List of electronic literature authors, critics, and works

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This is a list of electronic literature authors and works (that originate from digital environments), and its critics. Electronic literature is a literary genre consisting of works of literature that originate within digital environments. It can also be defined as those works using a digital element as an integral part of the work (essential to convey the meaning of the piece). This list is specific and exclusive to literature and works originally published electronically, and does not include works published in book format only, web blogs, newspapers, directories, etc. However, this list may include works that have been published both electronically and in print.

Publishers, journals, and collections

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  • The Digital Review is an annual publication of literary criticism of electronic literature/born digital works.[1]
  • Drunken Boat is an electronic journal of arts and hypertext. The journal won a Webby Award at the South by Southwest Festival.[2]
  • Eastgate Systems / Mark Bernstein[3]
  • The Electronic Literature Organization has collected notable works of electronic literature in four collections.[4]
  • The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base (ELMCIP) is a research resource for electronic literature, with 3,851 entries as of September 2, 2022.[5]
  • GEODES is an anthology for geolocated (locative) works.[6]
  • New Media Prize has an archive of submitted works.[7]
  • The New River Anthology, A Journal of Digital Art and Literature has been publishing electronic literature continually since 1996,[8] collected in The NEXT Museum.[9]
  • The NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space at Washington State University at Vancouver is a project dedicated to preserving and sharing electronic literature. Traversals was an earlier compendium of authors reading obsolete electronic works [10]
  • Revue BleuOrange was a French-Canadian journal run by NT2 that published electronic literature works and criticism from 2008 to 2021.[11]
  • trAce, Online Writing Centre's journal, frAme, issued 34 works of electronic literature in 6 issues of its journal, frAme. which is now restored at the Washington State University's NeXt Museum.[12]
  • Turbulence was a new media journal from 1996 to 2006.[13]
  • Indian Electronic Literature Anthology Volume I, curated and edited by Nirmala Menon, Shanmugapriya T, Justy Joseph, and Deborah Sutton, showcases a collection of 17 distinctive electronic literary works. It was published in 2024.[14]

Authors

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Names not yet covered by Wikipedia articles should be adequately referenced. This is an ongoing Wikipedia Project.)

Early prototype electronic literature writers

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Electronic literature involves works that incorporate extra elements, such as visual or aural components, as an integral part of the work. Proto-electronic literature writers include: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Concrete poetry is also an early precursor for electronic literature.

Critics

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Critical academic studies

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Electronic Book Review has critical essays and reviews focusing on electronic literature.

Landmark Reviews

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  • Robert Coover, 1993 New York Times Book Review, "Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer"[34]
  • Robert Coover, August 29, 1993 New York Times Book Review, "Hyperfiction; And Now, Boot Up the Reviews"[35]

Titles

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See also Category:Electronic literature works

Awards

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There are various awards for electronic literature including:

  • Electronic Literature Awards from the Electronic Literature Organization, awarded annually for the best literary work and the best work of scholarship[41]
  • New Media Writing Prize, an annual international competition from the UK with prizes for innovative digital fiction[42]
  • Woollahra Digital Literary Award, an annual award in support of Australian digital literature and publishing[43]

Syllabi

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Digital Storytelling at Washington State University at Vancouver in Spring 2023 with Dene Grigar taught At Nightfall. A Goldfish, Ghost, First Draft of the Revolution (Emily Short), Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (Richard Holeton), Hours of the Night (Stephanie Strickland).

Critical Making of Contemporary Information through Digital-born Creative Works with Shanmugapriya T at University of Toronto in Winter 2022

Applachian State University with Leonardo Flores:

Natalie Federova's Text in Art courses[48] included Michael Joyce (afternoon, a story), Patchwork Girl (Shelley Jackson), Shade (Andrew Plotkin), The Facade (Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern), The Intruder (Natalie Bookchin), ROMAN (Roman Leibov), and I cannot remember time I didn't need you (Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley).

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Drunken Boat". drunkenboat.com. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  3. ^ Hayles, N. Katherine (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (1 page 6, 7 ed.). Indiana: University of Notre Dame. ISBN 978-0-268-03084-1.
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  5. ^ "Electronic Literature Knowledge Base". ELMCIP. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Geodes :: locative and creative". geodes.io. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  7. ^ "Homepage". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  8. ^ "The New River". The New River. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  9. ^ "The New River: A Journal of Digital Writing and Art Collection". The NEXT Museum.
  10. ^ Moulthrop, Stuart; Grigar, Dene (2017). Traversals: the use of preservation for early electronic writing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03597-2.
  11. ^ "La Revue". revuebleuorange.org (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-01.
  12. ^ trAce, frAme. "FrAme Journal". ELO Next. Electronic Literature Organization. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  13. ^ "3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence" (PDF). Turbulence. November 16, 2022.
  14. ^ Menon, Nirmala; T, Shanmugapriya; Joseph, Justy; Sutton, Deborah (2023-12-13). Indian Electronic Literature Anthology. Indian Institute of Technology – Knowledge Sharing in Publishing. doi:10.57004/book1/. ISBN 978-93-5811-313-6.
  15. ^ "Talan Memmitt". ELMCIP. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  16. ^ (2007.) "Interview: Caterina Davinio." Archived 2011-10-01 at the Wayback Machine Jip.javamuseum.org. Accessed December 2011.
  17. ^ "Citations search: "N. Katherine Hayles" (Google Scholar)". Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  18. ^ Lev Manovich Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine faculty profile at European Graduate School, Saas-Fee
  19. ^ Walker, Jill (1999). "Piecing together and tearing apart". Proceedings of the tenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : Returning to our diverse roots: Returning to our diverse roots. Darmstadt Germany: ACM. pp. 111–117. doi:10.1145/294469.294496. hdl:1956/1073. ISBN 978-1-58113-064-5. S2CID 17335695.
  20. ^ Rettberg, Jill Walker (2014). "Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite". Electronic Book Review.
  21. ^ Douglas, J. Yellowlees (2000). The end of books or books without end ? reading interactive narratives. Ann Arbor (Mich.): University of Michigan press. ISBN 978-0-472-11114-5.
  22. ^ Davinio, Caterina (2002). Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (in Italian). Sometti. ISBN 9788888091853. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  23. ^ Hayles, Nancy Katherine; Burdick, Anne; Lunenfeld, Peter (2002). Writing machines. Mediawork pamphlet. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-58215-5.
  24. ^ Malloy, Judy, ed. (2003). Women, art, and technology. Leonardo. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13424-8.
  25. ^ The Aesthetics of Net Literature (PDF). Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89942-493-5. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  26. ^ Landow, George P. (2006). Hypertext 3.0: critical theory and new media in an era of globalization. Parallax (3rd ed.). Baltimore (Md.): Johns Hopkins university press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8256-2.
  27. ^ Bell, Alice (2010). The possible worlds of hypertext fiction (Thesis). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230542556.
  28. ^ Eskelinen, Markku (2012). Cybertext poetics: the critical landscape of new media literary theory. International texts in critical media aesthetics. London: Continuum. ISBN 978-1-4411-2438-8.
  29. ^ Koenitz, Hartmut; Ferri, Gabriele; Haahr, Mads; Sezen, Digdem; Sezen, Tonguc Ibrahim, eds. (2015). Interactive digital narrative: history, theory, and practice. Routledge studies in European communication research and education. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-78239-6.
  30. ^ Tabbi, Joseph (2018). The Bloomsbury handbook of electronic literature. London, UK: Bloomsbury academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury publishing Plc. ISBN 978-1-4742-3025-4.
  31. ^ Electronic Literature. Polity. January 2019. ISBN 978-1-509-51677-3. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  32. ^ Ensslin, Astrid; Bell, Alice (2021). Digital fiction and the unnatural: transmedial narrative theory, method, and analysis. Theory and interpretation of narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-1456-5.
  33. ^ Ensslin, Astrid (2022). Pre-web digital publishing and the lore of electronic literature. Cambridge elements publishing and book culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-82888-8.
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  40. ^ Szilak, Illya (7 March 2013). "It's All Fun Until Someone Loses: E-lit Plays Games". Huffington Post.
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  42. ^ "NMWP". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  43. ^ "Woollahra Digital Literary Award". Woollahra Municipal Council. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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