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1. Authorship and agency in networked environments

   This text discusses how our understanding of authorship has evolved over the past few decades and how this process is now being effected by developments in network and communications technologies. Situating the discussion in relation to post-structuralist theory, Actor Network Theory and the anthropological work of James Leach the impact of network technologies are considered, with particular attention to the emergence of distributed forms of authorship and models of expanded agency. The work of two artists who engage network and communications technologies in distinct ways is discussed in order to evoke perspectives on emergent forms of authorship and agency. The work of Mez Breeze is considered as evidencing a shift in authorship from the human author to an agency of computability embedded in the formal structures of the language employed in the work, suggesting that the text operates as an automatic generative system that constructs the reader as computational interpreter.

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:04

2. Aesthetics of Visual Noise in Digital Literary Arts

   The essay analyzes the phenomenon of digital poems representative of the use of a visually “busy” and typographically dense aesthetic. The essay focuses on digital works, such as Spawn by Andy Campbell, Diagram Series 6 by Jim Rosenberg, and Leaved Life by Anne Frances Wysocki. The author argues that a dominant aesthetic technique of these works, which is called “visual noise,” is generated by a tactilely responsive surface in combination with visual excess. This in turn requires an physical engagement from the reader/user in order for a reading to take place.

   Maria Engberg - 21.09.2010 - 11:37

3. From ALAMO to Transitoire Observable: evolution of the French digital literature

   The presentation provides a historical overview of the evolution of electronic literature in France from the ALAMO group, an outgrowth of the OULIPO focused on combinatory aesthetics, through to the present day.

   Scott Rettberg - 03.10.2010 - 22:28

4. The International Interactive Fiction Community

   In this talk, I describe some details of how these communities have functioned over the years: What forums, chat systems, publications, competitions, directories, archives, and other sorts of institutions and traditions are used to build new aesthetic appreciations of IF, to enable people to learn more about programming, design, and writing, and to to connect IF authors and players. My analysis, which draws on my experience as a member of “the IF community” while also considering online artifacts and discourses could be helpful in other electronic literature communities. It will also consider how existing community activity could help to connect IF more effictively with poets, fiction writers, artists, and and others who work in creative computing.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 16:51

5. The Poetry Beyond Text Project

   This presentation gives an overview on the research project "Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition" (2009 – 2011), funded by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, emphasizing areas of potential connection with ELMCIP, and raising issues relevant to electronic literature.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 16:52

6. Case Studies in American Creative Communities

   Author's abstract: Everyone wants to be a part of community -­? but someone has to break the ice and establish the infrastructure. What are the physical, behavioral and interpersonal strategies and tactics that lead to the success of four American creative communities: Invisible Seattle, Persimmons & Myrrh, Chicago Lit Dinners, and Imperial Quality Media? Answers include: food, timekeeping, meeting facilitation, psychological tenderness, seating arrangements, theatricality and deep shag carpeting.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 17:00

7. Supercritical Creativity

   Creative works are treated as a form of property in as much as they are subject to intellectual property laws (IPRs), like copyright. Owning IPRs can therefore be very lucrative and owning the copyrights a key part of what constructs a market in creative works. But creative processes differ from those embedded in a factory or machine (which in certain sense can be considered condensed physical labour) in that it is the processes or outputs of creative thought itself that is being transferred into the IPRs. The thinking actions of the creative actor (and sometimes the tacit knowledge of the workers whose skills are being encoded) are abstracted into the IPR (sometimes through the absorption of the tacit knowledge of experts) and then encoded (stabilized) within the IPR. This is what Hardt and Negri (2000) named “immaterial labour’”, pointing to the way in which contemporary capital increasingly requires that our intellectual labour is alienated in postmodern capitalism.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 17:05

8. Catalonian Electronic Literature Communities

   Starting with the famous last words of Hamlet “and the rest is silence”, I would like to introduce the Catalan e-­?lit communities and their experience of Digital Literature. The Hermeneia Research Group has been one of the pioneers in the field in Spain and has been developing many different activities for the last 10 years. Lately it has been promoting a public debate in Literary Societies on Digital Literature (we will comment the last examples: Premis Octubre in Valencia, 2009, Catalan and Castillian Association of Writers, (AELC/ACEC), Barcelona 2010, Spanish Society of Comparative Literature, Alacant 2010, etc.). Of course the celebration in 2009 of the e-­?poetry festival in Barcelona was one of the big events and helped this open debate on the matter. But in this paper there will be a special space for one of this activities that, for

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 17:14

9. Scandinavian Electronic Literature and Communities

   The paper gives an account of electronic literature in Scandinavia by emphasizing characteristic features of the tradition, as well as showing how and to what extent this tradition reflects the expansion of the international field of electronic literature. The paper surveys and provides short analyses of works which have played a significant role in the development of the literary field in Scandinavia.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 17:26

10. Electronic Literature Publishing in Europe: Sample Cases from Finland

    The publication of electronic literature, globally, has taken place outside of the traditional literary publishing field. The main modes have been either self publication by the authors, or, literary online magazines and portals. E-­lit competitions have played also a role. In a situation where no established publication system exists, the authors have had to invent new publication strategies. The activity has been characterised by noncommerciality, collegialism, and close
    connection to academia. Publication of electronic literature has often been happening side by side with critical writing on electronic media. Also, a considerable amount of electronic writing is such by nature, that it comes close to visual and auditive arts. It has then found publication channels through these non-­?literary connections: many of the works have been presented in art gallery settings.
    In our project, an investigation on organized European electronic literature publication and distribution will be carried on. This means that self-­?publication by authors will be excluded. The investigation will cover the following forms:

    Patricia Tomaszek - 18.10.2010 - 11:55

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