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Competition
Literatur.digital 2001: Authors answer
questions [German]
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After the
competition a lot of questions have left. Some
easier among them: Who are the
participants? How did they start writing digital
literature? What are their contributions about?
What do they think about digital literature? 17
Authors have answered and generated an
interesting archive for a sociological approach
to digital aesthetics, easily navigated via
person or via
question.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/11/30-Wettbewerb
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Competition Literatur.digital 2001: Short Reviews
on 9 Contributions [German]
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Introducing
and commenting on prizewinners and contributors
to preselection.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/11/30-Reviews
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Netart between Blossom and Isolation. Interview
with Tilman Baumgärtel
[German]
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Netart is
in a stage of productive chaos and incredible
intensity, but at the same time turned into an
isolation. Tilman Baumgärtel, who
interviewed netartists for two books now himself
answers questions on the past, present and
future of netart, on aesthetically and political
aspects of netart, its formalism and its
relation to
netliterature.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/11/24-Baumgaertel
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Comments on Comment. Discussion in Mailinglist
Netliterature.de [German]
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Anja Rau's
criticisms on ELO 2001 Award winner These
Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher has invoked
criticism: about the appropriate approach,
criteria of evaluation, possibilities of
teamwork. The perpetual question
resurfaces: What is
netliterature.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/11/12-Mailinliste
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Poetopology.
Folded Space, Traversal Machines and the Poetics of
‘Emergent Text.’
[English]
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Beressem
advances three propositions about a number of
questions concerning the 'hypertextual field':
1. Space - Drawing on Deleuze, he proposes the
figure of 'folding' , - rather than 'linking',
'surfing' or 'navigating' - as a way to think of
textual movement; 2. dynamics of hypertext -
Beressem applies Aarseth's definition of
cybertext; 3. 'emergent text' - Beressem
considers some of the problems and possibilities
surrounding the creation of 'autopoietic texts'
through specific programmings of the
‘traversal’
hypertextmachine.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/11/10-Beressem
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Web/Fiction/Design
- A Brief Beta-Test [English/German]
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The piece
loads too slowly, uses outdated technology, has
sloppy programming, shows the design of an
optical overkill, and the treatment of its topic
utterly ignores its predecessors and the genuine
features of hypertext it could have employed.
Anja Rau's critique is well informed regarding
both technique and
content.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/10/31-Rau
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Digital
Code and Literary Text
[English]
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The
theoretical debate of literature in digital
networks has shifted from perceiving computer
technology solely as an extension of
conventional textuality towards paying attention
to the very codedness of digital systems
themselves. Florian Cramer raises the questions
which need to be answered: Can notions of text
that were developed without electronic texts in
mind be applied to digital code, and how does
literature come into play here? How do computer
programs relate to literature? Is that what is
currently being discussed as "Software Art" a
literary genre?
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/10/22-Cramer
 Comment
by Anja Rau
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The
World of Digital Literature
[English/German]
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The World
Wide Web as an enormous publishing system with
enormous consequences for literary production
outside the market-driven best-seller charts:
Multiple authoring, globalization and
individualism, new sales strategies of
publishing houses, book stores, authors and
artists. Christine Böhler talks about the
new possibilities and
risks.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/10/20-Boehler
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Eight
Digits of Digital Poetics
[English/German]
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A
manifesto of digital poetics - as often with
manifestos done in the tone of manifests. Among
the 8 decrees: Nothing radically new occurs with
digital poetry, she does not improve on, redeem
or translate (post)modern ways of writing. And:
Digital poetry presents and exemplifies the use
of languages, or codes, in symbol processing
computers and in digital
networks
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/10/17-Block
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WYGIWYS
or WYGIWYS. Notes on the Loss of Inscription
[English]
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The loss
of inscription points to shifts in perception,
visualization and reading. There is not any
difference between originals and copies - just a
continuous movement of the reorganization of
data and a fluxes of information. They are
identical resettings of the same informative
code. But they are not identical for the
experience and this is the fascination of the
clone logic: its possibility of being different
and identical at the same time.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/10/16-Beiguelmann
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