Digital Letterisms
Letter in Letterism Research Collection is regarded in Lacanian sense as “a material medium each concrete discourse borrows from the language”(Lacan, 1997), thus letterism is viewed on as an attempt to define a minimal unit of a text-based piece of digital or contemporary art. Roland Barthes defined minimal unit of reading, as lexia “a series of brief, contiguous fragments, which we shall call lexias, since they are units of reading . . . . The lexia will include sometimes a few words, sometimes several sentences; it will be a matter of convenience: it will suffice that the lexia be the best possible space in which we can observe meanings . . . .” (Barthes, 1974). Following Velimir Khlebnikov, who states in Nasha osnova (1920), that it is possible to find a common meaning of a sound, if one collects all the words containing it “all the remaining sounds will multiply each other, and the common meaning these words have, will be the meaining of Ч”(Хлебников, 1999) Jerald Janecek singles out phonetic zaum as a minimal combinatorial block of a poetic work. According to N. Katherine Hayles, a single digit of computer code would be a formal unit of digital art “the computer, our new compound tool, uses the hierarchical ordering of discrete reproducible units to create new kinds of temporal and spatial experiences”. So one of the ultimate research question is to find a minimal semantic unit of multimodal and multilayered piece of text-based digital art.
The focus of the research is going to be on the letter as a graphic, visual, audial, mechanical, combinatorial unit of an art work. Lettter is also regarded in its sculptural (Jaume Plensa Nomad (2007) and Silent Rain (2003), bodily (Anastasia Mastrakouli Naked Silhouette (2013), Romy Achituv and Camille Utterberg Text Rain and kinetic (Jim Andrew Arteroids, Brian Kim Stefans Dreamlife of Letters, Jorg Piringer Unicode, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) aspects. A separate attention is given to the letter level constraints (such as anagram), oulipian permutations of letters, “letter sieve” – erasure techniques (Tom Phillips Humament, Ronald Johnson Radi os, Jasper Juul, Amaranth Borsuk, Nick Montfort The Deletionist (2013).
People:
Name | Residency |
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Whitney Anne Trettien | |
Talan Memmott |
United States
US
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Sylvanus Shaw | |
Rita Raley |
CA
United States
California US
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Ottar Ormstad |
Oslo
Norway
NO
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Oni Buchanan |
United States
US
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Nick Montfort |
New York
, NY
United States
New York US
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Marika Dermineur |
France
FR
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Lori Emerson |
Boulder
, CO
United States
Colorado US
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Jörg Piringer |
Vienna
Austria
AT
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Jim Andrews |
Vancouver
, BC
Canada
British Columbia CA
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Giselle Beiguelman |
São Paulo
, SP
Brazil
São Paulo BR
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Eugen Gomringer |
Switzerland
CH
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Eduardo Kac |
Chicago
United States
US
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Darren Wershler-Henry | |
Brian Kim Stefans |
Los Angeles
United States
US
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Barrie Phillip Nichol |
Canada
CA
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Alan Sondheim |
United States
US
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Alan Bigelow |
Buffalo
, NY
United States
New York US
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Critical Writing:
Organizations:
Name | Location |
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Trope Tank |
MIT
77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 14N-233
02139
Cambridge
, MA
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ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice |
University of Bergen
Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies, Sydnesplassen 7
5020
Bergen
Norway
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NO
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Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) |
14260
Buffalo
United States
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US
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Electronic Literature Organization |
Electronic Literature Organization, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
B0131 McKeldin Library, University of Maryland
20742
College Park
, MD
United States
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Maryland US
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Teaching Resources:
Title | Type | Author |
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Курс лекций по комбинаторной литературе | Syllabus | Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya |
Text in Art | Other Teaching Resource | Natalia Fedorova |
Events:
Title | Event type | Date | City | Country |
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Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 Launch | Performance | May 2, 2011 | Bergen | Norway |