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1. Bookish Electronic Literature: Remediating the Paper Arts through a Feminist Perspective

   An exploration of bookishness (book fetishism, book porn, books as physical aesthetic objects that we adore) and in particular the way in which paper arts and bookishness, and the "cute", are used in a feminist and thereby political aesthetics.

   Electronic literature is awash with paper. In particular, the paper arts of scrapbooking, paper dress-up dolls, paper-doll theater, postcards, and stitch patterns have found a resurgence in recent works of electronic literature by women writers. In very different ways but with meaningful connections, Caitlin Fisher, Travis Alber, J.R. Carpenter, and Juliet Davis all purposefully remediate these paper arts associated with female domestic crafts in ways that both archive and reinvigorate them. Moreover, as I will argue in this talk, these writers use digital poetics to reconsider these feminized forms from a feminist perspective. They insist on the significance of materiality, both the materiality of bodies of humans and of texts, in ways that subtly transform and update older feminist discourses and artistic practices for a new medium and moment.

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   Jill Walker Rettberg - 20.06.2014 - 18:06

2. What Do Children Want: Enhanced Books or Innovative E-lit for Kids?

   E-books for kids are one of the few areas in which commercial publishers are creating innovative literary works for tablets and smartphones, but most of the apps available do not explore the rich traditions of electronic literature, instead opting for a more linear “enhanced book” approach that strongly borrows from the tradition of picture books and in particular pop-up books. Scholarship on and criticism of children's’ book apps tends to be in the fields of literacy studies andchildren's literature rather than in the field of electronic literature, and this paper aims to bring the two domains together, looking at picture book apps aimed at young children.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 20.06.2014 - 18:09

3. Disguised Tales: A Masqueraded Complexity in Children's Electronic Literature

   This paper explores what I define as a “masqueraded complexity”, a term that refers to the way
   children’s electronic literature disguises its multiple features to a formative reader (the child/young adult) in order to maintain/assert the whole range of semiotic and narratological creative approaches allowed in this new literary scenario. The paper paper also examines the lights and shadows of children's digital literature's inherent properties from an educational perspective. To support this exploration, I combine theoretical approaches to digital literature (Ryan, Murray, Hayles, Landow, etc.), the exploration of the digital literature landscape for youngsters and recent studies on children's literary education (Chambers, Colomer, Tauveron etc.). Some of my own research group ongoing case studies with real young digital readers will also be used to illustrate the outcomes.
   Despite its obvious heterogeneity, electronic literature presents a series of common complexities
   

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 20.06.2014 - 18:13

4. Discovering E-lit for Children

   Discovering E-lit for Children

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 20.06.2014 - 18:14

5. Troubadours of Information: Aesthetic Experiments in Sonification and Sound Technology

   When Ezra Pound exchanged his initial affinities for the fin-de-siècle decadence of pre-war London poetics for a growing interest in mediaeval troubadour traditions, he was looking beyond innovations in literary form and technique; there is ample evidence in much of his critical writing even at this early stage in his career that the poet was seeking a more philosophical relationship between representation, social ethos and cultural meaning. In the song and musical customs of the troubadour, as cultivated within the “Romance” languages and traditions of southern Europe, Pound identified a rare instance where an artwork’s material form inspired shared cultural sensibilities that transcended any and all context specific references or allusions. Exemplary of this level of aesthetic idealism in the troubadour romance, for Pound, are the songs of the 13th century Tuscan poet, Guido Cavalcanti (d.1300). Cavalcanti’s remarkably precise dedication to the structure and rhythm of the line, Pound informs us, demonstrates equally the “science of the music of words and the knowledge of their magical powers” (1912).

   Jeff T. Johnson - 27.06.2014 - 21:22

6. Shapeshifting texts: following the traces of narrative in digital fiction

   We have been referring to electronic literature as a corpus of texts with dynamic and
   multimodal features. A digital text can change during reading and assume the form of a
   collage work, a film or a game. Additionally, the text as a whole (Eskelinen, 2012),
   because of its own transient nature, might never be presented to the reader. The text
   can be played at such a pace as to be partly or completely ungraspable. Due to the range
   of forms assumed by the text, it might also be unable to return to an early state. This
   means that the reader might not be allowed to reread or replay the text in order to achieve
   a final or coherent version of it. This also means that there might be no original state to
   return to.
   Shapeshifting is the ability of a being to take the form of an object or of another being.
   This has been a common theme in folklore and mythology and it continues to be explored
   in games or in fantasy and science fiction films, as well as in literature. Since digital
   fiction is created through a computer and this tool can show emergent behavior, texts can
   

   Daniela Côrtes Maduro - 05.02.2015 - 14:48

7. Loss of Hover: Re-implementing Director Vniverse as an App for Tablet

   Proposal:
   V appeared in 2002, distributed across an invertible two-in-one print book from
   Penguin, V : WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una, and two online locations: the first, V:
   Vniverse, a Director project with Cynthia Lawson published in the Iowa Review Web,
   and the second, Errand Upon Which We Came, a Flash piece with M.D. Coverley
   published in Cauldron and Net. The print book contained at its center, approached
   from either direction, the url for the Vniverse site.

   Elias Mikkelsen - 12.02.2015 - 14:57

8. Pedestrionics: Meme Culture, Alienation Capital, and Gestic Play

   This presentation considers the rhetoric and poetics of meme culture and social media
   platforms.

   Internet memes, in their essence, are methods of expression born from the attention
   economy of networked culture. At times they can be epistolary, aphoristic, polemic,
   satirical, or parodic; and they may take the form of performative actions and photo fads
   such as planking, teapotting and batmanning or iterative processes such as image macros
   and advice animals including lolcats, Bad Luck Brian and Condescending Wonka. In either
   case they are conditioned by rhetorical formulas with strict grammars and styles.
   In the case of image macros, the rhetoric is sustained through correlations between the
   image and its caption. If we line-up the thousands of Condescending Wonka memes side
   by side, we will find very little difference between them aesthetically – the same image is
   repeated, along with captions at the top and bottom of the image. In the captions we find
   a specific tone that is also repeated one image to the next.

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 12.02.2015 - 15:12

9. Ink After Print

   The interactive literary installation Ink (Accidentally, the Screen Turns to Ink, created by the authors in a collaboration with Roskilde Library, CAVI and Peter-Clement Woetmann) is a unique experimental public display created in 2012 for the library space and exhibited at more than ten Danish libraries, at conferences, festivals and events. Ink is unique in being a large, public, social and performative digital literary installation designed to give library audiences an experience of digital literature through an affective, ergodic proces. Ink has been presented at several conferences, including the ELO 2013 conference in Paris.

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 13.02.2015 - 10:11

10. Musico-literary miscegenations: relationships between words and sound in new media writing

    While discussion of the relationship of image and word has been prominent in the discourses surrounding new media writing, the role of sound is rarely addressed in this context, even though words are sounds and sounds are a major component of multimedia. This paper explores possibilities for new theoretical frameworks in this area, drawing on musico-literary discourse and cross-cultural theory, and using ideas about semiotic and cultural exchange as a basis. It argues that words and music in new media writing create emergent structures and meanings that can facilate ideas to do with boundary crossing, transnationalism and cross-cultural exchange.

    Thor Baukhol Madsen - 13.02.2015 - 10:48

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