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1. Inside Blackwell Mansion

   "Inside Blackwell Mansion" is a historical-fiction digital narrative based on the life story of Sarah Pardee Winchester, the eccentric "haunted" widow of the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune. On advice from a psychic, Sarah Winchester built a sprawling mansion in San Jose, California, allegedly to avoid the vengeful spirits of the countless many who had been killed by the Winchester rifle. Building went on continuously for 38 years, without plan, and often without apparent purpose, until her death in 1922. Sarah Winchester's story is especially interesting, because it can be considered on so many different levels: spiritualism, skepticism, mythology, tourism, and feminism.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 14:29

2. Hypermedia, Eternal Life, and The Impermanence Agent

   The story of hypermedia, in which the Web is a recent chapter, begins with a vision of transforming the brain's associative connections into media - media that can be infinitely duplicated and easily shared - creating pathways of thought in a form that will not fade with memory. In recent years, hypermedia has begun to permeate our lives. But it is not as we dreamed: constantly growing, with nothing lost, only showing what we wish to see. Instead we find 'Not Found' a nearly daily message.

   The story of software agents begins with the idea of a 'soft robot' - capable of carrying out tasks toward a goal, while requesting and receiving advice in human terms. In recent years, a much narrower marketing fantasy of the agent has emerged (with a relationship to actual agent technologies as tenuous as Robbie the Robot's relationship to factory robots) and it grows despite failures such as Microsoft Bob. Now we often see agents as anthropomorphized, self-customizing virtual servants designed for a single task: to be a pleasing interface to a world of information that does not please us.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 15:14

3. v i r a l p o e t i c s

   Some writers and theorists postulate that the most important literary art in the future will be translation. I believe that this translation is not simply between different global languages, for example, but between different manifestations of all expressive form, with a redefinition of what the expressive and the aesthetic fundamentally is. Translations: data into the verbal, the verbal into the visual, the visual into the audible, the audible into the tactile.

   The theory and practice of poetry, concerning itself with such fundamental questions as what poetry is, what it does, and how it should be composed and "written," is known as poetics. Here I am concerned with the poetics of the computer-how form is transmutable, how tasks are multiple and fluid, and how to create with a machine that was intended primarily to number crunch. To this end, I am creating a virus which will explore a workstations architecture and will create a poetics of the computer as its own autonomous object, with guest data from users such as you or me.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 15:24

4. The trAce Experience

   trAce, an online organization located at Nottingham Trent University, UK, offers educational and cultural opportunities for writers. We will be presenting and discussing some of the products related to that process.

   Janet Holmes, Boise State University (USA)
   "The trAce Experience: 'The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot'"

   Marjorie C. Luesebrink, Irvine Valley College (USA)
   "The trAce Experience: Collaborative Aspects of Fibonacci's Daughter"

   Christy Sheffield Sanford, trAce (USA)
   "The trAce Experience: Virtual Writer-in-Residence - Creating a New Profession"

   Sue Thomas, Nottingham Trent University (UK)
   "The trAce Experience: Connecting Writers in Real and Virtual Space"

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 16:29

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