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1. Editor’s Note: Fall 2019

   I reflect on this edition I think about one of the major contemporary political issues of our time that reaches into the past and into the future.

   Nature. The Earth. Climate. The human body. The human soul.

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 09.10.2020 - 12:08

2. The New River (Fall 2018)

   When you consider that writing as a form hasn’t really changed all that much since The Epic of Gilgamesh, some 4,000 years ago, what’s occurring in the world of new media becomes that much more impressive. Digital writing is already able to do things that authors aspired towards for years; incorporating visuals, music, and sound, as well as interacting directly with audience. In this issue we’ve tried to put forth work that exemplifies the wide range new media is capable of.

   (Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Fall/editor.html)

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 17.10.2020 - 12:18

3. A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS (Fall 2018)

   When you consider that writing as a form hasn’t really changed all that much since The Epic of Gilgamesh, some 4,000 years ago, what’s occurring in the world of new media becomes that much more impressive. Digital writing is already able to do things that authors aspired towards for years; incorporating visuals, music, and sound, as well as interacting directly with audience. In this issue we’ve tried to put forth work that exemplifies the wide range new media is capable of.

   (Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Fall/editor.html)

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 17.10.2020 - 13:18

4. The New River (Spring 2018)

   The world as we know it is changing: drones can deliver burritos, cars can drive themselves, all movies are remakes, and our middle school math teachers were all wrong – we do always have a calculator in our pocket. Welcome to the future! We’re talking about your smartphone. These small rectangular devices have affected nearly every aspect of our lives. New media is no exception. For this issue, we have curated a collection of pieces, both desktop and mobile, that exemplify all that new media has to offer in this future we live in.

   Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/editor.html)

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 17.10.2020 - 13:36

5. A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS (Spring 2018)

   The world as we know it is changing: drones can deliver burritos, cars can drive themselves, all movies are remakes, and our middle school math teachers were all wrong – we do always have a calculator in our pocket. Welcome to the future! We’re talking about your smartphone. These small rectangular devices have affected nearly every aspect of our lives. New media is no exception. For this issue, we have curated a collection of pieces, both desktop and mobile, that exemplify all that new media has to offer in this future we live in.

   (Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/editor.html)

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 17.10.2020 - 14:20

6. The New River (Fall 2017)

   The New River has been around for over 20 years, and in that time the digital world, and our readers' familiarity with that world, has changed drastically. In this year'™s Spring issue we take a moment to appreciate what still works from back in the early days of new media and the possibilities offered to us by its future.

   We have been lucky enough to receive submissions from several past contributors this reading period, and have a pretty packed issue.

   (Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/17Fall/editor.html)

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 17.10.2020 - 14:29

7. A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS (Fall 2017)

   The New River has been around for over 20 years, and in that time the digital world, and our readers' familiarity with that world, has changed drastically. In this year's Spring issue we take a moment to appreciate what still works from back in the early days of new media and the possibilities offered to us by its future.

   We have been lucky enough to receive submissions from several past contributors this reading period, and have a pretty packed issue.

   (Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/17Fall/editor.html)

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 17.10.2020 - 15:33

8. Collaboration and authority in electronic literature

   This paper explores collaborative processes in electronic literature. Specifically, it examines writer authority as it applies to text, code, and other media. By drawing from cinematic auteur theory, Mitchell’s Picture Theory (1994), Said’s Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975), Cayley’s Grammalepsy (2018), and Flores’s (2019) generational approach to digital literature, this paper highlights unique issues that arise in the creative collaborative production of digital literary works, and the influence these processes have on how these works are ‘read’. The creative processes employed in Montfort, Rettberg, and Carpenter’s respective Taroko Gorge, Tokyo Garage, and Gorge (2009), Jhave’s ReRites (2017–2018), and Luers, Smith, and Dean’s novelling (2016)), as well as reflections on the author’s own collaborative creative experiences (Paige and Powe (2017) with Lowry and Lane, Little Emperor Syndrome (2018) with Arnold, and V[R]erses (2019–) with Breeze) are explored in detail.

   David Wright - 11.11.2020 - 02:59

9. Media Archeaology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications

   This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today’s interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an emerging field, the book encourages discussion by presenting a full range of different voices. By revisiting ‘old’ or even ‘dead’ media, it provides a richer horizon for understanding ‘new’ media in their complex and often contradictory roles in contemporary society and culture.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.11.2020 - 07:33

10. Making language: re-writing and control in algorithmic poetics

    Considering the effects of machine learning in aesthetic practices, the aim of this presentation is to discuss strategies for authorial inscription and the autonomy of literary writers in relation to programmable writing tools.

    In a first moment I will apply David Nickel's notion of "proxy writer" (2013) to algorithmic writing agents in order to characterize these agents in what concerns their relative autonomy and place within human writing practices, and argue that digital writing environments and tools have been gradually becoming more alienated from the writer's control. Vilém Flusser's notion of "functionary" will be applied to computational writing practices in order to situate these in the broader context of writing media.

    In a second moment I will discuss the writing strategies present in Jhave's ReRites (2017-18) in order to assess how such strategies cope with the high level of autonomy of neural-networks in text-generation, and how they function as a necessary precondition for literary inscription on a highly mediated writing space.

    Cecilie Klingenberg - 24.02.2021 - 16:07

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