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1. Radio Silence

   This essay takes a media archaeological approach to putting forward haunted media as theory of mediation able to address contemporary networked writing practices communicated across and through multiple media, multiple iterations, multiple sites, and multiple times. Drawing upon Derrida’s invitation to consider the paradoxical state of the spectre, that of being/not-being, this paper considers the paradoxical state of long-distance communications networks. Both physical and digital, they serve as linguistic structures for modes of transmission and reception for digital texts. Composed of source code and output, these texts are neither here nor there, but rather here and there, past and future, original and copy. The in-between state has been articulated in terms of ‘medium’ in Western philosophy since classical times. The complex temporaility of this in-between state is further articulated in this essay through Alexander Galloway’s framing of the computer, not as an object, but rather as “a process or active threshold mediating between two states”.

   J. R. Carpenter - 06.01.2016 - 15:20

2. Interactive Narrative and the Art of Steering Through Possible Worlds

   The world of game development is heavily male dominated and sexism is notoriously endemic in online gaming and videogames. In this context, as a feminist woman and sole writer, developer and designer of an interactive digital narrative, I am something of a rarity. Doing it all myself may seem perverse, especially in a field where collaboration is common, but the ability to author code myself is empowering and, crucially, gives me independence - a development environment of one's own - a classic feminist goal. In this presentation, I will discuss how these factors are reflected in the interplay of genre, narrative, discourse, gameplay, game logic, character development and thematic content in my interactive digital narrative, Stitched Up (currently a work-in-progress).

   Christine Wilks - 16.06.2016 - 17:30

3. E-Lit in Arabic Universities: Status Quo and Challenges

   E-Lit in Arabic Universities: Status Quo and Challenges

   Reham Hosny - 24.06.2016 - 20:26

4. Bot Rot

   Bot Rot

   Matt Schneider - 24.06.2016 - 20:54

5. Arabic E-Lit (AEL): A Network for Artists and Scholars

   Arabic E-Lit (AEL): A Network for Artists and Scholars

   Reham Hosny - 24.06.2016 - 21:01

6. Using Theme to Author Hypertext Fiction

   According to Prince (2003), a story can be seen as having three different types of macrostructures or frames: action (plot), existents (characters and setting), and ideas (theme). Research in interactive storytelling has largely focused on the first two types of macrostructure, with little exploration of theme. In this paper I present a “thematic linking” model for authoring hypertext fiction, describe the implementation of this approach in the HypeDyn procedural hypertext fiction authoring tool (Mitchell, 2014), and discuss my initial experiences using this approach to authoring.

   Alex Mitchell - 25.06.2016 - 11:07

7. News Wheel Artist Talk

   In this Artist Talk, Jody Zellen introduces her new work News Wheel as well as showing some of her other works in which she uses 'the news', namely All The News That's Fit to Print, Without a Trace, and Time Jitters.

   Hannah Ackermans - 26.06.2016 - 17:10

8. Transmedial and Transnational (Re-)Contextualisation: The Atlas Group Archive as an Instance of Traveling Memory

   Walid Raad's The Atlas Group Archive (1989-2004) is a transmedial, fictional 'archive' which supposedly encompasses donated testimonies on the war in Lebanon (1974-1991), including diary logs, photographs (some of which contain notes), and videos, archived on theatlasgroup.org. In this case, the fictionality of the archive creates an archive where no real archive exists. The entire archive is transmedially constructed, in which the layering of content in each image becomes the key feature. There is, for example, a document named "Let's be honest the weather helped" (1998) contains a series of black-and-white images of buildings with colored dots on them, which supposedly signify various types of bullet hits (see fig. 1). The dots cover the whole area of bullet impact, so this media filter makes it impossible to verify if there were indeed bullet hits, and let alone which color the bullet tips were. The transmediality of the project is thus a means in conveying the impossibility of an archive and the unrepresentability of trauma. Medial borders are crossed through layering of content, reinforcing and destabilizing the truth value of testimony.

   Hannah Ackermans - 29.11.2016 - 15:20

9. For a New Mnemosyne: Art, Experience, and Technology

   This paper will outline the key elements of an ongoing research project, whose main focus is to explore the application of new technology to the study of key works of modernism, whilst simultaneously arguing that modernism can itself offer fresh perspectives on contemporary digital art. I am interested in the way modernism presents the artwork as both an object to be experienced and as a structured theory of knowledge. This tension can be seen most obviously in such canonical works as Ezra Pound’s Cantos (1917-1969) where his aesthetic of the ‘luminous fragment’ is set against the poem’s larger, Dantescan, vision of history. Concomitantly, I wish to argue that the resources of digital technology offer a significant new set of tools for approaching modernism itself, allowing us to explore the boundary between the work of scholarship and work of art.

   (Source: Abstract ICDMT 2016)

   Hannah Ackermans - 08.12.2016 - 14:24

10. Sound and electronic literature: “Under language” and “narrative archaeology”

    This presentation describes the process of remixing (recombining, reconceptualizing) sound artifacts and pioneering works of electronic literature no longer available- (…) The techne proposed here promotes new opportunities and challenges for moving forward with our conceptions and practices regarding sound based electronic literature.

    (Source: ICDMT 2016)

    Hannah Ackermans - 08.12.2016 - 14:27

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