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1. With Code in Hand: An Inventory & Prospectus for E-Poetics

   Poetry is a field of writing/programming that presently finds itself disorganized in its sense of relation to digital practice. This is uncharacteristic for a literary genre that has been at the forefront of innovation in the 20th century. What is instructive at this point is an inventory of innovative poetic practice in the digital media. This paper offers a catalog of poetic practice from hypertext through new media to programmable media. The inventory also considers the tropes & materiality of such practices before offering a prospectus for e-poetry in an attempt to demarcate a field of practice for the work of innovative poets in the digital media.

    

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 17:02

2. 1994-96 Word Nozzle (digital materiality) (Interview with Jason Lewis)

   Jason Lewis is currently engaged with mobile apps and POEMMS created specfically for tactile ios devices. But he began programming experimental text interfaces and custom software for digital-language art-installations in the late 90s while completing a Masters at the Royal College of Art. Subsequently at Interval Research, he created "It's Alive" a text animation engine. And then in the early 21st century started OBX Labs which creates custom typographic engines.

   (Source: David Jhave Johnston, Vimeo)

   Scott Rettberg - 12.02.2013 - 13:35

3. The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print: Material Strategies for Innovative Fiction in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and Steve Tomasula’s Vas

   In recent decades a growing number of innovative writers have begun exploring the possibility of creating new literary forms through the use of digital technology. Yet literary production and reception does not occur in a vacuum. Print culture is five hundred years in the making, and thus new literary forms must contend with readers’ expectations and habits shaped by print. Shelley Jackson’s hyptertextual novel Patchwork Girl and Steve Tomasula’s innovative print novel Vas: An Opera in Flatland both problematize the conventions of how book and reader interact. In both works an enfolding occurs wherein the notion of the body and the book are taken in counterpoint and become productively confused. Jackson’s book, alluding to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is about a monster composed of various bodies while the book itself is also a monstrous text: a nonlinear patchwork of links across networks of words and images.

   Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 13:12

4. Písanie v interaktívnych médiách. Digitálna fikcia /Writing in the Interactive Media. Digital Fiction

   The subject of the thesis is to introduce and contextualise the possibilities of writing in the interactive media as well as to study the literary art of interactive media in the Anglophone area. One of the attributes of the contemporary art pieces of interactive media is their intermedial character; the authors often link text, image and sound to introduce the fictional world. The aim of the thesis is on one hand to refer to the questions that are not new but have appeared in new circumstances due to the digital format and internet and on the other hand to refer to the questions typical for the digital fiction research. The research concentrates on the digital fiction – a digital piece written in a computer programme, in which the author offers a fictional world. The thesis addresses several aspects of digital fiction, whose combination indicates its characteristic status within the group of digital art – fragmentarity of narrative, multilinearity, interactivity, performativity, dynamics, intermediality and the principles of game and play.

   Zuzana Husarova - 28.06.2013 - 14:46

5. Materiality Has Always Been In Play

   Materiality Has Always Been In Play

   Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 12:43

6. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

   The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

   Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 13:06

7. Materialities of Communication

   Materialities of Communication

   Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 19:26

8. Close Reading und der Streit um Begriffe

   Was kennzeichnet digitale Literatur? Entsteht sie schon durch die Transformation aus dem einen Medium ins andere? Welche Rolle spielen Medienechtheit und Medienrelevanz? Wieviel Text muss ein hypermediales Werk aufweisen, um zur digitalen Literatur zu gehören und nicht zur digitalen Kunst? Wie verändert sich die Rolle des Autors, wenn Leser, Maschinen oder Bakterien an seine Stelle treten? Der Aufsatz verbindet die Diskussion terminologischer Fragen mit den Fallanalysen einiger interessanter Beispiele.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.07.2013 - 15:55

9. Reorienting Narrative: E-lit as Psychogeography

   Illya Szilak interviews J. R. Carpenter in her on-going series of posts on E-Lit for Huffington Post Books.

   J. R. Carpenter - 08.07.2013 - 11:54

10. Matter of Time: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web Animation

    This essay argues for greater critical attention to the impact of particular development environments and programming languages on the aesthetic forms of new media productions. Examining two examples of Internet-based motion graphics for the ways they have been optimized for web delivery, the author attempts to show that medium-specific coding and design strategies in digital literature set up another signifying surface that intersects with the manifest text on the screen. In this material dimension of the text's signification, we can read the marks of the small- and large-scale technical systems in which the artwork is embedded.

    (Source: Author's abstract)

    Scott Rettberg - 09.07.2013 - 14:13

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