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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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The Poetry Beyond Text Project
This presentation gives an overview on the research project "Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition" (2009 – 2011), funded by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, emphasizing areas of potential connection with ELMCIP, and raising issues relevant to electronic literature.
Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 16:52
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From Oral Poetry to Tridimensional Poetry
Memory defines human existence both individually and collectively: it is necessary for the evolution of the person and society. The loss of memory leads to the physical and intellectual death of identity. In order to avoid and exorcise existential oblivion, mankind has developed systems to pass on memory and preserve it. One of the oldest of these is poetry that, thanks to its rhythm and rhyme, makes the precise memorizing of a text easier. Thus it effectively communicates the deeds of heroes as well as the prayers, ideals and sentiments that characterize human beings and their culture. Society, thanks also to the heritage of knowledge that has been passed down, continues to evolve and change rapidly: the new technologies transform art, modifying the codes of language and above all the inclusion and typology of the data that constitutes the collective memory. In the era of motion pictures poetry loses some of its evocative effect and its function for transmission. The visual memory is predominant because the brain assimilates information without making the effort of concentrating and decoding input, for example from the sound to the word or from the sign to the word.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:47
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Aspects of Experiencing Poetry in Digital Media
Digital poetry uses both the machine and natural language, therefore the experience of digital poetry always lives on the borders of artifice and art or appearance and essence, where the borders fades. The essay searches for a native experience of poetry within digital media which is not a translation, representation or Ecphrasis of an existing piece of poetry by focusing on inter-activity and programming that make the poet-programmer and reader-player to meet and be involved in a poem; The essay tries to reveal the limitations of the machine language in creating a digital poem by concentrating on the syntax as an open-source consciousness of the natural language and the non-open-source nature of operating systems and compilers in the instant of writing poetry as the consciousness of the machine.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:21
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The ppg256 Series of Minimal Poetry Generators
I discuss the four Perl poetry generators I have developed in the ppg256 series. My discussion of each program begins with the entire 256 characters of code and continues with an explication of this code, a description of aspects of my development process, and a discussion of how my thinking about computation and poetry developed during that process. In writing these programs, I came to understand more about the importance of framing to the reception of texts as poems, about how computational poetic concepts of part of speech might differ from established linguistic ones, about morphological and syntactical variability, and about how to usefully think about possible texts as being drawn from a probability distribution.
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Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 17:39
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Close-Reading: Digital Poetry
Close-Reading: Digital Poetry
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:58
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Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry as Ontological Probe
Digital poetry is a multimedia hybrid-art-form, a subset of visual language fusing with digital technology, increasingly mediated by networks. Contemporary poems are animated interfaces; and they often utilize dynamic interactive typography superimposed over video, generative or 3D environments. A brief list of the disciplines involved: visual art, sound composition, literature, media studies, computer programming.
Multimedia-hybrid digital poetry means that the term ‘text’ is insufficient.
Future theorists will require terminology specific to the domain, I suggest:-TAV (text-audio-visual)
- TAVT (a tav in a 3D territory)
- TAVIT (an interactive tavt)Patricia Tomaszek - 04.07.2011 - 12:11
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Mobilizing the Poli
A detailed review of Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffery’s The Precession. Published July 14, 2011.
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Judd Morrissey’s newest work, theprecession.org is a website that redefines the act of reading literature on the internet in order to draw attention to the ways that reading is changing in our world. The website truly functions as the new book, with chapters that organize his intentions within the project into discrete capitulations of his ideas. My paper is mostly an analysis of the centerpiece of the website, POLI, because of its time-based nature: it uses real-time data capture and provides an extended period of time for the reading of the piece itself. POLI is a significant piece of contemporary literature because of its consciousness becomes political comment through the uses of our various languages.
Scott Rettberg - 22.07.2011 - 13:08
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Poetry Confronting Digital Media
Poetry Confronting Digital Media
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 12:52
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Primal Affective Ground and Digital Poetry
Since the first symbolic scripts emerged, language has always been visual. My own work explores how language's visual can be read both as art and as poetry; how affect is amplified by sound; how generative and combinatorial layouts of text-video-sound open art from linear readings into infinite variations perspectives.
For ELO, I am interested in creating an artist talk that utilizes content derived from two essays on digital poetry written for my comprehensive exams in the summer of 2009. The original essays are entitled: "Affecting Language: interdisciplinary explorations of emotion (new media, neuroscience, phenomenology and poetry)" and "Defining Creative Conduits: mediations on writing in digital media". Since both essays (as take-home exams) were each written over a brief 72 hour span, I look fwd to the opportunity of synthesizing and refining their argument into a presentation format.
(Source: Author proposal)Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.03.2012 - 12:42
