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1. Filiations and History of Digital Literature in France

   In this paper, I retrace the filiations and the history of digital literature in France, emphasizing the various literary and aesthetic tendencies and the corresponding social structures (groups, reviews...). I conclude with the possible characteristics of digital literature in France (which might not be specific to France).

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:12

2. German Net Literature: In the Exile of Invisibility

   German net literature had an early and very public start through competitions organized in 1996-8 by the major newspaper Die Zeit and IBM, but was declared dead or stillborn immediately afterwards. Consequently, net literature became a subject of controversy between artists, theorists, and literary critics from which not only a strong community evolved but also a literary system. In this system, competitions served as public, peer-reviewed mediators for net literature and became an important feature of “post-processing.” Since the end of the 90s however, German net literature became slowly invisible. The lack of public awareness of net literature is common to many countries. Post-processing is a key for public visibility and according to Siegfried J. Schmidt et al. an important component in a literary system. In search of reasons for the state of invisibility of German net literature, I analyze mechanisms of post-processing in our community, which I regard as a literary system. This descriptive synopsis is the first paper in an upcoming series that opens up questions towards the role of peer-review, public reception, and artists' community-building.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:15

3. E-Literature vs. E-poetry

   E-Literature vs. E-poetry

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:18

4. Translating Digital Literature. The Example of “I’m simply saying”

   Translation Studies have become one of the central disciplines of the "humanities”. Recently, in the MA in Literature progaram where I am the Academic Director, we were working on Digital Poetry and I proposed that students translate a digital poem. I figured this could be a way to penetrate deeply into the meaning of the text, but also in the case of Digital Literature, to understand the dual nature of a digital text, its virtual materiality. I would like to share here a small but significant part of the process.

   (Author's abstract from Officina di Letteratura Elettronica/Workshop of Electronic Literature site)

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:22

5. The ELMCIP Knowledge Base and the Formation of an International Field of Literary Scholarship and Practice

   The paper provides an introduction to the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) collaborative research project ELMCIP: Developing a network-based creative community: Electronic Literature as a model of creativity and innovation in practice, and in particular details the Knowledge Base component of the project. The Knowledge Base is a new platform for developing and sharing bibliographic records about works, critical writing, events, publishers, organizations, and authors in the field of electronic literature, with a particular emphasis on the European context. The paper further introduces the collaborative activity of CELL: an international Consortium for Electronic Literature organized by the Electronic Literature Organization.

   Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2011 - 20:04

6. The Experience of the Unique in Reading Digital Literature

   Traditionally in literary criticism, importance has been laid on the uniqueness of the expression (the author says something that nobody else has said before, or, says something in a way that nobody else has done before) and the uniqueness of experience (my reading of a book is always different compared to any other readings). With digital literature we are facing a wholly new situation. Cybertextual literature possesses devices for creating a different textual whole for each reader and reading session. Even though the piece of computer code underlying the work remains the same, the surface level may be different on each and every run. In this situation the reader may truly face a unique text, something that nobody else may ever see.

   I will ponder the consequences of this new textual condition, especially from the perspective of personal reception and interpretation. I will also present some examples of this sort of works, and classify certain main categories, such as truly unique vs. pseudo unique text, and text where uniqueness is created through programming alone, and such where (one or several) reader(s) is partly responsible.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 20:40

7. Digital Media

   The chapter takes readers through a semester of teaching narrative-based electronic literature works, including interactive fiction, storyspace hypertexts, web hypertexts, email fiction and interactive web-based narratives.

   Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 15:24

8. Toward a Semiotic Critique of Computer Poetry

   Toward a Semiotic Critique of Computer Poetry

   Patricia Tomaszek - 13.01.2011 - 15:45

9. From Mimetic to Cybernetic

   From Mimetic to Cybernetic

   Patricia Tomaszek - 13.01.2011 - 15:51

10. Orality Writing Vision

    Orality Writing Vision

    Patricia Tomaszek - 13.01.2011 - 17:00

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