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Playing with Chance: On Random Generation in Playable Media and Electronic Literature
Randomly generated content poses problems for theories of digital art: such content is resistant to structural theories, which can only provide templates, and one cannot assume a shared text for close analysis. Instead of reaching fixed endings, such works also tend to be of indefinite length or at least suggest indefinite possible combinations. I argue that the impact of such works can instead be found in how one attempts to work through their underlying grammar, based on limits in the algorithms that generate the content — not those limits themselves, but how their outlines come to be known. Repetitively iterating through these works simultaneously upholds the chance nature of the epiphenomenal occurrences while also illustrating the sameness of the underlying algorithm over time, creating a future-oriented interpretive arc. I examine two works that play off of this technique in different ways: Nick Montfort’s Taroko Gorge, a poetry generator which uses random generation to distill the essence of its object’s possibility, and the action role-playing game Torchlight, which attempts to elevate chance beyond a mere gameplay mechanic and toward an ethic.
Scott Rettberg - 25.02.2014 - 17:37
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Theoretical Permutations for Reading Cybertexts
"Theoretical Permutations for Reading Cybertexts" is a review essay on Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory (London: Continuum, 2012), and C.T. Funkhouser, New Directions in Digital Poetry (London: Continuum, 2012). Both books engage new media works and practices in ways that are transformative of the conceptual apparatus and tools of literary theory and literary analysis. Moving between the deep analysis of the Funkhouser’s and the high-level abstraction of Eskelinen’s will give readers an exhilarating sense of just how new media is changing our aesthetical experience and our way of thinking and writing about the textual experience.
Scott Rettberg - 25.02.2014 - 17:44
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Incremental Storytelling and Calypsis: A Hypertext Fiction a Critical Introduction
This critical introduction to Calypsis: A Hypertext Fiction argues that university creative writing programs should make full use of the institutional space, time, and resources available to them by introducing students to different types of writing projects and engage students in critical discussions about creative production, activities that they are unlikely to find outside the university's walls. These activities includes experimenting with digital tools, creating multimedia compositions, and producing collaborative work, as well as situating creative writing as an embodied act within specific historical, political, and material conditions. Herein I forward my theory of incremental storytelling, which is informed by both creative writing pedagogy and gaming theory, as one strategy for achieving these goals. Using this methodology, students learn the craft of fiction writing in smaller, discrete bits that, in aggregate, create something much greater than their constituent parts.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.04.2014 - 04:40
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#Carnivast: The Virtual Reality, Code Poetry App
A review of Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell's #Carnivast.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 11.06.2014 - 17:46
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Escritorios electrónicos para las literaturas: Nuevas herramientas digitales para la anotación colaborativa
This book is addressed to computer scientists interested in the creation of new tools for digital humanities and philologists who want to introduce ITC in teaching literature in the classroom. This volume collects a group of studies related to interaction between humanities and new technologies. It has been carried out by professors and researchers from Complutense University, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (Brasil) and Grupo Ciberimaginario-ICONO14, which deal with creation of repositories of learning objects, the construction of virtual museums and collaborative annotation from digital documents, specially literary ones.
Maya Zalbidea - 24.06.2014 - 09:43
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Humanidades digitales como estudios hipercoloniales
Humanidades digitales como estudios hipercoloniales
Maya Zalbidea - 23.07.2014 - 14:01
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(H)adas : mujeres que crean, programan, prosumen, teclean
(h)adas is not a conventional essay and it does not only try to be about women and technology; (h)adas tries to find one’s own times and ways of domestication and emancipation that are deduced from daily life technologies, about its invisible power in appropriation and time management and expectations. It is a singular book, in which stories, research and autobiography cohabit and it has worth Remedios Zafra V Malaga Essay Prize “it has been written to revindicate the political power that accompanies this periphery , to make everything shared, to reflect upon the conditions in which repetition power of the world perform, some ways to battle against it from the critical consciousness and creation” (Translated by Maya Zalbidea) (Source: remedioszafra.net)
Maya Zalbidea - 30.07.2014 - 11:43
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Más allá del papel. El hilo digital de la ficción impresa.
Ante el despunte de los medios digitales en una cultura transformada por el hipermedia, por la inmersión en los espacios virtuales y por los nuevos hábitos sociales de lectura, el universo de la ficción que se nos ha transmitido de forma impresa comienza a replantearse su contexto pasado para hallar un espacio en el futuro. Este libro busca respuestas a una cuestión clave cuando hablamos de digitalización de obras de ficción previamente impresas: ¿es posible trasladar y de qué manera la memoria cultural del libro impreso a una memoria virtual caracterizada por el hipertexto, la inmersión audiovisual y la participación escrilectora?
Maya Zalbidea - 04.08.2014 - 13:00
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Imágenes de la tecnología y la globalización en las narrativas hispánicas
Escritores y profesores como Jordi Carrión, Vicente Luis Mora, Juan Francisco Ferré, Francisca Noguerol y Daniel Mesa firman artículos de este volumen se ocupa de las presencias tecnológicas y mediáticas y sus vínculos con los procesos de desterritorializacion propios de la globalización en la literatura de los últimos veinte años, tratando de confrontar estas presencias con lo que ya es una tradición de narrativas mediáticas o seducidas por los medios en el canon de la literatura latinoamericana.
Maya Zalbidea - 06.08.2014 - 12:48
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Interdisciplinaridade
A brief review of Álvaro Seiça's works on the transducer function applied to e-lit and digital art, under the perspective of interdisciplinary studies.
Alvaro Seica - 24.09.2014 - 09:11
