2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bergen’s Digital Culture Research Group, Kathi Inman Berens works with canon formation and reception history of electronic literature. A curator and scholar, Kathi has installed literary exhibits and live performances at the Library of Congress, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and at two annual conventions at the Modern Language Association. Her shows have been reviewed in academic journals and the Huffington Post. A lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication, and member of the Annenberg Innovation Lab’s Research Council, Kathi won in 2012 an IBM Faculty Award for her work […]
[…]He is also the Podcast Section Head for First Person Scholar, uWaterloo’s multimedia games studies periodical run through its Games […]
[…]being variable, and visible according to different organizational rubrics: theme, language group, discourse style, real world geography, “Joe’s Favorites,” “Users’ Favorites.” Many different ways to view the Table of Contents, or Field of Contents. Different views for different uses, different moods. 3} — Many programmers have made it a Holy Grail to devise a nest of algorithms to…automatically…link new pieces of designwriting together in a meaningful way. The results are sometimes interesting, but most often dull. My counsel: try that, if it interests you, but don’t leave ALL the linking functions to the machine. Have machine-linked views AND Human-DJ-Linked views. […]
[…]Laurie Becklund (HBJ 1991) wears out its claim as Nike’s unauthorized biography by being less critical of the sneaker giant than Just Do It manages to be. Take away the feud between CEO Phil Knight and J.B.’s husband Rob, who left the company in 1986, and Swoosh is no more unauthorized than a pledge raid on the frat house. two tales of one Nike Author, authorized, unauthorized, authority, authoritarian: terms laid waste by postmodern discourse attain recuperation in the business world of letters. Some of the respectable journalists I name may resent being identified as authors of authorized corporate histories, […]
[…]though (and I’m having trouble coming up with ways to talk about this without sounding critical, which I really don’t feel). You are proposing that questions will be posted that aren’t too restrictive and that will stimulate response by anyone, right? How will these responses differ from a listserv (other than that they will be more permanent and will interlace with one another through the warp and woof of the linkages)? Will all writing on the web become the expression of a moment rather than the production of contemplation inspired by the desire to speak about something? Is writing about […]
Hello, everybody– As probably the most troglodytic of the group (or certainly bottom ranked), I find myself grouping the questions raised into crude categories, two of which (opposed) I just want to briefly mention. The first is form, and I am tremendously excited by the careful thought and attention I find here towards the notion of “emergence.” This is a great experiment somewhere between trad. categories of communication and collaboration that will no doubt dwarf my already humbled imagination. The other question I don’t think I’ve seen directly mentioned (although indirectly in several of Anne’s points): the question of death. […]
[…]experimental writing; scholarship with attitude – work that requires readers to bring to it more critical vocabulary and theoretic understanding than is required by magazines for a more general audience, and yet is way cooler than the kind of academic writing that appears in most journals. A hip academic journal, is one early oxymoron model, as I recall. Right now, so much of ebr fits this (even if that isn’t the primary goal of the piece). I would hate to see this fall by the way side and become an elaborate listserve, or what may amount to the same thing, […]
[…]networks of interpersonal relationships but also operate through a digital network of programmed code, software, and hardware.Circle’s highly hybrid quality is grounded in how it binds code, communication protocols, software and analog objects to produce a literary experience far exceeding the confines of linguistic text and textuality. It is one of the works showing how electronic literature is not just about the letter and how it is neither (or not anymore) just about multimodality, it is rather about weaving the code into and through the tangible, the experiential, the elemental. Jessica Pressman insightfully sums up its way of operation: We […]
[…]a kind of writing, which is then retroactively revealed to have been “noisy” all along. Working from the perspective of sound as one of the “spatial arts,” contributors might raise the question of how one should navigate through the rhetoric of noise (while filtering the noise of rhetoric). Who wants to remix this noise into pseudo-autobiographical narrative “mystory” critifiction? Why did Progressve Networks change their name to Real Networks? And what about the new Senator from Washington state, the 42-year-old Maria Cantwell who funded her campaign with moneys cashed in from her job at Real Networks? What’s up with all […]
[…]this time, given the convergence of our timeline with the turn of the year, we decided to impose a working constraint on ourselves: we asked for essays between 1999 and 2000 words in length. That requirement was accepted, in good spirit, by Paul Braffort, Bernardo Schiavetta, and issue editor Jan Baetens. It kept everyone aware of the conditions under which, and the year toward which, we were writing. As the deadline approached, however, and our file organizers automatically adjusted to accomodate our first double-digit issue, we became conscious of another constraint that has silently shaped the ongoing development of the […]