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Lev Manovich
Russian-born new media theorist who moved to New York in 1981 and has lived in the US since. Manovich has published several influential books and is a professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego where he is one of the leaders of the Software Studies Initiative and oversees multiple projects in "cultural analytics", a term he is credited with coining to describe the use of computational methods to study large cultural data sets.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.02.2011 - 20:09
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The Language of New Media
In this influential book Manovich proposes five principles of new media: 1) Numerical representation: new media objects exist as data. 2) Modularity: the different elements of new media exist independently. 3) Automation: new media objects can be created and modified automatically. 4) Variability: new media objects exist in multiple versions. 5) Transcoding: The logic of the computer influences how we understand and represent ourselves. Another often cited point in the book is his discussion of database aesthetics and database narratives. Manovich's work is based in cinema studies and his book was especially rapidly taken up in media studies departments.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.02.2011 - 20:16
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The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot
A hypertext ballad metaphorically exploring the relationships between people (Harry Soot) and machines (Sand).
Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.02.2011 - 22:15
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Avatars of Story
Traces the transformation of storytelling in the digital age. Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. Linguists, folklorists, psychologists, and sociologists have expanded the inquiry toward oral storytelling, but narratology remains primarily concerned with language-supported stories. In Avatars of Story, Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms. By grappling with semiotic media other than language and technology other than print, she reveals how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 09:00
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Hypertext and the Female Imaginary
from the publisher: Explores the use of hypertext in postmodern electronic and film media by women In Hypertext and the Female Imaginary, Jaishree K. Odin reveals how media that use hypertextual strategies of narrative fragmentation provocatively engage questions of gender or cultural difference. Odin addresses hypertext on two levels: as an artistic technique in electronic or film narratives and as a metaphor for describing the complexity of postmodernism in which different cultures, discourses, and media are in continual interaction with one another. Investigating the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, Judy Malloy, Shelley Jackson, Stephanie Strickland, and M. D. Coverly, Odin demonstrates how these writers apply hypertextual strategies to subversively convey difference. Through her readings of various transformative hypertext narratives by women writers/artists, she pursues the question of what constitutes empowering descriptions of the world in a technology-mediated culture where the dominant discourse is turning everything into the same.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 09:19
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Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
In Ex-foliations, Terry Harpold investigates paradoxes of reading’s backward glances in the theory and literature of the digital field. In original analyses of Vannevar Bush’s Memex and Ted Nelson’s Xanadu, and in innovative readings of early hypertext fictions by Michael Joyce and Shelley Jackson, Harpold asserts that we should return to these landmarks of new media scholarship with newly focused attention on questions of media obsolescence, changing user interface designs, and the mutability of reading. In these reading machines, Harpold proposes, we may detect traits of an unreadable surface—the real limit of the machines’ operations and of the reader’s memories—on which text and image are projected in the late age of print. (Source: Publisher's website.)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 09:48
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Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations
From the publisher: How to interpret and critique digital arts, in theory and in practice Digital Art and Meaning offers close readings of varied examples from genres of digital art, including kinetic concrete poetry, computer-generated text, interactive installation, mapping art, and information sculpture. Roberto Simanowski combines these illuminating explanations with a theoretical discussion employing art philosophy and history to achieve a deeper understanding of each example of digital art and of the genre as a whole.
(Source: University of Minnesota Press catalog description)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 10:25
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Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-generating Mechanisms
Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-generating Mechanisms
Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:26
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Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
In this book, the author, Chris Funkhouser provides a comprehensive historical, descriptive, and technical account of early works of computer-assisted poetry composition. Focusing on examples of digital poetry before the world wide web rather than on literary precursors to web experiments. Funkhouser demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse. As a history of early digital poetry and a record of an era that has passed, this study aspires both to influence poets working today and to highlight what the future of digital poetry may hold. The book is divided into five different sections: origination, visual and kinetic design poems, hypertext and hypermedia, alternative arrangements and techniques enabled.
Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:32
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New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How to Write
New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How to Write
Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:38
