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Aesthetics of Visual Noise in Digital Literary Arts
The essay analyzes the phenomenon of digital poems representative of the use of a visually “busy” and typographically dense aesthetic. The essay focuses on digital works, such as Spawn by Andy Campbell, Diagram Series 6 by Jim Rosenberg, and Leaved Life by Anne Frances Wysocki. The author argues that a dominant aesthetic technique of these works, which is called “visual noise,” is generated by a tactilely responsive surface in combination with visual excess. This in turn requires an physical engagement from the reader/user in order for a reading to take place.
Maria Engberg - 21.09.2010 - 11:37
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The End of Books
Coover's "The End of Books" essay in the New York Times significantly introduced hypertext fiction to a wider literary audience. The essay describes that ways that hypertext poses challenges for writers and readers accustomed to coventional narrative forms, including assumptions about linearity, closure, and the division of agency between the writer and reader.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:33
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Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon
This paper is a reading of a classic of hypertext narrative: Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story. Several writers have discussed afternoon previously. However I have chosen to explore afternoon from a different angle by using theories of narratology, especially Genette. In this reading, I explore ways in which the text confuses the reader but also the many stabilising elements that aid the reader to piece together a story.
NB: Published under author's unmarried name, Jill Walker.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:40
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Junction of Image, Text, and Sound in Net.fictions
Since modernism, the experimental art has been filled with the flow of “intermedial turn“, projected in/through all its forms and has found one of its ”stations“ in the form of digital fictions. The subject of my attention lies in the research and analysis of the multimedial fictions on internet through the junction of image, text and sound into the communicative unit. I implement the narratological point of view, and perceive these works of art also from the prism of their reception and subsequent reader’s projection of the fictional world, which could result in her immersion in it.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 16:10
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Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia
Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 10:54
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Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel
PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts & Sciences : English & Comparative Literature, 2003.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas LeClair
Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 16:15
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Is Life Like a Book or a Smart Phone? Why Form in Fiction Matters
Rob Wittig's 17 minute video lecture, recorded for a TEDx event at the University of Minnesota / Duluth, lays out some ideas about connections between the design of printed books and a particular idea of life in contemporary culture, in contrast to a model of life based on postmodern ideas of identity. He also references the context of literary history in considering the forms of literature that might be suited to a culture of multitasking and smart phones, at one point comparing Don Quixote to a contemporary gadget-obsessed digital native. The talk and accompanying slideshow provide a useful introduction to some important questions about the relationship between contemporary technologies and literary form.
Scott Rettberg - 08.03.2011 - 21:37
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A Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce
A Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 11:29
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"Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson
"Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:09
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False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters
A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57
