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New
additions to the Practice-Pool:
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Literary
Hypertexts
(Tübingen)
Writing-Net-Workshop
(Hamburg)
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Forum
"Net communication and its impact" (German)
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Vittorio
E. Klostermann: Do Art Magazines have a
Future?
A controversial approach to the advantages of
electronic publishing and the pitfalls of
multi-linear writing. Klostermann encourages
traditional forms of writing in the digital
realm. He recommends links as endnotes, date
stamps, pagination, and to inform subscribers
regularly of new articles.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/IASL-Forum/Klostermann-26-Okt-00.htm
Michael
Meier: Content Commerce. New Trade Models for
Publishing Houses
Since the eBook-Award-Gala at the Frankfurt
Book Fair, it is well known that the future lays
in electronic publishing. Michael Meier
discusses the present state of electronic
publishing, the positions of content-provider,
-broker and -user, and anatomizes a syndication
deal.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/IASL-Forum/Meier-28-11-00.htm
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Creative
Text-Image-Coexistence - Interview with Jürgen
Daiber (German)
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Jürgen
Daiber's and Jochen Metzger's hypermedia work
"Trost der Bilder" was one of the winners of the
1998 Pegasus-Competition. Christiane Heibach
speaks to the scholar and writer of digital
literature, Jürgen Daiber, about his
interest in digital writing, the relation of
computer literature to design, and the dangers
of being democratic in the world of
aesthetics.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Daiber-30-Nov-00
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Text
as Image - Interview with Anja Westerfrölke
(German)
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The
'text-play' dominoa by Anja
Westerfrölke and her 4 co-authors won the
Marianne-von-Willemer-Award 2000. Roberto
Simanowski speaks with Anja Westerfrölke
about the competition, dominoa,
browser-literature, Flash, and the digital
literature scene in Austria.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Wetserfroelke-30-Nov-00
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Interactive
Fiction and Software-Narration: Terminology and
Evaluation of Digital Literature
(German)
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And still
the question remains: What is digital literature
and how should it be evaluated? Roberto
Simanowski looks at these questions. He examines
Richard Ziegfeld's 1989 essay, Interactive
Fiction: A New Literary Genre?, discusses
the many terms that have appeared since and
sketches criteria for evaluation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/29-Nov
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'From
dark room to light room' - Interview with Pedro
Meyer (English)
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Jörn
Glasenapp speaks with the pioneer of digital
photography about the manipulative aspects of
analog and digital imaging, Paul Strand's
alleged 'purity', the weakness of photography to
express an artist's meaning, the forthcoming
death of analog photography and the Internet as
an important distribution platform.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Meyer-28-Nov
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Dispositions
of Digital Media (German)
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Jörn
Glasenapp and Roberto Simanowski brainstorm
about Bolter's and Grusin's Remediation,
the classical author-text-reader-triangle
and the relation of reality and fiction.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski-Glasenapp-28-Nov
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Jay
David Bolter and Richard Grusin: Remediation:
Understanding New Media (German)
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Jörn
Glasenapp reviews Bolter's and Grusin's
discussion of the psychology of New Media using
categories like remediation
("representation of one medium in another"),
immediacy (the deny of mediation in favor
of immediate experience) and
hypermediacy (the alter ego of immediacy
"whose goal is to remind the viewer of the
medium").
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Glasenapp-26-Nov
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Operations
of Writing. Interview with Stuart Moulthrop
(English)
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Roberto
Simanowski speaks with one of the classical
writers of hyperfiction about his work, about
space in hypertext, the author's role as
a designer, the 'perils' of multimedia,
"reviewing agencies" on the net and the future
of new media.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Moulthrop-22-Nov-00
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Ex
Libris. Literature in Media Urbanity
(English)
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Abstract
of Søren Pold's doctoral thesis about
literary works, thematising how literature
reflects the media situation. He focuses on the
relationship between literature and the
development in media during the last two
centuries.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Soeren-22-Nov
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My
Pixel-Self (German)
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The winner
of the Arte Liter@ture CompetitionTagebau
is a multi-author web diary which aims to
understand identity online. The
discussion will be published as a book. Roberto
Simanowski looks closely at this discussion for
some introducing words.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/20-Nov
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Interview
with Alvar C. H. Freude and Dragan Espenschied
(German)
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Roberto
Simanowski speaks with the initiators of the
very successful net-project
Assoziationsblaster, and learns about its
structure, its deeper meaning, the "6 word
association artwork," and about
Online-Demonstration, a project to rescue the
freedom of the link.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Espenschied-Freude-6-Nov-00
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Living
for Hypertext. Interview with Deena Larsen
(English)
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Roberto
Simanowski speaks with hypertext activist, Deena
Larsen, about writing, promoting, and selling
hypertext, the 4 labyrinths where a reader can
get lost, and about her more recent work
Disappearing Rain, that mingles fiction
with non fiction websites.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Larsen-05-Nov-00
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network
(h)activity . Interview with Mark Amerika
(English)
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Roberto
Simanowski speaks with Mark Amerika about his
work, authorship, 'Avant-Garde Capitalism',
'network (h)activity', and New Media Writing
competitions.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Amerika-3-Nov-00
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Aesthetics
of Digital Literature Conference
(German)
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Report of
the first conference of the universities of
Erfurt and Kassel on the aesthetics of digital
literature, where scholars and activists
discussed terminology, the characteristic of
digital literature and the next steps for
investigation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/26-Okt
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After
the Conference: Interview with Michael Giesecke
(German)
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At the
Aesthetics of Digital Literature Conference,
Prof. Dr. M. Giesecke talked about the future of
literature in new media, the role scholars of
literature are likely to play in that future,
and about terminology and "gold rush
atmosphere".
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Giesecke-22-Okt-00
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Arte
Liter@tur Competition: The Winners
(German)
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Roberto
Simanowski comments on the competition and its
winners.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/19-Okt
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Theater
and Internet. Ideas to a Concept of "Chat Theater"
(German)
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Tilman
Sack examines the relationship between theater
and the Internet and wonders if the Chat can
replace the script traditionally written by a
playwright.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interscene/Sack
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