connie Pan, Rebecca Thomas, Shane Stricker, Andi Stout, Justin Anderson, Justin Crawford, Micah Holmes, and Aaron Hoover. The lineup continues with political theater / media intervention in massive multiplayer online roleplaying games by the Center for Literary Computing “Coaldust” collective, focused on the problematic space between virtuality, on the one hand, and laboring bodies and resource consumption, on the other. The evening concludes with new video from Intermedia students at WVU’s College of Creative Arts, with selections from the 2nd annual WV Mountaineer Short Film Festival.

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