French digital poetry

This two-part workshop led by Philippe Bootz and Johnathan Baillehache will focus on the history and documentation of French Digital Poetry.

Morning session: History of French digital poetry since Calliope (1952) until Transitoire Observable (2003). Lecture and discussion led by Bootz.
Afternoon session: Documenting French digital poetry in ELMCIP French Language Electronic Literature research collection.

Participants will first encounter some of the history of French digital poetry and view and interact with some early works. In the afternoon, participants will work together to document this history and these works in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base in a workshop led by Baillehache, who has been developing a research collection on the topic with students at Georgia University.

(source: ELO 2015 catalog)

Syntonie is a project of digital review for ipad that would prefigure an anthology of French digital poetry. Only 3 works originally designed for a computer will be carried on ipad. The choose of the works, the new computing and the semiotics design will be done at the laboratory Paragraphe in relationship with the publisher. We will examine here the questions that this remediatisation asked: what is lost? What is preserved? What is changed? What balance between mediation for present audience and fidelity to the work? Are they facets of the work we can only document (semiotic representations inside the original program for instance)? Is remediatisation an act of preservation?

All these questions will be asked in technical, semiotics, literary and publishing points of view. The project will only begin in February and we will document all the process.