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THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION ANNOUNCES THE SHORT LISTS FOR THE 2001 POETRY AND FICTION ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AWARDS Chicago, IL, April 17 - The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is pleased to announce the short lists for the first Electronic Literature Awards. The two $10,000 Award-winners will be announced at a ceremony May 18, 2001 at the New School's Swayduck Auditorium in New York City (Ground Floor, 65 Fifth Avenue, between 13th and 14th -- note change of venue). Sixteen judges have whittled the international pool of one hundred and sixty three works down to a short list of six in each category. Final Judges Heather McHugh (Poetry) and Larry McCaffery (Fiction) will select the winner in each category. Tickets for the May 18th ceremony are available online for $10 @ http://eliterature.org/Awards2001 "Many of the first and second round judges commented on the remarkable diversity of works submitted," said Scott Rettberg, executive director of the ELO. "Collectively, these works represent the efforts of a nascent literary movement that takes the electronic media not only as a new means of distributing literature, but also as an interactive space that can be utilized to create entirely new kinds of literary art." **************************************************** SHORT LIST FOR THE 2001 ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AWARD FOR FICTION "Alternumerics" by Paul Chan of Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. "Lexia to Perplexia" by Talan Memmott of San Francisco, California, U.S.A. "Patchwork Girl" by Shelley Jackson of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. "_the data][h!][bleeding texts_" by Mez of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia "These Waves of Girls" by Caitlin Fisher of Toronto, Canada "The Impermanence Agent" by Noah Wardrip-Fruin et al. of New York City, New York, U.S.A. **************************************************** SHORT LIST FOR THE 2001 ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AWARD FOR POETRY "Configuration" by Hilary Mosher-Buri of Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. "Cyberpoetry Underground" By Kominos Zervos of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia "Him" by Dane Watkins of Somerset, England, U.K. "The Minotaur Project" by Kim White of Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. "Nepabunna" by Geniwate of Prospect, South Adelaide, Australia "Windsound" by John Cayley of London, England, U.K. **************************************************** ABOUT THE WORKS NOTE: More extensive info is available at eliterature.org/Awards2001 +++++++++++ FICTION +++++++++++ "Alternumerics" by Paul Chan MEDIUM: Web (with font installation) URL: http://www.nationalphilistine.com/alternumerics/ Author's Decription: Alternumerics presents work based on a collection of fonts that explore the fissure between language, interactivity, and translation. The fonts, "Self portrait as a font", "Sexual healing / shift for harassment", and "The future must be sweet - after Fourier" transform the traditional form and function of computer based fonts by replacing the individual letters and numbers (or the alphanumerics) with textual fragments which connect and signify what is typed in a radically different way. Each fontpiece is accompanied by another piece of work that uses the font to explore the relationship between what is written, what is translated, and fundamentally, what is communicated when we use language to describe the slipperiness of the Self, the intangibility of Desire, or the sheer possibility of a Politics of the future. --------------- "Lexia to Perplexia" by Talan Memmott MEDIUM: Web URL: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/newmedia/lexia/index.htm Author's Description: Lexia to Perplexia is a deconstructive/grammatological look at the construction of User narratives through the attachment to the Internet apparatus. A mix between theory and fiction, the work makes wide use of neologisms, advanced coding, and graphics while exploring the hidden agencies of attachment and network desire. --------------- "Patchwork Girl" by Shelley Jackson MEDIUM: CDROM CATALOG URL: http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/PatchworkGirl.html Author's Description: Patchwork Girl is a hypertext novel comprising original fiction and borrowed texts, art and theory. It tells the story of a female Frankenstein monster. --------------- "_the data][h!][bleeding texts_" by mez MEDIUM: Web URL: http://netwurkerz.de/mez/datableed/complete/index.htm Author's Description: _the data][h!][bleeding t.ex][e][ts_r remnants from email performances d-voted to the dispersal of writing that has been n.spired and mutated according 2 the dynamics of an active network. the texts make use of the polysemic language system termed _mezangelle_, which evolved/s from multifarious email exchanges, computer code flavoured language and net iconographs. --------------- "These Waves of Girls" by Caitlin Fisher MEDIUM: Web URL: http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves Author's Description: These Waves of Girls is a hypermedia novella exploring memory, girlhoods, cruelty, childhood play and sexuality. The piece is composed as a series of small stories, artifacts, interconnections and meditations from the point of view of a four year old, a ten-year old, a twenty year old... --------------- "The Impermanence Agent" by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, a.c. chapman, Brion Moss, and Duane Whitehurst MEDIUM: Web URL: http://www.impermanenceagent.com Author's Description: A small "Agent" window that the user places in a corner of their screen, a proxy server, and a web server. The Agent window tells a story. The proxy server monitors user web browsing and alters browsed pages. The information from proxy monitoring is used to customize the story, and the customized version is served to the Agent window from the web server. Customization continues until none of the original story remains. --------------- +++++++++++ POETRY +++++++++++ "Configuration" by Hilary Mosher Buri MEDIUM: Web URL: http://home.dencity.com/buriweb/ Author's Description: A poem in seven parts, with instruction in a geometrical drawing and accompanied by "editor's" comments, related texts, and figures. --------------- "cyberpoetry underground" by Komninos Zervos MEDIUM: CDROM Author's Description: cyberpoetry underground: the whole navigation is in a 3d textual space, text animations, hot-spotted panoramas of text, and synthesized voice sound poetry. It's authored for mac. Readers journey through 5 qtvr (quicktime virtual reality) 360 degree panoramas of text representing 5 stations of the london underground. In each panorama the text objects that make the scene are hyperlinks to animated sound/text cyberpoems. --------------- "Him" by Dane Watkins MEDIUM: Web Web-URL: http://www.comfylux.com/him Author's Description: A hypertext poem where the lines lead to different aspects of male identity cut out of magazines and the reader becomes lost in the permutation. --------------- "The Minotaur Project" by Kim White MEDIUM: Web web-URL: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~theminotaurproject/ Author's description: The Minotaur Project is a poem cycle in four parts. It is part of a longer poem that reimagines the classical myth of Kore. Minotaur is one of the elements Kore encounters in the underworld. When finished, this long poem will exist only in the computer. --------------- "Nepabunna" by geniwate MEDIUM: CD-ROM and Web Author's Description: The work uses remote sensing data from the Landsat 5 satellite as the starting point, then progresses to a mythopoeia of contemporary technology (using Australian Aboriginal themes) and finally cites string theory as an example of the nexus between science/beauty/truth. Poetry and digital media combine to examine this nexus. --------------- "Windsound" by John Cayley MEDIUM: CDROM Author's Description: 'windsound' is a 'text movie' animated by transliteral morphs (textual morphing based on letter replacements) through a sequence of nodal texts. 'windsound' is based on original texts by myself, plus my own translation of a Song period lyric, 'Cadence: Like a Dream' by Qin Guan (1049-1100). It is designed to be viewed as an all-but-linear movie. Once started, it plays through a sequence taking about 20 minutes. While it plays continuously, the text which you read (where not composed) is algorithmically generated. (In later, still unfinished pieces such text movies are navigable, becoming similar to so-called 'object movies'.) While the piece has narrative and fictional qualities, it is submitted as poetry since I write out of a tradition of innovative poetry, and because the piece addresses linguistic structures at a granular level: as literal art. ************************************* ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION The Electronic Literature Organization <www.eliterature.org> is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to promote and facilitate the writing, reading, and publishing of literature designed for the electronic media. Based in Chicago, the ELO is directed by a national board of leading experts in electronic literature, internet business, and electronic publishing, and is additionally advised by an international board of literary advisors and a board of internet industry advisors. The ELO maintains the Electronic Literature Directory and an Electronic Literature Web Resource Center, staffed by a network of leading e-lit writers operating independently in different parts of the USA. The ELO is supported by the donations of individual members, by corporations including ZDNet, and by foundations including the Ford Foundation. . . .... ..... net.wurker][mez][ n.sert cens][wh][or][e].ship here xXXx ./. www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... -----Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <syndicate@eg-r.isp-eg.de> to unsubscribe, write to <majordomo@eg-r.isp-eg.de>, in the body of the msg: unsubscribe syndicate your@email.adress