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1. Humor — Technology — Gender, Digital Language Art and Diabolic Poetics

   This essay argues that the poetic turn from nothing to form art tends to “diabolic”
   strategies in present language allowing for a self-referential presentation of cultural distinctions.
   This poetic deconstruction of symbolic forms such as man/machine, male/female,
   or 0/1 is closely related to humor and gender in cultural and artistic performances.
   This shall be illustrated by discussing two examples of language art in the fi eld of digital
   electronics: the interactive installation Die Amme by Peter Dittmer and female extension, a
   subversive net art project by Cornelia Sollfrank. These projects are interpreted as gendered
   forms of the poetic as comic self-observation.

   Source: author's abstract

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 07.09.2012 - 07:35

2. The Challenge of Cybertext: Teaching Literature in the Digital World

   This article discusses the changing role of literature in the contemporary media landscape. Literary scholarship may well maintain its importance in the digitalizing world, but this requires it to engage in an open dialogue with cultural and media studies. It is important that more attention is paid to contemporary literature as well as to new media offering significant pedagogical possibilities, which should be better acknowledged. The article's main focus is on the emerging field of digital literature. Cybertextuality, especially, is fundamentally changing our notions of the integrity of a literary work, reading, writing and interpretation. I attempt to describe and put into context one sample case of cybertextuality, The Impermanence Agent by Noah Wardrip-Fruin et al. Finally, I discuss some of the practical problems faced by teachers who introduce digital literature in their classrooms.

   (Source: Author's abstract)

   Reprinted in Online Learning Vol 2: Digital Pedagogies (Sage, New York, 2011)

   Patricia Tomaszek - 09.10.2012 - 15:28

3. Generating Narrative Variation in Interactiv Fiction

   A general method for the generation of natural language narrative is described. It allows the expression, or narrative discourse, to vary independently of the underlying events and existents that are the narrative’s content. Specifically, this variation is accomplished in an interactive fiction (IF) system which replies to typed input by narrating what has happened in a simulated world. IF works have existed for about 30 years as forms of text-based computer simulation, instances of dialog systems, and examples of literary art. Theorists of narrative have carefully distinguished between the level of underlying content (corresponding to the simulated world in interactive fiction) and that of expression (corresponding to the textual exchange between computer arnd user) since the mid-1960s, when the field of narratology began to develop, but IF systems have not yet made use of this distinction. The current project contributes new techniques for automatic narration by building on work done in computational linguistics, specifically natural language generation, and in narratology.

   Scott Rettberg - 13.12.2012 - 20:01

4. Wiki Notes on International Electronic Literature from the 2007 ELO Symposium Panel on International Electronic LIterature

   Notes from the panelists on notable works of electronic literature produced outside the USA, with a focus on Spanish and Catalan, French/Canadian, and Nordic works.

   Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2013 - 16:22

5. E-Poetry 2007 Paris Cellfone Documentary Extravaganza (Grand Text Auto)

   A trip report from E-Poetry 2007, featuring short video clips of performances shot on a cell phone.

   Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 12:26

6. What Spam Means to Network Situationism

   In this essay we describe and theorize upon a spam data set hidden in the source code of HTML pages at the Bureau of Public Secrets, a website housing English translations of the Situationist manifestos and communiqués.

   We attempt to build upon a fruitful coincidence: what happens when internet interventionists, “code taggers” on a lucrative Spam mission, meet interventionists of the analog era, Situationist "wall taggers”? The textuality of both groups is aimed at reaching efficiency in a networked structure, be it socially or algorithmically coded; both engage a material and performative inscription so as to activate their discourse (i.e. to make it more efficient).

   We witness the action of a mode of writing modeled on graffiti and following the Situationist axiom: “Slogans To Be Spread Now By Every Means.” By focusing on the comparable gesture of verbal propagation (slogans and spam lexicon as social viruses) and the instructional performativity of these texts, we trace a set of theories based on the fiction that Spammers and Situationists have appropriated one another’s tactics.

   (Source: Authors' introduction)

   Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 21:06

7. We Have Not Understood Descartes

   Discussion of artist's own work, with contextualisation. Originally written in 1995.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 13:38

8. Fertile Synthesis: Emotion in Online Digital Poetry

   Computation and networking are changing language, the art of reading, and the act of writing. Multimedia digital poetry allows for the creation and simultaneous display of visual, sonic and textual patterns with unprecedented mobility and typographic capacities. This interdisciplinary form encourages an exploratory art-research practice-based investigation using a blend of theoretical knowledge ranging from literary criticism, phenomenology, aesthetics, affective computation and neurological research. In contrast to software-centric theory and/or materiality analysis, this thesis argues for the continuing relevance of the lyric, expressive affect and aesthetics in contemporary digital poetics. It examines the evolution of digital poetry with a specific emphasis on online poetry. In the context of this thesis, poetry is considered to be an ancestor of computer code. Poetry is also considered as information visualization of emotions. Emotions are considered to be complex embodied patterns; poetry expresses those patterns in language.

   Source: Author's Abstract

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.09.2013 - 12:47

9. Popular Prosody: Spectacle and the Politics of Victorian Versification

   Paper discussing John Clark's Latin Verse Machine (1843) and the effect of this kind of technology on popular understandings of prosody.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 13:52

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