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1. The Fugue * book: when platforms don’t let us escape literature

   Anton Ferret, author of the E-Lit work The Fugue* book, will present a reflection on the technological and creative part of it, all that can be done well working with platforms and taking advantage of their own intrusion into the data and all that it means to lose it by the cultural and technological change that has meant the greater awareness for privacy. Oreto Doménech, a researcher in digital literature, will focus on the reception: on how this literary work reconfigures the platforms through which it’s expressed and on how fiction itself uses the platforms to build a metadiscursive reflection on the literature inserted in the historical and social fact.

   Lene Tøftestuen - 25.05.2021 - 17:09

2. On Reading and Being Read in the Pandemic: Software, Interface, and The Endless Doomscroller

   A primary interface pattern of contemporary software platforms is the infinite scroll. Often used to deliver algorithmically-selected personalized content, infinitely scrolling feeds are one of many design decisions seen as responsible for compulsive use of social media platforms and other information-rich sites and apps. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a time marked by a substantive increase in time spent online, the infinitely scrolling feed has been implicated in a new negative pattern: “doomscrolling.” Doomscrolling refers to the ways in which people find themselves regularly--and in some cases, almost involuntarily--scrolling bad news headlines on their phone, often for hours each night in bed when they had meant to be sleeping. While the realities of the pandemic have necessitated a level of vigilance for the purposes of personal safety, doomscrolling isn’t just a natural reaction to the news of the day—it’s the result of a perfect yet evil marriage between a populace stuck online, social media interfaces designed to game and hold our attention, and the realities of an existential global crisis.

   Lene Tøftestuen - 25.05.2021 - 17:21

3. "Swipe Night is Fun, but Useless” An Analysis of Tinder’s Swipe Night, an Interactive Foray in Online Dating

   Electronic literature and computer games share a common history beginning from the earliest adventure games (Rettberg 87). As both the “technological platforms” that host electronic literature and games, and the “social contexts” that inform them evolve, so does the content, gameplay, and types of interactions they facilitate (Rettberg). The development of the Tinder platform and other mediated dating applications has precipitated the incorporation of interactive fiction games into the dating experience.

   Lene Tøftestuen - 25.05.2021 - 17:46

4. Dangerous Games: ARGs, Social Media Platforms and Participatory Propaganda

   Video games and their associated forms stand as the most lucrative entertainment sector on the planet, dominating other forms of visual media in dollars generated annually. In the proposed paper, adapted from a dissertation chapter, I will draw upon my experience as a game designer to illuminate the increasingly dire ways that various actors in the political sphere – from online trolls all the way to world leaders – have combined the language and techniques borne from the industrial practices of game design with the power of social media and other online communication platforms to produce new forms of disinformation, propaganda and conspiracy theory. In this paper, I will trace the history of a specific form of game – the Alternate Reality Game (ARG), from its early literary history in 1903 to its modern incarnations.

   Lene Tøftestuen - 25.05.2021 - 18:05

5. Interacting with Empathy: Migrant narrative in the context of mobile apps

   This paper explores two main mobile app narratives that deal with the issue of perilous irregular migration, 'Survival' (2017, Omnium Lab) and 'Bury me, my love' (2017, The Pixel Hunt, Figs, ARTE France). This paper explores the way in which the mobile app form lends itself to elevation of migrant narratives and explores the capacity of such works to generate empathy.
   The paper will analyse the way in which migration and its subjects are treated and placed into relation with the notion of the game. The paper will also address the comparison between game-style apps and other online modes whereby migrant experience is being represented, such as that of humanitarian photojournalism and portraiture as it arises in social media apps, such as Instagram.

   (Source: Author's own abstract)

   Lene Tøftestuen - 25.05.2021 - 18:21

6. Language |H|as a Virus: from figure of thought to experimental laboratory

   “Modernism is a history of infections: by political movements; by mass culture and consumerism; and now by the Internet, information technology, and interactivity. The openness to exteriority and its infections is an essential characteristic of the modernist inheritance, and that inheritance is the will to reveal the Other within oneself, to become Other, to become infected by Otherness.”

   Boris Groys, "In the Flow"

   Lene Tøftestuen - 25.05.2021 - 18:32

7. Appropriationist practices and subjectivation / desubjectivation processes: some productions of Argentine digital literature in times of algorithmic governance

   In this work, we propose to study a series of Argentine digital literature productions that problematize the idea of property in language. We refer to practices of appropriation and expropriation that –through copy-paste, plagiarism, remix, collage and work with “ready made”, among other operations that the digital medium facilitates - question the triad author-authority-property. We consider that, in this questioning of the traditional conception of authorship, these productions also allow us to read an “epochal slippage” within the category of subject (Bürger 2001), as they propose alternative forms of subjectivity.

   Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 25.05.2021 - 19:36

8. Repetition and Defamiliarization in AI Dungeon and Project December

   Recent advances in machine learning provide new opportunities for the exploration of creative, interactive works based around generative text. This paper compares two such works, AI Dungeon (Walton 2019) and Project December (Rohrer 2020), both of which are built on the same artificial intelligence (AI) platform, OpenAI’s GPT-2 and GPT-3. In AI Dungeon, the player can choose from several predetermined worlds, each of which provide a starting point for the story generation. However, while interacting with the system within this world, the player can stop, edit, modify and retry each utterance, allowing the player to “sculpt” the AI’s responses, and choose what goes into the AI’s memory, helping to shape the overall direction of the story. At a broader level, the player can edit world descriptions, insert scripts between the AI and the player (themselves or others), and share these worlds/scenarios with other players.

   Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 25.05.2021 - 19:44

9. Networks of Net Literature - Modelling, Extracting and Visualizing Link-Based Networks in the DLA corpus of net literature

   Net literature on the WWW is characterized by a special relationship between literary text and technical medium. In addition to the importance of graphic and typographic design, this includes in particular the hypertext structure of the texts. The distribution of a literary text across several interlinked web pages often leads to a non-linear structure, which usually corresponds to non-linear narrative structures. We consider a non-linear text structure to exist as soon as a page contains more than one reference to subsequent pages. A linear passage through the entire text is then no longer possible. For narrative texts, this also implies a non-linear narrative progression. Non-linear text structures can allow predominantly linear narrative progressions with alternative strands, variable endings, and cyclical elements, or multiple narrative progressions through complex linking.

   Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 25.05.2021 - 20:14

10. TabLit: Theorizing, Teaching and Preserving a Platform-Specific eLit

    Tablet computers such as the iPad come with standard technological affordances that other computers such as laptops and desktops do not have as a default, such as touch screens, gyroscopes, and accelerometers. Their simplicity of design, consisting of a flat screen with no required peripherals (such as a mouse and keyboard), and their manipulability (they can be held in one hand, utilized assuming multiple bodily positions, held at different angles and in various distances from one’s face, and easily switched between portrait and landscape orientations) have opened new creative opportunities for multimedia authors. In doing so, ‘TabLit’ (or ‘AppLit’) has challenged scholars, teachers and preservationists of eLit to address the unique features of the platform which has enabled and shaped this body of work.

    Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 25.05.2021 - 20:21

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