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1. The Digital Poem against the Interface Free

   Recent e-literature by Judd Morrissey and Jason Nelson represents a broad movement in e-literature to draw attention to the move toward the so-called “interface free” – or, the interface that seeks to disappear altogether by becoming as “natural” as possible. It is against this troubling attempt to mask the workings of the interface and how it delimits creative production that Judd Morrissey creates “The Jew’s Daughter” – a work in which readers are invited to click on hyperlinks in the narrative text, links which do not lead anywhere so much as they unpredictably change some portion of the text. Likewise working against the clean and transparent interface of the Web, in “game, game, game and again game,” Jason Nelson’s hybrid poem-videogame self-consciously embraces a hand-drawn, hand-written interface while deliberately undoing videogame conventions through nonsensical mechanisms that ensure players never advance past level 121/2. As such, both Morrissey and Nelson intentionally incorporate interfaces that thwart readers’ access to the text so that they are forced to see how such interfaces are not natural so much as they define what and how we read and write.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 09:09

2. Early Authors of E-Literature, Platforms of the Past

   A detailed discussion of the exhibit “Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions” (now installed at the University of Washington). Grigar looks specifically at the major technological shifts in affordances and constraints provided by early computer interfaces and the ways in which e-literature writers from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s worked with and against these interfaces. For example, she discusses the command-line interface of the Apple IIe – which was released in 1983 – as an example of an interface that exemplifies an ideology wholly different from the now dominant Graphic User Interface. Thus, the command-line interface also makes possible entirely different texts and entirely different modes of thinking/creating such as that exemplified by bp Nichols' “First Screening” from 1984.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 09:19

3. Seven Types of Interface in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume Two

   Seven Types of Interface in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume Two

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 10:16

4. Better Looking, Close Reading: How Online Fiction Builds Literary-Critical Skills

   [insert abstract here] On reading fiction as an ethical task...

   Presented on Saturday, 7 January at the 2012 MLA Convention, panel 442, "New Media, New Pedagogies," arragned by the Division of Prose Fiction. Other panelists included Heather Houser, Jay Clayton, and the moderator, Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.01.2012 - 20:04

5. Contrasts and Convergences of Electronic Literature

   [Insert author's abstract here.]

   Presented at the 2012 MLA Convention as part of the panel "730. New Media Narratives and Old Prose Fiction," arranged by the MLA's Division on Prose Fiction. 

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 11:54

6. Reconfiguring Publishing

   301. Reconfiguring Publishing

   Friday, 6 January, 1:45-3:00 p.m., Grand A Sheraton

   An Electronic Roundtable Exhibiting the Future(s) of Publishing

   Presiding: Carolyn Guertin, Univ. of Texas, Arlington; William Thompson, Western Illinois Univ.

   This session intends not to bury publishing but to raise awareness of its transformations and continuities as it reconfigures itself. New platforms are causing publishers to return to their roots as booksellers while booksellers are once again becoming publishers. Open-access models of publishing are creating new models for content creation and distribution as small print-focused presses are experiencing a renaissance. Come see!

   (Source: MLA 2012 Program Abstracts) 

   Two Electronic Literature Organization Board Members participated. Caroyn Guertin was one of two presiders, and Rita Rayley presented the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two, which she co-edited.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.01.2012 - 14:31