database poetics

Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2014)

Type
Syllabus
Language
English
Author
Judd Morrissey
Álvaro Seiça
Organization
University of Bergen, Program in Digital Culture
URL
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (UiB)
Dikult 103 (Course Website)
Year
Record Status
Approved record
Tags
digital art
electronic literature
computer games
genre
antecedents
Portuguese electronic literature
database poetics
Abstract (in English)

This course will provide an introduction to genres of cultural artifacts particular to the network and the computer, specifically computer and network art, electronic literature, and computer games. Traditional conceptions of genre and categories of cultural artifact, such as art object, performance, novel, poem, and game are undergoing redefinition in the context of digital culture, and new genres of cultural artifacts are emerging, which require new models of textual analysis specific to the computational media and network context in which these artifacts are produced and distributed. DIKULT103 provides an overview of these emerging genres, and an introduction to the models of academic discourse and analysis particular to them. Students in the course will learn to analyze contemporary digital artifacts on a textual and structural basis, within the general framework of genre studies.

Database or Archive Referenced
ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base
PO-EX.net: Arquivo Digital da Literatura Experimental Portuguesa
Electronic Poetry Center
Electronic Literature Directory
Rhizome Artbase
UbuWeb
Critical Writing Referenced
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary: Website Accompaniment
What is Electronic Writing?
Electronic Literature: What is it?
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
The End of Books
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
New Media Art
The New Media Reader
Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics
Media Poetry: An International Anthology
Digital Art
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two
remixthebook
Understanding Video Games: the Essential Introduction
Kissing the Steak: The Poetry of Text Generators
A Vanguard Projected in Motion: Early Kinetic Poetry in Portuguese
Between Code and Motion: Generative and Kinetic Poetry in French, Portuguese, and Spanish
PO.EX: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia
Concrete and Digital Poetics
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations
ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature
Poetic Transformations in(to) the Digital
Videopoetry
“The Dead Must be Killed Once Again”: Plagiotropia as Critical Literary Practice
Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics
The Language of New Media
Patterns of Hypertext
As We May Think
Remediation: Understanding New Media
E-Borges: Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
What Is New Media?
Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism On The Net
The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory
Writing the Virtual: Eleven Dimensions of E-Poetry
Portuguese Experimental Poetry: Revisited and Recreated
Concrete Poetry in Portugal Experimentalism and Intermediality
Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics
Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer
Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions
Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries
The Exquisite Corpus: Issues in Electronic Literature
Teaching Resource Referenced
Introduction to Electronic Literature: A Freeware Guide
New Media Art (Wiki version)
Creative Works Referenced
The Dreamlife of Letters
Victory Garden
The Set of U / La Série des U
Frequency
A Literatura Cibernética 1: Autopoemas Gerados por Computador
A Literatura Cibernética 2: Um Sintetizador de Narrativas
Sintext
BwO
Computer Poetry
Roda Lume
Poemas encontrados
Poemas no meio do caminho
Poemário - Blog de poesia combinatória
Streamflow conditions
%Location
My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
The Secret Life of Numbers
[theHouse]
Life Sharing
The Intruder
Internet Text, 1994- [Through Feb 2, 2006]
Text Rain
Untitled 5
A House of Dust
How to Make a Dadaist Poem
Patchwork Girl
afternoon, a story
The Garden of Forking Paths
A House of Dust
çacocophonie
truth, or ILLUSION?
ZYX
Code Movie 1
Super Atari Poetry
Evolution
Califia
Marble Springs 1.0
forking paths
By Alvaro Seica, 25 October, 2013

Autoauthor, Autotext, Autoreader: The Poem as Self-assembled Database

Author
Manuel Portela
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Writing Technologies
URL
Autoauthor, Autotext, Autoreader: The Poem as Self-assembled Database
Pages
43-74
Journal volume and issue
Vol. 4
ISSN
1754-9035
Record Status
Incomplete record (stub)
Tags
digital poetry
autoauthor
autotext
autoreader
database poem
database poetics
text generation
Abstract (in English)

This article contains an introduction to contemporary Portuguese electronic literature, focusing on works by Rui Torres. Starting from texts by other 20th-century authors, Rui Torres’ generative works recode their source texts by opening up their syntax and semantics to digital materiality and programmed signification. Randomized algorithms, permutational procedures
and interactive functions are applied to sets of digital objects consisting of verbal text, video, voice, music, and animation. His hypermedia poems demonstrate that programming codes have become crucial elements in the rhetoric and poetics of digital creation. I analyze his database poetry by looking at the algorithmic play between writing and reading in three hypermedia works: Mar de Sophia [Sophia’s Sea] (2005; http://telepoesis.net/mardesophia/), Amor de Clarice [Clarice’s Love] (2005; http://telepoesis.net/amorclarice/amor.html ), and Húmus Poema Contínuo [Humus Continuous Poem] (2008, http://telepoesis.net/humus/humus.html).

(Source: Author's Abstract)

Other language version
Autoautor, Autotexto, Autoleitor: O Poema como Base de Dados
Creative Works referenced
Amor de Clarice
Mar de Sophia
Húmus poema contínuo
By Alvaro Seica, 14 October, 2013

Autoautor, Autotexto, Autoleitor: O Poema como Base de Dados

Author
Manuel Portela
Publication Type
Article in a print journal
Language
Portuguese
Editor
Manuel Portela
Year
Publisher
Revista de Estudos Literários
URL
Revista de Estudos Literários Nº 2 - Ano 2012
Pages
203-240
Journal volume and issue
Number 2
ISSN
2182-1526
Record Status
Incomplete record (stub)
Tags
digital poetry
autoauthor
autotext
autoreader
database poem
database poetics
text generation
Abstract (in English)

This article contains an introduction to contemporary Portuguese electronic literature, focusing on works by Rui Torres. Starting from texts by other 20th-century authors, Rui Torres’ generative works recode their source texts by opening up their syntax and semantics to digital materiality and programmed signification. Randomized algorithms, permutational procedures
and interactive functions are applied to sets of digital objects consisting of verbal text, video, voice, music, and animation. His hypermedia poems demonstrate that programming codes have become crucial elements in the rhetoric and poetics of digital creation. I analyze his database poetry by looking at the algorithmic play between writing and reading in three hypermedia works: Mar de Sophia [Sophia’s Sea] (2005; http://telepoesis.net/mardesophia/), Amor de Clarice [Clarice’s Love] (2005; http://telepoesis.net/amorclarice/amor.html ), and Húmus Poema Contínuo [Humus Continuous Poem] (2008, http://telepoesis.net/humus/humus.html).

(Source: Author's Abstract)

Abstract (in original language)

Este artigo constitui uma introdução à literatura eletrónica portuguesa contemporânea,
centrada na obra de Rui Torres. Partindo frequentemente de textos de outros autores, as obras gerativas de Rui Torres recodificam os textos originais inscrevendo a sua sintaxe e semântica na materialidade digital e na significação programada. Algoritmos aleatorizados, procedimentos permutativos e funções interativas são aplicados a conjuntos de objetos digitais constituídos por texto verbal, vídeo, voz, música e animação. Os seus poemas hipermédia tornam evidente que os códigos de programação se tornaram recursos específicos da retórica e da poética da criação digital. Analiso a sua poesia de base de dados, observando o jogo algorítmico entre escrita e leitura em três obras hipermédia: Mar de Sophia (2005; http://telepoesis.net/mardesophia/), Amor de Clarice (2005; http://telepoesis.net/amorclarice/amor.html) e Húmus Poema Contínuo (2008, http://telepoesis.net/humus/humus.html).

(Fonte: Resumo do Autor)

Other language version
Autoauthor, Autotext, Autoreader: The Poem as Self-assembled Database
Creative Works referenced
Amor de Clarice
Mar de Sophia
Húmus poema contínuo
database poetics