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New Media in the Academy: Labor and the Production of Knowledge in Scholarly Multimedia
Despite a general interest in exploring the possibilities of multimedia and web-based research, the humanities profession has been slow to accept digital scholarship as a valid form of intellectual endeavor. Questions about labor, peer-review, and co-authorship often arise in academic departments’ attempts to evaluate digital research in the tenure and promotion process. In this essay, we argue that these tensions stem from a general misunderstanding of the kinds of "work" that goes into producing scholarship in multimedia form. Multimedia work, we suggest, places scholars in an extended network that combines minds, bodies, machines, and institutional practices, and lays bare the fiction that scholars are disembodied intellectuals who labor only with the mind. We argue that while traditional ideas of what "counts" as scholarship continue to privilege content over form, intellectual labor over physical labor, and print over digital media, new media’s functional (and in some cases even biological) difference from old media contributes to a double erasure, for scholars working in multimedia, of both their intellectual contributions and their material labor.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.09.2011 - 08:31
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Early Authors of E-Literature, Platforms of the Past
A detailed discussion of the exhibit “Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions” (now installed at the University of Washington). Grigar looks specifically at the major technological shifts in affordances and constraints provided by early computer interfaces and the ways in which e-literature writers from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s worked with and against these interfaces. For example, she discusses the command-line interface of the Apple IIe – which was released in 1983 – as an example of an interface that exemplifies an ideology wholly different from the now dominant Graphic User Interface. Thus, the command-line interface also makes possible entirely different texts and entirely different modes of thinking/creating such as that exemplified by bp Nichols' “First Screening” from 1984.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 09:19
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Strange Rain and the Poetics of Motion and Touch
Mark Sample provides a close-reading of one work that takes advantage of the “interface free” multitouch display: released in the last year, “Strange Rain” is an experiment in digital storytelling for Apple iOS devices (the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad) designed by new media artist Erik Loyer.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 09:56
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Visionary Landscapes: Literature on the Edge of Time and Space
Introduction to a special issue of Hyperrhiz presenting a collection of essays, artist papers, reviews, and literary works from the Electronic Literature Organization's (ELO) 2008 conference held at Washington State University Vancouver, in Vancouver, Washington [livinginswwashington.net], from May 29 to June 2, which was hosted by Dene Grigar and John Barber.
Dene Grigar - 06.10.2011 - 06:55
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Mutability, Medium and Character
Looking specifically at the genre of adaptive narrative, this article explores the future ofliterature created for and with computer technology, focusing primarily on the trope of mutability as it is played out with new media. Some of the questions asked are: What can the medium of a work of literature, that is its material aspect, tell us about the text? About character? What can it possibly matter if narrative is recounted on papyrus, retold on parchment and rag, and then remediated in pixels? Isn’t it the message carried by the medium we are most concerned with, stable or unstable the process of inscription, reinscription, encoding and decoding, translation and remediation? This paper speculates about possibilities rather than attempts to answer these questions, but the structuring and mean-making components considered here stand as examples of some we may want to think about when developing future theories about literature – and all types of writing –generated by and for electronic environments.
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Dene Grigar - 06.10.2011 - 07:14
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E-LITERATURE E NEW MEDIA ART _ LJUBLJANA
A report on the Sept 2007 Electronic Literature and New Media Art seminar in Ljubljana, posted on Mouseland, Patricia Gouveia's weblog.
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 09:18
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Who's in Charge Here? A Response to Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl
Who's in Charge Here? A Response to Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 11:09
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The New River 4
The New River 4
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 11:36
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The New River 5
The New River 5
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 11:48
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The New River 6
The New River 6
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 12:09
