Description
While literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer screen and by using keyboard and mouse, nowadays human-machine interactions are organized by considerably more complex interfaces. Consequently, this book focuses on literary processes in interactive installations, locative narratives and immersive environments, in which active engagement and bodily interaction is required from the reader to perceive the literary text. The contributions from internationally renowned scholars analyze how literary structures, interfaces and genres change, and how transitory aesthetic experiences can be documented, archived and edited.
Chapter
Epistemology of Disruptions. Thoughts on the Operative Logic of Media Semantics
RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive Environments
Memory and Motion. The Body in Electronic Writing
Event and Meaning. Reading Interactive Installations in the Light of Art History
Literature between Virtual, Physical and Poetic Space
Why Digital Literature Has Always Been “Beyond the Screen”
From Concrete to Digital. The Reconceptualization of Poetic Space
The Gravity of the Leaf. Phenomenologies of Literary Inscription in Media-Constituted Diegetic Worlds
Beyond the Complex Surface
Hyperlinking in 3D Interactive, Multimedia Performances
Entering Urban Space: Using Locative Media for Literature
Framing Locative Consciousness
Walk This Way. Mobile Narrative as Composed Experience
Locative Narrative, Literature and Form
A Town as a Novel. An Interactive and Generative Literary Installation in Urban Space
The Global Poetic System. A System of Poetic Positioning
Part Two. Beyond Genre: Perspectives of Literariness in Computer-Based Media
“No Preexistent World” On “Natural” and “Artificial” Forms of Poetry
How to Construct the Genre of Digital Poetry. A User Manual
The Reader, the Player and the Executable Poetics. Towards a Literature Beyond the Book
Beyond Play and Narration. Video Games as Simulations of Self-Action
Part Three. Beyond the Library: Preservation, Archiving and Editing of Electronic Literature
Archivability of Electronic Literature in Context
On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature. Preliminary Reflections
Classification vs. Diversification. The Value of Taxonomies for New Media Art
Dispersal and Renown. An Investigation of Blogs, Listservs and Online Journals
Digital Editions in the Net. Perspectives for Scholarly Editing in a Digital World