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Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature

Electronic literature doesn't come on bound, offset-printed pages. Keeping it on a shelf doesn't mean that it will be easy, or even possible, to read it in the future. Even putting it into a vault with controlled temperature, light, and humidity won't ensure its availability. The new possibilities of electronic literature come from its being as much software as document, as much machine as text. For electronic literature to be readable, its mechanisms must continue to operate or must be replaced, since changes in the context of computing will complicate access to important works of literature on the computer. The context of computing includes operating systems, applications, the network environment, and interface hardware — and this context is constantly evolving. A piece of electronic literature written for a Macintosh in the 1980s may be unreadable on the Macs in a college computer lab today. But e-lit can become unreadable much more quickly, as an upgrade to the next version of the authoring or reading software introduces unexpected problems. Some approaches to creating e-lit are more likely than others to result in work that is preservable.

Scott Rettberg - 09.04.2011 - 16:03
Virtual Narrations: From the crisis of storytelling to new narration as mental potentiality

A discussion and overview of digital art that uses narrative, with a particular emphasis on the 1980s and 1990s.

Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 11:23
Medien Kunst Netz / Media Art Net

This is an extensive collection of information about media art work and critical texts about themes within and theories of media art, presented in German and English. It was created in collaboration between Goethe Institute and the Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe. This record refers to the web edition, but there were also two books published with the content. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/medien-kunst-netz/oclc/612178982&referer=b...)

Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 11:33