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A Stitch in Twine: Platform Studies and Porting Patchwork Girl
This presentation asks what we can learn about a foundational work of electronic literature – Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl – by porting it to a new platform. More than this, it asks what we can learn about the source and target platforms of such a porting exercise.
Hannah Ackermans - 13.11.2015 - 13:23
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Can We Define Electronic Literature Such as Authoring Tool Literature?
In this presentation, we will see how the authoring tool impacts on the thinking of electronic literature. If we consider that electronic literature cannot exist without digital tools, and digital writing requires tool, software and technologies, we can easily imagine how huge the role of the authoring tool is for the authors and how their imaginary can be challenged. Tools propose and impose choices and directions that ask the creative act in electronic literature.
Then, in our research, we define the concept of the “rhetoric for creative authoring” that will be focusing on power relations between the authoring tool and the author. And what does it mean in electronic literature to use such a tool? Is electronic literature producing works depending on the software the author uses? It means that the software tool, as the edge of the electronic work itself, could be considered as part of the electronic work. In other hands, this approach could help to define electronic literature.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:00
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Beneath the Surface: System Representation and Reader Reception in Electronic Literature
One challenge authors face when creating electronic literature is to balance immersion in the story with awareness of the underlying computational system (Wardrip-Fruin, 2010, 2013). This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the ways in which the representation of the underlying computational system in the user interface influences the readeräs focus on either the story or the underlying system. To begin exploring this question, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with seven participants. Each participant interacted with variations of a procedural hypertext story that represented the underlying system state either numerically or in natural language, and displayed the underlying system state either non-diegetically or diegetically. Observations suggest that although numerical representations make it easier for the reader to grasp the procedural nature of the system, they can also lead to a focus on playing the system, rather than on reading the story. Interestingly, participants reported that the natural language representation was harder to interpret, but that this difficulty actually enhanced their engagement with the storyworld.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:06
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The Interactive Character as a Black Box
How can a convincing interactive character, with apparent psychological depth, be modelled in a playable narrative that adapts to a reader’s choice? This is the central question of my practice-based research that I address through the authoring (in both natural language and computer code) of an interactive text-based psychological thriller Stitched Up.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:10
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Electronic Literature as Action and Event: Participatory Culture and “The Literary”
ractices of public and performative electronic writing connect our arts movement to important sites of social transformation, beginning with the resistance to neoliberalism in government and academia, and potentially touching larger questions about relations of mass and elite culture.
This panel comprises three papers, two by creator/conveners of participatory projects, the third by an interested theorist. The creators offer reflections on the meaning of participatory engagement based on their own experiences with the form. The theory paper adds some more abstract reflections addressing questions of general concern to electronic literature as a cultural movement.
Electronic Literature and the Public Literary
Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:16
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The Electronic Literature, How, When, Where
The term Electronic Literature (EL) is already obsolete, just as the term contemporary art. The obsolescence of words depends on the changes that the content of their meanings are undergoing. These contents change in the light of the technical-logical progress. Their own form changes giving ultimately rise to new signs and signifiers. New concepts generate new interpretations.
The change of technological processes introduces new types of communication and of social relations. These changes weaken the rules of linguistics. The content and the meaning of words change, as well as their own signs that are used to define the EL and to describe what comes from it as an end: politics, social philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, business, and business ethics. The works that are produced through the EL undergo changes and have an outreach that involve a dialogue on an augmented art synchronically developed on a augmented reality perceived through the use of new technologies.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:23
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The Myth of the End of a Myth
In the first part of the paper, examining different implicit or explicit conceptions of digital literature (combinatory in relationship with IA, combinatory in relationship with Max Bense, generation in relationship with Automatic treatment of language, animation in relationship with programmed forms, hypertext in relationship with the French Theory…), I argue that digital literature does not exist as an object but as a field in the sense of Bourdieu. As it is not an object, we cannot define it. As it is a social strength and movement, it cannot begin no end, we can only name it, or not, in a symbolic language. As a field, it obeys inside symbolic conflicts as they appear from the inside, as an heterogeneous domain. But as a field, it acts into the society – from the outside it appears as a consistent structured domain.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:27
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E-literary Diaspora – The Story of a Young Scholar's Journey from Writing to Faces
In my dissertation from 2013 I close read pieces by David Jhave Johnston, mez and Johannes Hélden among others, with an interest in multimodal analysis and media philosophy. Back then, I chose to characterize Electronic Literature metaphorically as a literary diaspora in continuation of historical literary avant-gardes. The title of this years ELO conference made me think of e-lit as a new diaspora in itself – a culture, a movement, a family with historical roots, traditions and habits but already with several branches, new subdivisions and blends. The title of the conference also gave me the encouraging thought that I am still an e-lit scholar, though my current research project “Technologies of the Face in Contemporary Art” belongs to the tradition of visual art and new media art in a broader sense In my paper, I will closely analyze a piece that has proved to be a threshold between my two research projects and explain why. The installation The Aleph is made by Kim Yong Hun and was displayed in the ELO 2012 Media Art Show. It consists of two computer screens producing the images of two faces.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:31
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Latin American Electronic Literature and Its Own Ends
Framed by the theme of the 2015 ELO conference, the paper will examine several interwoven kinds of ends concerning Latin American electronic literature. In this case, the theme is particularly appealing when we consider specific aesthetic/political ends frequently pursued in Latin American contexts and when we situate this thought from “the end of the world”. In fact, being at one of the edges of the world, metaphorically and/or literally, drives one to specific aesthetic/political responses that take position in relation to hegemonic global imaginaries of technological modernisation.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:36
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Interaction Between Art and Literature in Arab Digital Poetry and the Issue of Criticism
This paper aims to reveal the interaction between art and literature in Arab interactive digital poetry, and the issue of criticism.
Most of Arab and foreign critics that study digital literature agree that interactive poetry goes far beyond the concept of Archigtext to an even broader concept than that of Archigenre, as this genre can be said to be Archiarts. Then, digital poems can be said to mean open texts that include all artistic and literary genres.
Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:40
