{"id":522,"date":"2009-11-09T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:17:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:17:47","slug":"bergen-apothegma-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/11\/bergen-apothegma-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergen Apothegma, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m at a fine gathering, The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice.<\/a> This is a workshop Scott Rettberg organized here in Bergen, Norway. Here’s a tiny glimpse of it.<\/p>\n

First, Daniel Apollon has very deftly provided us with a video of last night’s electronic literature readings \/ presentations<\/a> by nine readers: J\u00f6rg Piringer. Roderick Coover, J. R. Carpenter, John Cayley, Ren\u00e9e Turner, Serge Bouchardon, Chris Funkhouser, Talan Memmott, and Michelle Teran. It was remarkable for being an extremely long e-lit reading that was also very compelling throughout and offered a wide range of work, never lagging at any point during the three hours. The video is just over 11 minutes.<\/p>\n

Regarding the panel presentations today so far, I have no summary – see the abstracts<\/a> for that. Instead, a handful of analects, transcribed ineptly:<\/p>\n

“If there were going to be a great novel or a great poem in new media by now, we’d have it. There are major works in digital media, but they aren’t continuations of the novel or the poem.” -Joseph Tabbi<\/p>\n

“That’s the real promise of peer-to-peer review – you can follow the debates that make claims and that become knowledge.” -Eric Dean Rasmussen<\/p>\n

“… calculation being a material process … authors, who work on the technical dimension and on the medium, may allow a new aesthetic to emerge.” -Serge Bouchardon<\/p>\n

“For a long time I advocated that we have two classes of electronic literature – Class A which represents that work which is truly programmatic, and the other which is traditional writing. Increasingly, I don’t see this distinction as important.” -Raine Koskimaa<\/p>\n

“I don’t actually mind cookie cutters – I make a lot of cookies, and I use proprietary cookie cutters.” -Jill Walker Rettberg [Jill’s slides and a preprint of her related paper<\/a> are online.] <\/p>\n

“Already the manifesto is the exquisite corpse.” -Ren\u00e9e Turner (regarding discussion on the NetBehavior list)<\/p>\n

[Please let me know if I’ve seriously misquoted you, fellow workshop attendees.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m at a fine gathering, The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is a workshop Scott Rettberg organized here in Bergen, Norway. Here’s a tiny glimpse of it. First, Daniel Apollon has very deftly provided us with a video of last night’s electronic literature readings \/ presentations by nine … <\/p>\n

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