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1. At the Time of Writing: Digital Media, Gesture and Handwriting

   This paper examines the way literary practice in digital media illuminates traditional literary processes that otherwise remain unremarked, and conversely, what the literary concept of ‘address’ might contribute to an understanding of the way digital media are reinventing literary agency. It explores handwriting as an embodied praxis linking thought with corporeality through the medium of gesture, and its transformations in text-based new media art. Handwriting (and especially signatures) has long been thought to make personality traits manifest. Its expressive gestural and kinematic aspect can be illuminated by Werner’s theory of physiognomic perception in which two-dimensional diagrams are shown as consistently corresponding to and eliciting a small number of categorical affects (happy, sad, angry) in viewers. Diane Gromala’s ‘Biomorphic Typography’ (2000 onwards) in which the user’s keystrokes generate biofeedback input which combines with the behaviours assigned to typography to animate text in the present time of writing draws on these conventions and complicates them in the process.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 15:32

2. ELiterature Formalization and Pedagogical Implications

   This paper deals with the eLiterature formalization and its pedagogical implications. Firstly, it considers the pressing need of an official formalization of Electronic Literature. Secondly, it provides a proposal for the appropriate pedagogical theory and methodologies necessary to take advantage of the possibilities offered by New Media Writing in educational contexts. Finally, it offers some examples of possible pedagogical practices which adopt Digital Literature.

   Scott Rettberg - 06.10.2011 - 15:59

3. Productions of Presence: Sensing Electronic Literature

   Using the virtual reality work Screen by Noah Wardrip-Fruin (designed for Brown University’s CAVE) as a tutor-text, the paper addresses cave rhetoric as it relates to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s concept of production of presence. One generalization to be made about CAVE pieces is that they foster a tactile impulse, despite the fact that tangibility in VR is unachievable. As he dissects “the gravity of the leaf” in his eponymous 2010 essay, John Cayley speaks of a new phenomenology of language, one wherein floating textual strings would not constitute acts of remediation proper but rather frame new instances of mediation (CAYLEY, 2010). Inasmuch as it re-introduces embodied text as both dislodged symbolic inscription and virtual obstacle – though lacking a third dimension, text becomes perceivable in space as solid matter –, then one might argue that the CAVE rehabilitates and multiplies the paradoxes with which literary criticism has had to grapple in the past with the advent of Concrete poetics.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2012 - 11:24

4. Ocotillo

   This is an artist's talk about "Ocotillo." It is a textual and visual work. The basic idea is to read from generated arrangements of textual strings, performing real-time versions of poetic works. These are not generator works but deliberate modifications within textual fields, a continuing stage in the evolution of this particular, and literary rooted form of practice. The objective of this creative work is to push these kinds of concentrated poetic textuality further, offering it as one possible direction in the field. (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2012 - 11:27

5. The End of E-Lit

   Presented at the panel Presence, Gesture, Event.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2012 - 11:31

6. Jim Andrews on Aleph Null

   Jim Andrews on Aleph Null

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2012 - 11:39

7. Aleph Null as Tool, Thought Process, and Poetics

   Aleph Null as Tool, Thought Process, and Poetics

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2012 - 11:41

8. Writing the Web with RiTa and Javascript

   This workshop presented a hands-on introduction to the RiTa.js toolkit
   It is a toolkit for digital literature designed to work natively
   in web browsers.

   RiTa.js is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple
   procedural tools for experimenting with digital literature. The philosophy behind
   the toolkit is to be as simple and intuitive as possible, while still providing
   adequate flexibility for more advanced users. RiTa.js is written in 100%
   JavaScript and runs natively in popular web browsers. It is both free and opensource.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 14:32

9. Archiving Workshop

   In discussions with many practitioners of E-Literature over the past two years, the subject of
   Archiving (a focus at the Brown Conference) continues as a major challenge in the field. The rapid changes that continue to take place as electronic media becomes more mobile and miniaturized have made even recent archiving techniques problematic. The establishment of specific author archives – and the methods for creating these – has also been developing in the last couple of years.

   In response to requests from several ELO Members, I am proposing a one-day Workshop Session on Archiving. This Workshop will take place on Wednesday, June 20, in the morning and afternoon before Registration and the Opening Reception. Proposed topics include: A. The Overall Issue - Tech changes in E-lit 1990 – 2012 – overall plans for Archiving; B. The Nature of Obsolescence - what software/platforms/works are currently threatened?; C. Technologies of Archiving - Where are we in this process - what kinds of archiving strategies are being used? What are the copyright issues?; D. Existing Archives and the future of Archiving. Do we want to mention the PAD document from ELO?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 14:35

10. Andrews' Open Canvas: A Critical Code Studies Reading of Aleph Null

    Andrews' Open Canvas: A Critical Code Studies Reading of Aleph Null

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 14:37

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