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  1. How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine

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    Guest lecture at Duquesne University.

    Scott Rettberg - 21.03.2011 - 23:40

  2. Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text

    Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2011 - 14:33

  3. Code, Interpretation, Avant-garde

    Code, Interpretation, Avant-garde

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.08.2011 - 17:14

  4. Technologies That Describe: Data Visualization and Contemporary Fiction

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    Presented on Saturday, 7 January at the 2012 MLA Convention, panel 442, "New Media, New Pedagogies," arragned by the Division of Prose Fiction. Other panelists included John David Zuern, Jay Clayton, and the moderator, Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.01.2012 - 10:56

  5. Review of Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations, by Chris Funkhouser

    Review of Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations, by Chris Funkhouser

    Patricia Tomaszek - 13.02.2012 - 00:53

  6. Scripts for Infinite Readings

    Material representations and simulations of reading motions can be embodied and enacted through expressive uses of formal devices in programmable works. These interactions between reading self and embodied codes are reflexively choreographed in ways that illuminate the performativity of cognition and interpretation. Meaning production through acts of reading that become scripted in the textual field will be analyzed in 'The Readers Project' by John Cayley and Daniel Howe.

    Scott Rettberg - 06.09.2013 - 11:53

  7. One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature

    The concept of “erased” text has been a recurrent theme in postmodernist criticism. While most speculation about the presence or absence of an absolute text is applied to print literature, the manifestations of digital text present a new and entirely separate level of investigation.
The combination of visible language and hidden code do not negate the basic questions of language and interpretation – these continue to be important in our study of electronic texts. However, the visible text – under the influence of code – can be modified, transformed, and even deleted in ways that introduce markedly different implications for reading strategies and meaning structures.
This paper will explore a selection of works from electronic writers illustrating text/code practices that involve disappearing “text.” Text can absent itself by the simplest of reader actions – the mouseover or the link which takes the reader to another “lexia” in the piece. But text can also be obliterated by actions of the code, unassisted by the reader/navigator. Moreover, there are intermediate techniques to create vanishing text.

    Alvaro Seica - 04.10.2013 - 11:37

  8. Immersion and Interactivity in Digital Fiction

    Digital fiction began by defining itself against the printed book. In so doing, transgression of linearity and the attempt to reduce the authorial presence in the text, were soon turned into defining characteristics of this literary form. Works of digital fiction were first described as fragmented objects comprised of “text chunks” interconnected by hyperlinks, which offered the reader freedom of choice and a participatory role in the construction of the text. These texts were read by selecting several links and by assembling lexias. However, the expansion of the World Wide Web and the emergence of new software and new devices, suggested new reading and writing experiences. Technology offered new ways to tell a story, and with it, additional paradigms. Hyperlinks were replaced with new navigation tools and lexias gave way to new types of textual organization. The computer became a multimedia environment where several media could thrive and prosper. As digital fiction became multimodal, words began to share the screen with image, video, music or icons.

    Daniela Côrtes Maduro - 05.02.2015 - 12:28