**please view and listen to poems through a desktop computer, they won’t work on mobile devices** “#SELFIEPOETRY: Fake Art Histories & the Inscription of the Digital Self” is an on going series of e-poems that I’ve recently started to write (although write might not be the right word to use), using the online platform NewHive–which … #SELFIEPOETRY
Last week I attended the international symposium “Reading Wide, Writing Wide in the Digital Age: Perspectives on Transliteratures” organized by the LEETHI group from the Complutense University of Madrid. It was a fantastic event where I had the opportunity to listen to very interesting work engaging electronic literature from very different perspectives, such as Vilashini … If the Future Is Digital, Why Print a Book?
Last week I had the wonderful opportunity of participating in the international symposium, Máquinas de inminencia, organized by UNAM’s lleomin Mexico City. This series of talks was part of their larger electronic literature project, Plataformas de la imaginación: Escenarios de la literatura electrónica (and, shameless plug here: also part of the even larger series of … Teaching E-Lit and DH: Plataformas de la imaginación
UC Berkeley students, beware! This Spring 16 I will be teaching two new courses: 1. A groundbreaking upper-division undergraduate course on e-lit that epitomizes digital humanities – literary analysis alongside basic programming skills and DH tools and methods [Find out more about this e-lit undergraduate course here] …and… 2. An exciting graduate seminar on the … Spring 16 Courses
JOIN US THIS FALL (as in, NOW) >>> In preparation for the spring exhibit, No Legacy || Literatura electrónica, this fall we will gather to explore tools for electronic literature and use them for creative work. We will play with tools such as Twine, Inform 7, Undum, Flash, generative grammars, and bots. Participants will receive … The E-Lit Critical Making Group (Working Group)
Electronic Literature: A Critical Making and Writing Course Are you an artist? What about a poet? Do you think computers are cool? Do you play with code? Are you a Facebook freak? Come work with Prof. Saum-Pascual! I am looking for a graduate student interested in working with me in the teaching and research involved … GSR Position (Spring 2016): E-Lit
Time flies when you are… working. Although I’ve been enjoying some free time, this summer I have mostly been working. Here is a little update on what I’ve been doing, and what’s to come.I had the opportunity to attend DHSI again this year, and took part in a terrific electronic literature class, Advanced Criticism and … What I’ve been up to this summer (and what’s to come)
Es difícil capturar el momento de lectura, ¿cuándo ocurre? Ahora, ahora mientras lees. Leer siempre es una performance y siempre ocurre en este mismo momento, aunque las ruinas del evento permanezcan como letras en la página tiempo después. Con la literatura electrónica, no obstante, la ruina se desvanece. O más bien, muta, se transcodifica, cambia … Atrápala si puedes
La escritura silencia la palabra. Y una imagen vale más que mil de éstas. “Silencio” Eugen Gomringer, 1954 De la escritura se ha dicho que supuso el abandono de la oralidad, aunque lo que realmente esto significa no sea más que la separación necesaria de lo escrito y la palabra. La lectura silenciosa cambió … El silencio de la palabra: Poesía digital
Otra semana más, repito aquí lo que dije en clase: “There is much in the world to protest” (Rita Raley, Tactical Media) Hay mucho por lo que protestar en el mundo, sí. Así comienza Rita Raley uno de los textos ya canónicos sobre medios y protesta, Tactical Media. Lo dijo en 2009 y sigue siendo verdad hoy, evidentemente. … ¿Cómo pensar el formato blog como intervención política?