|
Cyberspace,
Cybertexts, Cybermaps
[English]
|
Marie-Laure
Ryan distinguishes four different types of space
in digital texts: 1) The physical space of the
fictional world represented by the text. 2) The
architecture of the text. 3) The material space
occupied by the signs of the text. 4.) The space
that serves as context and container for the
text. Her extensive essay discusses digital
texts that exploit each of these four types of
space with special attention to the use of maps
as interface.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Ryan.htm
|
|
|
|
Trap
of Interaction. On Aesthetics of Spectacle in
Internet [German]
|
Interaction
is often praised as the realization of utopian
theories of communication. Roberto Simanowski is
rather afraid the everyman artist will just add
a new aspect to mass culture and allow the
'culture industry' disguise in such praised
concept
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Simanowski.htm
|
|
|
|
Cinematography
and Ludology [English]
|
Bo
Kampmann Walther calls the relationship between
games (ludology) and films (cinematography)
lucidography. His essay inquires deeply
into the various intermediations of games and
films. His conclusion: not only do computer
games inherit some of the well-wrought aesthetic
and functional means of cinema, both films and
games continue to copy forms of attraction from
each other in an increasingly rapid pace.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Walther.htm
|
|
|
|
Beyond
Pages. From Visual to Digital Poetry in Japan
[German]
|
Despite
the relative absence of Japanese contributors to
the discourse of digital poetry, Friedrich W.
Block discusses some poetic examples of language
art within the digital media. Created between
1992 and 2002, these works prove once again that
digital art and poetry are dependent on concepts
which have developed in the aesthetic program of
experimental writing since the 1950s.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Block.htm
|
|
|
|
Concreativity
Between Regional and Global Computer Net Work
[German]
|
Peter
Purg explores different net-projects with
respect to their specific modes of inter- and
intrapersonal creativity. He finds important
gradations and synergies between direct
(accompanied by the machine) and indirect
(mediated by the machine) creativity.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2004/1-Purg.htm
|
|
|
|
The
Making of "The Famous Sound of Absolute Wreaders"
[English]
|
The base
of this project consists of six works of digital
literature which served as a knowledge base for
the six authors to create new texts. These texts
were then edited by a human editor and a machine
and finally sampled to a radio-show by two
actors/wreaders. The six texts of the
authors/readers then have been the material for
six new works of digital literature. Beat Suter
explains the chain of events in detail.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Suter.htm
|
|
|
|
"Die
Leiden des jungen Werther": The Book in Digital
Media [German]
|
Andrea
Nemedi analyses the role of canonized literature
in digital media and the impact of digital media
on setting and reception of such literature. Her
example is Goethes famous novel "The Sorrows of
the Young Werther" from 1774, which
experiences a resurrection on CD-ROM, in an
online archive, and as email-project.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Nemedi.htm
|
|
|
|
"A
Tale in the Desert"
[English]
|
If you
could work together with hundreds of other
people to create a utopian society, how would
you go about it? Adam Kenney holds that the
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
(MMORPG) A Tale in the Desert asks
exactly this question and reports the answers he
found.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Kenney.htm
|
|
|
|
Roberto
Simanowski's "Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im Netz"
[German]
|
In her
review, Elisabeth Bauer considers Simanowski's
book a compendium to the current state of the
art of digital literature and its research.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Bauer.htm
|
|
|
|
Roberto
Simanowski's "Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im
Netz" [German]
|
In his
review, Julian Kuecklich praises the courage of
Simanowski's book to leave gaps and emphasizes
the broad empirical base of the theoretical
discussion
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Kluecklich.htm
|
