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1. Notes on Conceptualisms

   What is conceptual writing, how does it differ from Conceptual Art, what are some of the dominant forms of conceptualism,where does an impure or hybrid conceptualism fit in, what about the baroque, what about the prosody of procedure, what are the links between appropriation and conceptual writing, how does conceptual writing rely on a new way of reading, a “thinkership” that can shift the focus away from the text and onto the concept, what is the relationship between conceptual writing and technology or information culture, and why has this tendency taken hold in the poetry community now?

   What follows, then, is a collection of notes, aphorisms, quotes and inquiries on conceptual writing. We have co-authored this text through correspondence, shared reading interests, and similar explorations. Notes on Conceptualisms is far from a definitive text, and much closer to a primer, a purposefully incomplete starting place, where readers, hopefully, can enter so as to participate in the shaping of these ideas.

   (Source: Ugly Duckling Presse)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 21.03.2012 - 18:42

2. The Engagement Aesthetic: Experiencing New Media Art through Critique

   "The Engagement Aesthetic" details the first comprehensive overview of art practices that have, in recent years, been subjected to forms of mediation characterized as digital, electronic, new. Francisco J. Ricardo proposes an 'engagement aesthetic' as revealing certain commonalities in the practices of new media art and thus as providing a crucial critical framework. By examining specific works or instances of creation in multiple categories (performance + digital projection; kinetic sculpture + video; projection + text messaging, etc), Ricardo implements the use of phenomenology in order to understand the processes necessary to complete these emerging types of works. He first examines specific works through structural description, moving to analysis of individual viewer perspectives, and ends with critical questions about the place of this perceptual experience in current ideological and institutional contexts. Previous attempts at a comprehensive critical media aesthetics have been based on analyses that are unable to cope with art in which 'artist, viewer and process' are necessarily and actively engaged.

   Jörgen Schäfer - 22.11.2012 - 17:03

3. Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers

   From Guy Debord in the early 1950s, to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Debord and his friends tracked the urban ambiences of Paris to map the experience of walking at street level. Long trampled a path in the grass and snapped a picture of the result (A Line Made by Walking). Cardiff created sound walks in London, New York and San Francisco that sent the audience out walking. Mapping is a way for us to locate ourselves in the world, physically, culturally, or psychologically. Debord produced maps like collages that traced the “psychogeography” of Paris, while Polak and her team equipped nomadic Fulani herders in Nigeria and Cameroun (West Africa) with GPS devices and developed a robot to map their itineraries in the sand. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in walking as an art form. In Walking and Mapping, Karen O’Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists.

   Karen O'Rourke - 02.02.2013 - 20:34

4. Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of BRUTUS, a Storytelling Machine

   This text covers: setting the stage; the problem of imagery; the problem of consciousness; mathematizing betrayal; literary creativity and Church's Thesis; inside the mind of BRUTUS.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 11:37

5. A világháló metaforái

   A szerző széleskörűen mutatja be a művészet és a világháló kapcsolatát, igyekezvén egyensúlyban tartani e két terület összefonódásának pozitívumait és negatívumait egyaránt. Olvasmányos stílusa minden érdeklődőt kielégítően vezet be egy modern világba, s a világhálón megszületett „újszerű tudás” bemutatásával fontos térképe lehet mindazoknak, akik nem találják helyüket a mediatizált művészet útvesztőjében.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 00:28

6. Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines

   In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela examines a series of print and digital works by Johanna Drucker, Mark Z. Danielewski, Rui Torres, Jim Andrews, and others, for the insights they yield about the semiotic and interpretive actions through which readers produce meaning when interacting with codes. Analyzing these works as embodiments and simulations of the motions of reading, Portela pays particular attention to the ways in which awareness of eye movements and haptic interactions in both print and electronic media feeds back onto the material and semantic layers of the works. These feedbacks, he argues, sustain self-reflexive loops that link the body of the reader to the embodied work. Readers’ haptic actions and eye movements coinstantiate the object that they are reading.

   Alvaro Seica - 27.08.2013 - 15:55

7. (H)adas : mujeres que crean, programan, prosumen, teclean

   (h)adas is not a conventional essay and it does not only try to be about women and technology; (h)adas tries to find one’s own times and ways of domestication and emancipation that are deduced from daily life technologies, about its invisible power in appropriation and time management and expectations. It is a singular book, in which stories, research and autobiography cohabit and it has worth Remedios Zafra V Malaga Essay Prize “it has been written to revindicate the political power that accompanies this periphery , to make everything shared, to reflect upon the conditions in which repetition power of the world perform, some ways to battle against it from the critical consciousness and creation” (Translated by Maya Zalbidea) (Source: remedioszafra.net)

   Maya Zalbidea - 30.07.2014 - 11:43

8. Más allá del papel. El hilo digital de la ficción impresa.

   Ante el despunte de los medios digitales en una cultura transformada por el hipermedia, por la inmersión en los espacios virtuales y por los nuevos hábitos sociales de lectura, el universo de la ficción que se nos ha transmitido de forma impresa comienza a replantearse su contexto pasado para hallar un espacio en el futuro. Este libro busca respuestas a una cuestión clave cuando hablamos de digitalización de obras de ficción previamente impresas: ¿es posible trasladar y de qué manera la memoria cultural del libro impreso a una memoria virtual caracterizada por el hipertexto, la inmersión audiovisual y la participación escrilectora?

   Maya Zalbidea - 04.08.2014 - 13:00

9. Failure, A Writer's Life

   Failure, A Writer’s Life is a catalogue of literary monstrosities. Its loosely organized vignettes and convolutes provide the intrepid reader with a philosophy for the unreadable, a consolation for the ignored, and a map for new literary worlds. "The unfinished, unreadable, unpublishable — the scribbled and illegible, the too slowly published, the countless unpublished, all that does not seem to count at all. . . . here lie all manner of ruins. From Marguerite Duras to Google Maps, Henri Bergson to H.P. Lovecraft, Orson Welles to Walter Benjamin to a host of literary ambulance drivers (not to mention the FBI, UFOs, and UbuWeb), _Failure, A Writer's Life_ charts empty spaces and occupied libraries, searches databases bereft of filters, files spam and porn and weather reports into their respective _konvoluts_, and realizes the full potential of cultural inscription. In a series of snapshots concatenated in the best surrealist mode, Milutis has curated a catalogue of curiosities as essential to understanding our current cultural condition as they are eccentric.

   Joe Milutis - 06.11.2014 - 10:23

10. Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture

    This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process- rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.

    (Source: Publisher's abstract)

    Scott Rettberg - 04.04.2017 - 12:32

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