Hiya,
as the E-Poetry Festivities get under way at SUNY Buffalo (i was supposed
to be part of the opening night and giving a presentation but could get no
support financially from my research fellowship - so, please don't keep
going on about how priveledged those with one foot in academia are in
respect of these circuses) i thought you might find this little wheeze at
least of interest and note John Cayley's presence. Unfortunately (i say
that because it's a fine fine piece of literal art) Jonh's 'Windsound'
isn't up on the net (nobody said that electronic literature meant 'on the
web'. But there are many links you can visit or follow and i'd be curious
to hear reactions to issues that these works raise. Perhaps most pressingly
the distinctions being maintained and the forces mobilising such
distinctions between 'fiction' and 'poetry' in these instances?
love and love
cris
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THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION ANNOUNCES THE SHORT LISTS FOR
THE 2001 POETRY AND FICTION ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AWARDS
Chicago, IL, April 17 - The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is
pleased to announce the short lists for the first Electronic Literature
Awards. The two $10,000 Award-winners will be announced at a ceremony May
18, 2001 at the New School's Swayduck Auditorium in New York City (Ground
Floor, 65 Fifth Avenue, between 13th and 14th -- note change of venue).
Sixteen judges have whittled the international pool of one hundred and sixty
three works down to a short list of six in each category. Final Judges
Heather McHugh (Poetry) and Larry McCaffery (Fiction) will select the winner
in each category.
Tickets for the May 18th ceremony are available online for $10 @
http://eliterature.org/Awards2001
"Many of the first and second round judges commented on the remarkable
diversity of works submitted," said Scott Rettberg, executive director of
the ELO. "Collectively, these works represent the efforts of a nascent
literary movement that takes the electronic media not only as a new means of
distributing literature, but also as an interactive space that can be
utilized to create entirely new kinds of literary art."
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SHORT LIST FOR THE 2001 ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AWARD FOR FICTION
"Alternumerics" by Paul Chan
of Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
"Lexia to Perplexia" by Talan Memmott
of San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
"Patchwork Girl" by Shelley Jackson
of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
"_the data][h!][bleeding texts_" by Mez
of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
"These Waves of Girls" by Caitlin Fisher
of Toronto, Canada
"The Impermanence Agent" by Noah Wardrip-Fruin et al.
of New York City, New York, U.S.A.
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SHORT LIST FOR THE 2001 ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AWARD FOR POETRY
"Configuration" by Hilary Mosher-Buri
of Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A.
"Cyberpoetry Underground" By Kominos Zervos
of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
"Him" by Dane Watkins
of Somerset, England, U.K.
"The Minotaur Project" by Kim White
of Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
"Nepabunna" by Geniwate
of Prospect, South Adelaide, Australia
"Windsound" by John Cayley
of London, England, U.K.
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ABOUT THE WORKS
NOTE: More extensive info is available at eliterature.org/Awards2001
+++++++++++ FICTION +++++++++++
"Alternumerics" by Paul Chan
MEDIUM: Web (with font installation)
URL: http://www.nationalphilistine.com/alternumerics/
Author's Decription: Alternumerics presents work based on a collection of
fonts that explore the fissure between language, interactivity, and
translation. The fonts, "Self portrait as a font", "Sexual healing / shift
for harassment", and "The future must be sweet - after Fourier" transform
the traditional form and function of computer based fonts by replacing the
individual letters and numbers (or the alphanumerics) with textual fragments
which connect and signify what is typed in a radically different way. Each
fontpiece is accompanied by another piece of work that uses the font to
explore the relationship between what is written, what is translated, and
fundamentally, what is communicated when we use language to describe the
slipperiness of the Self, the intangibility of Desire, or the sheer
possibility of a Politics of the future.
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"Lexia to Perplexia" by Talan Memmott
MEDIUM: Web
URL: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/newmedia/lexia/index.htm
Author's Description: Lexia to Perplexia is a deconstructive/grammatological
look at the construction of User narratives through the attachment to the
Internet apparatus. A mix between theory and fiction, the work makes wide
use of neologisms, advanced coding, and graphics while exploring the hidden
agencies of attachment and network desire.
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"Patchwork Girl" by Shelley Jackson
MEDIUM: CDROM
CATALOG URL: http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/PatchworkGirl.html
Author's Description: Patchwork Girl is a hypertext novel comprising
original fiction and borrowed texts, art and theory. It tells the story of
a female Frankenstein monster.
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"_the data][h!][bleeding texts_" by mez
MEDIUM: Web
URL: http://netwurkerz.de/mez/datableed/complete/index.htm
Author's Description: _the data][h!][bleeding t.ex][e][ts_r remnants from
email performances d-voted to the dispersal of writing that has been
n.spired and mutated according 2 the dynamics of an active network. the
texts make use of the polysemic language system termed _mezangelle_, which
evolved/s from multifarious email exchanges, computer code flavoured
language and net
iconographs.
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"These Waves of Girls" by Caitlin Fisher
MEDIUM: Web
URL: http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves
Author's Description: These Waves of Girls is a hypermedia novella exploring
memory, girlhoods, cruelty, childhood play and sexuality. The piece is
composed as a series of small stories, artifacts, interconnections and
meditations from the point of view of a four year old, a ten-year old, a
twenty year old...
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"The Impermanence Agent" by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, a.c. chapman, Brion Moss,
and Duane Whitehurst
MEDIUM: Web
URL: http://www.impermanenceagent.com
Author's Description: A small "Agent" window that the user places in a
corner of their screen, a proxy server, and a web server. The Agent window
tells a story. The proxy server monitors user web browsing and alters
browsed pages. The information from proxy monitoring is used to customize
the story, and the customized version is served to the Agent window from the
web server. Customization continues until none of the original story
remains.
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+++++++++++ POETRY +++++++++++
"Configuration" by Hilary Mosher Buri
MEDIUM: Web
URL: http://home.dencity.com/buriweb/
Author's Description: A poem in seven parts, with instruction in a
geometrical drawing and accompanied by "editor's" comments, related texts,
and figures.
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"cyberpoetry underground" by Komninos Zervos
MEDIUM: CDROM
Author's Description: cyberpoetry underground: the whole navigation is in a
3d textual space, text animations, hot-spotted panoramas of text, and
synthesized voice sound poetry. It's authored for mac.
Readers journey through 5 qtvr (quicktime virtual reality) 360 degree
panoramas of text representing 5 stations of the london underground. In
each panorama the text objects that make the scene are hyperlinks to
animated sound/text cyberpoems.
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"Him" by Dane Watkins
MEDIUM: Web
Web-URL: http://www.comfylux.com/him
Author's Description: A hypertext poem where the lines lead to different
aspects of male identity cut out of magazines and the reader becomes lost in
the permutation.
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"The Minotaur Project" by Kim White
MEDIUM: Web
web-URL: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~theminotaurproject/
Author's description: The Minotaur Project is a poem cycle in four parts. It
is part of a longer poem that reimagines the classical myth of Kore.
Minotaur is one of the elements Kore encounters in the underworld. When
finished, this long poem will exist only in the computer.
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"Nepabunna" by geniwate
MEDIUM: CD-ROM and Web
Author's Description: The work uses remote sensing data from the Landsat 5
satellite as the starting point, then progresses to a mythopoeia of
contemporary technology (using Australian Aboriginal themes) and finally
cites string theory as an example of the nexus between science/beauty/truth.
Poetry and digital media combine to examine this nexus.
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"Windsound" by John Cayley
MEDIUM: CDROM
Author's Description: 'windsound' is a 'text movie' animated by transliteral
morphs (textual morphing based on letter replacements) through a sequence of
nodal texts.
'windsound' is based on original texts by myself, plus my own translation of
a Song period lyric, 'Cadence: Like a Dream' by Qin Guan (1049-1100). It is
designed to be viewed as an all-but-linear movie. Once started, it plays
through a sequence taking about 20 minutes. While it plays continuously, the
text which you read (where not composed) is algorithmically generated. (In
later, still unfinished pieces such text movies are navigable, becoming
similar to so-called 'object movies'.)
While the piece has narrative and fictional qualities, it is submitted as
poetry since I write out of a tradition of innovative poetry, and because
the piece addresses linguistic structures at a granular level: as literal
art.
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