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Oil Painting with Crayons: Interview with
Zeitgenossen [German]
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Are the
Web and Internet two different media as the
poodle and German shepherd are two different
types of dog? What is the difference between
Webfiction and Webart? Is there a
digital revival of l'art pour l'art? How do net
artists cope with the short half-life of their
art? Roberto Simanowski asked the
Zeitgenossen, Ursula Hentschläger
and Zelko Wiener, who interviewed 21 net
activists for their book
Webfictions
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2003/1-zeitgenossen.htm
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Cultural
Impact: Interview with Gerfried Stocker
[German]
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Gerfried
Stocker is a media artist and musician, manager
of the Ars Electronica Center and artistic
director of the Ars Electronica Festival. Ursula
Hentschläger and Zelko Wiener talked with
him about netart-festivals, the future of netart
as well as the relation of netart to science and
commerce.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-stocker.htm
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Machine-Mannerism
and narrative patterns. Eckard Kruse's
Text-O-Mat
[German]
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Texts from
the machine is an old dream known from Baroque
and the Cut-up-Method in 20th century. With the
computer there are new possibilities. Some
products even earned awards. Does prose work as
well as lyrics? Kruse's Text-O-Mat
answers by evasion. Instead of aleatoric texts
one finds preprogrammed patterns with little
variations. However, to understand one can refer
to Italo Calvino, Oscar Wilde, and Novalis.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-simanowski-c.htm
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A
Book Author About Digital Writing: Interview with
Noel Baker [English]
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Noel Baker
is the author of the best selling Hard Core
Roadshow: A Screenwriter's Diary, a book
about the shift from book to film script. Noel
has also been interested in interactive fiction.
He served as a consultant in seminars on
interactive fiction. Roberto Simanowski asked
him why he himself never wrote an interactive
fiction, what he thinks about the readers'
relationship to linearity and disorder, about
his desire to translate a book into a new media
work, and about the financial and technological
limitations in digital writing.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-baker.htm
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Matter
of Time: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web
Animation
[English]
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John Zuern
is not satisfied with the generalized
genuflection to "code" and the fetishistic faith
in immateriality in new media studies. He calls
for the rematerialization and rehistoricization
of our reading of new media and advises to ask
small, old-fashioned questions about craft. His
discussion of extra-textual details shows how
what begins as a functional characteristic turns
into a more ''purely" aesthetic element
(Dakota) and how technological equipment
creates the "mystery" of a piece
(Iris).
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-zuern.htm
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maquina
poetica: Poems from the Machine
[German]
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Stephan
Karsch's maquina poetica is a text
machine with many special features: You can let
do the machine everything, you can rearrange,
erase the words and add your own, you can
animate them and use those of the users before
you. Karsch explains the concept.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-karsch.htm
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Crisis
of Understanding. Reading Competence after PISA
[German]
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The threat
by new media to the book seems to be over. The
PISA study underlines: German students should
spend more time with books than with their
computer. Do teachers with such an approach
really meet the demands of pedagogical
responsibility? About reading competence in the
age of digital media, the teacher's willingness
to learn, and the return of the Mandarines.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-simanowski.htm
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When
Hypertext became uncool. Notes on Power, Politics,
and the Interface [English]
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Henning
Ziegler describes some of the structural limits
of authoritative hypertext works and of the
cultural interface in which they are perceived
by looking at new media objects such as
Victory Garden, the AOL interface, and
the Netscape/Mozilla browser software. Rather
than 'unmasking' hypertext as something that
does not have the potential for resistance that
it seemed to have, Ziegler argues that
hypertext, when understood as the totality of
computers that are linked through the internet,
on a formal level does promote an authoritative
shift in the politics of new media objects
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-ziegler.htm
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Texte,
Scripts & Codes [German]
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Xcult
has exhibited work with text, language and
typography since 1996: TV-Plots with blurred
pictures, a shaking description of an
earthquake, an essay which is critical towards
technology but falls for its effects. There is a
lot of media criticism in this collection,
however, Roberto Simanowski finally asks about
the "l'art pour l'art" of
coding.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-simanowski-b.htm
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Loss
Pequeño Glazier's "Digital Poetics. The
Making of E-Poetries"
[English]
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Strehovec's
review starts with complaints: "The stagnation
and repetition of already past contents and
forms within contemporary poetry accompanies the
absence of inventive literary criticism and
theory, which in encountering contemporary
poetry does not seem to know how to develop new
concepts and paradigms". Glazier - scholar and
poet - seems to be an exception, discussing
hypertext, visual/kinetic text, and e-poetry
pieces in programmable media. His book,
Strehovec resumes, would make useful reading not
only for poets of the e-medium, but for all
poets today, though, more demanding reader may
miss "consistent and pure (literary) theory of
e-poetry".
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-strehovec.htm
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Very
Nervous System: Interview with David Rokeby
[English]
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Rokeby
likes to build off screen interfaces with the
body and face - since they are more
unconsciously used, less controlled, yet richer
input-devices than the clearly defined,
quantified and limited mouse input. His computer
based "systems of inexact control" engage people
in situations where the locus of control is
ambiguous, hence questioning the fetish of
control instigated and maintained by computers.
The benefit of such practice of uncertainty: to
learn how to deal with it if your neighbor does
not always reply the same way when you say
'hello'.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2003/1-Rokeby.htm
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Vannevar
Bush, Weblogs and the Google Galaxy
[English]
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While
hypertext has not proved to embody the qualities
of the ideal post-structural text and the WWW
has not fulfilled the document-association
function of Bush's Memex, weblogs do
facilitate the exchange of information across
the Internet. Dennis G. Jerz sees in
Google’s purchase of the popular
weblogging platform Blogger a shift
towards content production that may create a
conflict of interest but nevertheless sees in
Google the synergy necessary to fulfill Vannevar
Bush’s vision.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-jerz.htm
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