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1. Some stylistic devices on media interface

   author-submitted abstract: In the past, the “innovations” of electronic poetry often have been circumscribed in rather general terms; today, it seems important to characterize its stylistic, semantic and pragmatic devices with more precision. The traditional “figures of speech” have sometimes been considered as capable of achieving this aim. By denominations like “animated metaphor”, I have tried for example in my book Matières textuelles sur support numérique to describe “phenomena of meaning” in electronic literature, when animation effects enter in meaningful relations with the contents of words or letters. It is however undoubtedly dangerous to use a terminology which have been forged to characterize textual phenomena, whereas the signs of electronic texts are often based on various semiotic systems. In a recent article for the review Protée (which I also presented during the e-poetry seminar in Paris), while describing what I would call “figures of speech on media surface”, I sometimes continue to use traditional taxonomies; in order to avoid too dangerous analogies, I try in other cases to invent a new terminology.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 16:57

2. Tag Clouds: Reading the Poetic Interface

   From the event´s website: In "Tag Clouds: Reading the Poetic Interface," Jeremy Douglass theorizes tag clouds: web reading interfaces formed from dense clusters 'clouds' of weighted keyword links, or 'tags'. The poetics of tag clouds are best understood when situated in a history of spatially distributed text art, from contemporary visualization and net.art (e.g. "TextArc," Legrady's "Making the Visible Invisible," Fischer's "Word News," Khan's "Net Worth," Jean V_(c)ronis' "-ogue") back through earlier typographic experiments (e.g. the concrete poetry of Augusto de Campos and the Vorticism of Wyndham Lewis). While interfaces have become emblamatic of the contemporary 'web 2.0' internet era, tag clouds have been fundamentally misunderstood in recent scholarship. Both the close association of tag clouds with 'folksonomy' website communities (e.g. del.icio.us, Flickr) and the popularity of the misleading term 'cloud' have created a stereotype of tag clouds as reflecting a kind of aesthetics of prolific chaos.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 05.05.2011 - 18:18

3. The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print

   The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print: Material Strategies for Innovative Fiction in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland 

   Patricia Tomaszek - 06.05.2011 - 14:51

4. Dissonance in Multi-Semiotic Landscapes in the Work Of Donna Leishman

   I come to the field of digital literature from the position of a visual artist. My formative training in illustration grounded an interest in sequential art and literary themes. My work draws on literary subject matters, contains chronological cause and effect, and strongly features protagonists. I am a thematic recycler similar to that described by H. Wozniak (2008) a re-framer of often folkloric motifs - with an aim to renew, revitalises, or debunk, the pre-existing content. Visuality, the auteur interface, and folk narratives are fundamental features in the communication of my aesthetic. How then these aspects function and their importance in terms creating a meta dissonance will be detailed and discussed in the paper, with reference to how such an approach sits within the context of interactive literary art.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.08.2011 - 15:59

5. Seven Types of Interface in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume Two

   Seven Types of Interface in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume Two

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 10:16

6. The Effects of Software on the Digital Creative Process

   The Effects of Software on the Digital Creative Process

   Scott Rettberg - 06.10.2011 - 14:09

7. Third Hand Plays: "Scrape Scraperteeth" by Jason Nelson

   Third Hand Plays: "Scrape Scraperteeth" by Jason Nelson

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.10.2011 - 10:27

8. Riddles of the Interface: Hieroglyphic Consciousness and New Experimental Multimedia

   A discussion of Reginald Woolery's CDROM World Wide Web/Million Man March (1997) and other experimental CDROMs in the context of modernist ideas of the hieroglyph, interface aesthetics, and afrofuturism.

   Joe Milutis - 21.01.2012 - 17:04

9. Interface Criticism : Aesthetics Beyond Buttons.

   Interface Criticism : Aesthetics Beyond Buttons.

   Søren Pold - 12.06.2012 - 13:45

10. Cyborg Tactics and Perilous Hermeneutics in Lexia to Perplexia Shifts in materiality across space.

    Cyborg Tactics and Perilous Hermeneutics in Lexia to Perplexia Shifts in materiality across space¬—from monitor to cell phone screen, from private bedroom to public bus—alter experience and sway meaning. But time also entails an expectation of change that sometimes never comes: works of electronic literature often go without the steady updates to security, appearance, and functionality that corporate software enjoys, turning into strange ruins that, if not broken, carry that possibility. Eight years after the publication of Katherine Hayles’s Writing Machines, my paper returns to one of the book’s case studies, Talan Memmott’s Lexia to Perplexia, with the goal of investigating the effects of the passing years on the hermeneutics instilled in the user by the text. Focusing on the instability that time and software evolutions have sown, I argue that in this uncertain environment, the recourse of the user is a heightened emphasis on investigation, experimentation, and attempted recovery. With these motivations in mind, I turn to various palimpsests in the text, features of Lexia that straddle the divide between the literary technique and the glitch.

    Audun Andreassen - 20.03.2013 - 09:24

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