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Publish and Die: The Preservation of Digital Literature within the UK
Publish and Die: The Preservation of Digital Literature within the UK
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.04.2011 - 11:23
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UbuWeb, the archive and the gallery
As a seemingly limitless and comprehensive resource, UbuWeb (http://www.ubu.com) has put together a map of the past hundred or so years of ‘experimental’ writing, film, video, and sound art. It resembles the archive in its breadth and depth, in its relentless collecting, in its inherent totalizing tendencies. My argument is that UbuWeb, while not an ‘archive’ per se, does have a cataloging logic, though it is not apparent, and that its specific logic is based on the commodification of the artwork and the effects of that commodification on its exhibition. To understand that logic, I want to situate UbuWeb at the latest point in a series of discontinuous institutions and discourses that have all taken the ‘artwork’ as their object.
Audun Andreassen - 03.04.2013 - 10:13
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E-lit context as Records Continuum: the “lost” Michael Joyce’s Afternoon Italian edition and the archival perspective
Devoted to the study and retrieval of those artifacts of the past for which a disruption in the continuity of preservation occurred, archaeological sciences operate with – and against – historical and cultural fractures. Likewise, computer forensics provides assistance whenever a need to recover data in the event of a hardware or software failure occurs. The textual shifting from page to screen experienced in the past twenty years represented both a cultural fracture (a call for paradigmatic changes in preservation which archival sciences themselves were not prepared for) and an opportunity to test computer forensics practices on text-based digital artifacts (software and hardware failures being named, in this case, “obsolescence”). Our paper draws attention to the fact that both digital archaeology and computer forensics, however, no matter how useful in shaping the current preservation practices and methodologies adopted by scholarly communities operating in the digital field, cannot replace or do without the extensive scholarship developed in disciplines that have traditionally dealt with textual preservation in situations of cultural continuity.
Audun Andreassen - 03.04.2013 - 16:07
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The State of the Archive: Authors, Scholars, and Curators on Archiving Electronic Literature
Archiving electronic literature and the challenges raised by this task is a subject of discourse and action as well as a formative force in shaping the emergence of electronic literature as field of scholarly study. The ELO Visionary Landscapes Conference in 2007 dedicated a keynote position to a panel on the topic of preserving electronic literature with archivists from leading universities, and the panel was a cornerstone of discussion at the conference and beyond. The current proposal for a panel on the topic seeks to continue the conversation while extending it to voices not usually included in critical conversation about archiving— artists whose work is selected for preservation. What kinds of experiences are involved in collecting and handing over one’s oeuvre to an archivist? Does this experience affect the practice (artistic and otherwise) of future creation? Are there specific aspects of these questions and their answers that are specific to the digital nature of the objects?
Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 11:21
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Missed Collections: Away From the Canon, Toward the Archive
This paper expands on some of the questions raised by my presentation at the 2009 Digital Arts and Culture conference, held last December at UC Irvine. While examining the work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), I asked what it might mean for a new media practitioner to intentionally disregard or shun many of the medium’s inherent capabilities. I was interested in the way in which YHCHI seemed to be protesting some of the assumptions or characteristics of the nascent canon of electronic literature, i.e. that works of new media are inherently multidirectional, adaptive, non-linear, etc.
Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 12:47
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Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
This is a collection that documents the "hypertext fiction activity" between 1995-1997.
Among its features are:
- Approximately 230 citations to electronic fiction, its print precursors, and criticism
- Approximately 100 annotated citations for selected works
- Individual bibliographies of selected authors
- Announcements about the field and links to related sites of interest
Source: Michael Shumate (resume)
The page was last updated in 1997 and disappeared from the Web shorty after this record was created with a link to an active site in August 2013 (PT).
Patricia Tomaszek - 30.08.2013 - 18:13
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Multimedia Textuality; or, an Oxymoron for the Present
Katherine Acheson’s free-standing hypertext demonstrates how design can reinforce what’s said, offer a counterpoint, and, occasionally, convey a critique of the critic.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/illuminated)
Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:44
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Secrets, a pedagogic tool for e-lit practices
Memories of «Cuéntanos un secreto» (Tell me a secret) understanding textualities in the Network and programmable media. Paper focuses on the electronic exploration collection.
At first glance, secrets are experiences that are kept hidden from the outside world. They are hidden because of particular social circumstances. Those circumstances relate to the personal and social ethics in its historical context.
Jana Jankovska - 26.09.2018 - 12:02
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Coping with bits: Abby Adams
Abby Adams discusses the challenges from the perspective of an archive, providing insights into the specific role of an institution’s archive in regards to making works accessible to the public.
Carlos Muñoz - 15.10.2018 - 19:17
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The Ciberia Project: An Experiment In Digital Hermeneutics
This article presents “Ciberia”, a collection of electronic literature works in Spanish, housed in OdA 2.0., a learning objects‟ repository of the University Complutense of Madrid. The Ciberia project involves experimentation at the humanistic and technological level, since it deals with the challenge of archiving digitally-born literary works as well as with the archiving process itself, which we are carrying out in OdA 2.0, a data management system for the creation of learning objects repositories on the Web. OdA allows different researchers to work collaboratively in a simultaneous manner on the data base, they can not only introduce new objects but they can also modify the data model. This entourage allows us to create taxonomies in an inductive rather than deductive manner.
Hannah Ackermans - 20.11.2018 - 10:02
