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Electronic Literature: Collections of Works

Collected by: Electronic Literature Organization

Archived since: Jul, 2007

Description:

This collection of archived web sites consists of works of electronic literature: works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer. The collection features sites that aggregate works of electronic literature by multiple authors, such as online journals and anthologies.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

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Title: Beehive Hypertext/Hypermedia Journal

URL: http://beehive.temporalimage.com/archive/index.html

Description: A literary web journal (1998-2002) publishing hypertext and hypermedia fiction, poetry, and theory along with interviews with artists and theorists. ISSN: 1528-8102. Entry drafted by: Joseph Tabbi

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Subject:   theory hypertext hypermedia fiction,  Critical/philosophical ,  literary journal poetry scholarly essays

Title: The Iowa Review Web v9n2

URL: http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu/tirw/vol9n2/

Description: The Iowa Review Web’s issue on “Instruments and Playable Text” (published in July 2008, guest edited by Stuart Moulthroup) features seven poetic and narrative works by six authors concerned with writing at the level of interface and code. The featured works (by Judy Malloy, John Cayley, Nick Montfort, Shawn Rider, Elizabeth Knipe, and the editor himself) all explore operations of permutation, chance, and remixing prompted by the reader’s actions. These programmed digital works invite readers to engage in the (literary) play indeed, reading and play in these texts are inseparable. Readerly actions include clicking on images and texts in Malloy’s Concerto for Narrative Data to invoke voices and texts to appear in various formations and juxtapositions. In Nick Montfort’s The Purpling, color-coding and clickable text chunks cause the poem to gradually change into different texts. John Cayley’s riverIsland employs navigation via images, via clickable icons, or by dragging QuickTime images, to access 32 poems reflecting on nature, translation, and language. Both Elizabeth Knipe’s activeReader and Shawn Rider’s two works, So Random and PiTP, invite the reader to enter texts of their own. Finally, Moulthrop’s polyphonic Under Language mixes written text with spoken words and sounds as the reader clicks on the interface’s icons and texts. In this work, as in Cayley's riverIsland, sounds and spoken words also engage the reader as a listener. Different kinds of play, interaction, and participation are juxtaposed with the more standard ways of intellectually engaging with a literary work. Along with the works, The Iowa Review Web issue includes an editor’s introduction and statements by many of the featured artists/authors. Entry drafted by: Maria Engberg

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Subject:   Quick Time poetry combinatorial textual instrument fiction,  Critical/philosophical ,  women authors html/dhtml procedural java constraint-based action script

Title: YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Presents

URL: http://www.yhchang.com/

Description: Flash poems with sound track and cinematic elements, presented as simple black text on white background flashing by in a rhythm syncopated to music, typically jazz. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   flash sound art time-based,  critical/philosophical ,  electronic music Collaboration net art Multilingual or Non-English poetry parody/satire

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