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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: Frame Journal of Culture and Technology

URL: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/frame/index.cfm

Description: From 1999-2004 the frAme Journal of Culture & Technology was published by the trAce Online Writing Centre at The Nottingham Trent University, England. Twice a year frAme published creative work and critical commentary on new media writing with contributions by artists and researchers dealing with digital culture. ISSN number: 1470-2134. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   hypertext criticism flash cyberculture art essays interviews,  poetry ,  journal digital art fiction html

Title: New River Journal

URL: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/

Description: Presenting works of electronic literature along with artist biographies, New River publishes twice a year (December and May, since 1996). One of the issues is managed and edited by grad students from Virginia Tech's MFA Creative Writing Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   hypertext digital writing electronic literature fiction html flash journal reviews,  poetry ,  art

Title: Drunken Boat

URL: http://www.drunkenboat.com/

Description: The international web journal Drunken Boat publishes electronic literature and new media art; issue #8 (2006) features over 125 new media contributions of poetry, prose, photography, video, web art and sound along with artists information and an archive. Dossiers and special folios on e.g. the Canadian Strange and Oulipo are presented in elaborated analysis and give important introductions to these subjects. The journal holds an annual Panliterary Award and has appeared annually since 2000. ISSN: 1537-2812. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   net art sound art fiction journal video,  poetry ,  nonfiction

Title: Epímone

URL: http://www.epimone.net/

Description: A collection of e-poetry and visual art gathered from 2002 until 2004. The featured works are born-digital, using software and programming to create an interface where poetry and new media come together. Through such integrations of image, sound, and text, Calvo and Valdeolmillos wish to stress the idea of poetics as a form of "re-creation." In this sense, they offer an electronic materialisation of the rhetoric figure that implies the repitition of the same: Epimone. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   hypertext Net Art Animation/Kinetic Interactive Fiction Multilingual or Non-English Generative Text Visual poetry or Narrative video,  Poetry

Title: Poems that Go

URL: http://www.poemsthatgo.com/

Description: Poems that Go was an online literary journal that showcased kinetic, digital poems quarterly from 2000-2004. The journal was motivated by the question “What makes a poem a poem?” particularly when that poem is configured in digital form that goes beyond the written word by intersecting motion, sound, image, text, and code. The site features an extensive collection of Flash-based poems that display poetry to be multimodal and excitingly experimental. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   new media art Flash Animation/Kinetic critical essays aesthetics Quick Time,  poetry

Title: The Iowa Review Web

URL: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/tirwebhome.htm

Description: The journal Iowa Review Web started to publish electronic writing in 1999. It includes - along with electronic literature - other varieties of experimental writing and art, author interviews, critical articles, and essays. ISSN number: 1541-972X. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   theory hypertext criticism essays fiction literary journal interviews reviews,  poetry ,  art

Title: Word Circuits Gallery

URL: http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/

Description: A collection of electronic literature from 1998 to 2004 which contains, as well, guides, syllabi, downloadable software, and commentary on electronic literature. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek

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Subject:   hypertext electronic literature fiction commentary syllabi collection digital poetics,  poetry

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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