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1. German Net Literature: In the Exile of Invisibility

   German net literature had an early and very public start through competitions organized in 1996-8 by the major newspaper Die Zeit and IBM, but was declared dead or stillborn immediately afterwards. Consequently, net literature became a subject of controversy between artists, theorists, and literary critics from which not only a strong community evolved but also a literary system. In this system, competitions served as public, peer-reviewed mediators for net literature and became an important feature of “post-processing.” Since the end of the 90s however, German net literature became slowly invisible. The lack of public awareness of net literature is common to many countries. Post-processing is a key for public visibility and according to Siegfried J. Schmidt et al. an important component in a literary system. In search of reasons for the state of invisibility of German net literature, I analyze mechanisms of post-processing in our community, which I regard as a literary system. This descriptive synopsis is the first paper in an upcoming series that opens up questions towards the role of peer-review, public reception, and artists' community-building.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:15

2. Netzliteratur.net and Edition Cyberfiction

   Netzliteratur.net and Edition Cyberfiction

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.04.2011 - 12:38

3. Der digitale Autor. Autorschaft im Zeitalter des Internets

   Der digitale Autor. Autorschaft im Zeitalter des Internets

   Florian Hartling - 05.05.2011 - 11:07

4. Wo ist der Online-Ulysses? Kanonisierungsprozesse in der Netzliteratur

   "Net literature" is a relatively young phenomenon that has its roots as well in the experiments of visual and concrete poetics as in the application of hypertext. With the extensive use of computer- and network-technologies this new kind of literature has grown up and is now considered to be one of the most important influences of recent art. Not only does "net literature" connect sound, video and animation with interactivity and allows new forms of artistic expression. It also destroys the traditional functions in the literary system: The ‘death of the author’ gives birth to the writing reader.In this study a first attempt is made to apply the concept of "canon" to "net literature": Is there already a "canon" existing and if so, what are the techniques that are used to form this "canon"? Based on a theory of action and a modification of Karl Erik Rosengren’s "mention technique" a sample of German reviews on "net literature" was analyzed.

   Florian Hartling - 05.05.2011 - 11:28

5. looppool

   First produced in 1998, Bas Böttcher’s looppool marks a specific generational moment in the history of online poetry and netart. Simple yet delightful, its palindrome title playfully describes the Sisyphean loop of wandering red billiard balls through a textual maze composed of scattered objects, thoughts, and actions. The reader can either passively watch as these spherical flaneurs wander along the pre-selected path or click to alter their course. Rather than convey the sense of an infinite possibility space, the paths of these poems are highly constrained. Like a Möbius strip, there is no outside to this looppool and regardless of the direction taken, the leisurely poem will wander forever along an unbroken loop.

   (Source: editorial statement, Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Three)

   Jörgen Schäfer - 13.11.2012 - 14:49

6. Optical Media Archaeologies

   Anthony Enns juxtaposes two models of German media theory in reviewing new works by Oliver Grau and Friedrich Kittler.

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 13:50

7. Online Work: "Bicycle Built For Two Thousand" by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey

   "Bicycle Built For Two Thousand" (2009) is an online work by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey.

   The work is the product of 2000 people around the globe working together, although none of them knew about it.

   The project includes 2,088 voice recordings collected through Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service.

   Hired workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip and then they had to record themselves imitating with their own voice what they heard. 

   Put together, these thousands of samples recreate “Daisy Bell”, a popular song from late 1800s.

   Why this song?

   The song "Daisy Bell" originally written by Harry Dacre in 1892, was made famous in 1962 by John Kelly, Max Mathews, and Carol Lockbaum as the first example of musical speech synthesis.

   In contrast to the 1962 version, "Bicycle Built For Two Thousand" was synthesized with a distributed system of human voices from all over the world.

   The aim was to use countless human voices to create something digital.

   Chiara Agostinelli - 12.09.2018 - 15:26