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CfP: LIT.NET Austria - The net in Austrian literature

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Heide Kunzelmann <[log in to unmask]>

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Heide Kunzelmann <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:43:59 -0000

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INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE 

at the 

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

 

Conference: LIT.NET Austria - The net as theme, aesthetic paradigm and communicative tool in literary Austria /

LIT.NET Austria - Das Netz als Thema, ästhetisches Paradigma und kommunikatives Werkzeug in der österreichischen Literatur

 

WEDNESDAY, 18 AND THURSDAY, 19 APRIL 2012 

 

Venue: IGRS, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 

 

 

It is the aim of this conference to discuss the various aesthetic facets of the net using exemplary studies from the context of modern Austrian literature. 'Digital literature' is a relatively new area of research within Austrian Studies and offers interesting perspectives at literary production along the boundary between the terms offline and online, that is during the times before and after the introduction of computers and the internet (Bachleitner 2011). The advent of digital media has created new narrative forms, a fact that necessarily leads to questioning traditional processes of reception as well as the way these new technological possibilities have been creatively adapted by authors. The terms offline/online and linear/non-linear will hereby serve as a theoretical base for the discussion of ermergent narrative tendencies in Austrian literature.

Aleatoric principles have been used in experimental writing long before the Age of the computer. Especially avantgardist forms of art have always shown great affinity towards non-linear aesthetic practices and were therefore most apt to undergo a digital transformation. One important question that is up for discussion during this conference will be in how far the aesthetic potential of the "Netz der Netze" (Gendolla, Schäfer 2004), i.e. the World Wide Web, has influenced the poetic practice of Austrian writers so far. Consequently the event will not only deal with writing on the internet and hypertext- aesthetics but also with the question how the avantgardist tradition is being continued in digital literature in Austria today.

 

Papers are invited on the following topics:

·         The net as motive, metaphor and narrative structure in Austrian literature after 1900 (e.g. with regards to travel routes as networks in the modern Odyssey like in Walter Grond's project "Absolut Homer")

·         Authorial networks and collaborative authorship

·         Hypertext practices, non-linear and aleatoric texts in Austrian literature

·         The narrative function of links, animations and multimedia

·         Inter-medial projects in literature, author's blogs, literary homepages etc.

·         The current situation of Austria's net-literature scene and its role on the literary market   

·         The connection between digital literature and avantgardist social criticism

 

Please submit your 300-word-abstracts in English or German to Heide Kunzelmann ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) and Jeanine Tuschling ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) until the 1st of March, 2012. The conference will be followed by a workshop with literary critic, author and networker Beat Mazenauer, entitled "Literary communication on the Web of webs".

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Ziel dieser Konferenz ist es das Phänomen "Netz" in all seinen ästhetischen Façetten anhand exemplarischer Beispiele auszuleuchten. Verhandelt wird Literatur entlang der Trennlinie von offline / online, wobei die Konzentration exemplarisch auf Literatur aus Österreich liegt, wo das Thema der "digitalen Literatur" noch viel Raum zur Forschung bietet (Bachleitner 2011). Die digitalen Medien haben neue narrative Formen hervorgebracht und die zu stellenden Fragen sind, wie diese Textformen den Rezeptionsprozess verändern bzw. wie AutorInnen die technologischen Möglichkeiten nutzen. Die Begriffspaare offline/online und linear/non-linear sollen der Betrachtung narrativer, emergenter Strömungen in der Literatur Österreichs als Orientierungslinien dienen. 

Da SchriftstellerInnen und DichterInnen bereits lange vor der Erfindung des Computers und des Internets mit aleatorischen Formen oder Textkörpern experimentiert haben, ist es vor allem die avantgardistische Literatur, die epistemologisch wie formal eine besondere Affinität zu nicht-linearen ästhetischen Praxen hat und sich daher auch besonders für eine Digitalisierung eignet. Historische wie zeitgenössische ästhetische Avantgarden setzen auf die normative Kraft des (technisch) Möglichen (Karin Harrasser in Klinger, Müller-Funk 2004) und da die Avantgarden ihres stets auch politischen Subtexts wegen in der modernen österreichischen Literaturgeschichte einen besonderen Status einnehmen, lautet eine Kernfrage dieser Konferenz inwiefern das ästhetische Potenzial des "Netzes der Netze" (Gendolla, Schäfer 2004), die Schreibpraxis von AutorInnen aus Österreich avantgardistisch motivert hat. Daher soll sich die Veranstaltung nicht allein mit der Literatur im Internet befassen, sondern auch untersuchen, welche avantgardistischen Traditionen sich in der digitalen Literatur fortstetzen und daher allen Perioden der Literaturgeschichte offen sein.

 

Folgende Themenkreise wären u.a. denkbar:

·         Das Netz als Motiv, Metapher und narrative Struktur in der österreichischen Literatur nach 1900 (z.B. in geografischer Hinsicht als Routennetz in modernen Odysseen, wie etwa Walter Gronds Projekt "Absolut Homer")

·         Autorennetzwerke und kollaborative Autorschaft

·         Hypertext-Praxis, non-lineare und aleatorische Textformen in der Literatur Österreichs 

·         Narrative Funktion von Links, Animationen und  Multimedia

·         Intermediale Literaturprojekte, Autorenblogs, literarische Homepages etc.  

·         Derzeitige Situation der Netzliteratur-Szene in Österreich und ihre Funktion im literarischen Betrieb

·         Zusammenhänge zwischen Netzliteratur und avantgardistischer Gesellschaftskritik

 

Abstracts (ca. 300 Wörter, Englisch oder Deutsch) schicken Sie bis zum 1.3.2012 bitte an Heide Kunzelmann ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) und Jeanine Tuschling ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ).

Der Konferenz ist ein Workshop mit Beat Mazenauer, Literaturkritiker und Netzwerker zum Thema "Literaturkommunikation im Netz der Netze" angeschlossen.

 

 

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Abstracts may also be sent by post to: Dr Heide Kunzelmann, Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Director, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. 

If you have any general queries about the conference, please contact Heide Kunzelmann at the above address or telephone her on +44 (0)20 7862 8959. A programme will be available in April. Further information on the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre is available at

http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/centres-societies/ingeborg-bachmann-research-centre.html <https://legacymail.london.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/centres-societies/ingeborg-bachmann-research-centre.html>  

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES University of London School of Advanced Study Room ST272, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Telephone: +44 (0)20-7862 8966 Fax: +44 (0)20-7862 8672 Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk <https://legacymail.london.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3%26DEST=http%253A%252F%252Figrs.sas.ac.uk>  
 
Dr Heide Kunzelmann
Director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature
Senate House ST280
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Tel. 020 7862 8959 
Fax. 020 7862 8672 
Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 

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