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1. Botnik

   Botnik is a machine entertainment company run by comedy writers, using computers to remix text.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.05.2022 - 21:33

2. Theatricality in the midst of a pandemic: An assessment of artistic responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

   This article examines theatre as a creative journalistic media deployed by theatre practitioners to map experiences of Zimbabweans during the COVID-19-induced lockdown. When the first positive case of COVID-19 was reported in March 2020, the Zimbabwe government, like many other countries, responded by introducing restrictions for public gatherings and ultimately a lockdown including arts events. Yet, theatricality has refused to capitulate. Artists re-invented their theatre productions into theatrical comic and satirical works posted on various social media platforms, in an effort to make sense of the pandemic, bring laughter and address a serious complex situation. We examine how artists deployed theatre to journal, capture and document the citizen’s collective experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, for both the present and posterity. We are specifically interested in analysing the different ways art is deployed to provide entertainment, a broader understanding and awareness of the social, psychological and economic impact of COVID-19 for the present and future generations.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 08.06.2022 - 23:36

3. Looking Back while Moving Forward: The Case of Concrete Poetry and Sankofa

   This article considers the intersection between African oral tradition and electronic literature by exploring the potential of Sankofa to interact with concrete poetry in an electronic space. Sankofa is an example of the Adinkra, a set of symbols that were originally created and used by the Akan in West Africa. These symbols have literary value which this article looks at in ways similar to concrete poetry; examining Sankofa as concrete poetry in an electronic context enables a simultaneous dovetailing with as well as convergence from oral and print based modes of engaging with the text: aspects of oral tradition influence this exploration. 

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.06.2022 - 18:53

4. Sarah Whitcomb Laiola

   Sarah Whitcomb Laiola is the founding editor of Filter Insta-Zine, and Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Design at Coastal Carolina University. She received my PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside in August 2016, and specializes in new media poetics, contemporary digital cultures, visual art and culture, critical race and gender studies, and 20th/21st century American literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 30.06.2022 - 17:24

5. John Clark

   John Clark was a printer and inventor from Bridgwater in Somerset. He invented the airbed and, notably for electronic literature, a Latin Verse Machine (also called the Eureka) that was the first known automated poetry generator.

   John Clark was a cousin of the Clarks who started Clarks shoes, and fortunately his papers and the Latin Verse Machine have been preserved by the Alfred Gillett Trust, which primarily holds the archives of the shoe company. 

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 10:33

6. Mike Sharples

   British academic who has worked on educational technology, artificial intelligence and generative literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 10:49

7. Popular Prosody: Spectacle and the Politics of Victorian Versification

   Paper discussing John Clark's Latin Verse Machine (1843) and the effect of this kind of technology on popular understandings of prosody.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 13:52

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