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Digital Arts and Literature – Is it Just a Game?
“Games are not serious; digital art and literature are playful; therefore they are not serious”. Formulations such as these are sometimes used when discussing the playfulness of digital art and literature. The origin of this argument is based on the traditional opposition between “serious” and “playful”. Because of their interactive nature, digital art and literature have often been considered as particularly close to play - and to “mass culture”. Depending on the approaches, this proximity is interpreted as an opportunity, or as a risk, as I will show in this article.
On the one hand, art and play are so closely related that it has become commonplace to assert: “art is play”, “play is art”. On the other hand, it seems equally impossible to deny the existence of playfulness in art and literature. Indeed, is it not one of their fundamental privileges to allow free, unselfish play with the materials, codes and conventions, while science, craft industry, and industrial design are "condemned" to produce and capitalise?
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:44
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Digital Literary Text as a Play and a Ride
Digital Literary Text as a Play and a Ride
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:45
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Video Ergo Sum: Video as Symbolic Form
From cinema to TV, from PC to iPhone, from videogames to the displays disseminated across the urban space, today everything is video. It form a whirl of images flowing in a single visual stream, an unstoppable and fluid visual continuum. Therefore, by explicitly hinting at Erwin Panofsky’s essay of 1927, in this text I try to understand if it is possible to develop a discourse on the situation of contemporary visual culture that echoes the one proposed by the German art historian. The following arguments try to prove that it is indeed possible by referring to the relations currently binding art, aesthetics and the new media, and in particular to the series of interdisciplinary studies developed by North-American cultural studies.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:50
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New Media ArtPoetry: A Reflection on Practice
New Media ArtPoetry: A Reflection on Practice
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:52
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Art, Activism and Web. Notes and Hypothesis for a Historical Overview
Art, Activism and Web. Notes and Hypothesis for a Historical Overview
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:53
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A Short History of Electronic Poetry
“Una Piccola Storia della Poesia Elettronica” presents a brief history of digital poetry, from the perspective of the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), Buffalo, and the international E-Poetry Festivals of digital literature, art, and performance (E-Poetry). The paper engages the discipline from various perspectives, considering its relation to historic contextualizing movements and institutional mechanisms. Typifying the E-Poetry festivals, it is argued, are its exuberant origins: (1) the U.S. small press movements of the later twentieth century; (2) the activities and philosophies of the Electronic Poetry Center; (3) its self-definition as more broadly-conceived than that of hypertext; (4) the pre-existing literary ground of Language Poetry practices; (5) the vibrancy of the as-then-constituted Poetics Program at Buffalo, and; (6) a "symposium of the whole", the continued emerging importance of enthnopoetic localizations to an eventual realization of contemporary poetics.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:57
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From Textual Random Synthesis to Hypermedia - The Genesis of a Multimedia Electronic Work: ALLETSATOR/ROTASTELLA
From Textual Random Synthesis to Hypermedia - The Genesis of a Multimedia Electronic Work: ALLETSATOR/ROTASTELLA
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:58
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eLiterature: Literature in the Digital Era. Definition, Concept and Status
In questo contributo si analizza il concetto di eLiterature e il suo statuto digitale. Si considera quindi il rapporto tra letteratura ed eLiterature e si presentano le caratteristiche peculiari di quest’ultima. Attraversando i concetti di digital born, paper-under-glass, ibridità, mutagenabilità, ergodicità, agency e testualità digitale si offre infine una definizione di letteratura elettronica.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:00
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The Virtual and The Virtuous
Con l’avvento di Internet la quantità di materiale "elettronico" esistente è aumentata sempre di più. Il web rappresenta sicuramente un passo in avanti sconvolgente nella storia del progresso dell’umanità; pur tuttavia tale dispositivo tecnologico è stato soggetto a numerose critiche dal momento che, secondo una posizione la quale, un tempo, avremmo definito “apocalittica”, questo ci starebbe portando verso la fine della Galassia Gutenberg. Con Internet ciò che è evidente è che ci si trova di fronte ad un’omogeneizzazione a livello del supporto grazie al quale la scrittura si veicola e si innesta, ma questa continua ad esistere, sia in quanto interfaccia possibile dell’intera storia tradizionale della letteratura, sia, ed in maniera consistente, in forme innovative. L'incontro tra digitale e mondo della letteratura ha dato vita ad uno scenario assolutamente inedito, senz'altro caratterizzato da una serie di nuove possibilità, ma, al contempo, anche da paradossi e puntellato da non pochi interrogativi.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:03
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E-Art: Fragmentation and Assembling
What constitutes the distinctive aspects of digital art? In what manner is art (created by the possibilities offered by electronic writing) either breaking away from or innovating upon the previous artistic tradition? The search for an answer to these questions leads us to circumscribe five traits, many of which are common to more recent artistic traditions. These are, in order: reflections on language, the thematisation of the act of production, the conceptual value of the work, art in a place beyond its reproducibility and the consequent value of its uniqueness, but above all, the work as a fragmented assemblage.
“Self Portrait (s) [as Other (s)]” by Talan Memmott, published in the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection, summarizes and provides a case study, and in many ways it is exemplary of these traits.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:04
