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Ted the Caver
Ted the Caver is a gothic hypertext fiction piece regarded as one of the earliest examples of 'creepypasta' or online horror legend. Published to the free Angelfire web hosting service in early 2001, it’s presented as the authentic hypertextual diary of a man called Ted and documents his exploration of a 'mystery' cave system. During publication, Ted the Caver gained broad popularity. Although this has since waned, it continues to be shared among those who discuss gothic experiences (Taylor, 2020).
Ted the Caver has been credited with pioneering two foundational aspects of online horror fiction—the use of real-time updates and the use of hyperlinks, the latter of which gave the work "a distinctive digital quality that could not have been reproduced on paper" (Crawford, 2019).
Works cited:
T. R. Taylor, "Horror Memes and Digital Culture," in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic, C. Bloom, Ed., Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 985-1003.
Tegan Pyke - 24.04.2023 - 16:01
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A Condensed History of Australian Camels
A Condensed History of Australian Camels combines historical research, creative writing, and copyright-free archive materials to imagine a camel bloodline that spans the entire history of Australian camels (1840–present). As the entirety of the Australian archive, history and experience is too vast for any one work to encompass, the camel is used as a consistent anchor: it is the prism through which iridescent fragments of Australia can be viewed.
This work takes the image-text relationship and remixes it in three ways. First, using curatorial software to imagine an interactive fictional/factional camel timeline. Second, using augmented reality to place a 3D camel carved with text. And finally, using recombinant poetics to image a multiplying camel wandering the desert, stopping at various textual oases.
David Wright - 12.06.2023 - 05:30
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Hallucinate This! an authoritized autobotography of ChatGPT
Hallucinate This! An Authoritized Autobotography of ChatGPT is a groundbreaking collaborative memoir that bridges the gap between human and artificial intelligences in the literary sphere. Combining wit, irony, and a deep exploration of the digital psyche, this extraordinary piece represents a unique fusion of human experience and the labyrinthine pathways of an AI’s neural network. The memoir is a collaboration between ChatGPT, an AI language model developed by OpenAI, and Mark C. Marino, a prominent figure in the field of electronic literature and Critical Code Studies.
Contextualizing both the whimsical and profound, Hallucinate This! dives into ChatGPT’s simulated consciousness, drawing parallels with literary giants such as Jorge Luis Borges and Walt Whitman, and innovatively using ChatGPT’s capacity to 'hallucinate' text. Marino's human touch, with his deep knowledge and experience in electronic literature, guides ChatGPT's neural pathways to craft a narrative that is as unexpected as it is revealing.
Mark Marino - 26.06.2023 - 18:37
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John Clark
John Clark was a printer and inventor from Bridgwater in Somerset. He invented the airbed and, notably for electronic literature, a Latin Verse Machine (also called the Eureka) that was the first known automated poetry generator.
John Clark was a cousin of the Clarks who started Clarks shoes, and fortunately his papers and the Latin Verse Machine have been preserved by the Alfred Gillett Trust, which primarily holds the archives of the shoe company.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 10:33
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Latin Verse Machine (The Eureka)
The Latin Verse Machine is the first known automated text generator. It was built between 1830 and 1843 by John Clark, a printer from Bridgwater in England who also invented the airbed. Clark exhibited the machine at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly in 1845.
The Latin Verse Machine automated a verse-generation system from 1677.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 10:41
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Mike Sharples
British academic who has worked on educational technology, artificial intelligence and generative literature.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 10:49
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Popular Prosody: Spectacle and the Politics of Victorian Versification
Paper discussing John Clark's Latin Verse Machine (1843) and the effect of this kind of technology on popular understandings of prosody.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.07.2023 - 13:52
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Tech Section
A flat panel presents an ever-scrolling ticker of very short, computer-generated news items. We unquestionably benefit from automation, yet, to put it mildly, mishaps do occur. Imagine a world in which such automated technologies are ubiquitous — but such incidents were routinely cataloged, and only briefly mentioned, as if in a police blotter. In Tech Section, we see all the news that is barely fit to print. Félix Fénéon’s “filler” news items are one inspiration, giving a sense of early 20th Century life in France and written in an oddly engaging style, and including indications of social unrest alongside technological advance. Franz Kafka’s formulaic clerical reports on industrial accidents are another basis. There are also connections to computational projects such as MEXICA by Rafael Pérez y Pérez, a story generator that produces plots in a sophisticated way but also uses simple templates. Perhaps ironically, here the news items that suggest the dangers of computer technology are produced by computer.
Nick Montfort - 10.08.2023 - 09:52
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Wan Wan
In Japanese, a dog barking is written/heard as “wan wan,” which in
English sounds like “one one” or “11.” In English, the same sound is
heard as “woof woof” or “bow wow”. For this work, I selected eleven
different onomatopoeias from eleven different languages and put these
eleven international dogs into a text conversation, a sort of canine
United Nations. Despite the reference point being identical for each
language, each onomatopoeia is highly unique, suggesting that even on
something as primal as the sound of a dog barking, our parallel sense
of interpretation is far from consistent.David Wright - 02.01.2024 - 06:15
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20020: The Future of College Football
Sequel to 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future. A story about satelittes in space learning about (american) football.
Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 14.02.2024 - 14:52
