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1. 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

2. 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

3. Augmented Reality Storyworlds: Building Spatial Hyperfictions in the York Future Cinema Lab

   What constitutes compelling and meaningful literary content in augmented reality environments? For this presentation I'd like to give an overview of how we are trying to answer that question in the Augmented Reality Lab (part of the Future Cinema lab, Dept. of Film) at York University. The lab is equipped with Intersense IS-900 and IS-1200 trackers, optical and video see-through diplays and we use a variety of software solutions—chiefly DART—the Designers Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART) developed by Jay Bolter and the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Lab (GVU) at the Georgia Institute of Technology but also AR Studio, and a unique MAX/MSP interface to AR Toolkit that we're building ourselves. Students in the lab also work to build stories using RFID tags and with more traditional hypermedia work on fogscreen. The core emphasis in the lab, though, is on the kind of stories that might work for these new screens and environments.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 22:32

4. Corporeal Poetry: Experiments with 3D Poetry in the MOVE Lab

   This presentation discusses 3D electronic literature in production in the MOVE Lab, the Motion Tracking Virtual Environment Lab located at Washington State University Vancouver. Specifically, it will talk about three projects—Rhapsody Room, Things of Day and Dream, and Dancing—the methods used to create them, focus of the research underlying their production, and future plans for work generating from the lab.

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 23:15

5. Practical Play: Research and Invention

   Practical Play: Research and Invention

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 23:18

6. Towards an Art of Rhetoric in Electronic Literary Works: The Figures of Manipulation

   On the basis of electronic literary works, we can identify specific rhetorical figures in interactive writing: the figures of manipulation. It is a category on its own, along with figures of diction, construction, meaning and thought. For example, the figure of appearance/disappearance (responding to an action of the reader) is as a key figure among the figures of manipulation.

   What is emphasized in such figures is the coupling action/behavior, which could be considered as a basic unit in interactive writing. This coupling can be conceived independently from the medias (text, image, video) it relies on. Thus, it seems relevant to have an a-media approach when defining an art of rhetoric in interactive writing.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 23:32

7. Making Meaning: Negotiating Seduction in New Media Works

   Some of the issues and challenges creatives face when working with computer technologies is that these technologies are developing at an increasingly rapid rate; they are increasingly ubiquitous and malleable in the public eye and hand; and expectations of contemporary western audiences includes exploitation of their own fascination with the new/the edge of technology. It is the new which garners our attention and captivates our historical memory. This is particularly true in the art world. 

   How does today's cultural producer reconcile or mediate between the push to exploit the celebrity technology of the moment, and thus gain recognition in some aspect of the broader culture; with the integrity of their practice and the inherent desire (assumed) to be engaged in the communication of meaning, i.e. meaningful practice? 

   Wylde discusses her work as a new media artist and considers the phenomena of technological seduction as a force to grapple with (or not).

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 23:37

8. Digital Panoramas and Cinemascapes

   This presentation looks at how new works using panoramic environments and interactive cinemascapes impact ways visual continuity and contiguity function in narrative contexts. Emphasis is on using panoramic environments that layer video, text and other interactive objects on scrolling landscapes to transgress conventional media differences between language, photography and film. Special consideration will be given to the relationship between browser and museum installation environments. Works discussed includes the author's series "Unknown Territories," including "Journey Into The Unknown," and "Cinemascapes," including "Something That Happened Only Once," as well as works by John Rechy and others.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)

   Note: an expanded version of this talk was published in Hyperrhiz as "Taking A Scroll: Text, Image and the Construction of Meaning in a Digital Panorama"

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 23:49

9. Digital Oracles

   Digital Oracles" is a work that intends to cause awareness and reflection about the influence and power that the search engines on the web exert in our daily lives—not only online, but also offline—in determining our choices and paths. Privacy, control, trust, where the answers come from, the top10 dictatorship, existence, local filtering, utility and manipulation are among the raised issues.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)

   Scott Rettberg - 09.01.2013 - 00:20

10. Live Movies

    The presentation "Live Movies" will employ digital images and video clips to depict and discuss new media performance as treated in our recent book, Live Movies: A Field Guide to New Media for the Performing Arts. Live Movies documents the New Stage Technology Project, in which we have been engaged for the past five years at the Multimedia Performance Studio (MPS), and the work of our performance company, Cyburbia Productions. We will also discuss the Live Movies book as a resource for the field of new media art and performance.

    (Source: Authors' abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)

    Scott Rettberg - 09.01.2013 - 01:21

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