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At the Time of Writing: Digital Media, Gesture and Handwriting
This paper examines the way literary practice in digital media illuminates traditional literary processes that otherwise remain unremarked, and conversely, what the literary concept of ‘address’ might contribute to an understanding of the way digital media are reinventing literary agency. It explores handwriting as an embodied praxis linking thought with corporeality through the medium of gesture, and its transformations in text-based new media art. Handwriting (and especially signatures) has long been thought to make personality traits manifest. Its expressive gestural and kinematic aspect can be illuminated by Werner’s theory of physiognomic perception in which two-dimensional diagrams are shown as consistently corresponding to and eliciting a small number of categorical affects (happy, sad, angry) in viewers. Diane Gromala’s ‘Biomorphic Typography’ (2000 onwards) in which the user’s keystrokes generate biofeedback input which combines with the behaviours assigned to typography to animate text in the present time of writing draws on these conventions and complicates them in the process.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 15:32
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The Presumed Literariness of Digital
This presentation will challenge the current, too quickly determined relationship between
the ‘literary’ and digital media. The presumed literariness of digital art--these days, anything
from performance art to virtual sculpture work--muddles the already confused and meandering
genre of electronic literature, leading away from acts of reading and remarking on text and its location in new media. Electronic literature began as a study of literary writing produced and
meant to be read on a computer screen, opening up new possibilities for interactive and dynamic
storytelling, utilizing the new medium’s ability for linking lexias. The literariness of this work
is manifest: the work was primarily textual, the centrality of reading paramount. Textuality was
at the heart of the work, thus the term electronic literature was appropriate and uncontested.
Lately, ‘electronic literature’ is an umbrella-term for all things digital. A spectrum of genres
and forms are included, among them video games, interactive fiction, digital art, and (virtual)Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 14:41
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Electronic Literature for All: Performance in Exhibits and Public Readings
Reaching out to new readers of electronic literature is now easier, thanks to the widespread use
and accessibility of digital media--computers, smartphones, electronic tablets, gaming consoles.
The channels are in place, but how do new audiences discover and read electronic literature?
This paper will present two case studies of two different events whose purpose is to introduce
readers to electronic literature. Both cases show how managing the performative aspects of electronic literature and its context is essential to engage new readers.(Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 11:56