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Alessandro Zinna
Alexander Zinna is professor of semiotics at the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail. He was a researcher in the laboratory directed by Algirdas Julien Greimas at the EHESS in Paris and took his PhD at the University of Bologna with Umberto Eco as director. His field of research ranges from the semiotics of texts and objects to new technologies. Among his publications - Elementi di Semiotica generativa (in collaboration with Francesco Marsciani) and Le interfacce degli oggetti di scrittura: Teoria del linguaggio e ipertesti.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:03
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Patricia Tomaszek
She completed her M.A. in Literature, Culture and Media at the University of Siegen in Germany (2008), participated in a study abroad at Brown University supported by the "Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst" ('German Academic Exchange Service') in 2007, and assists the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) in a project on archiving electronic literature since 2007, which also includes work within the ELO's "Consortium on Electronic Literature" (CELL). From 2006 to 2010, Patricia worked as an academic assistant in the research group "Literature in Nets. Net Literature" at the Cultural Studies Center "Media Upheavals" based at the University of Siegen in Germany. Both her BA and MA-thesis were devoted to e-learning and electronic literature.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:13
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German Net Literature: In the Exile of Invisibility
German net literature had an early and very public start through competitions organized in 1996-8 by the major newspaper Die Zeit and IBM, but was declared dead or stillborn immediately afterwards. Consequently, net literature became a subject of controversy between artists, theorists, and literary critics from which not only a strong community evolved but also a literary system. In this system, competitions served as public, peer-reviewed mediators for net literature and became an important feature of “post-processing.” Since the end of the 90s however, German net literature became slowly invisible. The lack of public awareness of net literature is common to many countries. Post-processing is a key for public visibility and according to Siegfried J. Schmidt et al. an important component in a literary system. In search of reasons for the state of invisibility of German net literature, I analyze mechanisms of post-processing in our community, which I regard as a literary system. This descriptive synopsis is the first paper in an upcoming series that opens up questions towards the role of peer-review, public reception, and artists' community-building.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:15
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Rui Torres
Rui Torres holds a Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Literature (UNC -Chapel Hill, USA, 2002), was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (COS - PUC-SP, Brazil, 2005-07), and has Habilitation in Information Sciences - Multimedia Studies (UFP, Porto, 2013).
Professor of Communication Sciences at University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), teaching seminars for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in semiotics, literature and hypermedia. Visiting Professor in M.A. programmes of the NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Santiago de Compostela and Granada (Spain), UNAM (Mexico) and University of Tallinn (Estonia). Lecturer in the Erasmus Intensive Program in European Digital Literatures at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain).
Director of the book series Cibertextualidades (UFP Press) and co-editor of the Electronic Literature Series (Bloomsbury Publishing). Member of several editorial boards and scientific committees of academic Journals and Conferences.
Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors of the ELO-Electronic Literature Organization.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:16
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Eduardo Kac
Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac emerged in the early '90s with his radical works combining telerobotics and living organisms. His visionary integration of robotics, biology and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world. His work deals with issues that range from the mythopoetics of online experience (Uirapuru) to the cultural impact of biotechnology (Genesis); from the changing condition of memory in the digital age (Time Capsule) to distributed collective agency (Teleporting an Unknown State); from the problematic notion of the "exotic" (Rara Avis) to the creation of life and evolution (GFP Bunny).
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:24
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The ELMCIP Knowledge Base and the Formation of an International Field of Literary Scholarship and Practice
The paper provides an introduction to the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) collaborative research project ELMCIP: Developing a network-based creative community: Electronic Literature as a model of creativity and innovation in practice, and in particular details the Knowledge Base component of the project. The Knowledge Base is a new platform for developing and sharing bibliographic records about works, critical writing, events, publishers, organizations, and authors in the field of electronic literature, with a particular emphasis on the European context. The paper further introduces the collaborative activity of CELL: an international Consortium for Electronic Literature organized by the Electronic Literature Organization.
Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2011 - 20:04
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For over a hundred years, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.
Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 14:56
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Peter Lang
Peter Lang - International Academic Publishers publish a diverse range of academic books, from monographs to student textbooks. Their main offices are located in Bern, Brussels, Frankfurt, New York and Oxford.
Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 15:44
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Editorial Process and the Idea of Genre in Electronic Literature in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1
The article focuses on two subjects: the process of editing the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (2006), and the idea of genre in electronic literature. The author was one of four editors of the first volume of the Collection, along with N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, and Stephanie Strickland. The Collection, which will be published on a regular basis, is intended to distribute contemporary electronic literature to a wider audience, and to provide a contextual and bibliographic apparatus to make electronic literature more accessible to audiences and educators. In the past decades, the forms of literary artifacts described as electronic literature have diversified to the extent that it is difficult to continue describe them using traditional terms of literary genre. The essay addresses some of the problems involved in classifying digital artifacts by genre, and suggests some avenues of addressing these epistemological challenges. The essay calls for a contextual understanding of works of electronic literature, based both on their nature as procedural artifacts and on their position within a historical continuum of avant-garde practices.
Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 15:49
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Jason Nelson
An Oklahoma native, Nelson teaches and researches Net Art and Electronic Literature at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He exhibits widely in galleries and journals, with work featured around the globe in New York, Mexico, Taiwan, Spain, Singapore and Brazil, at FILE, ACM, LEA, ISEA, ACM, ELO and elsewhere.
Patricia Tomaszek - 13.01.2011 - 17:02
