Sonntag, 18. September 2011

International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

  Media of New Directions in Digital PoetryMedia of Cybertext Poetics
I am on the Editorial Board of “International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics,” a new book series to be launched at Continuum Books in January 2012. Senior editor is Francisco J. Ricardo. This series will provide a transatlantic platform for new scholarship in the area of electronic art and literature. It introduces philosophical as well as historical monographs from international scholars dedicated to the problem of whether and how technology as a medium for art and literature simultaneously makes reference to and differs from the use of more traditional media and methods for these expressive practices. To date, five books are under contract, the first three books to appear early next year are Markku Eskelinen's Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory, Chris Funkhouser's New Directions in Digital Poetry, and Martha Buskirk's Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art betweenMuseum and Marketplace.

Donnerstag, 8. September 2011

Video of "Electronic Literature Pedagogy" workshop

The video of my presentation "In Search of Sustainability" at the "Electronic Literature Pedagogy" workshop at Karlskrona (Sweden), June 15-17, is available at Vimeo:


Jörgen Schäfer - ELMCIP BTH Workshop from ELMCIP on Vimeo.

Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011

Eine Theorie der Medienumbrüche 1900/2000

 

Nicola Glaubitz, Henning Groscurth, Katja Hoffmann, Jörgen Schäfer, Jens Schröter, Gregor Schwering und Jochen Venus:
Eine Theorie der Medienumbrüche 1900/2000

Universi, Siegen 2011 (MuK - Massenmedien und Kommunikation 185/186)
202 Seiten, EUR 4.00
ISSN: 0721-3271

Free Download (PDF): urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-5678 

Freitag, 1. Juli 2011

Rezensionen

Es gibt Rezensionen zu den Büchern Beyond the Screen und Reading Moving Letters: Von Jan Baetens in Leonardo, von Florian Hartling in Medienwissenschaft, von Renate Giacomuzzi in literaturkritik.de, von Martina Pfeiler in dichtung-digital und von Anna Katharina Schaffner im Journal of Literary Theory.

Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011

CELL International Workshop on Databases and Bibliographic Standards for Electronic Literature in Bergen, June 20-21st

This CELL workshop is a follow-up of the meeting we held in Sydney last December. It presents international projects that document, curate, and present research on electronic literature: born-digital literary forms such as hypertext fiction, kinetic poetry, interactive drama, location-based narrative, multimedia literary installations, and other types of poetic experiences made for the networked computer.
Since June of 2010, as part of the HERA-funded ELMCIP Project, the University of Bergen's Electronic Literature Research Group has been developing the ELMCIP Knowledge Base (http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase), a platform positioned to become one of the leading research tools in this area of the digital humanities.
The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together members of several international projects working on the documentation of electronic literature. Representives of projects from the United States, Canada, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Australia, and Norway will gather to pubicly present work on their projects, and to discuss how to best establish an international research infrastructure for the field.
Among the goals of the workshop will be the establishment of a standardized set of bibliographic fields used to describe works of electronic literature, and to work towards implementation of data-sharing arrangements between databases. Participants will include humanities researchers, research librarians, and digital-humanities developers, so that we can both conceptualize and begin implementing standards in all the databases concerned.

Dienstag, 14. Juni 2011

Electronic Literature Pedagogy, June 15-17, 2011

I am participating in the ELMCIP workshop on "Electronic Literature Pedagogy,"
hosted by Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, June 15-17, 2011.
This workshop aims to examine the educational models of the study and practice of electronic literature that exist in Europe. Currently, there are relatively few European examples of such courses and programs. Such courses exist in a diverse range of disciplinary contexts and thus courses are informed by different theoretical and practical traditions. Therefore, the workshop will serve to both map and consolidate the educational models in practice in Europe today and to build upon shared experiences and knowledge so as to further develop educational models and policies in European higher education. The title of my presentation is "In Search of Sustainability: Institutional and Curricular Limitations of Teaching Electronic Literature."

Watch my presentation on Vimeo.