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Digital Media Poetics presents Patricia Tomaszek
Via skype, the author presents her work and gives a reading of two works "about nothing, places, memories, and thoughts: robert creeley (1926-2005) and patricia tomaszek in a cut and mixed poem-dialogue" and "Planting Trees Out of the Grief: In Memoriam Robert Creeley"
Patricia Tomaszek - 28.08.2012 - 13:27
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Curating the MLA 2012 'Electronic Literature' Exhibit
What follows is an explanation of the logic underlying this idea of curating the "Electronic Literature" exhibit and a rearticulation of our curatorial statements, viewed now in retrospect. Dene Grigar begins by introducing our underlying views and includes her revised statement for "Works on Desktop." Lori Emerson follows with her statement on "Readings and Performances;" Kathi Inman Berens ends the essay with her statement on "Mobile and Geolocative" works.
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Patricia Tomaszek - 28.08.2012 - 22:14
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Reading Hyperfiction - Mission Impossible?
During readings of hyperfiction studies I have noticed a peculiar tendency in relation to the study of literature. Most of them focus exclusively on form: complex web-textuality, multilinearity and architecture as well as navigation, inderterminancy and the role of the reader and author. One has to ask: Why do very few of these studies of hyperfiction deal with the content, i.e. the story, the plot? But rather employ these aspects only in relation to form?
Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 22:30
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Reading Cybertexts - An Empirical Approach
I am currently planning an empirical study on how people actually read digital texts (plain texts in digital format, hypertexts, cybertexts). I will discuss the preconditions of such study - how the reading platform (computer screen, ebook) affects the act of reading, and what are the interpretive frameworks people employ when confronting unfamiliar cybertexts. Preliminary findings from a pilot research possibly available.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 22:35
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Hypertext Fiction Reading: Haptics and Immersion
Reading is a multi-sensory activity, entailing perceptual, cognitive and motor interactions with whatever is being read. With digital technology, reading manifests itself as being extensively multi-sensory – both in more explicit and more complex ways than ever before. In different ways from traditional reading technologies such as the codex, digital technology illustrates how the act of reading is intimately connected with and intricately dependent on the fact that we are both body and mind – a fact carrying important implications for even such an apparently intellectual activity as reading, whether recreational, educational or occupational. This article addresses some important and hitherto neglected issues concerning digital reading, with special emphasis on the vital role of our bodies, and in particular our fingers and hands, for the immersive fiction reading experience.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 13.12.2012 - 21:11
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New narrative pleasures? A cognitive-phenomenological study of the experience of reading digital narrative fictions
Thesis for the degree doctor artium. EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION: This dissertation aims to address – and answer – some of the questions surrounding the ways in which the interface of the digital computer (also known as the GUI) is impacting how we experience – read – GUI narrative fictions. In my view, questions such as these are of utmost importance if we are to appropriately understand how digital technology is affecting central realms of human existence, such as our experiences of the fictions that are created and displayed in an ever increasing variety of media materialities and technological platforms. The main research questions to be dealt with in the following revolve around processes typically taking place when we read, watch, listen, experience, interpret, are engaged in, and interact with, digital hypermedia narrative fictions – what I, for the sake of simplicity, call GUI fictions. In short, how do we read GUI fictions? How, and why, is this reading different from our reading of narrative fiction in print, or of reading narrative fictions on other screens, such as on TV or in a movie theater?
Jill Walker Rettberg - 13.12.2012 - 21:28
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Print Pathways and Electronic Labyrinths: How Hypertext Narratives Affect the Act of Reading
Print Pathways and Electronic Labyrinths: How Hypertext Narratives Affect the Act of Reading
Scott Rettberg - 13.12.2012 - 21:30
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Meta Discourse: An Investigation into Possibilities of Meta-Fictions in the 21st Century
The old rites of literature are quickly starting to come to a head, and as we move through the 21st century we will find ourselves staring into new modes of expression of literary concepts that we have known only on the printed page for centuries prior. Meta-fiction not only allows for new ways of approaching a narrative but also new ways of approaching literature in general, including electronic literature. Questioning the boundaries between the reader and the writer, the audience and the performer, the characters in the text and the ones reading it, one might say that meta-fiction was one of the first forms of hypertext mediums in which the reader was encouraged to draw on outside influences and information to arrive at the heart of the text. This understanding of meta-fiction, then, makes it an appropriate place to begin an analysis of new modes of discourse and the variability of the messages presented. In such a textually-conscious style of writing, how does the narrative alter according to the mode of presentation while still retaining a questioning and awareness of the literary roots?
Scott Rettberg - 07.01.2013 - 22:39
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Played by Hyperfiction. Modes of Reading Megan Heyward's "Of Day, of Night"
How do we read digital literature? I want to approach the topic by studying how electronic literature prefigures the reader's response. The aim of this paper is to explore some of the preconditions for reading electronic literature. I argue that electronic literature might be considered as a text game, in Wolfgang Iser's sense, and that different work prefigures different attitudes towards reading. The attitudes regarding reading, or modes of reading, I will focus on the semantic orientation of reading, aesthetic enjoyment, a mode of gaining experience, and absorption of the reader.
(Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 11:59
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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
