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Labyrinth: the Rulebook without Game
An ergodic Flash text exploring video game culture through the lens of playable manuals.
How does one read this clever piece, which touches on so many genres, such as poetry, fiction, game, theory, game manual, and codework? It claims to be a manual for an absent game, a bottomless pit, and a labyrinth for readers to get lost, wondering if indeed the game has already begun. The reader inhabits a character from the outset, a 35 year old married man, who can take on different roles in games belonging to popular RPG and videogame genres: science fiction, spy thriller, fantasy, and labyrinth exploration. Most of the writing is in the tradition of game manual for these types of games (here’s an old favorite) which at their best help immerse the readers into the world of the game and can be more fun than the game itself. In the case of tabletop RPGs, like Dungeons & Dragons, the game is the rulebooks, and all it requires is players and some dice for the necessary randomizations— making them good recipients of the label “cardboard computers,” as Matthew Kirschenbaum has used for tabletop wargames.
Mark Marino - 28.03.2011 - 16:12
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Johannes Auer
Johannes Auer is an artist from Stuttgart, Germany. He was part of the group "Das Deutsche Handwerk" in the 1990s. He has worked in net art since 1994 and is one of the leading figures in digital poetry in Germany.
(Source: ELO 2012 Media Art Show).
Beat Suter - 28.03.2011 - 16:29
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Gonzalo Frasca
Gonzalo Frasca is a Uruguayan game and cybertext scholar and game developer.
Raine Koskimaa - 28.03.2011 - 16:33
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Biennale.py
Biennale.py
Mark Marino - 28.03.2011 - 16:44
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David Thomas Prater
David Prater is an Australian-born writer, editor and researcher. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Australian Literature (University of Sydney, 1994), a Master of Arts in English (University of Melbourne, 2004) and a PhD in literature and publishing (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 2010). Over the last decade his poetry has been published in a range of Australian and international journals and anthologies, including Jacket, Meanjin, Southerly, slope (USA) and Best Australian Poetry 2003 (UQP). His debut poetry collection We Will Disappear was published by Soi3 (Papertiger Media) in August 2007, and was launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. Vagabond Press published his chapbook Morgenland, containing poems written in Korea and Japan, in the same year. David has been invited to appear at numerous Australian writers’ festivals including the National Young Writers Festival, Next Wave Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, Overload Poetry Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival.
David Prater - 28.03.2011 - 16:54
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Literature Across Frontiers
A European platform for literary exchange, a programme of initiatives and a network of partner organisations aiming to advance European cultural exchange in the field of literature and translation through multilateral cooperation encompassing policy research and analysis, publications, translator training and skills development, joint participation in international book fairs, literature festivals and other forums, organisation of larger-scale projects, as well as conferences, seminars and workshops.
Nia Davies - 28.03.2011 - 17:14
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University at Buffalo SUNY
A flagship institution in the State University of New York system, UB is the largest and most comprehensive campus in the 64-campus SUNY system. It is a member of the Association of American Universities.
Founded in 1846.
(Source: http://www.buffalo.edu/about_ub/ub_at_a_glance.html)
Maria Engberg - 28.03.2011 - 17:29
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University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Department of English
The UCSB Department of English is home to several research and teaching centers designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and provide a new model for organizing English departments. One center, the Transcriptions Project, is linked to the department's Literature and the Culture of Information specialization and the University of California's Digital Culture's Project.
Maria Engberg - 31.03.2011 - 13:15
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A Subjective Chronology of Cybertext, Hypertext, and Electronic Writing
A timeline of events and publications relating to creative work in hypertext and new media, admittedly subjective, but providing a view of the field as seen by one of the pioneers in the field of electronic literature.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.04.2011 - 20:27
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Uncle Roger
In the spring of 1986, Judy Malloy was invited by video and performance art curator Carl Loeffler to go online and write on the seminal Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN) on The WELL where ACEN Datanet, an early online publication, would soon feature actual works of art, including works by John Cage, Jim Rosenberg, and Malloy's Uncle Roger. In August 1986, Malloy began writing and designing the interface for the hyperfictional narrative database, Uncle Roger. Originally this work was published as a series of three files on the Well. It has been described as a "database narrative", though it could equally be described as a hypertext fiction. Each node consists of a paragraph or two of text. Below the text is a list of links, each leading to a new node. Malloy describes the story thus: "Uncle Roger is a work of narrative poetry written in the tradition of Greek and Shakespearean comedy.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.04.2011 - 20:31