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Digital
Literature - an Introduction
(German)
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A new
competition for digital literature has been
announced. Two important representatives of the
old and the new medium - DTV and T-Online - are
awarding prizes for the best contributions.
Roberto Simanowski takes the opportunity to
provide short answers to questions raised by
such an event: terminology, definitions,
characteristics, typology or criteria for
evaluation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Simanowski-31-Maerz
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Hypertext
and AIDS - 7 Beer and no Consequences
(German)
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Gavin
Inglis' Same Day Test could have been an
ideal hypertext. The protagonist has an
appointment for an HIV test; however, he can
stop off in the pub or in a museum on his way.
But time is running! And interesting situation -
to bad the text doesn't change with the
decisions, although each link guides to its own
file.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Simanowski-24-Maerz
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Computer
Games and Digital Textuality
(German)
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Is it
possible to develop computer games with a
captivating dramaturgy? Could literary theory,
especially narratology, help to do this? Do
human beings structure world narratively? And
what about the statement: "The time has come to
treat play seriously"? The conference at IT
University of Copenhagen (1./2. 3. 01) aimed at
an academic approach to ludic text phenomena.
Anja Rau was there and reports.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Rau-23-Maerz
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Internet
and Education - Interview with Peter Schlobinski
(German)
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There is a
huge demand and little hope that media
competence will finally be taught German
schools. Should schools buy the necessary
know-how from free-lancers? Roberto Simanowski
asked Prof. Peter Schlobinski.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Schlobinski-22-Maerz-00
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Hyperfiction
- Theory and Praxis of a new Genres - Interview
with Beat Suter (German)
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Suter is
the pioneer of an academic approach to digital
literature, the author of the first German
dissertation on hypertext, and the only
publisher of German hypertext CD-ROMs. Roberto
Simanowski caught up with him and asked about
terminology, archeology, history, and future of
digital literature.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Suter20-Maerz-01
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Weltwissen
Wissenswelt. The global Net of Text and Image
(German)
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Nowadays,
digital technologies pour information on people
whose only escape is ignorance. Others are
saying reason is the icing on the cake of
fundamental affects in making decisions. The
book contains the contributions of the
conference "Envisioning Knowledge" - Beat
Mazenauer reads through it.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Mazenauer-20-Maerz
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Tilman
Sack's "Chat-Theater" (German)
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How can
the Internet be brought onto the stage? Which
Internet and how much of it? Tilman Sack,
theater activist and passionate chatter, has an
answer. He directs on two types of stages: 1. in
the chat, where his authors hook up with the
usual passengers, 2. in the theater, where he
presents the results of a long cutting and
rearranging process. Not a documentary, but
still authentic, thinks Roberto Simanowski.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Simanowski-27-Feb
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Geoff
Ryman's Subway-Novel "253" (German)
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Seven
Cars, a Crash and half a hypertext: Geoff
Ryman's story was born in the Internet but works
as a book as well-- it doesn't really want to be
a hypertext. 253 passengers on 253 pages each
with 253 words. The interesting puzzle of London
within a subway, which is brutally stopped when
the driver falls asleep.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Simanowski-26-Feb
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www.cafe-nirvana.com.
Olivia Adler's Net-Project Cafe Nirvana
(German)
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"Cafe-Nirvana"
- a website net, a "novel" one can enter. Nicole
Alef describes her reading tour, discusses
Olivia's influence on the appareance of this
site-net, and draws a line from the
characteristic e-mail and Chat to comparable
forms of communication in the history of
literary salons.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Alef-14-Feb
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Lance
Shields' "Tele-phony" (German)
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The
subtitle promises media critics: "An adventure
over great distance using high technology!" And
indeed, it was never this complicated to
telephone. All the hiss and the odd reception!
Shild conveys his message with a perfect
text-image-sound-installation; through the
Internet, over great distance, using high
technology - he almost missed the mistake he
needs.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Simanowski-25-Feb
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"Abfall
für alle" Rainald Goetz as Diary
(German)
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Goetz'
Internet diary is neither a Truman-Show nor Big
Brother- because Goetz leaves the room and puts
the text about himself online. Apart from this,
it is somehow the same.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Simanowski-12-Feb
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Literary
Hypertext. The Passing of the Golden Age
(German)
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Still so
unknown and already over? "In terms of new
serious literature, the Web has not been very
hospitable. It tends to be a noisy, restless,
opportunistic, superficial, e-commerce-driven,
chaotic realm, dominated by hacks, pitchmen, and
pretenders, in which the quiet voice of
literature cannot easily be heard or, if heard
by chance, attended to for more than a moment or
two. Literature is meditative and the Net is
riven by ceaseless hype and chatter." Robert
Coover's important essay now in German
translation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Coover-01-Feb
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