Alex Saum
Faculty at UC Berkeley; Doing digital things
SP135 W - NWMEDIA 190
Spring 2020
@alexsaum
Electronic Literature
(Oh my Dog ¿Qué es esto?)
¿Qué es poesía? ¿y tú me lo preguntas?
What is poetry? And you are asking me?
ciberpoesía/ cyberpoetry - cin(e)poetry - cyber visual - click poetry - computer poetry - diagram poetry - e-poetry - electronic poetry - network poetry - new media poetry - hypermedia poetry - hypertextual poetry - infopoetry - internet poetry - pixel poetry -poem-on-computer -virtual poem - vpoem
definitions and terminology
electronic vs. digital
electronic vs. digital
I might be digital, but I am not electronic literature
electronic vs. digital
Crónica de Viaje
Jorge Carrión (2014)
Digital characteristics
numeric representation-
modularity-
automatization-
interactivity-
transcodification-
multisensoriality -
network distribution
precedents - origins - influences
Love Letter Generator
Christopher Strachey (1953)
Stochastische Texte
Theo Lutz (1959)
Is e-lit DH?
YEP!
YEP!
- Hypertext fiction
- Interactive fiction
- Bots and chatterbots
- Generators and permutators
- Flash poems
- Social media fictions...
There's so many kinds and genres...
There are literary games...
There are permutators and generators...
Eugenio Tisselli
or examples of algorithmic politics...
Belén Gache - Second Life performances
Tere is performance...
88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) - David Clark
or narrative...
Alex Saum
University of California, Berkeley
www.alexsaum.com
saum-pascual@berkeley.edu
¡Gracias!
What's e-lit (as DH)_intro to Making and Writing in the Digital Age
By Alex Saum
