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From French to Italian: What Do We Need to Translate When We Translate E-Literature

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.06.2012 - 14:57

Fairytale Trans-migrations: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.06.2012 - 14:59

Making/Trans-lating Literature in Immersive 3D

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.06.2012 - 15:00

Porting E-Poetry: The Case of First Screening

This presentation seeks to examine issues around the practice of porting electronic literature,
particularly E-poetry by examining the case of First Screening by bpNichol, a Canadian poet who
programmed a suite of e-poems in Apple BASIC in 1984. This work was preserved, documented, ported, curated, and published in Vispo.com in 2007 by a collaborative group of poets and programmers: Jim Andrews, Geof Huth, Lionel Kearns, Marko Niemi, and Dan Waber. This publication consists of a curated collection of four different versions of First Screening which I will analyze in my presentation:

1. The original DSK file of the 1984 edition, which can be opened with an Apple IIe emulator, along with the Apple BASIC source code as a text file, and scanned images of the printed matter
published with the 51/4 inch floppy disks it was distributed in.

2. A video captured documentation of the emulated version in Quicktime format.

3. The 1993 HyperCard version, ported by J. B. Hohm, along with the printed matter of that
published edition.

4. A JavaScript version of First Screening ported by Marko Niemi and Jim Andrews.

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.06.2012 - 12:27