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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roderick Coover |
| ISBN: | 9781501347566 150134756X |
| OCLC Number: | 1088696640 |
| Description: | viii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Connections and coincidences in the end : death in seven colors : a conversation with David Clark -- Emotional proximity through inside the distance : a conversation with Sharon Daniel -- Now what : Sharon Daniel And David Clark On the digital imaginary / Stuart Moulthrop -- The readerly and the cinematic : hybrid reconfigurations through digital media practice / Judith Aston -- Pry as a cinematic novel : a conversation with Samantha Gorman -- The generative archive of encyclopedia : a conversation with Håkan Jonson and Johannes Heldén -- The taxonomy is imprecise / Lisa Swanstrom -- Reading the endless archive / Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Authorship in inanimate Alice and Letter to an unknown soldier : a conversation with Kate Pullinger -- The metamorphoses of front as a narrative told through social media interface : a conversation with Donna Leishman -- Collaborative voices : Kate Pullinger's digital authorial voice / Anastasia Salter -- What holds electronic literature together? / Mark C. Marino -- Do cyborgs dream of iPhone apps? The body and storytelling in the digital imaginary / Illya Szilak -- Computational literary practices and processes and imagination / Nick Montfort -- Afterword : haunting the digital imaginary / Steve Tomasula. |
| Series Title: | Electronic literature, v. 2. |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Roderick Coover. |
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The Digital Imaginary figures vital, and some of the best, aspects of an emergent world of Electronic Literature by creating just the kind of "discursive community" that its collection of interviews and essays - recursively, self-reflexively - celebrates. Artists who make meaning from computational media and new forms, from multimodality, from digitally-enabled collaboration, and from the transactional choices of their readers are placed in explicit, exploratory dialog with a number of these very readers. A further, generative layer of metacommentary from two widely differing perspectives adds voiceover - from visceral theory (Szilak) and code-level computation (Montfort) - to what is, in particular, an entanglement of cinematic, literary, and computational world-lines. And the whole is haunted by the cosmologically distancing vision of Steve Tomasula, a maker in these multimodal forms for whom the digital imaginary scales, ethically, beyond the horizons of received human culture and technology. * John Cayley, Professor and Chair of Literary Arts, Brown University, USA * Digitality has erupted the ambit of narratives with which we invent and interpret our being in the world, as well as the forms in which these narratives are expressed and experienced. The Digital Imaginary is an invaluable and elucidative analysis of the current 'state of this art' by authors and artists who are thinking and working at its leading edge. Its penetrating case studies and conversations map best current practices and beguiling future possibilities. * Jeffrey Shaw, Artist, Chair Professor of Media Art, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Read more...
