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Ciberia: Biblioteca de Literatura Digital en Español
We would like to present “Ciberia”, a collection of electronic literature works in Spanish, housed in OdA, a learning objects’ repository of the University Complutense of Madrid. We will showcase some of its most representative literary works as we revise the process of the collection’s creation. The presentation will cover aspects such as the criteria used for the selection of works, the elaboration of Ciberia’s bibliographic card, the process of metadata cleaning and reconciliation with other collections of the Linked Data cloud, and Ciberia’s research and pedagogical functions. Finally, we will discuss some of the peculiarities of Hispanic electronic literature’s modes of creation and reception that the collection has made visible.
Sumeya Hassan - 19.02.2015 - 15:30
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(Electronic) Literature and the (Post)human Condition
Electronic literature exists in a perpetual state of flux, due to its reliance on digital technology; with the rapid progression of processing power and graphical abilities, electronic literature swiftly moved from a reliance on the written word into a more diverse, multi-modal form of digital arts practice. The literariness of early electronic literature is manifest: the work was primarily textual, the centrality of reading paramount. The current crop of electronic literature--with its audio-visual, multimodal nature--calls into question the literariness of this work, however, as is evidenced by this year's call for papers. I propose that this ambiguity as regards literariness and written textuality in electronic literature disadvantages the field, in both academic circles and in the search for a wider reading audience. If electronic literature as field is to assert and validate its position within the greater literary tradition, links between electronic literature and past literary achievements need to be uncovered and illuminated.
Daniela Ørvik - 19.02.2015 - 15:49
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Zombification: The Living Dead in Spam
Zombification describes computational processes of production, addressing the mutable quality of automation. Spam consists of mutating identities. It is continuously and seamlessly produced yet temporarily exists in the network through computation. This temporal existence of the living dead, as I argue, encompasses code automation – an undead and repetitive writing process where a parameters’ value is constantly mutating. However, zombification does not only examine the technical dimension of computational processes. This paper tries to articulate the mutable quality at the coding layer, examining its surrounding forces, such as the interface format of a mail server and an email address, the consumption techniques of email addresses, the parameters and values of a software program, and the repetitiveness and undeadness of writing. Thinking from such material and technical aspects of spam, particularly mutability, we gain a better understanding of spam culture that is associated with its mutating identity, including regulatory controls, loopholes, labour practices, digital consumption and datafication.
Alvaro Seica - 25.02.2015 - 12:03
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Fourteen recipes for a sonnet
This paper discusses a semester-long classroom project in which senior seminar students were required to take Shakespeare’s Sonnet 14 and convert it into various media objects and texts. The assignments made use of Ian Bogost’s “procedural rhetoric” (“a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation”), assigning tasks based on the core concepts of “encoding” and “algorithm.” Some objects were electronic (music, twitter feeds) while the majority were physical objects, but they all made use of a procedural rhetoric sketched out by the original shape of the sonnet itself and the long tradition of scanning poems. In doing so, the objects produced force us to ask: where, exactly, do we “hold the light”? Is it e-lit if there’s no “e”?
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Sumeya Hassan - 26.02.2015 - 21:01
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Faceless Patrons – An Augmented Installation Exploring 419-Fictional Narratives
‘Faceless patrons’ is an installation that documents stories used by Internet scammers in so called ‘overpayment check scams’. Scammers use scripted stories to reach their victims, yet when correspondence continues story worlds start to evolve. We created a virtual character to interact with scammers who posed to be art buyers. The installation presents five of these interactive narratives in form of a series of photos each coupled with a forged check. By using smartphones or a tablet an augmented reality layer can be accessed to expose further story elements.
Andreas Zingerle - 05.03.2015 - 14:44
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'The frame of the sparkling graphics': the window and the screen in contemporary Irish poetry
This conference paper discusses the visual tropes of the window and the screen in the work of Derek Mahon and Alan Gillis. More specifically, the focus is on how the architectural window and the digital screen operate as framing devices in their works, and how they enable the poets to interrogate the interrelationship between poetry as verbal discourse, and visual representation. The shift from the architectural window to a digital window on the screen also marks a shift in understanding questions of viewpoint and perspective in contemporary culture.
Anne Karhio - 05.03.2015 - 18:01
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Computer Art and the Theory of Computation
Computer Art and the Theory of Computation
Jim Andrews - 08.03.2015 - 01:05
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Why I Am a Net Artist
Why I Am a Net Artist
Jim Andrews - 08.03.2015 - 01:11
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ART, GAMES, AND PLAY
Andrews looks at the relationships, kinships, and tensions between interactive art and interactive games. The intersection of art and game is play.
Jim Andrews - 08.03.2015 - 02:09
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Material Combinatorium Supremum
Examines the notion of a poem with more permutations than there are atoms in the universe.
Jim Andrews - 09.03.2015 - 01:20
