Elizabeth Wall Hinds reviews Andrew Miller’s first novel, Ingenious Pain, winner of the James Black Memorial Fiction Prize and the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
In PAIN.TXT, Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin explore the limitations of expression at the borders of human sensation. Derived from a dialog between Sondheim and Baldwin on extreme pain, this essay considers how one signifies intensity and another attempts to interpret that intensity, and the challenges this process poses for affect, imagination, and ultimately intersubjectivity. In keeping with the content of this piece, the two preserve the dialog format, recreating for readers a discourse on pain that never finds its center. (Source: Electronic Book Review)
Pain separates inscription and history from the inertness of the body. What’s read as history from the outside (and thereby entering the social), is - from the inside - unread/unreadable.
AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS is a web audio adventure about the meaning of death. It draws audio drama, audio tours and alternate reality gaming. The use of audio is an attempt to create a sense of unity in a highly fragmented experience. I see the techniques and experience of audio tours as a way to bring disparate elements together. Just as an audio tour involves guiding a listener to different places, this audio experience guides players to different websites. I include both custom and existing sites, and so this project continues my interest in pervasive design: where the players’ world is part of the fictional world. The story is born out of the pain of suddenly losing my mother, and facing the meaninglessness of my life. I got past heaviness of the subject matter by drawing on my early days in sketch comedy theatre, unifying the disparate times of my life.
(Source: ELO 2014 Conference)
Team: Christy Dena – writer, designer, producer, director Trevor Dikes – sound designer, composer Yangtian Li – illustrator Craig Peebles – app programmer (iPad) Andrey Ivanov – app programmer (Chrome browser plug-in) Elroy – app interface & logo Cast: Jimmy James Eaton – Narrator + Underworld Goon Alison Richards – Pathologist Nadia Collins – Assistant: Adam McKenzie – New Client Ben McKenzie – Ticket Officer + Philosopher Gambler Stefan Taylor – Philosopher Ex Richard McKenzie – Artist Assassin Tegan Higginbotham – Quantum Pizzeria Waitress Kevin J Powe – Quantum Boss + Philosopher Gambler (Source: http://www.universecreation101.com/authentic-in-all-caps/ )
Collaborative hypertext by Judy Malloy and others, originally written on The WELL.
This panel will deal with the relationship between extreme affect and electronic literature: How are pain, sex, and death _embodied_ in E-lit, virtual worlds, and textuality so that the abstract, for the reader, performer, or user, becomes empathetically embodied within hir? In other words, how can the skipping/skimming, which characterize the Net, be delayed, so that an actuality of politics and the body emerges? This panel will explore this and related issues. (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)