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1. “Coat and Uncoat!”: The My Book of GHcoats Project and Implications for Conceptual Writing

   Using the internet and social media for that matter to create literature is a relatively new and burgeoning phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa, complementing more common uses such as political activism, economic opportunity and social networking. In November 2013, some Ghanaians on Facebook started a trend where fictional quotes were intentionally misattributed to famous people. This humorous trend went viral as many users created variations while others also shared and commented on these posts. The project evolved through multiple stages and eventually ended in the publication of an e-book entitled My Book of GHcoats which contained submissions from many Facebook users. The nature of the evolution thus positions My Book of GHcoats in the realm of conceptual writing.
   

   Alvaro Seica - 19.06.2014 - 16:24

2. Everything Is Going To Be OK :)

   Teenage heartache has become a public commodity. On social media, young people now broadcast the most intimate moments of their lives to a global audience. Context collapse has replaced the small, specific audiences we once opened our hearts to with a vast, undifferentiated swarm of humanity. Falling in and out of love, breaking up and reconciling, seeking solace or revenge – all are enacted in the midst of the data stream. Everything Is Going To Be OK :) explores this new, performative model for love and loss that is emerging in networked environments. Deploying what might be described as a “poetics of search”, the artwork sources relevant tweets from Twitter in real-time, performs string manipulation and anonymizes them, then assembles the fragments into a three-act dialogue that is projected onto the installation space. What results is an emergent narrative that reflects the new modes of online interaction unique to millennials – but also the timeless tropes, customs, dreams and anxieties experienced by every generation.

   Marius Ulvund - 29.01.2015 - 15:43

3. Douglas Rushkoff's New Book

   Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, quit Facebook in 2013 because “it does things on our behalf when we’re not even there. It actively misrepresents us to our friends, and worse misrepresents those who have befriended us to still others.” Using MySocialBook – an online platform that allows to print books from both personal Facebook profiles and the ones of friends and pages – I made a book out of the fan page that Rushkoff abandoned in 2013, selecting the period of time in which he was actively using it. (Source: http://silviolorusso.com/douglas-rushkoffs-new-book/ )

   Magnus Lindstrøm - 12.02.2015 - 14:02

4. Pedestrionics: Meme Culture, Alienation Capital, and Gestic Play

   This presentation considers the rhetoric and poetics of meme culture and social media
   platforms.

   Internet memes, in their essence, are methods of expression born from the attention
   economy of networked culture. At times they can be epistolary, aphoristic, polemic,
   satirical, or parodic; and they may take the form of performative actions and photo fads
   such as planking, teapotting and batmanning or iterative processes such as image macros
   and advice animals including lolcats, Bad Luck Brian and Condescending Wonka. In either
   case they are conditioned by rhetorical formulas with strict grammars and styles.
   In the case of image macros, the rhetoric is sustained through correlations between the
   image and its caption. If we line-up the thousands of Condescending Wonka memes side
   by side, we will find very little difference between them aesthetically – the same image is
   repeated, along with captions at the top and bottom of the image. In the captions we find
   a specific tone that is also repeated one image to the next.

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 12.02.2015 - 15:12

5. Archiving Ephemera – The Case of Netprov; Graphic Design in Re-Presenting Electronic Literature

   How will electronic literature look 100 years from now? This question is two-fold: 1) How will literary projects of 2014 that are written/performed in social media and short-lived web platforms greet the eyes of future readers? 2) what will theelectronic literature in current use by the people of the future look like to them?
   In this talk I will focus on consideration of the first question and speculate briefly on some clues about the second.
   “You should make it look as much like Twitter as possible!” I have already heard this admonition several times in the course of beginning to create archives for some 2013 netprov projects — Center for Twitzease Control, Tournament of la Poéstry, SpeidiShow. As a graphic designer something makes me uneasy about this. Why? Because Twitter’s graphic designers are . . . how to say this diplomatically? . . . doing their best under a lot of pressure. From a historicalgraphic design point of view, the look of those hugely popular digital applications is adequate, but definitely not optimum, not nearly as aesthetically or functionally strong as it could be.
   

   Elias Mikkelsen - 12.03.2015 - 15:07