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1. A Short History of Electronic Poetry

   “Una Piccola Storia della Poesia Elettronica” presents a brief history of digital poetry, from the perspective of the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), Buffalo, and the international E-Poetry Festivals of digital literature, art, and performance (E-Poetry). The paper engages the discipline from various perspectives, considering its relation to historic contextualizing movements and institutional mechanisms. Typifying the E-Poetry festivals, it is argued, are its exuberant origins: (1) the U.S. small press movements of the later twentieth century; (2) the activities and philosophies of the Electronic Poetry Center; (3) its self-definition as more broadly-conceived than that of hypertext; (4) the pre-existing literary ground of Language Poetry practices; (5) the vibrancy of the as-then-constituted Poetics Program at Buffalo, and; (6) a "symposium of the whole", the continued emerging importance of enthnopoetic localizations to an eventual realization of contemporary poetics.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:57

2. Filiations and History of Digital Literature in France

   In this paper, I retrace the filiations and the history of digital literature in France, emphasizing the various literary and aesthetic tendencies and the corresponding social structures (groups, reviews...). I conclude with the possible characteristics of digital literature in France (which might not be specific to France).

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:12

3. True North

   This description comes from Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 2:

   Stephanie Strickland's True North came out in 1997 in two formats. First, it was published as a print book of poetry by the University of Notre Dame Press and won––that same year––the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize. It also appeared as a hypertext poem released on floppy disk for both PC and Macintosh computers by Eastgate Systems, Inc. As Strickland states in her “Prologue,” work on True North began in 1995 at N. Katherine Hayles's National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar but originally was conceived over a decade earlier when, influenced by the writings of Simone Weil, she developed an interest in finding a woman’s language.

   The editions and versions include:

   Print Edition

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:11

4. Christopher Strachey: The First Digital Artist?

   Extensive blog post in GrandTextAuto arguing that Christopher Strachey's love letter generator was in fact the first work of digital literature, with many references and quotations. A debate follows in the comments, for instance discussing the idea that the generator may be a form of anti-literature, a parody of literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 23:15

5. As We May Think

   As We May Think

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 11:31

6. Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel

   Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 12:52

7. 34 North 118 West

   Imagine walking through the city and triggering moments in time. Imagine wandering through a space inhabited with the sonic ghosts of another era. Like ether, the air around you pulses with spirits, voices, and sounds. Streets, buildings, and hidden fragments tell a story. The setting is the Freight Depot in downtown Los Angeles. At the turn of the century Railroads were synonymous with power, speed and modernization. Telegraphs and Railroads were our first cross-country infrastructures, preceding the Internet. From the history and myth of the Railroad to the present day, sounds and voices drift in and out as you walk.

   34 North 118 West plays through a Tablet PC with Global Positioning System card and headphones. GPS tracks your location to determine how the story unfolds as you uncover the early industrial era of Los Angeles.

   (Source: Authors' description from the project site)

   Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 12:50

8. Experimental Poetry and Technology in Argentina: History, Critique, Politics

   Experimental Poetry and Technology in Argentina: History, Critique, Politics

   Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 00:08

9. Poetics in the Expanded Field: Textual, Visual, Digital . . .

   Poetics in the Expanded Field: Textual, Visual, Digital . . .

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2011 - 21:10

10. Cinema Volta: Weird Science and Childhood Memory

    "James Petrillo’s classic tale Cinema Volta proves to be something strange at first glance. Combining both text and graphics from the mind of Petrillo, this electronic work simply eludes any categoric pigeonholing. Combining a dream like atmosphere and commentaries on such seminal scientific and literary players as Edison, Tesla, Dante and Mary Shelly, Cinema Volta establishes itself as a representation of the modern memoir in the information age."

    (Source: catalog text from exhibition at ELO conference 2008, "Two Decades of Electronic Literature: From Hypercard to YouTube")

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    Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.07.2011 - 21:48

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