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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. 'Living Letterforms': The Ecological Turn in Contemporary Digital Poetics

   In this keynote for the Digital Poetics and the Present seminar, RIta Raley offers a reading of David Jhave Johnston's Sooth, a cycle of six video poems, where the reader's clicks draw out lines of poems superimposed on video that drifts around a natural scene. Raley argues that Sooth is emblematic of a recent shift in digital poetry towards a concern with ecology, where non-human actors are animate and lively. She describes this as a step away from the intense focus on the code, the technical and computational processes that dominated digital poetry at the start of the last decade. Jhave's project, Rita Raley argues, is to create digital poems that respond as though they are animate, alive. This isn't about artificial intelligence or simply about emulating life but about prompting (in us, the readers) an embodied recognition of life.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.12.2011 - 10:45

3. 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

4. Hypertextual Rhythms (The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness)

   Michael Joyce's paper, "Hypertextual Rhythms (The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness)," addresses the historical moment of recent hypertext fiction. He will suggest that the common perception of hypertext as an awkward and opaque mode of discourse may actually make it easier to grasp its historical significance. Before the novelty of the electronic medium fades, and electronic text assumes the transparency that printed text now has, we may better understand it as a distinct representational form.

   Joyce presented this paper as part of a special session, "Hypertext, Hypermedia: Defining a Fictional Form," at the 1992 MLA Convention. The panel was chaired by Terence Harpold. Other panelists included pioneering hypertext authors: Carolyn Guyer, Judy Malloy, and Stuart Moultrhop.

   (Source: Humanist Archives Vol. 6 : 6.0338 Hypertext at MLA)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.01.2012 - 13:30

5. Getting Started in the Digital Humanities Panel Discussion (ELMCIP)

   A roundtable discussion featuring seven experts from large digital humanities projects. Panelists were given three minutes to explain, briefly, their current digital humanities project before the moderator asked a series of questions that included variations of the following: How did you move "to the next level" in DH? What challenges have you faced doing DH work? How have you funded your work? The bulk of the discussion was devoted to questions from the audience. 

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 11:20

6. Continuous Paper: Print Interfaces and Early Computer Writing

   Paper written for ISEA 2004 in Helsinki, on August 20, 2004 (Scott Rettberg presented). The investigation into early computer writing starts with the observation that "early interaction with computers happened largely on paper: on paper tape, on punchcards, and on print terminals and teletypewriters, with their scroll-like supplies of continuous paper for printing output and input both." Montfort traces back history and challenges the "screen essentialist" assumption about computing.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 20.01.2012 - 23:39

7. Reconfiguring Publishing

   301. Reconfiguring Publishing

   Friday, 6 January, 1:45-3:00 p.m., Grand A Sheraton

   An Electronic Roundtable Exhibiting the Future(s) of Publishing

   Presiding: Carolyn Guertin, Univ. of Texas, Arlington; William Thompson, Western Illinois Univ.

   This session intends not to bury publishing but to raise awareness of its transformations and continuities as it reconfigures itself. New platforms are causing publishers to return to their roots as booksellers while booksellers are once again becoming publishers. Open-access models of publishing are creating new models for content creation and distribution as small print-focused presses are experiencing a renaissance. Come see!

   (Source: MLA 2012 Program Abstracts) 

   Two Electronic Literature Organization Board Members participated. Caroyn Guertin was one of two presiders, and Rita Rayley presented the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two, which she co-edited.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.01.2012 - 14:31

8. 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

9. 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

10. The Pleasure Principle: Immersion, Engagement, Flow

    While few critics writing on readers and hypertext have focused on the affective pleasures of reading hypertext fiction or interactive narratives like Myst, those who assess the experience of reading them tend to assume interactive texts should be either immersive or engaging. This study uses schema theory to define the characteristics of immersion and engagement in both conventional and new media. After examining how readers' experiences of these two different aesthetics may be enhanced or diminished by interface design, options for navigation, and other features, the essay concludes by looking beyond immersion and engagement to “flow, ” a state in which readers are both immersed and engaged.

    Source: ACM Publication
    Paper presented at the Eleventh ACM on Hypertext and Hypermedia Conference and published in the proceedings.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 25.03.2012 - 14:12

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