WHAT IS E-LITS RAISON DTRE ? AN INTRODUCTION TO FLASH POETRY ENG - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WHAT IS E-LITS RAISON DTRE ? AN INTRODUCTION TO FLASH POETRY ENG - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WHAT IS E-LITS RAISON DTRE ? AN INTRODUCTION TO FLASH POETRY ENG 306U Lecture 9 Videogames and E-literature Prof. Kathi Inman Berens STRICKLAND, BORN DIGITAL Lets read and know these essential definitions.
STRICKLAND, “BORN DIGITAL”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/69224 Let’s read and know these essential definitions.
http://www.slideshare.net/jilltxt/dikult103-digital-genres-intro-lecture
“NOT FOR ALL TIME, BUT OF AN AGE”
Ben Jonson eulogizing Shakespeare: “He was not of an age, but for all time.”
E-literature and obsolescence. See my curatorial statement for the Library of Congress, “The Catalog and the Ephemeral.”
The Wilderness Downtown and a lot of e-literature:
- bsolescence is almost certain.
LOAD THIS & READ IT
http://scholarworks.rit.edu/jcws/vol2/iss1/6
BOUCHARDON: “TENSIONS” DESCRIBE CREATION
- TENSION ON THE MEDIA
- TENSION ON THE SEMIOTIC FORMS
- TENSION ON PROGRAMMED WRITING
- TENSION ON THE AESTHETICS
WHAT IS A WORK’S “RAISON D’ÊTRE”?
- This is the “critical question” you should ask about every work of e-lit.
- Not all works will have one answer.
- Let’s begin with works that have a clear raison d’être.
TIPOEMAS, ANIPOEMAS
ANA MARIA URIBE, ARGENTINA, 1968
- http://collection.eliterature.org/3/works/tipoemas-y-anipoemas/index.html
FIRST SCREENING
NICHOL, CANADA, 1987
- http://collection.eliterature.org/3/works/first-screening/BPNICHOL-FIRST
- SCREENING.html
JOHNNY C ASH PROJECT
AARON KOBLIN &CHRIS MILK, UNITED STATES, 2011
- http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/
HOW TO MASTER THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING
BY TAN LIN, UNITED STATES, 1997
http://collection.eliterature.org/3/work.html?work=mastering-the-art-of-french- cooking-and-systems-theory
REMEMORI
BY CHRISTINE WILKS, UK, 2012
http://crissxross.net/elit/rememori.html
LOSS OF GRASP
SERGE BOUCHARDON, FRANCE, 2011
http://lossofgrasp.com/ Playthrough: https://vimeo.com/15779853
UPSIDE-DOWN CHANDELIER
MENCIA, ET AL. , 4 EU COUNTRIES, 2013
https://www.mariamencia.com/pages/upsidedown.html
DAKOTA
YOUNG—HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES SOUTH KOREA, 2000
http://www.yhchang.com/DAK OTA.html