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New additions
to the Praxis-Pool
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-research
project Selbstreferentialität
in den
Medien
(Kassel)
-research project Ästhetische
Strategien in Multimedia und digitalen
Netzen
(Hildesheim/Lüneburg)
-seminar Advanced
Fiction
Writing
(Arellano, Brown University)
-seminar Introduction
to Hypertext
(Derby, Brown University)
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Susanne
Berkenheger's "Hilfe" - Review
(German)
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Roberto
Simanowski explores Berkenheger's new text
labyrinth which presents its characters in
different Java Windows and turns the screen
into a stage. This graphical choreography of
text is an amazing version of 'kinetic
poetry'. However, one wonders why the man
character continues to change her/his gender
and what the deeper meaning of this piece is.
(>>>Abstract)
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/29-Feb
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Life is
bigger than environment - Interview with Ed
Barrett (English)
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Ed
Barrett is author and editor of various books
on social aspects of new media and gives
courses on interactive fiction. He talks
about digital media and education, he tells
us, that the Web currently suffers from
terminal graphic design disease, that he'd
rather see a student learn humility than
hubris, and explains why chairs in computer
labs should be on rollers.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Barrett-29-Feb-00
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"Kulturwissenschaften
und Neue Medien" by Norbert Gabriel - Review
(German)
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Roberto
Simanowski reviews Norbert Gabriel's book
about education in the digital age, what
treats a wide range of topics: the new role
of author, reader, teacher, multi linearity,
digital publishing, digital media in
educational settings, new media and curricula
in Germany, as well as the technical basics
ATM, IP, SGML, FTP and so on.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/28-Feb
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German
Digital Literature: An Introduction
(English)
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In this
expanded version of a talk Roberto Simanowski
introduces digital literature, presents
German examples of certain types of digital
literature - collaborative writing,
hypertext, hypermedia -, and discusses how
these pieces exploit the technology of the
medium to tell a story.
(>>>Abstract)
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/27-Feb
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Hypertext -
Curricula - Fragen an Ernest W.B.
Hess-Lüttich (German)
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Prof. Dr.
Hess-Lüttich, Universität Bern,
talks about research on and teaching of new
media and about the aesthetics of hypertext
and digital literature.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Hess-Luettich-25-Feb-00
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Praiseloser
Internet-Literaturpreis - Netzliteratur in der
Krise? (German)
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The
jury refuses to award the prize to any of the
entries in a digital literature competition.
This incident raises serious questions: How
should such competitions be set up? How
should one evaluate whether an example makes
an appropriate use of the genuine features of
digital media? Is there such a thing as net
literature at all?
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Verschiedenes/Literaturcafe
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Literatur im
Internet - Theorie und Praxis einer kooperativen
Ästhetik (German)
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Christiane
Heibach sums up the results of her thesis on
digital aesthetics. She points out the
"hyperlectic oscillation" between all aspects
of the digital medium - technical and
aesthetic presentation as well as social
interaction - and argues that digital art
often becomes communication.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Heibach/10-Feb
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Hypertext in
Spain - Interview with Susana Pajares Tosca
(English)
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Susana
Pajares Tosca is the editor of the first
Spanish hyperfiction journal and is writing
her doctoral thesis on "Hypertext and
Literature". Roberto Simanowski talked with
her about the state of the art and research
of hypertext in Spain, about the pedagogical
potential of hypertext, about the
"hype-excitement" regarding the freeing of
readers by multi linear linkage, and about
criteria to classify a digital work of
art.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Tosca-02-Feb-00
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"Beim
Bäcker" - Collaborative Sex und soziale
Ästhetik (German)
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Roberto
Simanowski introduces the German "Veteran" of
collaborative writings "In the bakery". He
investigates the relationship among the
authors of this erotic story and presents
some characteristics of collaborative writing
projects such as the occupation or negation
of the predecessor's contribution and the
egoism behind the
'collaboration'(>>>Abstract)
http.//www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/15-Feb
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Was ist
Netzliteratur? Eine Diskussion der Mailingliste
(German)
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A new
member of the German mailing list
netzliteratur.de dared to ask the question:
What is net literature? He started a three
day discussion as intensive and distracting
as discussions in mailing lists used to be.
He then had to assemble all postings and to
put them together as a hypertext, which
hardly answers the question "What is net
literature" but shows what a discussion about
this subject is like.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Mailinglist
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