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  1. Hypertext and the Female Imaginary

    from the publisher: Explores the use of hypertext in postmodern electronic and film media by women In Hypertext and the Female Imaginary, Jaishree K. Odin reveals how media that use hypertextual strategies of narrative fragmentation provocatively engage questions of gender or cultural difference. Odin addresses hypertext on two levels: as an artistic technique in electronic or film narratives and as a metaphor for describing the complexity of postmodernism in which different cultures, discourses, and media are in continual interaction with one another. Investigating the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, Judy Malloy, Shelley Jackson, Stephanie Strickland, and M. D. Coverly, Odin demonstrates how these writers apply hypertextual strategies to subversively convey difference. Through her readings of various transformative hypertext narratives by women writers/artists, she pursues the question of what constitutes empowering descriptions of the world in a technology-mediated culture where the dominant discourse is turning everything into the same.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 09:19

  2. All Tomorrow's Parties

    A plenary presentation for the biennial conference of the Electronic Literature Organization focused on the circumstances of the founding of the organization and on the work of novelist Robert Coover on the occasion of his retirement from teaching, delivered in a scripted and parodic style appropriate to the subject. Co-presented with Rob Wittig.

    Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 15:59

  3. Flukten fra språkfengselet

    The article, published in Norwegian in Vagant and in English as "Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2" on the author's website, addresses the release of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, and several new media essays and documentaries published in the collection.

    Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 16:06

  4. Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2

    The article, published in Norwegian in Vagant and in English as "Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2" on the author's website, addresses the release of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, and several new media essays / documentaries published in the collection.

    Scott Rettberg - 27.02.2011 - 20:18

  5. Typing the Dancing Signifier: Jim Andrews' (Vis)Poetics

    This study focuses on the work of Jim Andrews, whose electronic poems take advantage of a variety of media, authoring programs, programming languages, and file formats to create poetic experiences worthy of study. Much can be learned about electronic textuality and poetry by following the trajectory of a poet and programmer whose fascination with language in programmable media leads him to distinctive poetic explorations and collaborations. This study offers a detailed exploration of Andrews' poetry, motivations, inspirations, and poetics, while telling a piece of the story of the rise of electronic poetry from the mid 1980s until the present. Electronic poetry can be defined as first generation electronic objects that can only be read with a computer--they cannot be printed out nor read aloud without negating that which makes them "native" to the digital environment in which they were created, exist, and are experienced in. If translated to different media, they would lose the extra-textual elements that I describe in this study as behavior.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.03.2011 - 21:58

  6. Scripting Writing and Reading in Jim Andrews's Digital Poems

    The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the theoretical relevance of kinetic poetry for studying the interaction between language, digital media, and signifying processes. Several writers have been using digital poetry to investigate meaning production as a function of formal operations upon linguistic, computational, and other cultural codes. Interactive kinaesthesia, the main algorithmic trope examined here, enacts the temporality of writing and the temporality of reading in medium-specific forms and genres that call attention to the way their machine and human processing happens. The cinematic enactment of time in the combined motions of computer-executed code and human-activated display will be seen in digital poems by Jim Andrews. His scripts are analysed as models for specific semiotic and interpretive processes. Computer performance and reader performance become co-dependent and intertwined as an entangled field. (Source: Author's abstract at MIT Tech TV)

    Scott Rettberg - 07.03.2011 - 23:01

  7. How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine

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    Guest lecture at Duquesne University.

    Scott Rettberg - 21.03.2011 - 23:40

  8. Narrative Motors

    Deploying the metaphor of "narrative motors," Tisselli analyzes several of his own "degenerative works" in which the program (the engine) burns fuel (information) until it is depleted and generates noise.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2011 - 13:15

  9. The Unsatisfied Reading

    The Unsatisfied Reading

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2011 - 13:32

  10. Speak, "Memory": Simulation and Satire in Reagan Library

    Speak, "Memory": Simulation and Satire in Reagan Library

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2011 - 13:43

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