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  1. The Digital Poem against the Interface Free

    Recent e-literature by Judd Morrissey and Jason Nelson represents a broad movement in e-literature to draw attention to the move toward the so-called “interface free” – or, the interface that seeks to disappear altogether by becoming as “natural” as possible. It is against this troubling attempt to mask the workings of the interface and how it delimits creative production that Judd Morrissey creates “The Jew’s Daughter” – a work in which readers are invited to click on hyperlinks in the narrative text, links which do not lead anywhere so much as they unpredictably change some portion of the text. Likewise working against the clean and transparent interface of the Web, in “game, game, game and again game,” Jason Nelson’s hybrid poem-videogame self-consciously embraces a hand-drawn, hand-written interface while deliberately undoing videogame conventions through nonsensical mechanisms that ensure players never advance past level 121/2. As such, both Morrissey and Nelson intentionally incorporate interfaces that thwart readers’ access to the text so that they are forced to see how such interfaces are not natural so much as they define what and how we read and write.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 09:09

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Contrasts and Convergences of Electronic Literature

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    Presented at the 2012 MLA Convention as part of the panel "730. New Media Narratives and Old Prose Fiction," arranged by the MLA's Division on Prose Fiction. 

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 11:54

  5. Technologies That Describe: Data Visualization and Contemporary Fiction

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    Presented on Saturday, 7 January at the 2012 MLA Convention, panel 442, "New Media, New Pedagogies," arragned by the Division of Prose Fiction. Other panelists included John David Zuern, Jay Clayton, and the moderator, Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.01.2012 - 10:56