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1. German Net Literature: In the Exile of Invisibility

   German net literature had an early and very public start through competitions organized in 1996-8 by the major newspaper Die Zeit and IBM, but was declared dead or stillborn immediately afterwards. Consequently, net literature became a subject of controversy between artists, theorists, and literary critics from which not only a strong community evolved but also a literary system. In this system, competitions served as public, peer-reviewed mediators for net literature and became an important feature of “post-processing.” Since the end of the 90s however, German net literature became slowly invisible. The lack of public awareness of net literature is common to many countries. Post-processing is a key for public visibility and according to Siegfried J. Schmidt et al. an important component in a literary system. In search of reasons for the state of invisibility of German net literature, I analyze mechanisms of post-processing in our community, which I regard as a literary system. This descriptive synopsis is the first paper in an upcoming series that opens up questions towards the role of peer-review, public reception, and artists' community-building.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:15

2. Web/Fiction/Design: A brief beta-test of this year’s winner of the ELO Awards, Caitlin Fisher’s These Waves of Girls

   A (literature) award usually comes with publicity as well as responsibility. As this year's ambassador of digital literature, the US-American Electronic Literature Organization chose a webfiction that does not meet the technological standards of current internet or CD-ROM productions. Neither the rather outdated technique of frames, nor Flash (a program for moving images), nor the embedding of sounds have been implemented in a way that is technologically useful (there's nor debating aesthetics) or ar least more or less correct. About 15 years after the "invention" of digital literature (this date, too, is open for discussion), the technology available has become so sophisticated that a single author obviously can no longer live up to the demands as a lonely creative genius. The quality even of praised digital literature seems to indicate that, caused by the raising of technical standards, the future lies in what collaborative writing in hypertext or online "Mitschreibeprojekte" did not mange to establish: the dismissal of authorship in the traditional sense of authoritiy over the text in favor of a plural, diverse team-work.

   (Source: article abstract)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 14:24

3. New Media Writing Prize

   A prize initiated in 2010 at Bournemouth University for new media writing, sponsored by Bournemouth University, IF Book, Arts Bournemouth, and Dreaming Methods.

   The prize highlights inspiring work, raises awareness and provokes discussion about new media writing, the future of the 'written' word and storytelling.

   here are four categories/prizes for 2016 - Main Prize: £1000 donated by if:book UK. Student Prize: 3 months paid internship at Unicorn Training, Bournemouth, UK, working with Unicorn’s writing and design team. The Dot Award: £500 to get a new project started. Donated by if:book UK. The Gorkana Journalism Award, donated by Gorkana. Two awards: the UK award, and the International award, both £500 for the winner. There will also be substantial media coverage of the Award, and winners will be given full acknowledgement in all press releases and related material.

    (Source: New Media Writing Prize site)

   Christine Wilks - 09.11.2012 - 16:18

4. New Media Writing Prize 2012

   Bournemouth University and if:book UK announced the shortlist for the 2012 New Media Writing Prize. The shortlisted works for 2012 were:

   Kristi Barnet: Hurst (aka @Karen Barley) http://www.karenbarley.co.uk/
   JR Carpenter: Cityfish http://luckysoap.com/cityfish/
   Jerome Fletcher: Pentimento http://air.falmouth.ac.uk/digitallit/pentimento
   Daniel M Goodbrey: A Duck Has an Adventure http://emerl.com/stuff/duck.html
   Mark C Marino: Living Will http://markcmarino.com/tales/livingwill.html
   Katherine Norman: Window http://www.novamara.com/window
   Stevan Zivadinovic: Hobo Lobo of Hamelin http://hobolobo.net/

   Scott Rettberg - 01.12.2012 - 12:38

5. From Theo Lutz to Netzliteratur. The Development of German-Language Electronic Literature

   How and where would we have to begin if we want to bring the rather diverse
   German-language scene of net literature to a closer attention of our European colleagues?
   This definitely is no easy task, since today there are virtually no forums and archives of
   German-language net literature existing anymore. Therefore it may not be possible to get an
   accurate picture of the last 20 years’ net literature. Many sites and forums have been deleted
   from the net, while others remain virtually inactive for years and have to be perceived as
   internet archive corpses. A few are still active and provide material for current discussions.

   Source: Author's Introduction

   Patricia Tomaszek - 25.02.2013 - 16:05

6. Growing up Digital: The Emergence of E-Lit Communities in Spain. The Case of Catalonia “And the Rest is Literature”

   Starting with the famous last words of Hamlet “and the rest is silence”, I would like to introduce 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 ten years. Lately it has been promoting a public debate in Literary Societies on Digital Literature (Premis Octubre in Valencia (2009), Catalan and Castillian Association of Writers (AELC/ACEC), Spanish Society of Comparative Literature, Alacant (2010) etc.). Certainly, the celebration of the e‐poetry festival 2009 in Barcelona was one of the big events that supported this open debate on that matter. In this paper there is a special space for one of these activities, which – for the last five years – we have been trying to encourage: creativity. The establishment of the international Ciutat de Vinaròs awards is one of these activities.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 29.04.2013 - 15:59

7. German Net Literature: In the Exile of Invisibility (cybertext yearbook)

   This paper originates from a conference paper presented and published in the book collection OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica. The here presented paper publication appears with minor edits.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 27.06.2013 - 10:59

8. New Media Writing Prize 2014

   Bournemouth University and if:book UK announced the shortlist for the 2014 New Media Writing Prize. The shortlisted works for 2014 were:

   Marius Ulvund - 22.01.2015 - 14:38

9. New Media Writing Prize 2013

   Bournemouth University and if:book UK announced the shortlist for the 2013 New Media Writing Prize.

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 25.01.2015 - 19:58

10. The Turn on Literature Prize

    Is society’s digital turn reflected in the way we read and write literature? Will literature be “turned on” by digital media? How do media change culture? How does culture change and inform the digital field?
    How can libraries best introduce new digital literature to the public? The objective of “Turn on Literature” is to find solutions to this questions. The partners will approach the field of digital literature through the work with literary installations, exhibitions and workshops in Romania, Denmark and Norway. The partnership will seize the opportunities that digital literature offers for audience development and will reposition the library to suit users’ needs in an increasingly digitised world. Target groups will be young adults and traditional book readers at the libraries.

    The key components in doing this will be:

    Kirsten Kvalvågnes - 24.01.2018 - 11:50

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