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  1. The (Problematic) Issue to Evaluate Literariness: Digital Literature Between Legitimation and Canonization

    The first experiments in digital literary forms started as early as
    the 1960s. From then, up to the mid-90’s, was a period that,
    according to Chris Funkhouser (2007), can be considered as
    a ‘laboratory’ phase. The rise of the Internet has resulted in the
    proliferation of creative proposals. The first involves indexing
    creative works in the form of databases, sometimes giving access
    to hundreds of works without any hierarchical order. Since 2000,
    digital literature has been experiencing a new phase, marked by
    the creation of anthologies. Over the years, the evaluation and
    selection criteria have proved to be as problematic as they are
    necessary for these projects. The main issue of this paper is to
    provide a critical discussion of these criteria.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:40

  2. Performing the Digital Archive: Remediation, Emulation, Recreation

    The aim of ‘PO.EX '70-80: A Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature’ (http://po-ex.net/) is to represent the intermedia and performative textuality of a large corpus of experimental works and practices in an electronic database, including some early instances of digital literature. This paper shows how the performativity of digital archiving and recoding is explored through the remediation, emulation and recreation of works in the PO.EX archive. Preservation, classification and networked distribution are also discussed as editorial and representational problems within the current database aesthetics in knowledge production. (Project reference: PTDC/CLE-LLI/098270/2008).

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:42

  3. Argot, Ogre, OK!

    All of the prior remixes of Nick Montfort's _Taroko Gorge_ rewrote the text, while leaving Nick's code unchanged or almost so. I thought that was a shame. I also thought it was an opportunity! Since they all essentially consisted of word-lists plugged into a schema, I was able to remix them together on two axes at the same time:

    * Combining the word-lists of any two poems;
    * Mutating the stanza schema.

    I also took the opportunity to randomize the color schemes of the pages. (But not the font choices or the background imagery that some of the poems indulged in. Optima for everybody, I'm afraid.)

    Nick's original poem generates a constant ABBA-C pattern, with some extra B's thrown in. This page essentially invents a new pattern (for example A-, or BC-BA, or CCC, or so on) for each block. The code for the pattern is on the left, and the generated output is on the right.

    To answer the obvious question: Yes, this page really does execute the code that's displayed in the left column, and it really does generate the text in the right column.

    Scott Rettberg - 24.06.2012 - 15:09

  4. Last Words

    The complete title for this multimedia poem is “Last Words (Ordinary People Speak at the Moment of Death / In or Around the New York City Area)” and it is both descriptive of the poem’s theme and suggestive of a key strategy. Organized around eight characters’ final words and the contexts in which those words were uttered, each one is represented by a brief “slice of death” narrative, and a poetic voice from beyond that provides an ironic counterpoint, full of Bigelow’s characteristic darkly understated humor. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

    Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2012 - 15:02

  5. Always Tomorrow

    Always Tomorrow is a virtual reality fiction piece for HTC Vive. The viewer/reader is positioned in the centre of an infinite visual galaxy populated by 40 small interactive spheres, suggestive of planets but textured with distorted images that resonate with the stories they hold within. The viewer touches the spheres in any order to activate audio and unfold a time-twisting, fringeaffirming, ether-inflected love story set in Berlin in the Weimar Republic with a tomorrow already speaking itself on the protagonists’ lips. We hope the piece resonates with the contemporary moment, too, somewhere between histories and futures; the objects of our desires and our longing, the periphery of the culture and its centre. It’s also a mediation on the power of poetry.

    Vian Rasheed - 18.11.2019 - 15:49

  6. Tin Towns and Other Excel Fictions

    Tin Towns and Other Excel Fictions is an ongoing, open-ended collection of short fiction experiments that explore the obscurities and unintended consequences of human technology over the centuries.  The genesis was an investigation into some of the causes of the end of the Bronze Age, including the shortage of tin.  Critical developments in metals, nuclear energy, farming practices, and biological warfare are just some of the topics included in these works.

    (Source: The NEXT)

    Author's statement: 

    We normally think of fiction narratives as represented in linear text.  Yet, electronic literature works – the born digital varieties - have been created with and contained in a range of innovative and often non-linear applications.

    Amber Strother - 27.08.2021 - 17:26

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