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1. DIY: reinvent the world by reinventing the language (Interview with Florian Cramer)

   Florian Cramer's thought is justly (in)famous. From early provocative studies of combinatorial language's roots in antiquity and alchemy ("Words Made Flesh"), Cramer has segued into a concern with DIY culture.

   For Cramer, DIY is the natural extension of utopian renegades, social and cultural outliers whose play was not formal but utopian.

   Any renovation of language constitutes a renovation of cognition and subsequently culture itself; even as the possibility for everyone to publish through networked media questions the notion of the literary. Furthermore, 4chan image memes are digital poems, language transformed through practice with the aim of transforming practice.

   Consider yourself expanded.

   (Source: David Jhave Johnston, Vimeo)

   Scott Rettberg - 12.02.2013 - 13:20

2. Scott Rettberg: Interview by Simon Mills

   Scott Rettberg: Interview by Simon Mills

   Scott Rettberg - 08.07.2013 - 22:10

3. Entrevista a Pedro Barbosa

   Pedro Barbosa recalls in this interview his memories of the first studies and works of electronic literature back in the 1970s when he was a student at the University of Porto. Starting from considerations about his collaborative works he makes a comparison between printed literature tradition and the age of new media focusing on the paradigmatic change of this very transitional period with live in and the differences of the creative work. Furthermore he makes an interesting statement on regard of the aesthetics of new media by comparing works of electronic literature with the oral tradition. In the end he mentions some of the milestones of electronic literature that he considers important.

   Daniele Giampà - 22.03.2015 - 15:58