Newsletter January
'01 Symposium p0es1s -
Poetics of Digital Text: Start
/ Editorial
/ Greetings
/ Digital
Images /
Innovation
or Triviality
/ Depths
of Electronic Text
Archives /
Chatting
and Clicking
/ Combinatorial
Poetry
/ New
Literary
Environment
/ Ars
poetica for
Hyperfiction
/ Virtual
Textuality
/ Interactivity
/ 'Fabrikverkauf'
/ Invisible
Story /
Computer
Games /
Odyssey
in Writing Space
/ Stuttgart's
Internet Projects
// Hypertext
Conference 2000
/ Metaphorology
of the Media
Symposium
"Aesthetics of Digital Literature "/"p0es1s -
Poetics of Digital Text" current
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2000: Newsletter
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1/2001 (3.Jg. / Nr.
15) - ISSN 1617-6901
The first
Symposium of "Aesthetics of Digital Literature"
(future "p0es1s - Poetics of Digital Text") took
place in Kassel October 20 and 21 2000.
Dichtung-digital publishes all contributions in
this newsletter. (All contributions are in
German)
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00
Friedrich
Block, Christiane Heibach, Karin Wenz:
Editorial
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00
Winfried
Nöth: Greetings
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Intro
Roberto
Simanowski: The Hidden Text: Aspects of Digital
Images
How does the hidden text in the html-source and
image-files affect the image's appearance and
meaning? What is this text's role within the
primary and secondary signification? How is one
to develop a hermeneutic of hidden text and its
included interaction? Simanowski approaches
these question from within the context of
Schreibers Epos of the Machine and
Huppert's image animations.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Simanowski
Friedrich
W. Block: Innovation or Triviality?
Block discusses two myths - 1. digital
poetry is something totally new, 2. the digital
media fulfill the poetics of the modern
avant-garde - and explores the aesthetic pay off
of 'translating' Okopenko's 'dictionary novel'
in hypermedia.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Block
Markus
Krajewski: Depths of Electronic Text
Archives
Krajewski investigates the status and the
conditions of production of digital literature
and discusses Walter Kempowski's
"Echolot"-Project, examing to what extend
literary projects are digital literature, if
they are finally published as book but written
with the genuine features of digital media.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Krajewski
Uwe
Wirth: Chatting and Clicking
Referencing to the poetics of letter novels
and the practice of telephone Wirth develops a
poetics of chats, which makes the "written to
the moment" of letter novels visible.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Wirth
Florian
Cramer: Combinatorial Poetry and
Network-Literature
Cramer presents examples of combinatorial
poetry and suggests "technical poetics" of
digital netliterature. This poetics should be
previous to "digital aesthetics" and should not
focus on such keyword as "hypertext",
"multimedia" and "cyberspace" but on the
conditions of coding netliterature.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Cramer
Beat
Suter: New Literary Environment
Suter discusses transfugality and transversality
as two essential characteristics of
Hyperfiction.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Suter
Jürgen
Daiber: „Ut pictura poesis” – or:
Ars poetica for Hyperfiction
Daiber questions the oft-repeated praise of
non linearity and reminds that linear narration
answers to anthropologic expectations. His
advice to hyperfiction
writers: multimediality rather than
interactivity, linearity rather than chaotic
navigation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Daiber
Bernhard
Dotzler: Virtual Textuality
Dotzler discusses hyperlink as parody of the
footnote. He calls for a literary studies of
digital processes, especially analyses of
"Literate Programming". He announces the shift
of literature from being the medium against
death to bearing in mind its own death.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Dotzler
Gesine
Lenore Schiewer: Interactivity as Critical
Category of Netliterature
Schiewer investigates the term interactivity
and explores its potential with regard to art
historical and knowledge-sociological
concepts.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Schiewer
Johannes
Auer: Frieder Rusmann: 'Fabrikverkauf'
Auer's "walking exhibition" blends
e-commerce and net-community to create an art
IRL. The costumer's body becomes the exhibition,
the purchase becomes part of an art performance.
Auer's contribution delivers the details.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Auer
Christiane
Heibach: The Invisible Story. Theses on
Characteristics of Netliterature
Heibach defines "Netliterature" with regard
to the net's specific structure and explains her
10 theses with examples. The main tendencies she
sees for digital communication are networking
and transformation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Heibach
Susana
Pajares Tosca: Selfreferentiality in Computer
Games
Tosca draws the attention of digital
aesthetics to computer games as a hybrid digital
form, that brings classical games and literature
together. She reports from a project which
investigates the self concept of computer game
players.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Tosca
Heiko
Idensen: Odyssey in Writing Space
Working from his experience in two
collaborative writing projects, Idensen writes
and links about/to utopians, abysses and
possibilities of writing in the net. His thesis:
texts on the Internet are open interfaces for
cultural, social, and economic exchange, in
which cultural codes not only appear as
techniques of power and ruling but are
manipulated and redefined.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Idendsen
Reinhard
Döhl : TanGo & Co. - Report on Internet
Projects in Stuttgart
Experimental poetry theorist and activist
Reinhard Döhl introduces Internet
projects like the Pietistentango, the killed
poem, and the apple, which not only contains the
worm but gets eaten by it.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Doehl
Bernd
Wingert's report focuses not on computer science
aspects, but on the "applied topics," as for
instance problems of reading and interaction. It
covers the discussion of issues like pragmatics
of linking, hypertext variants and readings,
publishing, and authorship as designing
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Wingert-22-Dez
Abstract
of an essay about open questions of media theory
and the contour of a metaphorology of the
media.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Tholen-10-Dez