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1. The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature

   According to the French author and theoretician Jean-Pierre Balpe, “all digital art works are first conceived outside the framework of a pragmatic relation to materiality. Any manifestation of digital art is but a simulated moment of an absent matter.”

   However, I wish to show that there is at least as much materiality in the digital media as in other media. Of course, as a formal description, digital and material can be distinguished. Digital media correspond to formalization, insofar as formalization is understood as the modelling of a given reality through the use of a formal code. But because digital media refers to the effectiveness of digital calculation, it can be considered as “material”, at least on two levels:

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 15:39

2. Electronic Literature Without a Map

   The paper discusses several problems that seem to define and determine the field of electronic literature in theory and practice and suggests several strategies to remedy the situation in the spirit that is both analytical and polemical.

   Electronic literature has been around at least for 50 years and many of its typical ergodic ingredients share a cultural (pre)history that reaches back to classical antiquity and beyond (I Ching). Still, the cultural, economical, educational and even literary status and visibility of electronic literature is low and obscure at best despite occasional canonisations of hypertext fiction and poetry (the works of Michael Joyce and Jim Rosenberg), literary groups such as the OuLiPo that from very early on extended their orientation beyond print literature, and the efforts of an international or semi-international organisation (ELO) to promote and preserve electronic literature - not to mention multiple and more or less influential and comprehensive theories of electronic and ergodic literature.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 16:03

3. Electronic Literature: Where Is It?

    Countering Andrew Gallix's suggestion in a Guardian blog essay, "Is e-literature just one big anti-climax," that electronic literature is finished, Dene Grigar proposes that it may not be e-lit, but rather the institution of humanities teaching, that is in a state of crisis. And e-lit, she proposes, could be well placed to revive the teaching of literature in schools and universities.The title of Grigar's essay was adapted by the Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Conference Planning Committee in its call for proposals.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.02.2011 - 17:01

4. Rencontre: An Experimental Tool for Digital Literature

   For several years, the Paragraph Laboratory, University of Paris 8, has explored new avenues in the field of digital art and literature. In that context, a project is currently ongoing in this lab, in collaboration with the University of Technology of Compiegne and the University of Geneva, supported by the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord. The goal of this project is to design a computer tool for the writing of nonlinear fictions for interactive media and to investigate its impact on both the writing and reading processes.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.03.2011 - 16:33

5. Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing

   Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.03.2011 - 13:58

6. Elektronisk litteratur i Norden

   Artiklen giver en oversigt over elektronisk litteratur i Norden ved at identificere dens vigtigste karaktertræk og se på, hvorledes disse afspejler udviklingen i den internationale elektroniske litteratur. Man får tillige karakteristikker og analyser af værker, som har haft markant betydning for denne litterære tradition i Norden, for eksempel Karl Erik Tallmo’s Iakttagarens förmåga att ingripa, Anne Bang-Steinsvik’s I mellom tiden og Sonja Thomsen’s Ingen elge på vejen den dag.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 14:19

7. The Present [Future] of Electronic Literature

   The Present [Future] of Electronic Literature

   Dene Grigar - 06.10.2011 - 07:00

8. Exploiting Kairos in Electronic Literature: A Rhetorical Analysis

   The purpose of this study is to expand on Wayne Booth's work in the Rhetoic of Fiction regarding methods directing readers toward understanding in fiction to include the possibilities for pursuation avaiable in electronic mediums. The story theorizes the the answers to the following: How are writers in electronic spaces appropirating, expanding, and subverting electronic devices honed in print? How has the kairos, or situational context, of electronic spaces been exploited? What new rhetorical devices are being developed in electronic spaces? What does the dialogue between print-based and electronic-based works offers to rhetorical scholars in terms of rhetorical analysis and composition? 

   Kristina Gulvik Nilsen - 18.10.2011 - 21:28

9. Digitale Medien in der Erlebnisgesellschaft. Kunst, Kultur, Utopien

   Untersucht werden die gesellschaftlichen und ästhetischen Auswirkungen kultureller Phänomene digitaler Medien. Den Schwerpunkt bilden ausführliche Fallstudien künstlerischer und kultureller Phänomene wie Newsgroups, Computergames, Weblogs, interaktive Installationen oder Online-Kunst, die jeweils in einen größeren intermedialen Zusammenhang gestellt werden.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 14.02.2012 - 23:57

10. Rezension: Digitale Medien in der Erlebnisgesellschaft. Kunst, Kultur, Utopien

    The increasing presence of digital media forms our new understanding of community and calls for a closer examination of the culture of networks we are participating in. A central point of interest concerning our culture becomes the convergance of Arts, Entertainment, and Digital Interactive Media Technologies. These change the way we perceive arts, daily news or have an impact on how we communicate with each other. In his new book, Roberto Simanowski refers to Gerhard Schulze's socio-logical theory of the Event Society (Erlebnisgesellschaft, 1992), observing that nowadays social events ostensibly take place on the Internet. Along with discussions on the politics of the World Wide Web and its participatory values, Simanowski focuses on the significance of digital media in artistic practices. He considers interactive art as a key to the understanding of the event society. Choosing a hermeneutic approach to analyse "processing signs" in arts, Simanowski defends participatory art against Adorno's notion of distraction. The author prooves, in a number of case studies, that interactive art calls for both immersion and cognitive reflection.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 15.02.2012 - 00:09

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