Reading Digital Literature: American-German Conference Brown University | October 4 - 7, 2007 | Roberto_Simanowski /at/ Brown [.] edu All events are open to the public. Thursday, October 4 20:00-21:00 List Art Center* Opening with reception: exhibition “Before Letters: After Words” (3 installations of digital literature) Friday, October 5 16:30-17:00 Smith-Buonanno** Welcoming notes and introduction by Roberto Simanowski 17:00-17:45 Smith-Buonanno Katherine Hayles: The Literary as Distributed Cognition in Strickland and Jaramillo's Slippingglimpse (Moderator: Roberto Simanowski) 17:45-18:15 Smith-Buonanno Break 18:15-19:00 Smith-Buonanno Rita Raley: List(en)ing Post (Moderator: Roberto Simanowski) 19:00-20:00 Smith-Buonanno “Preview Night: Before Letters” - public screening of digital literature (pieces discussed at conference) 20:00 Paragon Dinner 22:00 The Space at Alice at 70 Eddy Street Performance by Luke Dubois (organized by Pixilerations) Saturday, October 6 09:30-11:00 Smith-Buonanno Jörgen Schäfer: Looking Behind the Facade: Playing and Performing an Interactive Drama Fotis Jannidis: Understanding S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the Hermeneutics of Popular Digital Art (Moderator: Francisco Ricardo) 11:00-11:30 Smith-Buonanno Break 11:30-13:00 Smith-Buonanno Peter Gendolla: The Art of Poetry Machines Chris Funkhouser: Kissing the steak: The Poetry of Text Generators (Moderator: John Cayley) 13:00-15:00 Kabob & Curry Lunch break 15:00-16:30 Smith-Buonanno Thomas Swiss: Reading "Wrong": Flash Work by Motomichi Nakamura, Nils Muhlenbruch, and Yoshi Sodeoka Karin Wenz: The Demon Machine or 79 Ways to Face a Demon (Moderator: Thomas Kniesche) 16:30-17:00 Smith-Buonanno Break 17:00-18:30 Smith-Buonanno Francisco Ricardo: Reading the Discursive Spaces of Text Rain. Transmodally Mark Tribe: Reading Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries: An Ornithology of Digital Art (Moderator: George Fifield) 18:30-20:30 Paragon Dinner 20:30-22:00 Smith-Buonanno “Rereading the Screen: After Words” - writing performances of digital literature (by Brown-affiliated authors) Sunday, October 7 10:00-12:00 Smith-Buonanno Student Panel 12:15-14:00 Hillel House*** Brainstorming Lunch *List Art Center: Lobby, 64 College Street **Smith-Buonanno: Room 106, Meeting Street ***Hillel House: Meeting Room, 80 Brown Street