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Do the Domains of Literature and New Media Art Intersect? The Cases of Sonnetoid web projects by Vuk Ćosić and Teo Spiller
Franco Moretti's notion of “distant reading” as a complementary concept to the “close reading”, which emerged alongside the computer based analysis and manipulation of texts, finds its mirror image in a sort of “distant” production of literary works – of a specific kind, of course. The paper considers the field, where literature and new media creativity intersect. Is there such a thing as literariness in “new media objects” (Manovich)? Next, by focusing on the three web sites that generate texts resembling and referring to sonnet form the paper asks the question about the new media sonnet and, a more general one, about the new media poetry. A mere negative answer to the two questions doesn't suffice, because it only postpones the unavoidable answer to the questions posed by existing new media artworks and other communication systems. Teo Spiller's Spam.sonnets can be viewed as an innovative solution to the question, how to find a viable balance between the author's control over the text and the text's openness to the reader-user's intervention.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 11:59
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Comparative Analysis of the Cyberfeminist Hyperfiction and New Media Art work: Francesca da Rimini’s Dollspace
Comparative Analysis of the Cyberfeminist Hyperfiction and New Media Art work: Francesca da Rimini’s Dollspace
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 12:36
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Creative Communities: Nooks, Niches, and Networks
Creative Communities: Nooks, Niches, and Networks
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.09.2011 - 16:38
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Electronic literature or digital art? And where are all the challenging hypertextual novels?
Lack of new and challenging, interactive hypertextual fictions causes a continuously growing frustration among literary scholars like myself. While we are witnessing a growing and exciting field within digital poetry, and especially digital art as such, hypertextual fictions seem to have become part of and/or floating into interactive digital performance and installation artworks. Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s CAVE-work Screen and Camilla Utterback’s Text Rain are among digital artworks based on text and words. According to Roberto Simanowski in “Holopoetry, Biopoetry and Digital Literature” (2007), however, Utterback’s work in particular, must be seen as a work of digital art rather than literature, since its aim is not to be read but to be played with. So how much text, how many literary generic traits must a hypertextual fiction include to be called literature and not digital art?
Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.06.2012 - 11:10
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The Presumed Literariness of Digital
This presentation will challenge the current, too quickly determined relationship between
the ‘literary’ and digital media. The presumed literariness of digital art--these days, anything
from performance art to virtual sculpture work--muddles the already confused and meandering
genre of electronic literature, leading away from acts of reading and remarking on text and its location in new media. Electronic literature began as a study of literary writing produced and
meant to be read on a computer screen, opening up new possibilities for interactive and dynamic
storytelling, utilizing the new medium’s ability for linking lexias. The literariness of this work
is manifest: the work was primarily textual, the centrality of reading paramount. Textuality was
at the heart of the work, thus the term electronic literature was appropriate and uncontested.
Lately, ‘electronic literature’ is an umbrella-term for all things digital. A spectrum of genres
and forms are included, among them video games, interactive fiction, digital art, and (virtual)Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 14:41
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Of People Not Machines: Authorship, Copyright and the Computer Programmer
Authorship of computer programs merits close attention, on one level, because it illustrates what is one of my more general observations about the relationship between ideas of authorship in law and the "digital arts": its complexity. The sphere of "digital arts" is characterised by a multiplicity of creative practices and consequently a diversity of ideas about “authorship”, which resist simplistic conclusions as to what the challenge of the digital should mean for law. At the same time, the status of computer programmers as authors draws attention to what for modern lawyers is likely to be an unexpected and counter-intuitive observation about certain aspects of the relation between digital art and law: far from always a source of challenge, the discourses of authorship in the "digital arts" can also provide the law with assistance. Indeed, as we will see, in humanising technology and exalting the computer programmer as a creative poet, certain discourses of digital art can in fact provide coherence and legitimacy to legal concepts of authorship, rather than challenging them.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 14:08
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William Poundstone and the Aesthetics of Digital Literature
This paper will discuss the work of Los Angeles-based writer and digital artist William Poundstone. Poundstone, who makes his living writing books for a popular audience on subjects such as cryptography, philosophical and mathematical conundrums, economics and even a biography of Carl Sagan, has a growing, but still quite small, reputation as one of the most intellectually challenging, playful, and artistically distinctive web artists. His “New Digital Emblems” is probably his most ambitious work, and operates somewhere between a documentary about the history of visual and ludic writing—ranging across centuries and focusing most profoundly on the Renaissance emblem books—and an original artistic creation, as it includes several of his own “digital emblems.” Other works, such as “Project for Tachistoscope,” challenge our ways of reading as this narrative is presented as a mix of basic “Wing Dings”-style iconography and text, presented in synch one image/word combination at a time.
Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 12:53
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Machine Subjectivity, Politics and Digital Arts
Although human interaction with technological artifacts often involves treating them as if they are alive, the dominant discourse in our society portrays technology as the instrument of its human master. In the context of computing, our desire of absolute control over machines manifests itself both as the human computer interaction (HCI) community’s emphasis on “usability” and as popular culture’s apocalyptic imagination of the out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI) systems trying to eliminate humanity. It is revealing that, for instance, the word “robot” comes from “slave” in Czech. This paper examines the social and aesthetic limitations of this narrow instrumental view of technology. It proposes an alternative interaction model based on machine subjectivity, that is, constructing and perceiving computer systems as an independent entity in its own right.
Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 13:42
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For a New Mnemosyne: Art, Experience, and Technology
This paper will outline the key elements of an ongoing research project, whose main focus is to explore the application of new technology to the study of key works of modernism, whilst simultaneously arguing that modernism can itself offer fresh perspectives on contemporary digital art. I am interested in the way modernism presents the artwork as both an object to be experienced and as a structured theory of knowledge. This tension can be seen most obviously in such canonical works as Ezra Pound’s Cantos (1917-1969) where his aesthetic of the ‘luminous fragment’ is set against the poem’s larger, Dantescan, vision of history. Concomitantly, I wish to argue that the resources of digital technology offer a significant new set of tools for approaching modernism itself, allowing us to explore the boundary between the work of scholarship and work of art.
(Source: Abstract ICDMT 2016)
Hannah Ackermans - 08.12.2016 - 14:24
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Electronic Literature, or Whatever It’s Called Now: the Archive and the Field
The umbrella term ‘electronic literature’ arches broadly over a multitude of digital art forms, so long as they satisfy the criteria ‘electronic’, and ‘literature’. However, it is this paper’s primary contention that the extent of the term’s coverage is delimited by whatever has already been archived. Understandings of what constitute ‘literature’ and the ‘literary’ are manifold and include concepts of the letterary (also as in ‘belles lettres’), the poetic, the lyrical – but also, the canonical, and the institutional. This paper will argue that that which can now be pointed to by literary and digital humanities scholars, and called ‘electronic literature’, is in large part only recognisable because archivisation has been used in its regard as an instrument for institutionalisation and canon-creation. This body of work is also only findable because archivisation has preserved it, faced as it is with the constant threats of platform erosion, and obsolescence sooner rather than later. Archivisation is therefore both a problem of media, and a problem of selection.
Vian Rasheed - 12.11.2019 - 03:35
