Literary Art in Digital Performance Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism

by Ricardo, Francisco J.

• ISBN13: 9780826436801
• ISBN10: 0826436803
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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 significant 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Juncture and Form in New Media Criticism	p. 1
What is and Toward What End Do We Read Digital Literature?	p. 10
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 17
List(en)ing Post	p. 22
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 35
Strickland and Lawson Jaramillo's slippingglimpse: Distributed Cognition at/in Work	p. 38
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 48
Reading the Discursive Spaces of Text Rain, Transmodally	p. 52
Kissing the Steak: The Poetry of Text Generators	p. 69
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 80
Geopoetics: Aesthetic Experience in the Works of Stefan Schemat and Teri Rueb	p. 84
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 106
Self, Setting, and Situation in Second Life	p. 109
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 140
Looking behind the Facade: Playing and Performing an Interactive Drama	p. 143
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 162
Artificial Poetry: On Aesthetic Perception in Computer-Aided Literature	p. 167
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 176
Screen Writing: A Practice-based, EuroRelative Introduction to Digital Literature and Poetics	p. 178
Post-Chapter Dialogue	p. 187
Index	p. 191
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