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Computer Power and Human Reason
Computer Power and Human Reason
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 10:43
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ELIZA — A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man And Machine
Full title: "ELIZA — A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man And Machine"
ELIZA is a program operating within the MAC time-sharing system at MIT which makes certain kinds of natural language conversation between man and computer possible. Input sentences are analyzed on the basis of decomposition rules which are triggered by key words appearing in the input text. Responses are generated by reassembly rules associated with selected decomposition rules. The fundamental technical problems with which ELIZA is concerned are: (1) the identification of key words, (2) the discovery of minimal context, (3) the choice of appropriate transformations, (4) generation of responses in the absence of key words, and (5) the provision of an editing capability for ELIZA "scripts". A discussion of some psychological issues relevant to the ELIZA approach as well as of future developments concludes the paper.
(Source: Author's abstract)
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 10:51
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Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough—or should we look further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital media function, is essential.
Wardrip-Fruin suggests that it is the authors and artists with knowledge of these processes who will use the expressive potential of computation to define the future of fiction and games. He also explores how computational processes themselves express meanings through distinctive designs, histories, and intellectual kinships that may not be visible to audiences.
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 11:26
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The Archeological Media Lab: A Locavore Approach to Access & Preservation
The paper describes the Archeological Media Lab, aligning it with the field of Media Archaeology (at the moment the best writings on M.A. in English are probably best found in Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka’s forthcoming Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications). The lab tries to take on a locavore approach to both sustaining and framing e-literature – one that is primarily hands-on and resolutely of the local, with only a very modest global or online presence.
(Source: Adapted from author's site)
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:21
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Cross-Referenced E-Lit and Scholarship: The ELMCIP Knowledge Base
The ELMCIP-Knowledge Base (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice) provides researchers, students, and a general audience of electronic literature new ways of accessing existing scholarship in the field. With a special focus on cross-references, the relational database documents the field of research and creative practice in electronic literature. While focusing on the display of social entities and geographical roots, connections between actors and works in the communities field become visible. The strength of the database lies in the variety and cross-referenced nature of record types that feed the database: author, creative work, critical writing, event, organization, publisher, and teaching resources are being documented and referenced. In this talk, I will present suggestions how to integrate the ELMCIP-Knowledge Base into regular writing, research, and teaching practices.
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:25
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PO.EX '70-80: The Electronic Multimodal Repository
Portuguese experimental poetry of the 1970s and 1980s includes visual poetry, sound poetry, videopoetry, performance poetry, and computer poetry. Experimental literary objects, practices, and events often consist of an interaction between notational forms on paper and site-specific live performances. Thus the eventuality of literary meaning is dramatically foregrounded by turning the text into a script for an act whose performance co-constitutes the work. The aim of ‘PO.EX ‘70-’80: A Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature’ (http://po-ex.net/) is to represent this intermedia and performative textuality in an electronic database. The aggregation and marking up of this large multimodal corpus has material and interpretative implications which challenge our representations of experimental works and practices. Whether taking the form of facsimiles of books and paper collages, photographs of installations, videos of performances or emulations of early digital poems, digital remediation re-performs the works for the current techno-social context.
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:28
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Bearing the Fruits of E-Poetry: A Personal Decennial View
Bearing the Fruits of E-Poetry: A Personal Decennial View
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:35
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The Surface Materiality: Performing Generative Writing
The Surface Materiality: Performing Generative Writing
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:38
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Electronic Publishing
Electronic Publishing
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:56
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Close-Reading: Digital Poetry
Close-Reading: Digital Poetry
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:58