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1. Towards an Art of Rhetoric in Electronic Literary Works: The Figures of Manipulation

   On the basis of electronic literary works, we can identify specific rhetorical figures in interactive writing: the figures of manipulation. It is a category on its own, along with figures of diction, construction, meaning and thought. For example, the figure of appearance/disappearance (responding to an action of the reader) is as a key figure among the figures of manipulation.

   What is emphasized in such figures is the coupling action/behavior, which could be considered as a basic unit in interactive writing. This coupling can be conceived independently from the medias (text, image, video) it relies on. Thus, it seems relevant to have an a-media approach when defining an art of rhetoric in interactive writing.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 23:32

2. (R)Evolutionary Communication: Defining and Refining Digital Literature, Art and Storytelling

   As an educator as well as Director of Digital Media Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, my pedagogical and personal interests lie in how to use media to incorporate inter-disciplinary studies; to use sound, images as well as visual and narrative compositions to communicate multi-dimensional ideas, passions and concepts. In relation to this inter-disciplinary approach, I incorporate the concept of "mixing" to weave together space, design, technology, story-telling and critical discourse. One of the concepts I try to reinforce is that 'space' includes the psychological as well as the physical. In addition, I teach digital media students that "design" is the intentional approach to choreograph the experiential and that digital technology is a tool for exploring these ideas. Accepting this, I challenge the students to consider: how does the user/viewer experience and process the interaction between digital media and the "narrative" of the everyday? 

   Scott Rettberg - 09.01.2013 - 14:35

3. E-Poetry 2007 Paris Cellfone Documentary Extravaganza (Grand Text Auto)

   A trip report from E-Poetry 2007, featuring short video clips of performances shot on a cell phone.

   Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 12:26

4. The Exquisite Corpus: Issues in Electronic Literature

   A One Hour Video-Essay by Talan Memmott featuring interviews with 17 scholars and practitioners of electronic literature.

   Futures and Foci, Platforms and Politics, The Human Problem, Senses and Screens, Reading and Writing.

   Topics include:

   does electronic literature have a future?
   is google the end of of the world?
   what is in-between text and image?
   where is the author and what is a scholar?
   can there be a national e-literature?
   what is the attraction of touch technologies?
   what is the place of digital poetics in global politics?
   is it possible to conceal intent?

   Featuring: Mark Amerika, Simon Biggs, Serge Bouchardon, J. R. Carpenter, John Cayley, Cris Cheek, Maria Engberg, Jerome Fletcher, Maria Mencia, Nick Montfort, Jörg Piringer, Jill Walker Rettberg, Scott Rettberg, Alexandra Saemmer, Roberto Simanowski, Christine Wilks, Jaka Železnikar

   Talan Memmott - 17.10.2013 - 17:19

5. 'Roda Lume' by E. M. de Melo e Castro

   Roda Lume is a 2’ 43’’ videopoem, which was broadcast by the Rádio Televisão Portuguesa (RTP) in 1969 and subsequently destroyed by the station itself, and was reenacted by Melo e Castro from the original storyboard in 1986. The work is indeed surprising, as a poem that overlaps text, kinetic text, image, moving image and sound, anticipating and influencing various genres of digital hypermedia poetry mainly launched after the birth of the World Wide Web. It constructs a different notion of space-time, opening a “visual time” (Melo e Castro 1993: 238) of unfolding images and text that comprises a new reading perception.

   (Source: Author's text)

   Alvaro Seica - 07.04.2015 - 17:00