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1. Infiltrating Aesthetics: Videogames, Art, and Distinction

   Though scholars of literature and the arts remain skeptical, Strunk explores some of the ways "videogames are making the transition into being objects worthy of artistic attention."

   Raoul Karimow - 12.09.2017 - 13:42

2. #ELRPROMO: ELO Conference 2017 “Afiliações, Traduções, Comunidades”

   This is the second interview of Rui Torres for the ELR. He answered some questions about the event that he chaired.

   Daniele Giampà - 07.04.2018 - 15:20

3. #ELRFEAT: Entrevista a Joesér Alvarez (2017)

   This is the first interview of a series called Electronic Literature Review Featuring. I re-publish interviews of other web pages with the permission of the interviewer or the interviewee.

   Daniele Giampà - 07.04.2018 - 15:26

4. #ELRPROMO: “Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context”

   This is the first interview of a series called Electronic Literature Review Promotion. These interviews are published one month before the event takes place.

   Daniele Giampà - 07.04.2018 - 16:36

5. Critical Terms for Media Studies

   Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics.

   Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.

   Chiara Agostinelli - 23.09.2018 - 23:56

6. Born Digital

   “E-poetry relies on code for its creation, preservation, and display: there is no way to experience a work of e-literature unless a computer is running it—reading it and perhaps also generating it.” Stephanie Strickland outlines 11 rules of electronic poetry.

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 13:20

7. Italo Calvino’s Six Memos as ethical imperative in J.R. Carpenter’s The Gathering Cloud

   In 1985, Italo Calvino wrote a series of lectures (later published as ‘memos’) in which he proposed six values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness, ‘crystal’ exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency. Though never a writer of electronic literature, Calvino has frequently been associated or referenced in relation to digital works. J.R. Carpenter’s web-based work The Gathering Cloud (2016) (hereafter TGC) exhibits Calvino’s values. TGC is informed by Howard’s 1803 Essay on the Modifications of Clouds. Howard’s ‘frontispiece’ and five ‘plates’ are used in Carpenter’s web-based work. Poetry is then superimposed on these repurposed illustrations. Situated ‘within’ the poetry, animated gif collages play.

   David Wright - 04.09.2019 - 02:28

8. Mimicking synthetic speech in vocal performances

   This paper will explore artistic experiments that critically engage with the aesthetics and technics of speech synthesis, subverting and blending the binaries of the supposedly polarized categories organic and mechanical. Ian Hatcher’s (https://ianhatcher.net/) virtuosic vocal performances— "Prosthesis" (2011), "Drone Pilot" (2015), and "Colony" (2017), in which he simulates the cadence and syntax of machine speech with the very analogue instrument of his own (human) voice— a practice I propose to call reversed posthuman ventriloquism, will serve as cases for study. In my analysis of Hatcher’s performances, I will be examining them within the context of the history of the art and technology of speech synthesis, as well as in relation to the tradition of experimental music performed by vocalists who use extended vocal techniques.

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 17.11.2019 - 11:57

9. Appealing to Your Better Judgement: A Call for Database Criticism

   Engagement with public databases has become a leading way for scholars, artists, and readers alike to encounter works of electronic literature as well as get an overview of the field. Although acknowledged as an important and difficult process, database construction is, in practice, too often underestimated as merely a preparatory task in Digital Humanities. Through the conception of database criticism, I provide a critical apparatus to approach databases in terms of qualitative and aesthetic characteristics.

   Considering public databases as media texts, I take a digital hermeneutic approach to the reading strategies involved in engaging with databases. What follows is the presence of databases as cultural artifacts that are themselves studied in humanities and social science frameworks. It is in the interest of both the quality and esteem of the databases to develop ways to study and evaluate them parallel to academic reviews of monographs and edited collections.

   Hannah Ackermans - 07.09.2020 - 14:22

10. Subject-making and aesthetics of data practices

    Subject-making is profoundly aesthetic. In the current moment, of data-intensive cultures and identity wars, the subjects that are made stem from machine learning techniques that engage aesthetics differently, nonetheless profoundly. My talk will focus on subjects of data abstractions, poetics of idealisation and aesthetic recognition.
     

    Scott Rettberg - 29.05.2021 - 15:17

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