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  1. On Byways and Backlanes: The Philosophy of Free Culture

    We see before us a turning in free culture. This turning, lies between the claims of the ordinary against those of the extraordinary, and suggests that we need to carefully examine our current situation. The ordinary highlights the fact that even in the beginnings of free culture there existed its middle and its end, that its past invaded its present, and even the most extreme attention to the present is invaded by a concern for the future. Whereas the extraordinary highlights the possibility of thinking that brings us out of this life-world and instead opens out and unfolds the way in which we might reveal a different world. This world could be said to be both within capitalism and between capitalisms. Here we might think about the transformation of the economic base from an industrial fordist form of capitalism, to an economy founded on the valorisation of information and code, a postfordist capitalism. Free culture, then, could be said to lie in the interstices, and in so doing could be a rare chance to help to point the way from the lived to the desired.

    David M. Berry - 21.09.2010 - 11:22

  2. Speaking With The Other

    Speaking With The Other

    Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:24

  3. Giles Moss

    Giles Moss

    David M. Berry - 21.09.2010 - 11:25

  4. The Sentient Sign

    The Sentient Sign

    Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:26

  5. Ping Poetics

    Sandy Baldwin investigates the manner in which a computer "ping trace" can be classified as a form of digital poetics, and discusses the underlying symbolic practices of both poesis and poetics that encompass coding and computation.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.09.2010 - 11:27

  6. Aesthetics of Visual Noise in Digital Literary Arts

    The essay analyzes the phenomenon of digital poems representative of the use of a visually “busy” and typographically dense aesthetic. The essay focuses on digital works, such as Spawn by Andy Campbell, Diagram Series 6 by Jim Rosenberg, and Leaved Life by Anne Frances Wysocki. The author argues that a dominant aesthetic technique of these works, which is called “visual noise,” is generated by a tactilely responsive surface in combination with visual excess. This in turn requires an physical engagement from the reader/user in order for a reading to take place.

    Maria Engberg - 21.09.2010 - 11:37

  7. From ALAMO to Transitoire Observable: evolution of the French digital literature

    The presentation provides a historical overview of the evolution of electronic literature in France from the ALAMO group, an outgrowth of the OULIPO focused on combinatory aesthetics, through to the present day.

    Scott Rettberg - 03.10.2010 - 22:28

  8. The International Interactive Fiction Community

    In this talk, I describe some details of how these communities have functioned over the years: What forums, chat systems, publications, competitions, directories, archives, and other sorts of institutions and traditions are used to build new aesthetic appreciations of IF, to enable people to learn more about programming, design, and writing, and to to connect IF authors and players. My analysis, which draws on my experience as a member of “the IF community” while also considering online artifacts and discourses could be helpful in other electronic literature communities. It will also consider how existing community activity could help to connect IF more effictively with poets, fiction writers, artists, and and others who work in creative computing.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 16:51

  9. The Poetry Beyond Text Project

    This presentation gives an overview on the research project "Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition" (2009 – 2011), funded by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, emphasizing areas of potential connection with ELMCIP, and raising issues relevant to electronic literature.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 16:52

  10. Case Studies in American Creative Communities

    Author's abstract: Everyone wants to be a part of community -­? but someone has to break the ice and establish the infrastructure. What are the physical, behavioral and interpersonal strategies and tactics that lead to the success of four American creative communities: Invisible Seattle, Persimmons & Myrrh, Chicago Lit Dinners, and Imperial Quality Media? Answers include: food, timekeeping, meeting facilitation, psychological tenderness, seating arrangements, theatricality and deep shag carpeting.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 17:00

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