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1. 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 Neither the rather outdated technique of frames, nor Flash (a program for moving images), nor the embedding of sounds have been implemented in a way that is technologically useful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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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