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1. 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

2. The (Problematic) Issue to Evaluate Literariness: Digital Literature Between Legitimation and Canonization

   The first experiments in digital literary forms started as early as
   the 1960s. From then, up to the mid-90’s, was a period that,
   according to Chris Funkhouser (2007), can be considered as
   a ‘laboratory’ phase. The rise of the Internet has resulted in the
   proliferation of creative proposals. The first involves indexing
   creative works in the form of databases, sometimes giving access
   to hundreds of works without any hierarchical order. Since 2000,
   digital literature has been experiencing a new phase, marked by
   the creation of anthologies. Over the years, the evaluation and
   selection criteria have proved to be as problematic as they are
   necessary for these projects. The main issue of this paper is to
   provide a critical discussion of these criteria.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:40