Literary Art in Digital Performance

Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8264-3680-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Literary Art in Digital Performance examines electronic works of literary art, a category integrating the visual+textual including interactive poetry, narrative computer games, filmic sculpture, projective art, and other works specific to digital media. In recent decades, electronic art's aesthetic has been driven by new algorithmic, randomized, and emergent processes. Although this new art differs from material art or print literature, the rise of popular fascination with new media has neglected signifcant discussion of how technical mediation impacts contemporary art and literature. Presented as a collection of case studies by leading scholars, the book provides a contemporary optic on this art's forms, problems, and possibilities. Each case study is followed by a post-chapter dialogue where the editor engages authors on the foundational aesthetics of new media art and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ricardo, Francisco J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Juncture and Form in New Media Criticism, Francisco J. Ricardo

2. What is and Toward What End do We Read Digital Literature?, Roberto Simanowski 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Simanowski and Ricardo

3. List(en)ing Post, Rita Raley 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Raley and Ricardo

4. Strickland and Lawson Jaramillo’s Slippingglimpse: Distributed Cognition at/in Work, N. Katharine Hayles 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Hayles and Ricardo

5. Reading Discursive Spaces of Text Rain, Transmodally, Francisco J. Ricardo

6. Kissing the Steak: The poetry of text generators, Christopher T. Funkhouser 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Funkhouser and Ricardo

7. Geopoetics: Aesthetic Experience in the Works of Stefan Schemat and Teri Rueb, Katja Kwastek 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Kwastek and Ricardo

8. Self, Setting, and Situation in Second Life, Maria Bäcke 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Bäcke and Ricardo

9. Looking Behind the Façade: Playing and Performing an Interactive Drama, Jorgen Schafer 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Schafer and Ricardo

10. Artificial Poetry: On Aesthetic Perception in Computer-Aided Literature, Peter Gendolla 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Gendolla and Ricardo

11. Screen Writing: A Practice-based, EuroRelative Introduction to Digital Literature and Poetics, John Cayley 1. Post-Chapter Dialogue, Cayley and Ricardo

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francisco J. Ricardo, Ph.D., writes about contemporary and new media art theory and criticism. Affiliated with the University Professors of Boston University, he is cofounder of the Digital Video Research Archive, and also teaches digital media theory at the Rhode Island School of Design.