Portuguese Electronic Literature Collection
The Portuguese Electronic Literature Collection (PELC) at the ELMCIP KB aims to address and collect the most relevant creative and critical works produced by Portuguese authors in the field of electronic literature during the past forty-five years. The collection also brings together authors, events, organizations, publishers, journals, publications, conferences, performances and exhibitions related to the Portuguese context.
The first works of electronic literature produced in Portugal have primarily dealt with computer-generated literature (CGL). Pedro Barbosa’s A Literatura Cibernética 1: Autopoemas Gerados por Computador (1977) and A Literatura Cibernética 2: Um Sintetizador de Narrativas (1980) can be understood as the first major works combining literary creation with computational programming. In these volumes, besides a critical framework, Barbosa published a selection of the outputs (poetry and fiction) of his text generators programmed in a mainframe computer, a practice developed in other media and languages since the 1980s until nowadays. Meanwhile, between 1981 and 1983, Silvestre Pestana developed a series of kinetic and visual poems, Computer Poetry, using the home computers ZX81 and ZX Spectrum. E.M. de Melo e Castro, a pioneer of videopoetry, e.g. Roda Lume (1968), created several videopoems during the 1980s with the assistance of electronic equipment, and worked with image editing software, coining the term ‘infopoetry’ to describe his poetic work with electronic media. Furthermore, Melo e Castro has been widely theorizing on many aspects of literary experimentalism, videopoetry and infoliterature.
In the contemporary scene it is worth noting authors such as Antero de Alda and Manuel Portela, who began their artistic trajectory in the late 1980s in the context of visual and, then, digital poetry, being Portela’s theoretical oeuvre singularly strong. From 2000 onwards, there is a new generation of creators-programmers, such as André Sier, a digital artist who has also developed textual works, and Rui Torres, a writer whose creative and critical work, influenced by Barbosa, has proved decisive not only in elaborating combinatorial and networked digital poems, but also in disseminating the PO.EX legacy and cyberliterature in the panorama of literary studies.
PELC uses sources from different essays and monographs – e.g. Poemografias: Perspectivas da Poesia Visual Portuguesa (1985), edited by Fernando Aguiar and Silvestre Pestana, E.M. de Melo e Castro’s Poética dos Meios e Arte High Tech (1988), Pedro Barbosa’s A Ciberliteratura: Criação Literária e Computador (1996) and Christopher T. Funkhouser’s Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 (2007) – in addition to online databases and archives, such as the ELMCIP KB and the PO.EX, benefiting from the collaboration with Manuel Portela and Rui Torres, principal investigator of the Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature.
As a further media contribution, PELC contains a video interview with Manuel Portela and Rui Torres recorded during the Electronic Literature Organization 2013 conference “Chercher Le Texte,” in Paris, bringing into question some of the important characteristics, influences and future directions of Portuguese e-lit.
—Álvaro Seiça, August 2013-August 2015
For PELC's synopsis in Portuguese, read the PDF in "PELC/CLEP: Portuguese Synopsis/Sinopse em Português": http://elmcip.net/node/9990
Note: A full critical analysis of the collection and the specific literary, political, historical and media elements that run from the Portuguese Experimental Poetry movement to current e-lit environments was published in Portuguese in Texto Digital (2015): https://elmcip.net/node/10760
PELC was presented during the ELO 2014 conference, in Milwaukee, US (June 19-21) and at the Doctoral Programme in Advanced Studies in the Materialities of Literature (June 25, 2014), School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
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People:
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Residency |
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Silvestre Pestana |
Vila Nova de Gaia
, Porto
Portugal
PT
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Sérgio Bairon |
Sao Paulo
Brazil
BR
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Salette Tavares | |
Rui Torres |
Oporto
Portugal
PT
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Pedro Reis |
Oporto
Portugal
PT
|
Pedro Barbosa |
Porto
Portugal
PT
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Otávio Guimarães Tavares |
Florianópolis
Brazil
BR
|
Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre |
Coimbra
Portugal
PT
|
Nuno M. Cardoso |
Porto
Portugal
PT
|
Nuno F. Ferreira |
Oporto
Portugal
PT
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Marta Meira | |
Markku Eskelinen |
Finland
FI
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Manuel Portela |
Coimbra
Portugal
PT
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Luís Lucas Pereira |
Coimbra
Portugal
PT
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Luís Cláudio Fajardo |
Brazil
BR
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Luís Carlos Petry |
Sao Paulo
Brazil
BR
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Luís Aly |
Oporto
Portugal
PT
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Liliana Vasques |
Coimbra
Portugal
PT
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Leonel Valbom | |
José Manuel Torres |
Porto
Portugal
PT
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Organizations:
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Location |
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University Fernando Pessoa |
Oporto
Portugal
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PT
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Universidade de Coimbra, FCT PhD Programme in Materialities of Literature |
Largo da Porta Férrea
3004-530
Coimbra
Portugal
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PT
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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto |
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica, s/n
4150-564
Porto
Portugal
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PT
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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra/ Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra |
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Largo da Porta Férrea
3004-530
Coimbra
Portugal
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PT
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Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
FSCH - UNL
Avenida de Berna, 26-C
1069-061
Lisbon
Portugal
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PT
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Centro de Literatura Portuguesa |
Centro de Literatura Portuguesa
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
3004-530
Coimbra
Portugal
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PT
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Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens (CECL)/ The Research Center in Communication and Languages (CECL) |
NOVA University of Lisbon
Avenida de Berna, 26-C, 5.º andar, sala 506
1069-061
Lisboa
Portugal
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PT
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Publishers:
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Location |
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Via Letterae |
VIA LITTERAE – Revista [online] de Linguística e Teoria Literária - Universidade Estadual de Goiás - UEG - Curso de Letras
Av. Juscelino Kubitschek, 146, Bairro Jundiaí
CEP 75110-390
Anápolis
, GO
Brazil
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Goias BR
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Vega |
Vega
Alto dos Moinhos, 6-A
1500-459
Lisbon
Portugal
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PT
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Revista de Estudos Literários |
Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, Revista de Estudos Literários – Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Largo da Porta Férrea
3004 - 530
Coimbra
Portugal
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PT
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Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens |
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens, FCSH-UNL
Av. de Berna, 26-C, 5.º andar, sala 506
1069-061
Lisbon
Portugal
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PT
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Revista da Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais |
Porto
Portugal
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PT
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Op. Cit.: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/A Journal of Anglo-American Studies |
Lisbon
Portugal
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PT
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MATLIT: Materialities of Literature |
University of Coimbra, Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
3004-530
Coimbra
Portugal
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PT
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Livros Horizonte |
Livros Horizonte
Rua das Chagas, 17 – 1.º Dt.º
1200-106
Lisbon
Portugal
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PT
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Edições UFP |
Oporto
Portugal
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PT
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Edições Cosmos |
Chamusca
Rua Direita de São Pedro, n.º 207 - Apartado 82
2140-909
Chamusca
Portugal
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PT
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Edições Árvore |
Porto
Portugal
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PT
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Edições Afrontamento |
Portugal
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PT
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CITARJournal: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts |
Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Centro Regional do Porto
Rua Diogo Botelho, 1327
4169-005
Porto
Portugal
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PT
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Cibertextualidades |
Porto
Praça 9 de Abril, 349
4249-004
Porto
Portugal
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PT
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Associação C.C.G. |
Guimarães
Portugal
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PT
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