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An Archival Approach to Curating Born-Digital and Electronic Literary Materials
This panel session will explore the curation of electronic or born-digital materials in literary manuscript collections. Speakers will discuss how they applied (or tried to apply) traditional archival theories of appraisal, transfer, processing, preservation, and access to electronic records within their collections. The session will interest writers and artists, scholars, and curators and archivists specializing in electronic media and provide a unique chance for intellectual exchange between these groups.
(Source: 2008 ELO Conference site)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 12:10
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The Aesthetic of Dissonance within 6amhoover.com
Within many of the projects on 6amhoover.com disorder and dissonance are fundamental features in the communication. How theses aspects function and their importance in terms the conceptual rationale and participant experience will be detailed and discussed in the presentation with reference to how such an approach sits within a broader aesthetic of dissonance and the context of interactive literary art.
(Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference site)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 15:40
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Sensory Modalities and Digital Media
My presentation will discuss the use of information and social networking software in electronic writing with the aim of identifying and analyzing several important new directions in literary criticism in the digital era.
As I argue, one of the most significant pedagogical outcomes of media convergence within the literary arts centres upon criticism’s necessary de-emphasis of traditional genre-based modes of analysis and assessment. While digital works may resemble, perhaps even aesthetically mimic, the various analogue formats upon which they are based, both the qualitative and quantitative distinctions between texts, audio and image-based forms remain conceptual, not actual. Subsequently, the primary interpretative paradigms for all forms of digital cultural production tend to emerge via spatially accrued tensions and patterns between the work and its literal location within an information network.
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 15:45
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Provocation by Program: Imagining a Next-Revolution Eliza
What program could have the effect on today's popular consciousness that Joseph Weizenbaum's Eliza had in the mid-1960s? Eliza ignited numerous productive controversies about language, intelligence, and people's relationships to computers. The system has been hailed as the first and most important work of electronic literature. While other, more complex works have been innovative, challenging, and literary in ways that are perhaps more sophisticated, Eliza was an incisive program of great impact. We consider the provocative program within the contexts of computing from the 1960s to the present. Then, we identify several qualities, some of them not very obvious, that a similarly provocative literary program would need today.
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 16:26
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Avatars Sharing Agency: Metaphor in Interactive Narrative Environments
This paper considers how the avatar focuses the metaphor of interactivity in video games and interactive narrative environments. It argues that, despite serving as the on-screen representation of user input, the avatar has some independent agency (whether through design or representational practice) that influences its behavior. Thus, rather than merely relying upon it as her transparent stand-in, the player must negotiate with the avatar to achieve her goals. The negotiation serves to dramatize interactivity as an imperfect conduit between the textual and extra-textual worlds. While not so evident in video games, this imperfection sustains the metaphor of interactivity, deepening expressivity in interactive narrative environments.
(Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference site)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 16:32
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Digital Poetry Beyond Avant-Garde Readings: Proposing a Digital Lyric
Most often when critics try to demonstrate the "literariness" of digital poetry, the theory they rely upon derives from the avant-garde practices of the twentieth century. To expand this dialogue with literary traditions, this paper explores the possibility of a digital lyric. Through a textual analysis of selected digital poems, the lyric genre is reconsidered to meet the needs of digital writing in two ways. First, by drawing on key works from posthuman studies (Hayles; Haraway; Turkle) the lyric subject is re-envisioned beyond the limiting (and often assumed) Romantic-era definitions. Second, by revising the lyric subject with concepts from digital studies, a dialogue opens up with other generic traditions of the lyric: notions of brevity, emotional functions of the utterance, and even musical language. As well, the function of the lyric as a communal, performative gesture becomes an especially suitable poetic convention for the digital realm.
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 17:10
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Crossed Lines
Crossed Lines (2002-2007, Dir: Sarah Atkinson) is a multiform, multiscreen interactive film installation. The piece amalgamates multiform plots, multiscreen viewing environments, interactive interfaces and interactive story navigation forms into one storytelling paradigm. This presentation probes the challenges of designing, authoring and scripting such an ambitious piece, drawing comparisons to traditional approaches to screenplay authoring and traditional modes of fictional production. Practical demonstrations will be included alongside supporting user response data. Various theories and paradigmatic perspectives are referenced whilst reflecting on the extensive creative developmental and production process of the filmic installation.
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 17:32
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The Risk of Reading in Digital Literary Creation
Modernity is by definition a time of discontinuities and ruptures. And just as writing is now a spatial art, art itself has taken on a certain literary validity in a fertile exercise in artistic permeability. Any ‘modernity' is associated with a certain need to renew the means of expression. The permanent redefinition of the condition and status of the artistic not only redefines the field of art, but also the possibility that artists become experimenters of the possible. Today the creative possibilities offered by the technologies in general and the Internet in particular reinforce and exploit to the limit the communicative intentions of works of literature. In this paper we would like to make a critical analysis of the 2007 edition of the "Ciutat de Vinaròs" Literary Awards winners: Stuart Moulthrop and Isaías Herreros
(Source: Authors' abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 20:29
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Reading Practices in Electronic Literature: A Dialogic Approach
Writers experimenting with electronic literature who remediate classic literary content provide a nexus for understanding rhetorical techniques evolving from print-based practices. Further, Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of dialogism provide a basis for the critical analysis of remediated texts. Therefore, this presentation advocates looking at the evolving rhetoric of electronic literature dialogically, in other words, analyzing works that remediate familiar themes and structures from print-based contexts into electronic mediums. Examples will be drawn from Shelley Jackson's "Patchwork Girl" George Hartley's "A Madlib Frost Poem," Peter Howard's "Peter's Haiku Generator," Edward Picot's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and Helena Bulaja's "Croatian Tales of Long Ago."
(Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference site)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 20:45
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The Aesthetics and Practice of Computational Literature
While aesthetic practices in photography, film and music have undergone significant transformation due to the affordances of computational tools, the practice of creative and critical writing has remained largely unaffected. As programmable environments further populate the cultural environment it is increasingly important that we understand the ways in which those designed specifically for literary contexts may serve to challenge traditional notions of the writing endeavor. Our paper will provide a brief historical framework for the emergence of generative literary writing practices, a description of a new authoring environment (RiTa) for use in both the production and teaching of digital writing, and an analysis of specific concepts—including layering, materiality, authorial intent, constraints, and distributed creativity—that the use of this environment meaningfully engages.
(Source: Authors' abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 22:13
