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1. Warfare and Conventionality: How avant-garde computer-generated text can be

   Computer generated text has been considered warfare carried out against conventionality and was accordingly tagged “cybernetic Dadaism”, which seems to be obvious given that most computer generated text is nonsensical. However, there are attempts to have the machine generate meaningful text ideally indistinguishable from text by a human. This is where the problem starts. If a machine aims to be as good as a human writer, can it still afford to do what a human writer may aim at: writing like a machine? Wouldn’t any idiosyncratic style – which might in conventionally generated literature be understood as avant-garde – be perceived as a failure of the program? In other words: Can literature be avant-garde (or rather: advanced) in both, its way of production as well as its style? The lecture will discuss the issue with a closer look at Michael Mateas’ and Andrew Stern’s interactive drama Façade.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.12.2011 - 10:44

2. Student Research Using the ELMCIP Knowledge Base

   This talk describes ways in which we have used the Knowledge Base in teaching and independent student research at the University of Bergen, and proposes ways of integrating the Knowledge Base into new courses. We have found that the Knowledge Base works well as a reference resource for first-year students, whereas more experienced students can learn about multiple aspects of digital-humanities research (bibliographic, literary, methodological, institutional) by adding entries to the Knowledge Base, which provides the opportunity to write in a networked, digital enviornment in which their contributions will help to build a field by making the activities that constiute it visible.

   Advice for integrating the Knowledge Base into a course:

   1. Design the syllabus in the Knowledge Base before the course begins.

   2. Set students up with accounts at the start of the semester.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.12.2011 - 10:52

3. Collaborations in E-lit

   This essay, a discussion between two esteemed e-poets for whom collaboration is an integral part of their creative practice, appeared in the "The Collaborative Turn" special issue of American Book Review, guest-edited by Davis Schneiderman. In their discussion, Montfort and Strickland survey several common types of e-lit collaboration and provide links to representative examples. Strickland explicitly links the material aesthetics of code poetics to literary theorist Timothy Morton's call for critical thinking that engages the universe's enmeshed interconnectedness, which he dubs "the ecological thought."

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.12.2011 - 11:45

4. An Interview with Talan Memmott

   Talan Memmott is Assistant Professor of digital media and culture in the Digital Culture and Communications program at Blekinge Institute of Technology and an internationally known practitioner of electronic literature and digital art with a practice ranging from experimental video to digital performance applications and literary hypermedia. In June 2011 I met with Talan to discuss the history of beehive Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal, which he founded and edited.

   David Prater - 20.01.2012 - 11:10

5. I Love E-Poetry

   This scholarly blog was launched on December 19, 2011 as a constraint to read and critically reflect upon a work of e-poetry every day, leading me to revisit known works, discover new ones, and expand my knowledge of this emergent poetic genre. Its initial performance was a continuous run of 500 daily entries, completed on May 2, 2013.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.01.2012 - 10:02

6. Contributing to the ELMCIP Knowledge Base

   Hands-on workshop session during which the editor of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base, Eric Dean Rasmussen, will instruct participants on how to document and archive their research and teaching materials in a publicly searchable database on electronic literature.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.02.2012 - 17:28

7. Database Research and Publishing: Using the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base

   The editor of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base, Eric Dean Rasmussen, will discuss how this electronic-literature database, built using the Drupal platform, can be used as both a research tool and a publishing platform. During a workshop session, Rasmussen will register participants who want to become Knowledge Base contributors and provide instruction on using the database system effectively.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.02.2012 - 17:36

8. Who Grabbed My Gorge

   Who Grabbed My Gorge

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.02.2012 - 19:52

9. Further, Reading

   English version of article published in Vagant 4/2011 as "E-Lit. Som Litt.-Vit"

   The final column in the "Platform 2" series, offering a survey of important monographs about electronic liiterature.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.03.2012 - 10:35

10. Lesningens visjoner: Om å lese i et multimedialt miljø

    A discussion of the Poetry Beyond Text project, which examined reading of concrete and digital poetry from a cognitive perspective, and a 2011 exhibition in Dundee, Scotland associated with the project, which included works by John Cayley and Simon Biggs.

    Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2012 - 12:45

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