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Abandoned and Recycled Electronic Literature: Jean-Pierre Balpe’s La Disparition du Général Proust
his presentation addresses the fate of 1990s pioneering programs of electronic literature during the 2000s. What happened to 1990s electronic literature aesthetic theories and programs once its distribution shifted from floppy disks and CD-ROMs to the Internet? How did early authors of electronic literature revisit their work in light of the ubiquity of the Internet as a form of writing?
Hannah Ackermans - 16.11.2015 - 10:13
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Translating E-poetry: Still Avant-Garde
The American poetry critic Marjorie Perloff undertook the task of rendering a solid theoretical framework to understand the evolution of the art of poetry after Modernism. Furthermore, she traced the evolution of “Postmodern” poetry, analyzing the most radical experiments including the digital poetry of the present. Based on Perloff’s perspective, this paper will observe the evolution of translation as part of the poetics of the American poet Ezra Pound and Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos. Following its transformation as a writing strategy, they understood translation as a process adjacent to poetry, though the incorporation of translation as part of their own work would be observed as unethical for many critics. Therefore, Haroldo de Campos coined the term “Transcreation” in order to refer his translations as an original work. Interestingly enough, the paradigm for this sort of writing is the Irish writer James Joyce, whose controversial piece Finnegans Wake introduced not only linguistic but also metaphorical and historical translation.
Hannah Ackermans - 16.11.2015 - 10:46
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Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications
This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes a poetics appropriate to the digital era while connecting digital poetry to traditional poetry’s concerns with being (a.k.a. ontological implications). Digital poetry, in this context, is not simply a descendent of the book. Digital poems are not necessarily “poems” or written by “poets”; they are found in ads, conceptual art, interactive displays, performative projects, games, or apps. Poetic tools include algorithms, browsers, social media, and data. Code blossoms into poetic objects and poetic proto-organisms. Introducing the terms TAVs (Textual-Audio-Visuals) and TAVITS (Textual-Audio-Visual-Interactive), Aesthetic Animism theorizes a relation between scientific method and literary analysis; considers the temporal implications of animation software; and links software studies to creative writing. Above all it introduces many examples of digital poetry within a playful yet considered flexible taxonomy.
Alvaro Seica - 22.09.2016 - 15:10
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Collapsing Generation and Reception: Holes as Electronic Literary Impermanence
This essay discusses Holes, a ten syllable one-line-per-day work of digital poetry that is written by Graham Allen, and published by James O’Sullivan’s New Binary Press. The authors, through their involvement with the piece, explore how such iterative works challenge literary notions of fixity. Using Holes as representative of “organic” database literature, the play between electronic literature, origins, autobiography, and the edition are explored. A description of Holes is provided for the benefit of readers, before the literary consequences of such works are examined, using deconstruction as the critical framework. After the initial outline of the poem, the discussion is largely centred around Derrida’s deconstruction of “the centre”. Finally, the literary database as art is re-evaluated, drawing parallels between e-lit, the absence of the centre, and the idea of the “deconstructive poem”.
James O'Sullivan - 17.01.2017 - 22:13
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Combination and Copulation: Making Lots of Little Poems
Combination and Copulation: Making Lots of Little Poems
Scott Rettberg - 27.04.2018 - 14:20
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Love and Loss in Robert Kendall's "A Life Set for Two"
The sixth chapter in Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media (2018) about Robert Kendall's narrative poem, A Life Set for Two, contains Dene Grigar's essay, entitled "Love and Loss in Robert Kendall's A Life Set for Two.
The essay is descriptive and takes the reader through the story, like a "walkthrough". Throughout the text there is very detailed descriptions of how the different scenes look and what's happening in the scene, making it possible for the reader to imagine the setting the story takes place in. It also allows for more immersion. As the users of A Life Set For Two can interact with the work by clicking through different options along the story, Dene Grigar also explains what happens when clicking these as she progress through the story. Along with this the essay also provides general information about the production of the work, the essay also analyzes the poem from the perspective of the themes of love and loss.
Ewan Matthews - 06.06.2018 - 18:52
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The Posthuman Poetics of Instagram Poetry
Instagram poetry, a type of digital poetry is, as the name implies, poetry that is produced for distribution through the social media channel Instagram and most usually incorporates creative typography with bite size verses.
Instagram poetry can demonstrate the cultural impact of a posthuman cyborgian fluidity of borders and forms in that we essentially find ourselves left with anthropophagic texts - cannibalistic texts that remix, reuse and re-appropriate content. Digital texts can no longer be regarded as singular standalone objects rather they are constantly changing assemblages in which inequalities and inefficiencies in their operations drive them towards breakdown, disruption, innovation and change
sondre rong davik - 05.09.2018 - 14:54
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PhoneMe: A mobile phone-native genre of poetry for the social media age
This presentation regards to development of a place-based, geotagged, online mapping of an innovative, mobile phone-native, spoken word genre of poetry. The website www.phonemeproject.com hosts poems that are left as messages by calling 1-604-PHONEME (746-6363) and leaving your name, location of the call or topical location of the poem, title of the poem, and then recording a poem of up to four minutes in length. The poem is pinned on an interactive map that features a google street view image of the location, the MP3 audio file, and in some cases the text of the poem. Longer poems can serialized. The intent of this project is to give voice to community-based writing about real places and spaces within the community. As such, it began with a year of workshops conducted in the downtown east side of Vancouver, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in North America, in order that poets in the community to speak back to media representations of their neighbourhood. We have moved on to working with schools, providing workshops for hundreds of students in British Columbia, Canada.
Jana Jankovska - 05.09.2018 - 16:02
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Probing the gaps between datasets and interfaces in electronic literature
The contrast between the conceptual and material realities of data harvesting and of digital interfaces is a captivating subject matter I will tap into to make visible the physicality of the internet and to subvert destructive dominant, colonial narratives with respect to the natural environment and climate.
This intervention will use poetry and photography/video as electronic literature to shed light on the conceptual language used online (e.g., on social media, corporate websites, online magazines, etc.) to discuss datasets in relationship to digital interfaces. Furthermore, it will address an identifiable gap within this language, which can be viewed in the production of massive amounts of electronic waste.
Amirah Mahomed - 19.09.2018 - 14:53
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A Project Gutenberg Poetry Corpus
In this paper, I present the Gutenberg Poetry Corpus: a corpus of over three million lines of poetry (in annotated JSON format) automatically curated from Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, a collection of machine-readable texts in the public domain, was originally instigated in the early 1970s with a hand-typed copy of the US Declaration of Independence. More recently driven by the volunteer efforts of a decentralized group of proofreaders, Project Gutenberg now consists of more than 54,000 texts, mostly English- language literature from the 18th and 19th centuries. Researchers in the humanities and in computational linguistics have made use of Project Gutenberg for decades, and more recently its use in data-driven computational creativity has grown. I relay the methodology used to automatically filter and identify lines of poetry from the larger Gutenberg corpus, discuss the potential of this corpus for research and creative work, and then present a series of my own experiments that use this corpus as their primary source material.
Susanne Årflot Løtvedt - 26.09.2018 - 14:15
