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By Audun Andreassen, 10 April, 2013
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This paper expands on some of the questions raised by my presentation at the 2009 Digital Arts and Culture conference, held last December at UC Irvine. While examining the work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), I asked what it might mean for a new media practitioner to intentionally disregard or shun many of the medium’s inherent capabilities. I was interested in the way in which YHCHI seemed to be protesting some of the assumptions or characteristics of the nascent canon of electronic literature, i.e. that works of new media are inherently multidirectional, adaptive, non-linear, etc.

With this paper, I turn from interrogating specific works of electronic literature to perform a broader analysis of the ideology that underpins (e-) canonicity. This paper responds to the Electronic Literature Organization’s conference theme “Archive and Innovate,” by positing that it might now be possible to move away from the rather exclusive notion of the canon, complete with its ideological, print historical baggage, and move toward a more inclusive, “open-source” mode of textual preservation: the archive. Building on Matthew Kirschenbaum’s quick nod to Freud’s Archive Fever as well as Lev Manovich’s discussion of the database as a “symbolic form,” I flesh out some of the significant differences between the traditional notion of the print canon and the innovative model of the digital archive. What might new modes of preservation, such as the Electronic Literature Organization’s online collection, offer that traditional modes of collection and storage do not? What could an electronic literary archive or database do at a conceptual level that might impact the way we write, access, or read these types of texts? In attempting to answer these questions and a few others, I hope to further encourage our discussion of (e-) textual preservation and storage.

(Source: Author's abstract for ELO_AI)

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Textual engine, with sound, by Rui Torres, exploring the combinatorial technique in digital medium, integrating it in the multimedia animated poetry. 

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Nuno M. Cardoso: Voice

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AndOrDada is a road poem. The reader strolls through town and her immediate area generates a poem. She walks further through town or rides a bus and the poem changes according to her location in town. AndOrDada is an endless poem; AndOrDada is adaptive locative Dada. It reads, writes out and interprets the subconscious social structure of a town.The AndOrDada software works as an adaptive poetry-tool with locative levels. It generates new scenes and environments in the tradition of the situationists. It captures wlan waves in the immediate area of the reader and converts the wlan-waves into poetic objects. The software not only manages to generate subjects and objects, as a crucial addition for the poetic value of the project it manages to create verbs from the captured hotspots. AndOrDada features three distinct modes: The first mode manages to create a story; the second mode generates a narrative with your friends which are being retrieved from the address book; and the third mode shows a lyric approach and creates a dadaistique poem.

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iPhone iOs 2 version rejected by Apple. Android version in work.

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Locative Poetry for mobile devices

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The Stir Fry Texts are interactive texts that twitch and change as you move the mouse over them. Each stir fry consists of n distinct texts. Each of the n texts is partitioned into t pieces. When you mouseover any of the t parts of a text, that part is replaced with the corresponding part of the next of the n texts. Each stir fry contains a graphic that, when clicked repeatedly, lets you cycle through the n texts. I did the programming of the stir frys and did the texts of the first couple. Later, "Log" was done in collaboration with Brian Lennon and "Blue Hyacinth" with Pauline Masurel. The project also includes two essays. "Stir Frys and Cut Ups" relates these forms, and "Material Combinatorium Supremum" discusses the combinatorial form of the stir frys. The stir fry texts are steeply combinatorial. I did the programming in DHTML. I am indebted to Marko Niemi for his upgrading of the programming in 2004. Now they run OK on both PC and Mac and most contemporary browsers on both platforms. (Source: Author description, ELC v.1)

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Instructions: Mouse-over different text-fragments to alter the text. Click on the corresponding graphic to each Stir Fry Text to receive a new base text.