Reading Digital Literature: American-German Conference

Brown University | October 4 - 7, 2007 | Roberto_Simanowski /at/ Brown [.] edu


Speakers

Panelists

Moderators

Chris Funkhouser (NJIT)
Peter Gendolla (University of Siegen)
Katherine Hayles (UCLA)
Fotis Jannidis (University of Darmstadt)
Rita Raley (UC Santa Barbara)
Francisco Ricardo (Boston University)
Jörgen Schäfer (University of Siegen)
Thomas Swiss (University of Minnesota)
Mark Tribe (Brown University)
Karin Wenz (University of Maastricht)

Jeremy Askenas (Brown University)
Daniel Howe (NYU)
Aya Karpinska (Brown University)
Justin Katko (Brown University)
Patricia Tomaszek (University of Siegen)

John Cayley (Brown University)
George Fifield (DeCordova Museum)
Thomas Kniesche (Brown University)
Francisco Ricardo (Boston University)
Roberto Simanowski (Brown University)

Jeremy Ashkenas

  • Brown University Undergraduate
  • Is designing a web notebook and publishing space for hypertext.
  • www.Hypertextopia.com
  • jashkenas /at/ gmail [.] com
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John Cayley

  • Visiting Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, poet, author and scholar of digital literature
  • Literal Art (essay, 2004), The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text) (essay, 2002)
  • www.shadoof.net
  • cayley /at/ shadoof [.] net
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George Fifield

  • Director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and independent curator of new media, adjunct professor at the Digital Media program at Rhode Island School of Design, writer and artist
  • Executive co-producer for The Electronic Canvas, a hour-long documentary on the history of the media arts (aired in national PBS distribution)
  •  http://www.bostoncyberarts.org
  • George /at/ bostoncyberarts [.] org
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Chris Funkhouser

  • Assistant Professor in Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 (Alabama, 2007)
    O surgimento da tecnopoesia/Technopoetry Rising: Essays and Works 1993-2006 (São Paulo, Musa Editora, 2008)
    Selections 2.0 (eBook cd-rom) (Malaysia, Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, 2006)
  • http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous
  • funkhouser /at/ adm [.] njit [.] edu
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Peter Gendolla

  • Professor of Literature, Art, New Media and Technology at the University of Siegen, head of the research center “Media Upheavals” and chair of its sub-project “net-literature”
  • The Aesthetics of Netliterature. Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media (Transcript, 2007, co-editor)
    Wissensprozesse in der Netzwerkgesellschaft [Knowledge in the Net Society] (Transcript, 2004, co-editor)
    Formen interaktiver Medienkunst [Forms of Interactive Media Art] (Suhrkamp, 2001, co-editor)
  •  http://likumed.fb3.uni-siegen.de/mitarbeiter/gendolla/?lang=de
  • gendolla /at/ fk615.uni-siegen [.] de
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Katherine Hayles

  • Hillis Professor of Literature and Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Design/Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (forthcoming U. of Notre Dame Press, February 2008)
    My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
    Writing Machines (Mediaworks Pamphlets) (MIT Press, 2002; Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship)
    How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (University of Chicago Press 1999; Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99 )
    NanoCulture: Implications for the New Technoscience (Intellect Books 2004, editor), Technocriticism and Hypernarrative (special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, Fall 1997, editor)
  •  http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles
  • hayles /at/ humnet.ucla [.] edu
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Daniel Howe

  • A digital artist and researcher at NYU's Media Research Lab where he is currently completing his dissertation on generative literary systems
  • Recent projects include the ALTK, a software toolkit for affective language generation; the Bisociation Engine, an interdisciplinary attempt to model aspects of human creativity in software (w' Bill Seaman), and TrackMeNot, an artware intervention addressing surreptitious data-profiling on the web (w' Helen Nissenbaum).
  • http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe
  • dhowe /at/ mrl.nyu [.] edu
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Fotis Jannidis

  • Professor of German Literature at the University of Darmstadt
  • Figur und Person. Beitrag zu einer historischen Narratologie [Figure and Person. Contributions to a Historic Narratology] (de Gruyter, 2004)
    Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie [Yearbook of Computer Philology] (co-editor)
    Grenzen der Literatur. Zu Begriff und Phänomen des Literarischen [Limits of Literature. On the Concept and Phenomenon of Literaricity] (de Gruyter, forthcoming 2007, co-editor), Regeln der Bedeutung. Zur Theorie der Bedeutung literarischer Texte [Rules of Meaning. On the Theory of Meaning in Literary Texts] (de Gruyter, 2003, co-editor)
  • http://www.jannidis.de
  • jannidis /at/ linglit.tu-darmstadt [.[ de
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Aya Natalia Karpinska

  • 2006 recipient of the Brown University Fellowship in Electronic Writing, digital media artist and interaction designer
  • Creates interactive experiences through installation art, digital text, sound, and game design
  •  http://www.technekai.com
  • Aya_Natalia_Karpinska /at/ Brown [.] edu
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Justin Katko

Thomas Kniesche

Rita Raley

Francisco Ricardo

  • Research Associate in New Media and Visual Arts, University Professors, Boston University
  • fricardo /at/ bu [.] edu
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Jörgen Schäfer

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the research center “Media Upheavals” (sub-project "net-literature") at the University of Siegen
  • The Aesthetics of Net Literature. Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media (Transcript, 2007, co-editor)
    Wissensprozesse in der Netzwerkgesellschaft [Knowledge in the Net Society] (Transcript, 2004, co-editor)
    Pop-Literatur (Text & Kritik, 2003, co-editor)
  • http://www.litnet.uni-siegen.de
  • schaefer /at/ lit-wiss.uni-siegen [.] de
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Roberto Simanowski

  • Assistant Professor of German Studies at Brown University, founder of interfictions.org an online journal on digital literature and arts
  • Die Ästhetik des Spektakels [Aesthetics of the Spectacle] (Transcript, forthcoming 2008)
    Transmedialität. Studien zu paraliterarischen Verfahren [Transmediality. On Para-Llterary Procedures] (Wallstein 2006, co-editor)
    Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im Netz [Interfictions: Writing on the Net] (Suhrkamp, 2002),
    Literatur.digital: Formen und Wege einer neuen Literatur [Literature.Digital: Forms and Paths of a New Literature] (DTV, 2002, editor)
    Digitale Literatur [Digital Literature], Text & Kritik 152 (October 2001, editor)
  • http://www.simanowski.info
  • Roberto_Simanowski /at/ brown [.] edu
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Thomas Swiss

  • Professor of Culture and Teaching at the University of Minnesota
  • Digital Writing in the Classroom (forthcoming 2007, co-author )
    New Media Poetics: Contexts/Technotexts/Theories (MIT Press, 2006, co-editor)
    The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power (Routledge, 2000, co-editor)
    Unspun: The Web, Language, Society (New York University Press, 2001, editor)
  • http://www.thomasswiss.com
  • swiss /at/ umn [.] edu
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Patricia Tomaszek

  • Academic assistant at the Human Collaborative Research Center "Media Upheavals" (sub-project "net-literature") at the University of Siegen (Sub-project "net-literature"); Master of Arts in Literature, Culture and Media (B.A. of Arts in Literary, Cultural and Media Studies)
  • Hypertext Poetry and Fiction, in: Jörgen Schäfer and Sigrid Schubert (eds.): E-Learning und Literatur. Informatiksysteme im Unterricht (Siegen: Universi 2007).
  • www.likumed.uni-siegen.de/mitarbeiter/tomaszek/index.html.en?lang=en
  • tomaszek /at/ fk615.uni-siegen [.] de
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Mark Tribe

  • Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics, founder of Rhizome.org an online resource for new media artists
  • New Media Art (Taschen, 2006, co-author)
  • http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/people/tribe
  • Mark_Tribe /at/ brown [.] edu
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Karin Wenz

  • Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the University of Maastricht
  • Raum, Raumsprache, Sprachräume. Zur Textsemiotik der Raumbeschreibung [Culture as Program - Textual Sign Spaces and Textual Signs of Space as Result] (Narr, 1997),
    p0es1s. Ästhetik digitaler Poesie/The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry (Hatje Cantz, 2004, co-editor)
    Neue Medien im Alltag: Nutzung, Vernetzung, Interaktion [New Media in Everyday Life: Use, Integration, Interaction] (Pabst, 2003, co-editor)
  • K.Wenz /at/ LK.unimaas [.] nl
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