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E-lit context as Records Continuum: the “lost” Michael Joyce’s Afternoon Italian edition and the archival perspective
Devoted to the study and retrieval of those artifacts of the past for which a disruption in the continuity of preservation occurred, archaeological sciences operate with – and against – historical and cultural fractures. Likewise, computer forensics provides assistance whenever a need to recover data in the event of a hardware or software failure occurs. The textual shifting from page to screen experienced in the past twenty years represented both a cultural fracture (a call for paradigmatic changes in preservation which archival sciences themselves were not prepared for) and an opportunity to test computer forensics practices on text-based digital artifacts (software and hardware failures being named, in this case, “obsolescence”). Our paper draws attention to the fact that both digital archaeology and computer forensics, however, no matter how useful in shaping the current preservation practices and methodologies adopted by scholarly communities operating in the digital field, cannot replace or do without the extensive scholarship developed in disciplines that have traditionally dealt with textual preservation in situations of cultural continuity.
Audun Andreassen - 03.04.2013 - 16:07
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The State of the Archive: Authors, Scholars, and Curators on Archiving Electronic Literature
Archiving electronic literature and the challenges raised by this task is a subject of discourse and action as well as a formative force in shaping the emergence of electronic literature as field of scholarly study. The ELO Visionary Landscapes Conference in 2007 dedicated a keynote position to a panel on the topic of preserving electronic literature with archivists from leading universities, and the panel was a cornerstone of discussion at the conference and beyond. The current proposal for a panel on the topic seeks to continue the conversation while extending it to voices not usually included in critical conversation about archiving— artists whose work is selected for preservation. What kinds of experiences are involved in collecting and handing over one’s oeuvre to an archivist? Does this experience affect the practice (artistic and otherwise) of future creation? Are there specific aspects of these questions and their answers that are specific to the digital nature of the objects?
Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 11:21
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Missed Collections: Away From the Canon, Toward the Archive
This paper expands on some of the questions raised by my presentation at the 2009 Digital Arts and Culture conference, held last December at UC Irvine. While examining the work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), I asked what it might mean for a new media practitioner to intentionally disregard or shun many of the medium’s inherent capabilities. I was interested in the way in which YHCHI seemed to be protesting some of the assumptions or characteristics of the nascent canon of electronic literature, i.e. that works of new media are inherently multidirectional, adaptive, non-linear, etc.
Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 12:47
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Lost in the Archive: Vision, Artefact and Loss in the Evolution of Hypertext
This dissertation offers a history of hypertext, and does not reference any creative works of electronic literature. It has many references to critical writing that is important in the study of electronic literature. The following is the author's abstract: ---
Patricia Tomaszek - 29.06.2013 - 09:58
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Materiality Has Always Been In Play
Materiality Has Always Been In Play
Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 12:43
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Cibertextualidades 5
The impact of hypertext and hypermedia on scholarly editing of our literary legacy, which is increasingly published in electronic formats, has fostered a conceptual shift from the archive as a classified hierarchical collection of texts to the archive as a decentred and reconfigurable network of texts. Another important set of questions concerns new methods for editing and organizing multimodal textualities resulting from combinations of materials and media (graphic, audio, video, digital). The convergent multimodality of digital textuality opens up a new editing and archival space for multimedia and intermedia forms of writing. In the current technological context, innovative and experimental literary forms become relevant, as many of the operations that the machine provides can be found in previous literary practices: from collages and automatic writing to narrative permutations and intermedia poetry. This issue of the journal addresses problems of representing, archiving, and publishing experimental literary forms in digital spaces.
Patricia Tomaszek - 02.07.2013 - 16:56
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The Emergence of Electronic Literature Exhibition Catalogue
“The Emergence of Electronic Literature” exhibit includes objects and artifacts, books, computers and software, posters and ephemera documenting the rise of the field of electronic literature over the past four decades. Electronic literature includes literary works that take advantage of the context of the computer and the contemporary networked environment. This broad category of digital work includes genres such as hypertext fiction and poetry, kinetic poetry, computer art installations with literary aspects, interactive fiction, novels that take the form of emails, SMS messages, or blogs, poems and stories that are generated by computers, network-based collaborative writing projects, and literary performances online that develop new ways of writing. The field is essentially focused on potentially transformative uses of the computer to develop new literary genres, and the experiments that contemporary writers and artists are conducting within the new communications paradigm.
(Source: Introduction to the exhbition catalogue)
Scott Rettberg - 17.08.2013 - 16:43
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Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
This is a collection that documents the "hypertext fiction activity" between 1995-1997.
Among its features are:
- Approximately 230 citations to electronic fiction, its print precursors, and criticism
- Approximately 100 annotated citations for selected works
- Individual bibliographies of selected authors
- Announcements about the field and links to related sites of interest
Source: Michael Shumate (resume)
The page was last updated in 1997 and disappeared from the Web shorty after this record was created with a link to an active site in August 2013 (PT).
Patricia Tomaszek - 30.08.2013 - 18:13
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What Does is Mean to Read Online
What Does is Mean to Read Online
Patricia Tomaszek - 11.10.2013 - 19:53
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Hardening Arteroids: Challenges in Creating a Critical Edition of a Born-Digital Work
Hardening Arteroids: Challenges in Creating a Critical Edition of a Born-Digital Work
Patricia Tomaszek - 13.10.2013 - 10:08
