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  1. William Poundstone and the Aesthetics of Digital Literature

    This paper will discuss the work of Los Angeles-based writer and digital artist William Poundstone. Poundstone, who makes his living writing books for a popular audience on subjects such as cryptography, philosophical and mathematical conundrums, economics and even a biography of Carl Sagan, has a growing, but still quite small, reputation as one of the most intellectually challenging, playful, and artistically distinctive web artists. His ““New Digital Emblems”” is probably his most ambitious work, and operates somewhere between a documentary about the history of visual and ludic writing——ranging across centuries and focusing most profoundly on the Renaissance emblem books——and an original artistic creation, as it includes several of his own ““digital emblems.”” Other works, such as ““Project for Tachistoscope,”” challenge our ways of reading as this narrative is presented as a mix of basic ““Wing Dings””-style iconography and text, presented in synch one image/word combination at a time.

    Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 12:53

  2. Into the Space of Previously Undrawable Diagrams: An Interview with Stephanie Strickland by Jaishree Odin

    Into the Space of Previously Undrawable Diagrams: An Interview with Stephanie Strickland by Jaishree Odin

    Scott Rettberg - 07.07.2013 - 20:50

  3. Roundtable: Chercheur et artiste / artiste et chercheur, de l’art de jongler avec les casquettes

    A roundtable organized by Lucile Haute at the Galerie Rhinocéros et Cie in Paris on November 13, 2014, posing three questions to each author.

    Alvaro Seica - 14.11.2014 - 17:18

  4. Ghosts in the Machine: The Personal Rational on the Fringes of Digital Literature

    This paper will start by exploring Platonic Formalism as Techne without instantiation. In a concurrently anti-aesthetic and morally rationalist manner, Plato's space for any artistic enactment requires a social engagement utilizing a logical method. This is mathematics without technology, or the semantics of the structured without any methodology for construction and preservation. Analytically speaking, we are given a dialogic picture of the ghost in the machine.

    This phrase, used critically by Gilbert Ryle to take apart the mental dualism of Descartes, can contrast with Kierkegaard's appreciation of the thinker - that is, the personal reasoning of Descartes, Socrates debating himself (as he often does). Rationalism takes the form of logical structures that roam the imaginary and hypothetical, a sheerly literary game (Kierkegaard's first stage) in a manner described by absence. A negative machinic aesthetics.

    Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 24.11.2019 - 15:04