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Digital Literature in France (conference presentation)
The presentation briefly retraces the history of electronic literature in France, emphasizing the various literary and aesthetic tendencies and the corresponding structures (groups, magazines, etc.). The focus then shifts to French electronic literature communities. The presentation notably provides an account of a study that Bouchardon did in 2004-2007 for the Centre Pompidou in Paris (study included in the book "Un laboratoire de littératures", http://editionsdelabibliotheque.bpi.fr/livre/?GCOI=84240100044550). He analyzed a "dispositif" (mailing list, website, meetings) called e-critures, dedicated to electronic literature, with the hypothesis of the co-construction of a "dispositif", a field and a community. The presentation concludes with the possible characteristics of electronic literature in France (which might not be specific to France), both from a literary and from a sociological point of view.
Serge Bouchardon - 22.09.2010 - 07:50
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From ALAMO to Transitoire Observable: evolution of the French digital literature
The presentation provides a historical overview of the evolution of electronic literature in France from the ALAMO group, an outgrowth of the OULIPO focused on combinatory aesthetics, through to the present day.
Scott Rettberg - 03.10.2010 - 22:28
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Catalonian Electronic Literature Communities
Starting with the famous last words of Hamlet “and the rest is silence”, I would like to introduce the Catalan e-?lit communities and their experience of Digital Literature. The Hermeneia Research Group has been one of the pioneers in the field in Spain and has been developing many different activities for the last 10 years. Lately it has been promoting a public debate in Literary Societies on Digital Literature (we will comment the last examples: Premis Octubre in Valencia, 2009, Catalan and Castillian Association of Writers, (AELC/ACEC), Barcelona 2010, Spanish Society of Comparative Literature, Alacant 2010, etc.). Of course the celebration in 2009 of the e-?poetry festival in Barcelona was one of the big events and helped this open debate on the matter. But in this paper there will be a special space for one of this activities that, for
Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 17:14
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A Short History of Electronic Poetry
“Una Piccola Storia della Poesia Elettronica” presents a brief history of digital poetry, from the perspective of the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), Buffalo, and the international E-Poetry Festivals of digital literature, art, and performance (E-Poetry). The paper engages the discipline from various perspectives, considering its relation to historic contextualizing movements and institutional mechanisms. Typifying the E-Poetry festivals, it is argued, are its exuberant origins: (1) the U.S. small press movements of the later twentieth century; (2) the activities and philosophies of the Electronic Poetry Center; (3) its self-definition as more broadly-conceived than that of hypertext; (4) the pre-existing literary ground of Language Poetry practices; (5) the vibrancy of the as-then-constituted Poetics Program at Buffalo, and; (6) a "symposium of the whole", the continued emerging importance of enthnopoetic localizations to an eventual realization of contemporary poetics.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:57
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Filiations and History of Digital Literature in France
In this paper, I retrace the filiations and the history of digital literature in France, emphasizing the various literary and aesthetic tendencies and the corresponding social structures (groups, reviews...). I conclude with the possible characteristics of digital literature in France (which might not be specific to France).
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:12
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All Tomorrow's Parties
A plenary presentation for the biennial conference of the Electronic Literature Organization focused on the circumstances of the founding of the organization and on the work of novelist Robert Coover on the occasion of his retirement from teaching, delivered in a scripted and parodic style appropriate to the subject. Co-presented with Rob Wittig.
Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 15:59
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Experimental Poetry and Technology in Argentina: History, Critique, Politics
Experimental Poetry and Technology in Argentina: History, Critique, Politics
Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 00:08
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What Hypertext Is
Over the past couple decades, as the term "hypertext" has gained a certain popular currency, a question has been raised repeatedly: "What is hypertext?" Our most respected scholars offer a range of different, at times incompatible, answers. This paper argues that our best response to this situation is to adopt the approach taken with other terms that are central to intellectual communities (such as "natural selection," "communism," and "psychoanalysis"), a historical approach. In the case of "hypertext" the term began with Theodor Holm ("Ted") Nelson, and in this paper two of his early publications of "hypertext" are used to determine its initial meaning: the 1965 "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate" and the 1970 "No More Teachers' Dirty Looks." It is concluded that hypertext began as a term for forms of hypermedia (human-authored media that "branch or perform on request") that operate textually. This runs counter to definitions of hypertext in the literary community that focus solely on the link. It also runs counter to definitions in the research community that privilege tools for knowledge work over media.
Scott Rettberg - 25.05.2012 - 14:15
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Digging For The Roots Of Interactive Storytelling
This paper is a writer's reflections on the pre-computer origins of interactive narrative. It seeks out forms of human expression dating back to prehistory that can viewed as the precursors of contemporary interactive storytelling and contemplates what can be learned from these forms that can be applied to contemporary works of interactive storytelling. The examined forms include the participatory myth-based dramas of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks; coming of age rituals in traditional societies; games that blend spiritual beliefs and athleticism; and various Judeo-Christian and pagan religious practices.
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 11:46
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The Archive as Historical Practice
"The Archive as Historical Practice", a presented paper on the history/present state of "archival production of text", as examined through a critical perspective. This paper, engaging a number of scholars and practitioners in the field, touches on the work of Robert Coover.
(Source: Author's abstract for ELO_AI)
Audun Andreassen - 03.04.2013 - 10:16
