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1. Framing Embodiment in General Purpose Computing

   M.A. Thesis, 94 pages

   Elisabeth Nesheim - 20.08.2012 - 02:07

2. Authorial Scholarship 2.0: Tracing the Creative Process in Online Communities

   The age of letter writing is coming to an end, just as an era of e-mail, blogs, online groups, and social networks is emerging as a new mode of communication. The work of scholars interested in what writers have to say about their work has simultaneously become easier and more challenging, depending upon the technologies used by these writers. How do we conduct authorial scholarship in an age of digital media? This paper address this question through a case study: Flores' own research on Jim Andrews and his work, focusing on the challenges and affordances offered by the current media ecology.

   Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:18

3. Cenários Cíbridos: Átimos calmos em comunicação ubíqua e móvel por conexões transparentes

   This essay discusses the emergence of lifestyles under the paradigm of urban life, based on the results of research on interface design for mobile connections in ubiquitous computing with pervasive and sentient interfaces, which generate cybrid (cyber+hybrid) scenarios for co-located beings that act in physical and digital space. Artistic creation using software art writes programs and uses hardware that convey a sense of presence and action, with digital collage adding information about the physical scene. The digital material is pasted in layers onto the physical space, redesigning places, reconfiguring actions, and mixing realities in a cybrid manner. In other words, locative and mobile interfaces reconfigure the sense of presence by blending in the digital material that adds information to locations. Computers mix into the periphery through transparent interfaces, enabling enactions and affordances in quotidian actions in calm connections with transparent interfaces.

   Luciana Gattass - 06.11.2012 - 21:17

4. 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

5. Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice

   Digital artifacts from iPads to databases pervade our lives, and the design decisions that shape them affect how we think, act, communicate, and understand the world. But the pace of change has been so rapid that technical innovation is outstripping design. Interactors are often mystified and frustrated by their enticing but confusing new devices; meanwhile, product design teams struggle to articulate shared and enduring design goals. With Inventing the Medium, Janet Murray provides a unified vocabulary and a common methodology for the design of digital objects and environments. It will be an essential guide for both students and practitioners in this evolving field.

   Scott Rettberg - 21.08.2014 - 12:04

6. The Generative Literature Project & 21st Century Literacies

   In Fall 2014 I taught a “special” version of my “Writing Electronic Literature” course. Throughout this class my students received an overview of established and emerging forms of Electronic Literature including hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive works, and digital poetry. Students read, analyzed, and composed a variety of emerging genres of Electronic Literature. Yet what was unique to this particular iteration of my E-Lit class was that my students contributed to a transmodal generative novel to be published in late 2015 by the academic journal Hybrid Pedagogy. The idea of a generative novel is one that can be traced to the OuliPo group (Ouvroir delittérature potentielle) in France. According to the OuliPo website, the generative writer is “un rat qui construit lui-même le labyrinthe dont il se propose de sortir” (trans. “a rat who builds the maze he wishes to escape”). In this understanding of art and literature, the idea of creation, especially literary creation, is one of wordplay and gameplay. Therefore, the generative novel is, in itself, a game – one of interplay between people, cultures, and institutions.

   Hannah Ackermans - 16.11.2015 - 10:21