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Abandoning Canon: Fluid Texts and Implicit Collaboration in Electronic Narratives
Digital technology enables artists - photographers, musicians, writers, filmmakers, illustrators,
animators, etc. - to place their work not in a strictly definable where, but effectively everywhere
(everywhere, that is, where infrastructure and access are available). Where once the lines between
author, text, and reader could be drawn with linear vectors, digital technology and their increasing
availability and accessibility bring author, text, and reader into a potentially endless cycle of narrative, creation, wherein the roles are fluid and the text may never be fixed. Because of this capability, Astrid Ensslin argues that the idea of literary canon must depart from "its traditional self-contained, closed, and rigidly exclusive connotations. Instead, an inclusive, open concept has to be adopted, which works in terms of a continuous process of integration, modification and discharge" (2006, n.p).(Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.06.2012 - 13:53
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Marking Transition: the Work of Neal von Flue
For any regular Internet user, the hyperlink has become ubiquitous, almost rendered invisible
through the frequency of its use. Trails in hypertext are meticulously laid out through the
seemingly endless streams of data, connected by links imagined as points of intersection in the
web. Links are used for reference, for navigation but also extensively in creative production, to
fashion hypertextual narratives and images. It is in this realm of electronic literature, both visual
and textual, that the function of the link shifts from the commonplace to a carrier of aesthetic
potential.This presentation examines the aesthetic activation of the hyperlink as both an indicator of
transition and site of transformation. It is a brief exploration of the hyperlink as a signifier, a
mark both on and in the 'surface' of the digital text, through a close case study of two works by
hypercomic creator Neal von Flue.Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.06.2012 - 13:54
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Bringing the Art of Design to the National Park Service: The Fort Vancouver Mobile Project
This panel offers three academic papers that explore the use of mobile technologies in electronic literature. Organized from contributions that appear in the forthcoming collection, Digital Storytelling with Mobile Media: Locative Technologies and Narrative Practices, edited by Jason Farman, the impetus behind each of these papers is the ways in which mobile media are transforming the creation, dissemination, and experience of electronic literature.
The panel situates these mobile media narratives historically, acknowledging that mobile media have always affected the ways narrative is produced and disseminated. By locating mobile media historically and defining it broadly — yet simultaneously understanding the important impact of contemporary mobile technologies, especially locationaware mobile devices — this panel investigates the relationship between mobile technologies and narrative forms.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.06.2012 - 13:56
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Electronic Literature for All: Performance in Exhibits and Public Readings
Reaching out to new readers of electronic literature is now easier, thanks to the widespread use
and accessibility of digital media--computers, smartphones, electronic tablets, gaming consoles.
The channels are in place, but how do new audiences discover and read electronic literature?
This paper will present two case studies of two different events whose purpose is to introduce
readers to electronic literature. Both cases show how managing the performative aspects of electronic literature and its context is essential to engage new readers.(Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 11:56
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Commenting Creative Code
We consider how authors have added comments to electronic literature and how the facility for commenting code has been, and could be, used in unconventional yet productive ways by those working in the literary arts. Our central example is a gloss that we wrote, using JavaScript comments, to discuss the code for our poetry generator, “Sea and Spar Between”: http://blogs.saic.edu/dearnavigator/winter2010/nick-montfort-stephaniest... between/ As this generator is offered for anyone to use in future projects, it was originally written with some JavaScript comments to facilitate reuse. These were extensively expanded in an edition of the poem we call “cut to fit the toolspun course,” now under consideration for a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on “The Literary.” The issues we encountered in writing this extensive, poetic gloss using comments will be central to our discussion.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 12:59
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Literature: Lift this End
The Internet epistemologist Richard Rodgers describes the latest evolution of digital culture as “the end of the virtual,” a moment at which attention can no longer be confined primarily to integration, encapsulation, or remediation, but must turn instead to natively computational questions and methods. The meaning of this periodic shift is clear enough for the social and information sciences, but less so for the humanities: especially for literature, a field recently split into core and periphery, a home ground of literature-proper set against a hazier outline or outland that has come to be called “the literary.”
This talk begins by subverting the all-too-familiar topos of end-times or elegiac criticism (the end
of some world as we know it), by insisting that end may as easily refer to contour or wrapping as
termination or extinction. That is, an end may also be an edge, a line along which a structure becomes ready-to-hand, or available for manipulation. An end in this sense is an affordance for engagement: commonly, for lifting and carrying.Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:34
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Why ‘But is it e-lit?’ Is a Ridiculous Question: The Case for Online Journals as Organic, Evolving Works of Digital Literature
Cordite Poetry Review, an Australian journal of poetry and poetics, was founded in 1997 as a print journal but since 2001 has appeared only online. Over the last ten years, as the magazine has grown in size and reach, the question of Cordite’s status as a journal has become more vexed. Can it be regarded as a ‘proper’ literary journal, in the way that other, offline journals are? Is it truly electronic, given the relative absence of works on the site that explore the possibilities of the online space? Or are these merely ridiculous questions, the posing of which reflects a pre-online hierarchy of prestige?
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:37
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From Reality to Interactive Fiction and the Way Back
From Reality to Interactive Fiction and the Way Back
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:44
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netwurker_mez + her cardboard avatar [who might be made up of Boxes, but is *not* Boxxy]
netwurker_mez + her cardboard avatar [who might be made up of Boxes, but is *not* Boxxy]
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:46
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E-literature and the Un-coded Model of Meaning: Towards an Ordinary Digital Philosophy
As Ludwig Wittgenstein observes in Culture and Value, “a work of art does not aim to convey something else, just itself.” My paper uses the Wittgensteinian ordinary language philosophy (OLP) perspective to show how e-lit works often encourage a coalescence of various uses of the word ‘meaning’ in literary contexts. Beside the transitive meaning [what something means], the word “meaning” can be intransitively used in at least three different ways, denoting (1) value [how much something means], (2) a specific Gestalt [meaning as expressive of a specific structure], or (3) an (apparent) appropriateness [something as meaningful element]. The difficulty to neatly separate these uses during e-reading can be put in relation with the reconfiguration of our reading experience in terms of what Anna Munster calls inter-facialization.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:52
