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Escríbe tu propio Quijote
"Este poema de los Wordtoys permite a cualquier usuario reescribir el Quijote a través de su interfaz. Tal como haría el famoso Pierrre Menard de Borges, aquí, independientemente de lo que una usuaria introduzca en el procesador de texto que se nos ofrece como interfaz del poema, el programa le devuelve el texto de Cervantes. Las pulsaciones que una lleve a cabo en el teclado dejan de corresponderse al output que se muestra en la pantalla, estando este totalmente fuera de control del ahora escritor-creador."
-Alex Saum-Pascual
Andrés Pardo Rodriguez - 23.10.2020 - 12:31
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The Endless Doomscroller
“Doomscrolling” refers to the ways in which people find themselves regularly—and in some cases, almost involuntarily—scrolling bad news headlines on their phone, often for hours each night in bed when they had meant to be sleeping. Certainly the realities of the pandemic necessitate a level of vigilance for the purposes of personal safety. But doomscrolling isn’t just a natural reaction to the news of the day—it’s the result of a perfect yet evil marriage between a populace stuck online, social media interfaces designed to game and hold our attention, and the realities of an existential global crisis. Yes, it may be hard to look away from bad news in any format, but it’s nearly impossible to avert our eyes when that news is endlessly presented via designed-to-be-addictive social media interfaces that know just what to show us next in order to keep us “engaged.” As an alternative interface, The Endless Doomscroller acts as a lens on our software-enabled collective descent into despair.
Scott Rettberg - 08.12.2020 - 15:11
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Genre-bending on an Academic Platform: Three Creative Works on Scalar
This paper investigates genre and media specificity of electronic literature created in Scalar. Scalar is a platform and authoring tool created specifically for humanities scholars to enable multimodal and multilinear publications. Besides scholarly work, Robert Budac's The Scalar Conspiracy [4], Steven Wingate's daddylabyrinth: a digital lyric memoir [12] and micha cárdenas' Redshift & Portalmetal [5] are all works of electronic literature created in Scalar. I demonstrate that all three of these works use Scalar to create genre-bending texts that build on and subvert the technological affordances as well as the contextual connotations that Scalar provides. The Scalar Conspiracy parodies the counter-intuitive user interface elements by making the reader investigate the text's different hidden messages. daddylabyrinth: a digital lyric memoir destabilizes the genre of the (auto)biography by promoting documentation and research while continuously showing how these processes fall short during the writing and reading process. Redshift & Portalmetal favors experience over documentation to create a work that is both immersive and theory-building.
Hannah Ackermans - 18.10.2021 - 16:10
