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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:27:28 -0700
From: helen DeVinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [ELO-MEMBERS] Two new publications: Illogic of Sense; META/DATA
Hi all,
Two new publications which may be of interest to ELO members.
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ALT-X PRESS LAUNCHES "ILLOGIC OF SENSE: THE GREGORY L. ULMER REMIX" AS THE
LATEST ADDITION TO ITS INFLUENTIAL EBOOK SERIES
The Alt-X Online Network, a space "where the digerati meet the literati" and
on the Internet since 1993, announces the release of a new Alt-X Press ebook
entitled "Illogic of Sense: The Gregory Ulmer Remix" edited by Darren Tofts
and Lisa Gye, and designed by artist Joel Swanson of hippocrit.com.
Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix Edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa
Gye Design by Joel Swanson http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html
Contributors include Niall Lucy, Jon McKenzie, Linda Marie Walker, Craig
Saper, Rowan Wilken, Marcel O'Gorman, Teri Hoskin, and Michael Jarrett, with
an introduction by editors Tofts and Gye.
"Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix" is an exciting new ebook
publication that employs theorist Gregory Ulmer's invocation to invent new
forms of electronic writing. As the ebook's editors, Darren Tofts and Lisa
Gye, write in their brilliant introduction, "Ulmer has been at the forefront
of thinking about new cultural formations as the paradigm of literacy
converges with digital culture." Ulmer's work has been central to
contemporary thinking on the future of writing and his international
presence as one of the leading figures in media arts discourse has
influenced a multitude of disciplines from electronic literature and
Internet art to critical theory, communications studies, and art history.
The ebook features a diverse group of artists, theorists, and creative
writers who develop new forms of hybridized "digital rhetoric." Their
inventive and audacious experiments take advantage of recent developments in
the field of new media studies, and as part of Alt-X's mission to
participate in the creative commons provided by the Web, are available for
free download.
This provocative collection of multi-tracked writing puts into play many of
Ulmer's breakthrough theories summed up in his most recognized hot-button
terms: applied grammatology, heuretics, post(e)-pedagogy, textshop, mystory,
and choragraphy. Encouraged by the example of Ulmer's own hyperrhetorical
writing style, the authors incorporate collaged imagery, mp3 soundtracks,
and QuickTime movies into their innovative multimedia mix while exploring
how these same extensions of "writerly performance" explode the false
barrier between academic discourse and spontaneous poetics, narrative and
rhetoric, and autobiography and fiction. Positing an "illogic of sense" to
reclaim what Ulmer calls an "anticipatory consciousness," designed to
utilize the force of intuition as a way to invent emergent forms of
knowledge, this grouping of hypermedia texts showcase how interdisciplinary
writers can remix the methodological approach of an avant-garde philosophy
propelled by Ulmer, one that prioritizes an ongoing process of discovery and
media arts assemblage.
The ebook is beautifully designed by artist Joel Swanson of hippocrit.com,
who crosses his visionary design sensibility with state of the art
technology to produce an original work of ebook-art that many will view as
finally fulfilling the long-promised potential of online publishing to use
stimulating visual arrangement, media hybridization, and typographical
ingenuity to blur the distinction between publication, exhibition, and
design performance.
"Simultaneously celebrating and expanding on the writing performances
located in Gregory Ulmer's rich oeuvre of totally remixable source material,
the collection of essays in 'Illogic of Sense' adhere to an experiential
approach to creative/critical writing and in so doing teach us how to write
a theory of poetics that will help us invent a new field of study that I
would call interdisciplinary digital humanities." - Mark Amerika, series
editor, Alt-X Press; author of "META/DATA: A Digital Poetics" (MIT Press,
2007)
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META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press, 2007) by Mark Amerika
This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika
mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative,
satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused language art.
META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack "digital sampling" of
Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net
art world "gone wild" while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics
of net art that complements Amerika's own artistic practice.
Unlike other new media artists who may create art to justify their theories,
Amerika documents the emergence of new media art forms while he creates
them. Presenting a multifaceted view of the digital art scene on subjects
ranging from interactive storytelling to net art, live VJing, online
curating, and Web publishing, Amerika gives us "Spontaneous Theories,"
"Distributed Fictions" (including his groundbreaking GRAMMATRON, the helpful
"Insider's Guide to Avant-Garde Capitalism," and others), the more scholarly
"Academic Remixes," "Net Dialogues" (peer-to-peer theoretical explorations
with other artists and writers), and the digital salvos of "Amerika Online"
(among them, "Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net," "The Private
Life of a Network Publisher," and satirical thoughts on "Writing as
Hactivism"). META/DATA also features a section of full-color images,
including some of Amerika's most well-known and influential works.
Provocative, digressive, nomadic, and fun to read, Amerika's texts call to
mind the cadences of Gertrude Stein, the Beats, cyberpunk fiction, and
even The Daily Show more than they do the usual new media theorizing.
META/DATA maps the world of net culture with Amerika as guide and resident
artist.
Reviews
"META/DATA perfectly captures the essence and style of pioneering net artist
and online fiction writer Mark Amerika. Featuring a mix of scholarly theory,
personal narrative, and conversations with peers, the book provides both
meta data on the artist's multifaceted body of work and insightful
commentary on digital poetics and culture. The personae Amerika has created
for himself--from 'digital thoughtographer' to VJ as artist-researcher--are
reflected as different viewpoints in the book's stories, theoretical essays,
and dialogues, and make it a multilinear read that mirrors the diversity of
digital culture."
--Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of
American Art
"Mark Amerika is at the cutting edge of developments in both art and
technology. META/DATA is an indispensable guide to the promises and
potentials of new media--and also to the hype, irony, and disappointment
that all too often surround them."
--Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University
"Mark Amerika is a hacker. He hacks language, image, sound, identities,
cultures. He plays space, time, and tech like a saxophone. He plays out, way
out sometimes, but he will always beckon you to join him. His writings are
like invitations to a happening party you don't know you are already at.
It's dense, it's hard, but it flows, and it's fun. What more could you
want?"
--McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory
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