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The Pasts and Futures of Netprov
Rob Wittig presents a slide-talk on the emergent artform of netprov (networked improv narrative). Play and go deep! Netprov creates stories that are networked, collaborative and improvised in real time. This is a remix of a talk given at the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Morgantown, West Virginia on June 22, 2012. Rob looks at the historical of netprov. from theatrical comedy to internet memes to literary fiction to alternate reality games. He describes his own recent netprov projects Chicago Soul Exchange and Grace, Wit & Charm.
Source: Vimeo video description
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 16:39
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Electronic Literature: Linking Database Projects
Electronic Literature: Linking Database Projects
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 15:15
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A Response to Nick Montfort's "Programming for Fun, Together"
A response to Nick Montfort's "Remediating the Social" keynote talk. Rettberg was subsituting for Rita Raley, who was unable to attend the conference due to Hurricane Sandy's impact on New York. Rettberg provides two examples of collaborative procedural writing practices as a contrast to the social programming examples such as the Demoscene Montfort discusses, and some followup questions on the four main points of Montfort's essay.
Scott Rettberg - 02.11.2012 - 09:10
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Sauti ya wakulima: "The Voice of the Farmers": The creation of a community memory through appropriated media
Sauti ya wakulima: "The Voice of the Farmers": The creation of a community memory through appropriated media
Scott Rettberg - 04.11.2012 - 11:30
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Upstage
Upstage
Scott Rettberg - 04.11.2012 - 12:02
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The Digital Manual
The Digital Manual
Scott Rettberg - 04.11.2012 - 12:10
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Instrument Making (Interview with Eric Loyer)
Erik Loyer created the canonical early net-art pieces 'Lair of the Marrow Monkey'(1998) and 'Chroma'(2001). Not content with those genius works, he went on to creative direct the avant-garde net-journal Vectors, and designed the activist documentary Webby-award nominee 'Public Secrets'.
Throughout Loyer's works there is a persistent synaesthetic edge: a concern with tactility and synchronized audio-visuals that gives his work abiding engagement. He thinks of himself as an instrument maker, and this tendency is apparent in his recent works: the best-selling 'Strange Rain' and a recent immersive graphic novel app "Upgrade Soul" which incorporates modular music mapped to gestures.
Interview 2012-06-23 at ELO Morgantown.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston, Vimeo)
Scott Rettberg - 12.02.2013 - 13:13
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The Love of the Social Writerly Game (Interview with Mark Marino and Rob Wittig)
Rob Wittig & Mark Marino share a friendship based on destabilizing literary norms with comedy, computers, and collaborations.
Their ongoing conversations range over decades of their work from anecdotes of Wittig's early writing process experiments that preceded the internet by a decade (IN.S.OMNIA, 1983) to a work they are completing together currently net-improv fiction distributed using hashtags.
Both these writers have consistently explored radically playful modes of writing that emerge through message boards, emails, and now twitter. Marino offers cogent critique on the underlying notions of connection that exist as a thematic under all Rob's practices; then describes his early comedy magazine Bunk, 'a playground for writers'. Douglas Adams emerges as the lifter of the 'bag of rocks' and both convert into ravens, black wings gouging the page into inky screens.
Interview 2012-06-23 at ELO Morgantown.
(Source: David Jhave Johnston, Vimeo)
Scott Rettberg - 12.02.2013 - 15:40
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Topdown Digital Literature: The Effects of Institutional Collaborations and Communities
Contrary to what one might think, institutions play an important role in the production, preservation, and funding of electronic literature. Due to the absence of traditional gate-watchers like publishers and newspaper critics, the function of selection, distribution, and reception of this work has been taken over partly by anthologies, reviews and criticism that are produced in an academic climate. Artists need the necessary channels for preservation, distribution, and critical evaluation of the work, channels that have the power to create “cultural capital”. Even the production of work often takes place in an academic or institutional setting. Literary festivals, conferences and workshops form temporary communities in which planned collaboration takes place. This article addresses institutionalized and planned collaboration and its effects on the production, the presentation, and the content of digital literature.
(Source: Author's abstract)
Patricia Tomaszek - 29.04.2013 - 16:01
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Towards Network Narrative: Electronic Literature, Communication Technologies, and Cultural Production
In recent years literature and communication scholars, publishing industry commentators, and technology journalists have declared the death of print. Anxieties over the future of print generally, and the novel, literature, books and literacy more specifically have become commonplace in the mainstream news media, technology blogs, and academic discourse. Despite these claims, people may read more than ever – if we recognize a more expansive set of textual practices under the rubric of that term. Given the number of emails, text messages, status updates, image captions, RSS headlines, tweets, web pages, and comment threads that are processed in the digital everyday, our experience of the world is arguably more textually mediated than ever. Are these cultural practices compatible with prose narrative fiction? Are they capable of forming the basis for network narratives now and in the future?
Scott Rettberg - 25.06.2013 - 13:11
