KATHERINE HAYLES
17 – 21. 9. 2007.

Od 17. do 21. rujna na Odsjeku za kulturalne studije, Filozofskog fakulteta u Rijeci održat će se radionica američke teoretičarke Katherine N. Hayles 'The Future of Literature'.

Radionica profesorice Katherine N. Hayles održat će se u sklopu kolegija Znanost, tehnologija i kultura - koji se održava u 6. semestru dodiplomskog studija, i kolegija Teorija i praksa novih medija koji se održava u 1. semestru diplomskog studija. Radionica je namijenjena studentima 3. godine dodiplomskog studija i 1. godine diplomskog studija (sadašnji studenti 2. i 3. godine dodiplomskog studija).

Sudjelovanje na radionici je izborno, ali studenti koji će sudjelovati na radionici odradit će dio obaveza s kolegija (1/3 ECTS bodova).

Radionica The Future of Literature će trajati 4 dana (od ponedjeljka 17. do petka 21. rujna). Predavanja i diskusije će se održavati svakodnevno od 9.00-12.00h, nakon čega slijede individualne konzultacije sa studentima od 12.30-14.00h. Na radionici će se analizirati djela digitalne književnosti koja su nastala na kompjutoru i namijenjena su čitanju na kompjutoru, kao i eksperimentalne književnosti s kraja 20. i početka 21. stoljeća. Svi su materijali za radionicu dostupni na web-u, a sudionici će dobiti i CD Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1 na kojem će se temeljiti radionica. CD je dostupan i na Internetu.

Za radionicu je potrebno:
a) pročitati esej K. N. Hayles: Electronic Literature: What Is It? i SKRIPTU
b) uputiti se u digitalna djela o kojima će se govoriti na prvom danu radionice (djela se nalaze na ovdje)
- Michael Joyce, “Twelve Blue” (ELC)
- Kerry Lawrynovicz, “Girls Day Out” (ELC)
- Lance Olsen and Tim Guthrie, “10:01” (ELC)
- Jason Nelson, “Dreamaphage” (ELC)
- Richard Holeton, “Frequently Asked Questions about ‘Hypertext’” (ELC)
- Judd Morrissey, “The Jew’s Daughter”
c) pozdravlja se i čitanje ostalih djela koja su dostupna

Za sve informacije i konzultacije studenti se mogu javiti na moj mail: kpvukovic@ffri.hr


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OPIS RADIONICE:

Workshop on “The Future of Literature”
Rijeka, Croatia, September 17-20, 2007
N. Katherine Hayles, Workshop Leader

Workshop Rationale
As we leave the Age of Print, books are not disappearing, but they have ceased to be the default means of communication. Television, movies, and especially the Internet and the World Wide Web are introducing new modes of communication, new constraints and possibilities for creative production and consumption for literature, and new awareness of the importance of media in determining our situation. The workshop will explore the relatively new field of electronic literature (literature created on a computer and meant to be read on it, that is, literature that is “digital born”) as well as experimental print literature from the late 20th and 21st centuries. The transition from print to digital literature raises a wealth of theoretical questions, including the relation of computer code to language, the role of technology in shaping literary possibilities, the relation of computer and video games to literature, and continuities and/or ruptures with the print tradition of literature and literary criticism. The workshop will meet from 9 am-12:00 noon for four days; I will be available for individual consultation on any topic of your choice from 12:30 pm-2:00 pm on each workshop day.
Participants are encouraged to prepare by reading the selections from Electronic Literature Collection Vol I (http://collection.eliterature.org) listed for Monday, September 17, in advance of the seminar and also to read my essay “Electronic Literature: What Is It?” at http://eliterature.org,. Each day of the workshop will focus on a different area of electronic literature, and the final day with make connections between electronic literature and experimental contemporary American print fiction. Participants can expect to be introduced to a wide range of literature in digital media, to think about how literature is changing as the Age of Print draws to a close, and to make connections between print as an enabling and constraining technology for literary production compared to digital media. Connections will also be drawn between experimental practices in print literature and experimental practices in digital media. One of the workshop’s goals is to break the transparency of print by examining assumptions that usually remain implicit (because print has for so long been the sea in which we all swim). Another goal is to introduce participants to the new assumptions implicit in digital media and to experience for themselves the new modes of reading and interpretation that digital media require. All participants will receive a free CD of the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1, which is also available for free access on the web at http://collection.eliterature.org.

N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, teaches and writes on the relations of science, technology, and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her books include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-1999, and Writing Machines, which won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. She is co-editor of The Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1, and her book Electronic Literature: Playing, Interpreting, Teaching, will be published from the U. of Notre Dame Press in 2008.

Monday September 17
Introduction
N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature: What Is It? available at http://eliterature.org
Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1 (ELC) available at http://collection.eliterature.org
Electronic Hypertext in the ELC
Michael Joyce, “Twelve Blue” (ELC)
Kerry Lawrynovicz, “Girls Day Out” (ELC)
Lance Olsen and Tim Guthrie, “10:01” (ELC)
Jason Nelson, “Dreamaphage” (ELC)
Richard Holeton, “Frequently Asked Questions about ‘Hypertext’” (ELC)
Judd Morrissey, “The Jew’s Daughter”

Tuesday September 18: Electronic Poetry
Strickland and Jaramillo, “slippingglimpse,” available at http://slippingglimpse.org
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, “The Last Day of Betty Nkomo,” available at http://www.yhchang.com/
Robert Kendal, “Faith” (ELC)
John Cayley, “Translation” (ELC)
Millie Niss, “Oulipoems” (ELC)

Wednesday September 19: Literature and The Literary
Graphic Literature
Donna Leishman, “Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw” (ELC)
Dan Waber, “Strings”
Sound and Text
Maria Mencia, “Birds Singing Other Birds’ Songs” (ELC)
Giselle Beiguelman, “Code Movie I” (ELC)
Generative Art
Jim Andrews, “Stir Fry Texts”
Stuart Moulthrop, “Reagan Library”

Thursday September 20 Experimental Print Literature
Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper, Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (lecture and books to pass around)
Sound Poetry: Carnivocal (CD from which we will hear samples)
The Future of Literature: Conclusion