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1. Hyperrhiz 11: Netprov

   Special issue of Hyperrhiz including a special focus on "Netprov" -- collaborative networked-based imporovisational performance writing -- and showcasing works of electronic literature.

   Scott Rettberg - 14.02.2015 - 18:44

2. A Handmade Web

   I made my first web-based art work in 1995. It’s still online, it still works. The internet has changed a lot since then, but the DIY aesthetics and practices of that era have by no means disappeared. In today’s highly commercialised web of proprietary applications, Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG editors, and digital publishers, it becomes an increasingly radical act to hand-code and self-publish experimental web art and writing projects. Drawing upon Olia Lialina’s essay “A Vernacular Web” (2010), this paper makes correlations between the early ‘amateur’ web and today’s maker and open source movements. Examples of the persistence of Web 1.0 are presented, from the massive Ubu Web site which its founder boasts, ‘is still hand-coded in html 1.0 in bbedit, from templates made in 1996,’ to the tiny anti-social network TILDE.CLUB, where small experimental websites are hosted on one ‘totally standard unix computer.’ In addition to the slow writing of the web through hand coding, the practice of appropriating existing source code is discussed in relation to Nick Montfort’s Taroko Gorge (2008), which has been remixed dozens of times.

   J. R. Carpenter - 10.05.2015 - 12:21

3. Once Upon a Tide: An Introductory Essay

   Not quite a short story, not quite a stage play, ‘Once upon a Tide’ is just one of those moments in literature when time … stands … still. When plot advances by simply refusing to budge. One of those waiting times, slack tides, great hollows within which heat intensifies, cold deepens, night thickens, fevers rage, or the sun continues its relentless blaze. Tension builds, and still nothing happens; neither the sight of a sail on the horizon nor the slightest breath of wind. It is within these long stillnesses that sailors’ yarns unravel. In Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), the entirety of Marlow’s tale is recounted in one evening whilst sitting utterly still on the deck of a ship moored on the Thames. In the pitch dark and the heavy night air of the river, the narrator strains to discern meaning: ‘I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips…’.

   J. R. Carpenter - 24.06.2015 - 11:36

4. Entrevista a André Vallias

   Entrevista a André Vallias

   Daniele Giampà - 01.07.2015 - 21:39

5. Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature

   Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature

   Dene Grigar - 19.07.2015 - 23:34

6. Guardians of the Gutenberg Galaxy: a Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries

   The primary aim of this paper is to identify some of the key structural elements of resistances to digital poetries, and emergent forms of resistance to digital poetries, exhibited in data collected from publishers associated with page-based poetry (Bohn) in Britain. This will start with analyses of interview texts from a spectrum of UK poetry publishers (collected as part of the first half of my PhD studies) with a particular attention paid to those newly developed modes of resistance to the digital, and the structure of organised and disorganised resistances. A guiding principle is that analysis of resistances, cultural hostility, and the negative spectrum of taste is often as revealing as that of the positive (Bourdieu). The relationship between these resistances and other statements of taste will be interrogated, their motives interpreted. These analyses will be used as a launchpad to raise wider questions about cultural authority, distinction and guardianship.

   David Devanny - 04.08.2015 - 11:50

7. Towards Minor Literary Forms: Digital Literature and the Art of Failure

   This essay was presented as the keynote talk at the 2014 Electronic Literature Organization conference in Milwaukee, WI. In this keynote, Illya Szilak highlights the power of “minor forms” in digital literature. Through a wide-ranging survey of works, Szilak identifies the tendency for “failure” in electronic literature as its most powerful feature: its capacity to deterritorialize the parameters of discourse and expand the potential of subjectivity in the process.

   J. R. Carpenter - 15.08.2015 - 12:34

8. Shuffling the Sjuzhet in Marc Saporta's Composition No. 1

   Marc Saporta's Composition No. 1 is an unbound novel that can be read in any order. This essay explores how the novel's indeterminate nature affects the sjuzhet and fabula. It finds that the fabula works in an essentially normal way, but priority is shifted from the reader-determined sjuzhet to the (perceived) author-determined fabula, which shows that readers privilege the author's intention over their own activity and order.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.08.2015 - 10:37

9. Networks of Creativity: Electronic Literature Communities

   This introduction to Electronic Literature Communities gives an overview of the ELMCIP project, listing numerous academic publications and events affiliated with this project.

   Hannah Ackermans - 26.08.2015 - 15:27

10. Amateurs online: Creativity in a Community

    Amateurs online: Creativity in a Community

    Hannah Ackermans - 26.08.2015 - 16:56

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