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1. Writing to be Found and Writing Readers

   Poetic writing for programmable and network media seems to have been captivated by the affordances of new media and questions of whether or not and if so, how certain novel, media-constituted properties and methods of literary objects require us to reassess and reconfigure the literary itself. What if we shift our attention decidedly to practices, processes, procedures — towards ways of writing and ways of reading rather than dwelling on either textual artifacts themselves (even time-based literary objects) or the concepts underpinning objects-as-artifact? What else can we do, given that we must now write on, for, and with the net which is itself no object but a seething mass of manifold processes?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.12.2011 - 10:59

2. Writing the Virtual: Eleven Dimensions of E-Poetry

   Eleven characteristics of networked digital poetry, a category that encompasses an enormous variety of work, are discussed and illustrated with examples. Issues raised include the recalibration of the writing/reading relationship, the nature of attachment at the site of interaction, an architectonic quality of instrument-building that characterizes many pieces, differing treatments of time and “place”, the use of recombinant flux, a performative character displayed by many works, the omnipresence of both translation and looping, as well as pervasive references to ruin and hybrid states of mixed reality.

   (Source: article abstract)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.02.2012 - 10:45

3. Literal Art

   John Cayley dadas up the digital, revealing similarities of type across two normally separate, unequal categories: image and text. "Neither lines nor pixels but letters," finally, unite.

   (Source: ebr First Person thread page)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.02.2012 - 13:15

4. Electricians, Wig Makers, and Staging the New Novel

   Electricians, Wig Makers, and Staging the New Novel

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.03.2012 - 11:32

5. Expanding the Concept of Writing: Notes on Net Art, Digital Narrative and Viral Ethics

   Expanding the Concept of Writing: Notes on Net Art, Digital Narrative and Viral Ethics

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.03.2012 - 11:55

6. Forms of Future

   Forms of Future

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.05.2012 - 09:29

7. Creativity is something for hairdressers - so what is it for writers? Why the differentiation of 'literature' and 'writing' is obsolete, and what the Internet has to do with it

   I will try to make a blend between the notion of "creative writing", which is typically American (and doesn't exist in most of continental Europe), and the discourse of creative industries, which is typically European, and try to stab the notion of "creative" a bit as a kind of helpless placeholder for something that, for whatever reason, is no longer called literary or artistic. So, referring to Kenny Goldsmith, it's not about a dichotomy creative/uncreative, but what's questionable about the concept in the first place. If we shift the issue from an idealist to a materialist perspective, then the difference between creative/literary writing and common writing has always been arbitrary.

   The critical edition of Kafka, which now includes the documents he wrote for his insurance company, is a good example, as are earlier examples of published letters, diaries etc. Foucault's criticism of the the notion of the oeuvre, whether it would include scraps and laundry bills or not, seems quite backwards to me. The actual difference has been one of published and non-published writing, with publishing being (for technical and economic reasons) controlled by an industry.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 16:38

8. Electrifying Detail: Writing and Reading Triggers in Textual Zoom

   What can be said about the detail as an aesthetic category within the framework of an emergent electronic culture? The paper does not aim to draw a standpoint on the subject but rather to identify possible paths of reflection and inquiry starting from a particular model: a form of zoomable text (z-text) and interface (zoom-editor) allowing the text to be structured on levels of detail and explored by zoom-in and zoom-out. The questions that we intend to address concern the role of detail as a trigger fostering both the writing and the reading process. As an essential ingredient of the zooming paradigm - urging the writer to say and the reader to ask more about what has already been said - the detail acquires a prevalent character, that of trigger of the textual unfolding and core of the interface functionality.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 14:56

9. How has technology changed writing and literature?

   Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, a professor of English at the University of Maryland and director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, explored questions of technology, research, content and writing at the intersection of literary and technological history during an ATLAS Speaker Series presentation Oct. 1, 2012.

   Drawing from his book, “Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing,” Kirschenbaum talked about how word processors have changed the history and culture of authorship and how technology has changed the relationship of writers to their craft. 

   This event was a collaboration between the ATLAS Institute, CU’s Department of English, The ICJMT (Information, Communication, Journalism, Media and Technology) Initiative, University Libraries ScriptaLab and Friends of the Libraries.

   The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.

   (Source: Atlas Speaker Series, University of Colorado)

   Scott Rettberg - 25.10.2012 - 09:41

10. The trAce Experience

    trAce, an online organization located at Nottingham Trent University, UK, offers educational and cultural opportunities for writers. We will be presenting and discussing some of the products related to that process.

    Janet Holmes, Boise State University (USA)
    "The trAce Experience: 'The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot'"

    Marjorie C. Luesebrink, Irvine Valley College (USA)
    "The trAce Experience: Collaborative Aspects of Fibonacci's Daughter"

    Christy Sheffield Sanford, trAce (USA)
    "The trAce Experience: Virtual Writer-in-Residence - Creating a New Profession"

    Sue Thomas, Nottingham Trent University (UK)
    "The trAce Experience: Connecting Writers in Real and Virtual Space"

    Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 16:29

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