Innovation
or Triviality
by Friedrich W. Block [German] Depths
of Electronic Text
Archives
von Markus Krajewski [German] Chatting
and Clicking
by Uwe Wirth [German] Combinatorial
Poetry and
Network-Literature
by Florian Cramer
[German] New
Literary
Environment
by Beat Suter
[German] "Ut
pictura poesis" - or: Ars poetica für
Hyperfiction
by Jürgen Daiber
[German]
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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
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
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
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
Suter discusses
transfugality and transversality as two essential
characteristics of Hyperfiction.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Suter
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