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1. Fourteen recipes for a sonnet

   This paper discusses a semester-long classroom project in which senior seminar students were required to take Shakespeare’s Sonnet 14 and convert it into various media objects and texts. The assignments made use of Ian Bogost’s “procedural rhetoric” (“a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation”), assigning tasks based on the core concepts of “encoding” and “algorithm.” Some objects were electronic (music, twitter feeds) while the majority were physical objects, but they all made use of a procedural rhetoric sketched out by the original shape of the sonnet itself and the long tradition of scanning poems. In doing so, the objects produced force us to ask: where, exactly, do we “hold the light”? Is it e-lit if there’s no “e”?

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   Sumeya Hassan - 26.02.2015 - 21:01

2. Do You Feel Like A Hero Yet? Externalised Morality in Video Games

   Video games have a long tradition of including elements of moral decision making within their ludic and narrative structures. While the success of these endeavours has been mixed, the systems used to express moral choices within a game have grown more popular. However, these morality systems are inherently restricted and limited by ludic and business considerations. Coupled to this is the concept of the “magic circle” in which games are considered to be morally discontinuous spaces where the normal rules of what actions are and are not permitted are different. Moral choices then become flattened down into mere narrative flavouring rather than a reflection of an individual’s ethical makeup. Moral choices within games are thus shallow and lack the ability to truly offer us an opportunity to reflect on the actions we have taken. Rather than offering insight, they instead cheapen and simplify nuanced topics and concepts.

   Eivind Farestveit - 12.03.2015 - 15:05

3. Archiving Ephemera – The Case of Netprov; Graphic Design in Re-Presenting Electronic Literature

   How will electronic literature look 100 years from now? This question is two-fold: 1) How will literary projects of 2014 that are written/performed in social media and short-lived web platforms greet the eyes of future readers? 2) what will theelectronic literature in current use by the people of the future look like to them?
   In this talk I will focus on consideration of the first question and speculate briefly on some clues about the second.
   “You should make it look as much like Twitter as possible!” I have already heard this admonition several times in the course of beginning to create archives for some 2013 netprov projects — Center for Twitzease Control, Tournament of la Poéstry, SpeidiShow. As a graphic designer something makes me uneasy about this. Why? Because Twitter’s graphic designers are . . . how to say this diplomatically? . . . doing their best under a lot of pressure. From a historicalgraphic design point of view, the look of those hugely popular digital applications is adequate, but definitely not optimum, not nearly as aesthetically or functionally strong as it could be.
   

   Elias Mikkelsen - 12.03.2015 - 15:07

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