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1. "Make Me Think": Composing the Narrative Interface

   "Make Me Think": Composing the Narrative Interface

   Stig Andreassen - 25.09.2013 - 15:10

2. A Site for Collaborative Reading of E-Lit

   As scholars experiment with collaborative, multimodal approaches to analyzing electronic literature, the tools, methods, and practices of such collaboration become increasingly an issue. How do we share, edit, archive, and publish arguments that address and evolve across multiple types of data, platforms, and disciplines? How can the approaches (data visualization, code analysis, textual explication, bibliographic history, etc.) be shared in ways that other scholars can engage not just with the final interpretations but also with the processes that lead to them? Recent publications such as 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, represent the value of such collaborative efforts in combining media archaeology, platform studies, software studies, and Critical Code Studies. Our own work in collaboratively close reading William Poundstone’s “Project for Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit],” which we presented at ELO 2010 (held at Brown University) and are now developing as a book for Iowa UP, has prompted us to reflexively consider how the processes of our own collaboration might prove generative to other scholars.

   Stig Andreassen - 25.09.2013 - 15:20

3. Reading the Drones: Working Towards a Critical Tradition of Interactive Poetry Generation

   Computer-generated poetry is now almost sixty years old, stretching from the work of Christopher Strachey, Jackson Mac Low and Theo Lutz in the 1950s to the wealth of interactive poetry generators freely available online today. According to Antonio Roque, this history comprises four distinct (but overlapping) ‘traditions’: the Poetic; the Oulipo; the Programming; and the Research. But despite the inherent ‘literariness’ of the enterprise, one tradition is conspicuous by its absence: the ‘Critical’. It is the object of this paper to rectify this omission, proposing a mode of critical engagement that might allow interactive poetry generators to be naturalised as objects of textual study according to the protocols of literary criticism. It seeks to achieve this by means of a comparative analysis between what might be construed as the first interactive poetry generator – Tristan Tzara’s ‘How to Make a Dadaist Poem’ – and one of the most recent (and most powerful) – Chris Westbury’s JanusNode.

   Kriss-Andre Jacobsen - 04.10.2013 - 11:14

4. To Grasp or not to Grasp. A Phenomenological Approach to Serge Bouchardon's E-Literary Pieces

   To Grasp or not to Grasp. A Phenomenological Approach to Serge Bouchardon's E-Literary Pieces

   Arngeir Enåsen - 04.10.2013 - 12:01

5. <<Chercher l’exhibition>> Curating Electronic Literature as a Critical Practice

   This presentation focuses on curating electronic literature as a critical practice. Exhibits focusing specifically on Electronic Literature have been mounted at galleries, libraries, universities, convention spaces, and parks and other outside venues. The Electronic Literature Organization’s 2012 Media Art Show, for example, hosted exhibits in five different locations in Morgantown, including a community arts center, local gallery, the university library, a department’s conference room, and the city’s amphitheater, while the MLA 2012 and 2013 exhibits were held at the Washington State and Hynes convention centers, respectively. Exhibits of Electronic Literature are planned for U.S. Library of Congress in April 2013 and Illuminations gallery at University of Ireland Maymooth in March 2014, and in various locations in Bergen, Norway in fall 2015. This range of venues suggests a flexibility and appeal of Electronic Literature that is both scalable and broad. With these qualities in mind, the presentation will discuss questions including but not limited to:

   Fredrik Sten - 17.10.2013 - 17:13

6. Post-digital Books and Disruptive Literary Machines

   The e-book has been launched several times during the last decades and the book’s demise has often been predicted. Furthermore networked and electronic literature has already established a long history. However, currently we witness several interesting artistic and literary experiments exploring the current changes in literary culture – including the media changes brought about by the current popular break-through of the e-book and the changes in book trading such as represented by e.g. Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks – changes that have been described with the concept of controlled consumption (Striphas, 2011, Andersen & Pold, 2012). In our paper we want to focus on how artistic, e-literary experiments explore this new literary culture through formal experiments with expanded books and/or artistic experiments with the post-print literary economy. Examples of the first are Konrad Korabiewski and Litten’s multimedia art book Affected as Only a Human Can Be (Danish version, 2010, English version forthcoming) and our own collaborative installation Coincidentally the Screen has turned to Ink (presented at the Remediating the Social conference, Edinburgh 2012).

   Fredrik Sten - 17.10.2013 - 17:39

7. Une “poésie numérique”? Khlebnikov et Jakobson, Marinetti, Schwitters, Kostelanetz

   Quelques protagonistes des avant-gardes historiques montrèrent de l’intérêt pour une poésie exclusivement faite de nombres.
   

   Rebecca Lundal - 17.10.2013 - 17:58

8. The Awareness of the Power of the Tool: the Author and his Practices

   Notre présentation porte sur le rôle et les enjeux de l’outil-logiciel dans le processus de création des œuvres de littérature numérique. L'outil, sur lequel l’auteur s’appuie de plus en plus, conditionne l'expression de sa créativité. De notre point de vue, l’outil n’est pas neutre dans le processus de création et porte en ses formes, un risque élevé de standardisation. En étant immergé dans la logique de l’outil, l’écriture, au sens traditionnel du terme, est passée au second plan. Nous sommes plongés dans la visualisation des formes et dans l’outil-architexte. Nous sommes dans l’ordre de l’organisation visuelle de la pensée et des échanges. La mise en page met au premier plan certains éléments, en retrait d’autres, articule des formes et propose certaines pratiques. L’auteur, en s’insérant dans la logique de l’outil-logiciel et ses présupposés, peut tomber sous la fascination de celui-ci. Nous pouvons à ce titre nous demander si l’outil ne le domine pas, par la fascination qu’il exerce à son endroit.

   Rebecca Lundal - 17.10.2013 - 18:27

9. A Humument app by Tom Phillips as a work of liberature: between text and embodiment

   In my paper I would like to propose reconfiguration of “literariness” through the concept of liberature formulated by Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik (Bazarnik, 2005), updated to some extent with the theory of affordances (Norman, 1990, 2004). The term which according to Bazarnik (2005) denotes a transgenre where content (text) and its medium form a whole, seems to offer rich theoretical possibilities – especially if “literariness” is to be conceived also as a media-specific, embodied yet emergent and contigent phenomenon (Hayles, 2002). However, the concept of liberature - set from the ouset as both a theoretical tool against a form/content dualism and means to study multimodality of a literary text – still offers an interesting proposition when it comes to instances of e-literature developed for touch screen devices. A particularly interesting example to illustrate such interrogations is The Humument App by Tom Phillips. It is a part of the ongoing project coming from the artist known, among others, from his cooperation with Peter Greenaway on TV Dante.

   Rebecca Lundal - 17.10.2013 - 18:47

10. CELL Roundtable on Naming Authority and Interoperability

    At meetings in Siegen (2009), Sydney (2010), Provincetown ( 2010), Bleckinge (2010), Bergen (2011), and Morgantown (2011), the editors of the Electronic Literature Directory have established and developed a Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL). The related database projects originating in each of these locations, is committed to the development of bibliographic standards, interoperability, and data-sharing to ensure the broad reach and wide range of literature and criticism that new media literary scholars are obligated to document and cultivate. In Paris this year, present members will meet to discuss the achievement of interoperability across our various platforms. First on our agenda, will be a report on progress toward the establishment of a "naming authority" for authors and works in the field of electronic literature, and we will continue towards our goal of institutionalizing basic bibliographic practices consistent with the emerging norms of the field.

    Ole Samdal - 25.11.2019 - 14:47