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Tension Between
the Lines [German]
Chats are
productive places to meet somebody not only for the
"virtual" realm. Michael
Beißwenger
sketches the
potential to perform online (pseudonym, using
fictional dramatis personae) as well as the
linguistic ways to create fictional game worlds
which remind on of "off-the-cuff" theater.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/modemfieber/beisswenger.htm
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Spiel as Term
between Hermeneutics, Hyperfiction and
Computergame [German]
Manuela Kocher
and Michael Böhler explore the term
Spiel (play/game) and its possible potential
as a key-concept linking post-kantian Aesthetics,
Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and Iser’s
Reader-Response Criticism as analytical tools for
the new artistic genres of electronic hyperfiction
and computer games. Tracing the history of the term
Spiel as it oscillates between an abstract
figurative meaning as a purely mental
interplay between the different cognitive faculties
and its reference to concrete performative
acts in a leisurely purposeless mood the authors
show their branching out into an outright dichotomy
in the post-kantian Aesthetics and they postulate
the re-convergence of the two meanings in the new
artistic forms of literary hyperfictions and
computer games.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/07-31-Kocher-Boehler.htm
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Hypertext:
Features, Research, Poetics
[German]
Roberto
Simanowski discusses some of the main problems with
hypertext with the following conclusion:
Contextualization and intertextuality of hypertext
nodes bases on nodes as strict units which do not
blend seamlessly with their neighbors. Instead of
speaking about the death of the author one should
announce the death of the reader. The link causes
the carnevalisation of thinking rather than
critical reflection. There is no new meaning of an
hyperfiction by new navigation through it, at least
not intended and designed by the
author.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/07-31-Simanowski.htm
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Texts, Scripts
and Codes: The Programmer as Artist
[German]
The programmer
as modern wizard who is bound by the laws of her
magic: if only one comma is missing nothing will
work. The programmer as modern iconoclast in a time
of visual spectacle: She puts letters beneath the
screen to create images above. The programmer as
law breaker when she publishes codes to free
information from copy right which does not fall
under the first Amendment. But what if one
paints, sings, or performs the
code? Does mathematic then becomes art? Reinhard
Storz investigates this and other questions about
the programmer as artist.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/07-24-Storz.htm
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The @-Bomb: On
Evil Geniuses Behind Apocalyptic Computer Virus
[German]
Legend has it
that virus writers are extremely talented computer
scientists who for some reason have turned to the
dark side of their craft. But a live encounter with
one of them gives a hint at who they really are. A
second look at their code shows that "between the
lines" of executable code lies a second layer of
secret global graffiti. A brief history of the
virus industry shows the intimate relationship
between virus writers and antivirus-programmers.
And an anecdotal anthology of virus hoaxes
indicates that in the weird world of viruses a
rumour can wreak as much havoc as an actual
infection. Hilmar Schmundt explores the wondrous
netherworld of code gone haywire and nightmares
come true and comes up with a surprising solution:
narrative strategies to get out of a technological
mess.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/07-20-Schmundt.htm
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Interfictions.
On Writing in the Net
[German]
Introduction to
"Interfictions. On Writing in the Net" by Roberto
Simanowski. This book does not target literature
which moves into the net but finally wants
to end up in actual print. This book deals with
'literature' which comes from the net of
digital code and is interactive, intermedial, and
based on a hidden language of performance making it
impossible to be printed out. The introduction
discusses the shift of media, terms, features, and
typology of digital literature as well their
history and future.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/07-19-Simanowski.htm
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