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1. Kind of Blue

   An email novel that forms a sequel to Rob Wittig's Blue Company, originally sent out in emails to a small group of readers over the course of the summer of 2002, and later published on the web as an archive of emails in August 2003 by frAme Journal of Culture and Technology.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:03

2. In Search of Oldton

   How does a town just disappear?

   What does it feel like to be cut off from your roots in a digital age where people have so many tools for recording and documenting their lives?

   How do those of us who grew up in a pre-digital age recover and maintain a sense of belonging that is becoming increasingly so hard to hold on to?

   'In Search of Oldton' is an attempt to use other people's digital documentary in order to recapture and re-invent my own personal history.

   Tim Wright will be touring the UK during 2004 in search of Oldton – his lost place of birth - and uncovering along the way the possible causes of its demise and the subsequent loss of his past.

   Working with groups and individuals Wright wants to build up a substantial online archive showing people taking their leave of a place or a person - a range of personal stories about ‘saying goodbye’ and ‘moving on’.

   Through texts, pictures, videos and oral testimony, he will build up a digital archive of fictional remembrances, tributes to numerous places and situations left behind.

   And ultimately (he hopes!) his own digital story of memory and loss will emerge.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 23:11

3. Soothcircuit

   Soothcircuit is a large-scale work of Web poetry that relies on interactive mechanisms inspired by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese oracle book. The work echoes the I Ching’s purpose of providing not so much glimpses into the future as insights into different situations. Each reader’s individual interaction with the work will produce a different combination of aphoristic stanzas. Each unique result can be approached as both a traditional poem and as a reflection upon the reader’s unique personal circumstances -- an oracular“analysis of the reader's current situation. If the reader addresses a question to the Soothcircuit, the reading can also be viewed as an (indirect) answer to the question.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 23:27

4. Would you let Mikhail Bakhtin smoke your text? : Dialogism and the Participative Rhetoric of Computer-mediated textual art

   In Stewart's presentation he will set out his theoretical understanding of computer-mediated textuality (an understanding that is derived from the dialogic philosophy of language described by Mikhail Bakhtin and others).

   In particular, he will report on how his research has identified a number of different rhetorical practices used by contemporary author-participants of computer-mediated textual art that focus on making readers actively aware of their participation in the work. He has classified these forms of rhetoric in the following ways:- 
   1. Active Participation of the Reader-Participant through Selection; 
   2. Active Participation of the Reader-Participant through Contribution; and
   3. Participation of the Reader-Participant by their Presence;

   Stewart will illustrate these three types of rhetoric, by drawing examples in the recent work of Simon Biggs, Talan Memmott, and Alan Sondheim, as well as from his own work 'gas' (developed at Textlab 2003).

   He will conclude by noting that a dialogic understanding of computer-mediated textuality flags up the significant cultural value of these works.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 23:52