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The reading abyss: narrative in times of Artificial Intelligence
If orality constructed the myth and the listener, and the press produced the novel and the interpreter, this paper aims to discuss how digital tools based on the properties of Artificial Intelligence combined with narrative strategies will form simulations and transform the reader into a co-author.
I do not believe that the narrative of linear reading is going to disappear or that the book on paper is in the process of extinction, I believe that digital support, and sociocultural changes that entails, can lead to the formation of new literary genres and new creative and reading processes.
Jana Jankovska - 26.09.2018 - 12:36
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"Smog Poem" and “Heating Season.” Creative work and Smog Datafication
"Smog Poem" by Leszek Onak is a text and graphics generator that uses the data on the environmental pollution to change the tissue of the text, its graphic elements, and other components depending on the pollution’s intensity. The algorithm has a form of an internet browser plugin; after its installation, the users browsing through the internet will experience the air pollution in front of their own eyes through the glitches appearing on the websites they use, the replacement of the photos and text modification. Some articles will be replaced by a separate generated text based on the syntactic mechanisms and the rules of the “Game of Life” by John Conway.
Jana Jankovska - 26.09.2018 - 12:59
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Micronarrative, Virtual Reality, and Medium Specificity: Circa 1948 as VR installation and Mobile App
Circa 1948 is an interactive interpretation of a forgotten but historically important moment in the history of British Columbia. The narrative follows a network of characters within two locations in the city of Vancouver in 1948. The first is "Hogan's Alley" - a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood close to Vancouver's downtown. The second is the old Hotel Vancouver - once one of the finest hotels in the world, but in 1948 abandoned by its owners and taken over by homeless veterans returning from World War II.
As the viewer navigates these two locations, she hears a series of audio vignettes from the past: ghost-like conversations of the people who were there in 1948. The mood is decidedly noir - consistent with the era, the urban setting, and the hard world in which these characters live their lives. Hogan's Alley includes pimps, madams, bootleggers, and crooked cops - but also ordinary working people struggling to make a living. The Hotel Vancouver has its share of shady characters, but at the same time it is the only home available to honest veterans and their families trying to find their way back into productive society.
Jana Jankovska - 26.09.2018 - 13:34
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A Project Gutenberg Poetry Corpus
In this paper, I present the Gutenberg Poetry Corpus: a corpus of over three million lines of poetry (in annotated JSON format) automatically curated from Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, a collection of machine-readable texts in the public domain, was originally instigated in the early 1970s with a hand-typed copy of the US Declaration of Independence. More recently driven by the volunteer efforts of a decentralized group of proofreaders, Project Gutenberg now consists of more than 54,000 texts, mostly English- language literature from the 18th and 19th centuries. Researchers in the humanities and in computational linguistics have made use of Project Gutenberg for decades, and more recently its use in data-driven computational creativity has grown. I relay the methodology used to automatically filter and identify lines of poetry from the larger Gutenberg corpus, discuss the potential of this corpus for research and creative work, and then present a series of my own experiments that use this corpus as their primary source material.
Susanne Årflot Løtvedt - 26.09.2018 - 14:15
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Semiotic Engineering: an HCI Theory That Can Be Adopted for the Analysis of Works of Electronic Literature
An increasing number of journals and conferences have been publishing articles and critical essays about electronic literature, but still mainly adopting traditional approaches to literary texts, such as close-reading (deeply rooted in the New Criticism trend), or reporting readers’ experiences (in accordance to the Reception Aesthetics). These approaches, however fruitful and well-established in literary analysis as they are, were not originally conceived to study digital texts. Therefore, they systematically fail to grasp specificities of electronic literature, unless the critic goes beyond the limits of the method and adopts other analytical tools as well.
Jana Jankovska - 26.09.2018 - 15:52
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A False Sense of Feminism in Chinese Internet Literature: A Case Study of the Web Serial Novel Three Lifetimes, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms
This paper analyzes the concepts of love and womanhood in the web serial novel Three Lifetimes, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (hereafter abridged as Three Lifetimes). As one of the most popular and representative works of its subgenre, “love story of immortals in a classical Chinese style,” this novel tells of a romance between Bai Qian, a 140,000-year-old female immortal, and Yehua, a 50,000-year-old male immortal. Author argue that the novel offers a false sense of feminism by analyzing its themes of love and womanhood and comparing the protagonists’ personality traits, de/merits, and experiences with those in three other love stories.
Jana Jankovska - 03.10.2018 - 13:36
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Haunting (Narrative) Architecture: The Internet in Skeleton Creek
Since digital technology began to saturate every part of society, critics have been trying to come to terms with how it has affected our culture, not least literary texts. Young adult fiction was an early responder to digital technology. Internet novels such as ttyl (2005) by Lauren Myracle, Click Here: To Find out How I Survived Seventh Grade (2006) by Denise Vega, and Tweet Heart (2010) by Elizabeth Rudnick revolve around Internet culture thematically as well as structurally: the layout of the codex often resemble chatrooms, emails, or blog posts.
Jana Jankovska - 03.10.2018 - 13:54
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Dérives. Bringing (digital) space back to literature.
Since its earliest materializations, literature has tried to not only describe space, but also to imagine new forms of it. Utopian literature has always envisioned a socio-political perspective in thinking about new societies, not only in a temporal manner – in an undefined future or past – but also through the invention of countries, maps, and even worlds. In the 20th century, it was via the works of science-fiction writers that things such as cybernetics, virtual reality, and cyberspace became a common imaginary, shared by all kinds of people.
If until the beginning of 1990s, literature was one of the prominent instances, along with cinema, shaping the spatial imaginary and its structures, throughout the 1990s the role of literature in building and shaping these common spaces was progressively replaced by a more technological and commercial discourse.
Amirah Mahomed - 03.10.2018 - 15:20
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Poética Quántica: Closing the Literary Gap in Latin American E-Lit
To read e-literature is to use multiple literacies. New media theory stresses the role of user interactivity or engagement, but it is critical to also engage with the hermeneutic readings leading us to question, what does it all mean? How is e-literature proposing phenomenological questions regarding selfhood/identity, communication, spirituality, consciousness?
Poets and artists are instinctively reflecting an awareness of the paradigm shift that surged with quantum mechanics. Curiously, those same theories have been part of the long tradition of ancient Eastern mysticism. This dialogue between the two that began in the 1950s and resurged in the mid 1970s is very vibrant and present in today’s electronic literatures, particularly those with poetic inclinations.
Miriam Takvam - 03.10.2018 - 15:21
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Electronic Literature as an approaching tool to emerging ways of reading
What is reading? As a transitive verb, and in the strict action, it is to pass the view by the signs that we recognize from our mother tongue, written in a text to understand them and turn them into sounds. The act of reading goes beyond the interpretation of an inherited code. Reading is a cognitive visual/motor activity and meaningful of reality.
When we read a text, our thinking manages a bunch of received information that little by little it is organizing according to its maturity, experience, cognitive processes, intuition and conceptualization. The order in which it happens does not matter. What is important is the fact that when it is read, the construction and appropriation of both historical and a-historical concepts is happening. But, what happens when we read Electronic Literature?
Technology, following the proposal of Marshall McLujan, is an extension of our own body. For that matter, clothing is an extension of our skin. The shoes are an extension of our feet.
June Hovdenakk - 03.10.2018 - 15:21
