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Le mange-texte
Le Mange-Texte is a work by Jean-Marie Dutey that perfectly represents the esthetic of frustration. There are two versions of Le Mange-Texte: the original 1989 version (that was programmed and published in alire 0.1 and alire 1) and the 1994 version. When one starts to look at the black screen, squares appear, changing into the form of four letter words. The words gradually develop and the reader tries to decipher the letters in order to make sense of the unclear words (that can be read vertically, revealing the verses of the poem). The moment one tries to read the words in their proper context, the machine “eats” the text which transforms into different shapes. The color changes from blue to pink and instead of squares, one sees flowers, and the words change. Some words repeat, but the word “rose” (which can also be translated from original French into English as “pink”) appears, for example. Once again, the machine “eats” the words and the process repeats. It is difficult to read the text because the reader must try to distinguish the letters.
Scott Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 14:53
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Endless Text: New Media Technologies in The Raw Shark Texts
Since the digital revolution of the 1990’s, the ‘end’ of literature has been often proclaimed from both a utopian and apocalyptic perspective. While the former has imagined a release of the literary from the constraints of paper and print, in the animation of letters and words, the latter has lamented the end of reading and writing as ‘we’ know it. However, as clear as the opposition between the hopeful visions of theorists such as George Landow and the nostalgic lament of critics like Steven Birkerts may be, their respective stances are easily disclosed as two sides of the same coin: both the positive and negative presentations of the end of literature build on the subtext that literature ‘is’ something; an inside (a space, or a practice) that is either creatively challenged or threatened from the outside – as if it were a backward country or a country under threat, to be opened up and developed or protected respectively. This paper challenges such a distinction between inside and outside by reading ‘literature’ as an interface of other media technologies.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 02.02.2011 - 15:42
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I mellom tiden
I mellom tiden er et hypertekstuelt nettkunstverk bestående at statiske og dynamiske elementer, lyd, skrift, bilde, video og grafikk. Verket er sentrert rundt fire temaer; venner, alene, familie og elskere. Ved å traversere verket får leseren mulighet til å oppleve ulike hverdagslige aspekter i livet, på tvers av de fire temaene. Gjennom sampling og et samspill mellom temaer, stemninger, modaliteter, sjangrer og ulik grad av brukerstyring framstiller I mellom tiden en mangefasettert og kompleks estetikk, der ulike livsverdener interagerer med hverandre, der det virkelige møter det kunstige, det private møter det offentlige, og der det åpne møter det dunkle. [verkbeskrivelse av Hans-Kristian Rustad / ELINOR]
Scott Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 16:10
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The ABCDESTRUCTIONOPQRXYZÅÄÖ
Heldén's usual sophisticated visual language has here been cast aside in preference for a strictly simple HTML construction where texts, photographs and the urging to keep moving forwards drive the reading of this short work (next, next...). The work shows how digital techniques can allow for relatively simple arrangements of text and images that still belong in a digital environment.
(Source: Maria Engberg, for ELINOR)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 21:16
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Enter the Plains
Heldén utforskar kartans möjligheter för litterär navigering med ett verk som kopplar texter till platser på den flygbildsliknande kartbild läsaren måste navigera. Genom att klicka på ’hotspots’ i bilden frammanas en text till vänster. Geografi och en känsla av platsen genomsyrar texterna som bygger upp en klaustrofobisk text där de öppna vidderna blir ett hot. De neutrala kartkoordinater och tidsangivelser som man normalt navigerar efter ställs jämte högst personliga berättelser, kanske handlar det om soldatens upplevelser av krig. Berättelserna är fragmentariska och låter oss bara ana vad som händer, vem som berättar.
[Maria Engberg, ELINOR.]
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 21:23
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Distributed Narrative: Telling Stories Across Networks
A new kind of narrative is emerging from the network: the distributed narrative. Distributed narratives don’t bring media together to make a total artwork. Distributed narratives explode the work altogether, sending fragments and shards across media, through the network and sometimes into the physical spaces that we live in. This paper begins an investigation into this new narrative trend, looking at how narrative is spun across the network and into our lives. NB: Published under author's maiden name: Jill Walker.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 21:54
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Surrender Control
The reader of this piece received SMSes over the course of 72 hours with instructions to do many strange things, thereby spreading the narrative into her or his physical surroundings. Invitations to sign up were both advertised on the web and distributed on unsigned fliers in London, thus combining physical and networked spaces. Here are some examples of messages sent, with the date and time they were sent out: 28. Write the word SORRY on your hand and leave it there until it fades. (21/11/01, 00:01) 29. Look at the stars. (21/11/01, 00:59) 30. Think about an ex-lover, naked and tied to a bed. (21/11/01, 10:00) 31. Call someone. Tell a lie. (21/11/01, 13:15) 32. Call them back. Admit that you lied but do not tell the truth about why. (21/11/01, 13:30) Surrender Control is not a narrative in the formal sense, but it may enact a narrative with the recipient of the text messages.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:00
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SKIN: A Mortal Work of Art
A short story where each word was tattooed on the skin of a volunteer. These volunteers were the only people who saw the full text of the story. The website documents the work using photographs of tattooed words, a map showing where the words "live", and describing the concept: 'From this time on, participants will be known as "words". They are not understood as carriers or agents of the words they bear, but as their embodiments. As a result, injuries to the printed text, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work. Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died. The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.'
(Source for quoted text: Author's Project Announcement)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:07
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She's a Flight Risk...
A presumably fictional blog about a wealthy heiress who flees her family for not entirely clear reasons, possibly to do with a forced marriage. The blog begins, "On March 2, 2003 at 4:12 pm, I disappeared. My name is isabella v., but it's not. I'm twentysomething and I am an international fugitive."
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:21
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Kaycee Nicole
This was a very popular blog from 1999-2001 about teenaged Kaycee Nicole's struggle with cancer. The blog was presented as real, and Kaycee Nicole eventually "died", as told by another fictional character blogging as her mother. The hoax, once discovered, caused many loyal fans and friends great distress.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:32
