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Literature in Electronic Media Research Center (LEM)

The Literature in Electronic Media (LEM ) research center investigates the changes in literary communication and literary aesthetics through computer-based and networked media. It thus continues long-standing research work that has been initiated in several third-party funded projects and has established a unique profile in the context of the currently rapidly developing digital humanities.
currently developing. LEM is integrated into numerous worldwide working contexts such as the Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL). The current focus is on the development and maintenance of the Archive of German-Language Electronic Literature
(ADEL).

Dr. Jörgen Schäfer
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Concept

The Literature in Electronic Media (LEM ) research center follows in the tradition of comparative literary studies, which has been developed since the 1970s, not least at the University of Siegen. With an 'expanded concept of literature', attention has since been focused on the mediality and materiality of literary texts and works. From manuscripts, books and newspapers to audiovisual media, literature as (word) art has developed special forms of reflection on the communication processes generally taking place in these media, an aesthetic transformation of historical discourses.

Especially since audiovisual media such as radio and television etc. have been included among the objects of research in literary studies, the media conditions for literary reflection have been regarded as the 'media-technical unconscious', so to speak, and its structures and automatisms have been investigated. With the so-called 'digital media', into which all previous media have been transformed or at least integrated in recent years, software forms this media-technical unconscious, whose participation in socio-cultural discourses is in turn made perceptible by new literary forms.

The previous research and teaching on literature in electronic media, which has been carried out primarily in several third-party funded research projects (DFG, Volkswagen and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research NRW), will therefore be continued and placed on a sustainable basis with the establishment of the research center. The analysis of recent literary communications, the development of corresponding theoretical models and suitable methodological concepts as well as the archival preservation of the analyzed projects therefore outline the tasks and goals of the research center.

The LEM Research Centre builds on the Siegen research on literary communication in non-bibliographical media, which is recognized in the German and, above all, international research landscape. Since its foundation, literary studies in Siegen have been oriented towards an 'expanded concept of literature'. This has been reflected both in the denomination of the formative professorships (e.g. Helmut Kreuzer, Siegfried J. Schmidt, Christian W. Thomsen, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer, Karl Riha, Helmut Schanze etc.) and in important publications such as the anthology "Literature in the Non-Biblical Media".This can be seen in important publications such as the anthology Materiality of Communication (1988) as well as in the leading role of literary studies in the establishment of pioneering institutions such as the Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research (LUMIS, 1984-2001), the special research area Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Screen Media (Sfb 240, 1985-2000), the research training groups Forms of Communication as Forms of Life and Intermediality, the degree program Media Planning, Development and Consulting and the BA and MA degree programs in its succession (since 1990), the endowed professorship for Literature, Art, New Media and Technologies (since 1996) and most recently the cultural studies research college Medienumbrüche (Sfb/FK 615, 2002-10) and the DFG package proposal Medienakteure und Medienpraktiken analog/digital (2010-12).

The research project Literature in Networks/Net Literature, which was funded from 2002 to 2012 as a sub-project of Sfb/FK 615, then as an individual project by the DFG and, as part of a TransCoop research project with Brown University (Providence, USA), also by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, has created important, internationally widely received theoretical prerequisites for research into the transformations of the literary system and literary aesthetics. The Archive of German-Language Electronic Literature (ADEL) , whose establishment was funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research NRW, is intended to document German-language electronic literature and make it accessible in the future.

In the last 15 years, the international conferences Net Literature: Upheavals in Literary Communication (2004) and Beyond the Screen: Transformation of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres (2008), the English-language publications Beyond the Screen, Reading Moving Letters (both 2010) and The Aesthetics of Net Literature (2007), as well as through participation in international collaborative projects. Several collaborative research contexts have been initiated with cooperation partners in the USA, Australia and numerous European countries. Prof. Gendolla and Dr. Schäfer are among the founders of the Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL) and the DDDL: European Network of Digital Literature. In this context, the aforementioned MIWF project ADEL is part of a global archive project with partners in the USA, Australia, Canada, Norway, Spain and Portugal.

Prof. Gendolla is also co-editor of the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, Dr. Schäfer is editor of the book series International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics published by Bloomsbury Academic, a member of several international working groups for the development of bibliographic and mediographic standards and a member of the editorial boards of the electronic book review and Dichtung Digital. He was also involved in the Erasmus Intensive Program European Digital Literatures in Madrid.

Since the invention of the printing press, or at the latest since the emergence of a literary system in the 18th century, societies in the 'West' at least have long been accustomed to equating literature with rows of letters printed on paper, usually bound between two book covers. This view, which has coagulated into the concept of the 'work', has become a cultural matter of course that is hardly problematized and still largely dominates literary research practice today.

Against this background, the LEM research center starts from two premises:

  1. that electronic media require a fundamental revision of traditional models of literary communication, which must also take into account the autonomous parts of the technical medium as well as the actions of recipients and other actors;
  2. that literature nevertheless cannot be defined exclusively by its mediality and that therefore traditional literary forms, genres and conventions are partly preserved or differentiated under changed media-technical conditions and partly become obsolete.

Future research should therefore, on the one hand, condense literary theoretical considerations into an aesthetic theory of literature in electronic media and, on the other hand, develop heuristics and methods for concrete case studies on literary communication 'after the book'.

The so-called 'digital humanities' are undoubtedly one of the fastest growing areas of the humanities and cultural studies internationally. Numerous research centers and cross-university institutions have been established in recent years, particularly in the American humanities. The University of Siegen has also made important contributions to this development in the past, which can be built on.

Interestingly, computer-based methods in literary studies are still used today - at least in Germany - primarily for archiving, editing and analyzing traditional works originally published in book form (computer philology, text mining, specialist databases). At the LEM research center, however, these methods are intended to support research work on literature in non-bibliographic media ('born-digital works'). The following projects are initially planned for this purpose:

  1. "Archive of German-language Electronic Literature" (ADEL)
    (funded in the program line "Infrastructural support for the humanities and social sciences in NRW" of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia)

    The Archive of German-Language Electronic Literature (ADEL) aims to document the development of electronic literature in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since the 1960s. To this end, a selection of the most important works will be collected in several stages, documented together with text-genetic materials and reproduced using emulators. The holdings will be made accessible via a web-based content management system and a collection focus will be established to provide hardware, software, documents, secondary literature etc. for scientific and curatorial purposes. The project is also being carried out within the framework of the worldwide Consortium of Electronic Literature (CELL) in close cooperation with comparable archive projects in the USA, Canada, Australia, Portugal, Spain and Norway as well as other media art archives in order to ensure the use of standardized metadata and the interoperability of the content management systems used.

  2. Development of methods, standards and tools for archiving, documenting and editing literature in non-bibliographic media

    The use of standardized metadata and taxonomies is a crucial prerequisite for the development of an archive whose interoperability with comparable archives in other countries is to be guaranteed. While this has been successfully practised in book sciences for centuries, literature in electronic media poses completely new categorization problems. The LEM research center participates in international databases such as the Electronic Literature Directory (ELD) and the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. Dr. Schäfer and Robert Kalman are members of the working groups A Vocabulary for Electronic Literature and A Search Engine for Electronic Literature (coordination: Professor Sandy Baldwin, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NJ). These working groups are working on standardized bibliographic and mediographic metadata for databases, archives and libraries on electronic literature and on the interoperability of the various databases.

Projects

  • Archive of German-Language Electronic Literature (ADEL)

    The Archive of German-Language Electronic Literature (ADEL) documents the development of 'electronic literature' in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These are experimental forms of literature that can be realized exclusively in computer-based media. In an initial stage, the ADEL provides a database that comprehensively documents this field of contemporary literature. This database is being continuously expanded and is to be developed into a repository in the future, making exemplary works accessible.

     

  • Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL)

    The Research Center is a German member of the Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL), a global network of institutions and projects that provide databases and repositories for electronic literature. In this context, the joint search engine SYNAPSE was developed, which makes it possible to search all participating databases. The research centre is also involved in the Editorial Working Group MEMBRANE, which has developed standardized bibliographic and mediographic metadata and taxonomies for databases, archives and libraries on electronic literature.

     

  • International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

    This book series is published by Jörgen Schäfer and Grant D. Taylor at Bloomsbury Academic. So far, ten monographs on media art, electronic literature and media theory have been published, by Lev Manovich, Martha Buskirk, Jens Schröter, Sandy Baldwin, Markku Eskelinen and Chris Funkhouser, among others.

  • Subproject Literature in Networks/Net Literature
    at the SFB/FK 615 Medienumbrüche (2002-10)
  • Cooperation project "Digital Literature" with Brown University as part of the TransCoop program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006-10)
  • Erasmus Intensive Program European Digital Literatures
    (2012-14)
    Dr. Jörgen Schäfer was one of the organizers of this international Master's programme, which was carried out in cooperation with the Universities of Paris VIII, Complutense de Madrid, Barcelona, UFP Porto, UC Falmouth and Ljubljana in Madrid.

Publications

  • Handbook Media of Literature.

    Edited by Natalie Binczek, Till Dembeck and Jörgen Schäfer.
    Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2013, X, 568 pp.

    Although questions about the media and media-technical conditions of literature are now firmly anchored in literary studies curricula, a handbook that offers students and scholars orientation in this difficult-to-grasp field of work has been lacking until now. The handbook Media of Literature provides comprehensive information about the media of literary texts on the one hand and the media of literary communication on the other. It offers a survey of the current state of research in this field and can therefore provide an important source of information for both prospective and experienced scholars of literature and books, as well as theater, film, media and cultural studies.
    With contributions by Ulrich Breuer, Remigius Bunia, Jörg Döring, Bernhard Dotzler, Harald Haarmann, Torsten Hahn, Günter Häntzschel, Ludwig Jäger, Uwe Jochum, Klaus Kanzog, Jürgen Kühnel, Nicolas Pethes, Ursula Rautenberg, Helmut Schanze, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Erhard Schüttpelz, Uwe Wirth, Jürgen Wolf, Sandro Zanetti and many others.
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  • Literature, space, new media.

    Thematic issue of the journal Sprache und Literatur 42 (2011), H. 108 (ed. together with Peter Gendolla), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2011, 106 pp.

    With the development of increasingly complex and powerful electronic media, both globally and locally, the spectrum of media dispositives for literary processes has also expanded significantly, and it is to be expected that this development will continue: In the meantime, even the newer 'literary displays' are moving away from conventional computer screens; interactions with linguistic signs are by no means only carried out via keyboard and mouse. Through the use of mobile devices (cell phones, GPS, tablet computers) and sensor technologies, literary mixed reality environmentsare developing. These still rather unclear developments are of particular interest for the analysis of current social, aesthetic or literary developments. This issue attempts to trace some of the essential lines that are emerging.
    With contributions by Maria Angel/Anna Gibbs, Maria Engberg, Katja Kwastek, Rita Raley, Jörgen Schäfer/Peter Gendolla, Dietrich Scholler and Beat Suter.
  • Beyond the Screen.Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres.

    Edited by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla.
    Bielefeld: Transcript 2010, 568 pp.
    [Reviewed in: Leonardo, Literaturkritik.de, electronic book review, Electronic Literature Directory, MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen].

    While literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer screen and by using keyboard and mouse, nowadays human-machine interactions are organized by considerably more complex interfaces. Consequently, this book focuses on literary processes in interactive installations, locative narratives and immersive environments, in which active engagement and bodily interaction is required from the reader to perceive the literary text. The contributions from internationally renowned scholars analyze how literary structures, interfaces and genres change, and how transitory aesthetic experiences can be documented, archived and edited.
    With contributions by Jean-Pierre Balpe, Giselle Beiguelman, Friedrich W. Block, Laura Borràs Castanyer/Juan B. Gutiérrez, John Cayley, Peter Gendolla, Maria Angel/Anna Gibbs, N. Katherine Hayles, Jeremy Hight, Ludwig Jäger, Fotis Jannidis, Katja Kwastek, Rita Raley, Francisco J. Ricardo, Andrew Michael Roberts, Jörgen Schäfer, Anna Katharina Schaffner, Ravi Shankar, Roberto Simanowski, Beat Suter, Joseph Tabbi, Jochen Venus and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
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  • Reading Moving Letters.Digital Literature in Research and Teaching: A Handbook.

    Edited by Roberto Simanowski, Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla.
    Bielefeld: Transcript 2010, 384 pp.
    [Reviewed in: Journal of Literary Theory, dichtung-digital, Literaturkritik.de, Electronic Literature Directory, merz. medien + erziehung, electronic book review].

    'Digital media' is increasingly finding its way into the discussions of the humanities classroom. But while there is a number of grand theoretical texts about digital literature there as yet is little in the way of resources for discussing the down-to-earth practices of research, teaching, and curriculum necessary for this work to mature. This book presents contributions by scholars and teachers from different countries and academic environments who articulate their approach to the study and teaching of digital literature and thus give a broader audience an idea of the state-of-the-art of the subject matter also in international comparison.
    With contributions by Astrid Ensslin, Peter Gendolla, María Goicoechea, Raine Koskimaa, James Pope, Alexandra Saemmer, Jörgen Schäfer, Roberto Simanowski, Janez Strehovec, Patricia Tomaszek, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Karin Wenz and John Zuern.
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  • Other than Art. Aesthetics and Techniques of Communication.

    Edited by Thomas Kamphusmann and Jörgen Schäfer.
    Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2010, 378 pp.

    How do the arts organize their spaces and times? How do technical media contribute to artistic processes? What role do computer-based media in particular play? Where and how does chance creep into epistemologies and aesthetics? In addition to intentional subjects, time and space relations, human, sign and machine bodies, chance and various media technologies are fundamental agents of aesthetic production and reception. This volume, compiled on the occasion of Peter Gendolla's 60th birthday, brings together contributions from the fields of literature, art and media studies that shed light on these unpredictable interactions.
    With contributions by Olaf Breidbach, Wolfgang Coy, Jörg Döring, Manfred Faßler, Thomas Kamphusmann, Kay Kirchmann, Otto Neumaier, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer, Karl Riha, Jörgen Schäfer, Helmut Schanze, Ralf Schnell, Jens Schröter, Erhard Schüttpelz, Roberto Simanowski, Klaus Vondung, Gundolf Winter and Carsten Zelle.
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  • The Aesthetics of Net Literature. Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media.

    Edited by Peter Gendolla and Jörgen Schäfer.
    Bielefeld: Transcript 2007, 388 pp.
    [Reviewed in: Modern Language Notes, PhiN - Philologie im Netz, Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, Der Standard, Electronic Literature Directory, Kodikas/Code - Ars Semeiotica].

    During recent years, literary texts in electronic and networked media have been a focal point of literary scholarship, using varying terminology. In this book, the contributions of internationally renowned scholars and authors from Germany, USA, France, Finland, Spain and Switzerland review the ruptures and upheavals of literary communication within this context. The articles in the book focus on questions such as: In which literary projects can we discover a new quality of literariness? What are the terminological and methodological means to examine these literatures? How can we productively link the logics of the play of literary texts and their reception in the reading process? What is the relationship of literary writing and programming?
    With contributions by Jean-Pierre Balpe, Susanne Berkenheger, Friedrich W. Block, Philippe Bootz, Laura Borràs Castanyer, Markku Eskelinen, Frank Furtwängler, Peter Gendolla/Jörgen Schäfer, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Fotis Jannidis, Thomas Kamphusmann, Mela Kocher, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jörgen Schäfer, Roberto Simanowski and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
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  • E-learning and literature. Computer science systems in the literature classroom.

    Edited by Jörgen Schäfer and Sigrid Schubert.

    Siegen: Universitätsverlag 2007, 110 p. (MuK - Massenmedien und Kommunikation, vol. 166/167).
    This volume documents the contributions to the workshop "E-Learning und Literatur", which took place at the University of Siegen as part of the "DeLFI 2007 - Die 5. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik" organized by the Gesellschaft für Informatik. The workshop presented and discussed the relationship between e-learning and a specific field of application, in this case the study of literature.
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  • Net literature: Upheavals in literary communication.

    Edited by Peter Gendolla and Jörgen Schäfer.
    Special issue of dichtung-digital
    7 (2005), No. 34.
  • Knowledge processes in the network society.

    Edited by Peter Gendolla and Jörgen Schäfer.
    Bielefeld: Transcript 2005, 284 pp.

    The concept of knowledge assumes that facts are regarded as 'true' and 'justified'. The reasons for such convictions lie in the certainty of one's own perception as well as in the communication of these perceptions. Both conditions are currently undergoing radical change: our sensory perception is supported by media and sensor systems, and the communication of such perceptions is increasingly communicated telematically. The global expansion of the collaborative production of knowledge through computer-supported networks is not only irritating the relationships of trust on which knowledge processes are based, but also the structure and functions of knowledge itself.
    The volume contains contributions by Peter Gendolla/Jörgen Schäfer, Wolfgang Coy, Uwe Wirth, Manfred Faßler, Gisela Hüser/Manfred Grauer, Stefan Paal/Jasminko Nowak/Bernd Freisleben, Bernhard Nett/Volker Wulf, Sigrid Schubert, Wolfgang König/Tim Weitzel, Thomas Kamphusmann, Rolf Großmann and Otto Neumaier.
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  • International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

    Editors: Jörgen Schäfer and Grant Taylor; Founding editor: Francisco J. Ricardo
    New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Previously published:

    • Vol. 1: C. T. Funkhouser: New Directions in Digital Poetry (2012)
    • Vol. 2: Markku Eskelinen: Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory (2012)
    • Vol. 3: Martha Buskirk: Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace (2012)
    • Vol. 4: Francisco J. Ricardo: The Engagement Aesthetic: Electronic Encounters Across Art, Architecture, and Language (2013)
    • Vol. 5: Lev Manovich: Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (2013)
    • Vol. 6: Jens Schröter: 3D: History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image (2014)
    • Vol. 7: Doris Berger: Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art (2014)
    • Vol. 8: Grant Taylor: When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art (2014)
    • Vol. 9: Sandy Baldwin: The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature (2015)
    • Vol. 10: Jihoon Felix Kim: Between Film, Video and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post Media Age (2016)
    • Vol. 11: Svetlana Boym: The Off-Modern (2017)
    • Vol. 12: Joseph D. Ketner: Witness to Phenomenon: Group Zero and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art (2017)

    • Vol. 13: Ceci Moss: Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu (2019)

       

  • Yearbook for Computer Philology

    Editors: Georg Braungart, Peter Gendolla and Fotis Jannidis, Münster: mentis Verlag

  • Forum Computer Philology

    Editors: Georg Braungart, Peter Gendolla and Fotis Jannidis

Peter Gendolla
  • "Standing storm run. Transformation of the experience of time in new media", in: Bernhard Braun/Otto Neumaier (eds.): Eile mit Weile. Aspects of acceleration and deceleration in science and art. Berlin et al: LIT Verlag 2015, pp. 105-116.
  • "Still Standing. Zur Geschichte und aktuellen Tendenzen der Netzliteratur", in: Text + Kritik V/2013 (= Sonderband Zukunft der Literatur), pp. 76-95. - Reprinted in: Hannes Bajohr (ed.): Code and Concept. Literature and the Digital. Berlin: Frohmann 2016, pp. 67-95.
  • "No pre-existent world. On Artificial Poetry", in: Frank Haase/Till Heilmann (eds.): Interventions. Festschrift for Georg Christoph Tholen. Marburg/L.: Schüren 2013, pp. 81-97.
  • "At the corner of Eddie and Gough. Impossible memories in hybrid arts", in: Wolfgang Gratzer/Otto Neumaier (eds.): Arbeit am musikalischen Werk. On the dynamics of artistic action. Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach 2013, pp. 57-74.
  • "Artifical Poetry: On Aesthetic Perception in Computer-Aided Literature", in: Francisco J. Ricardo (ed.): Literary Art in Digital Performance. New York: Continuum 2010, pp. 167-177.
  • "'Stay a while...' Über flüchtige Momente in der Netzliteratur", in: Renate Giacomuzzi/Stefan Neuhaus/Christiane Zintzen (eds.): Digitale Literaturvermittlung. Practice - Research - Archiving. Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2010, pp. 76-89.
  • "Impossible People. Some Thoughts on the Cultural History of the Android", in: Christoph Lischka/Andrea Sick (eds.): Machines as Agency. Artistic Perspectives. Bielefeld: Transcript 2007, pp. 88-101.
  • "'Confectioner! Confectioner! - Confectioner!' Zur Auflösung intermedialer Differenzen im Simulationsraum", in: Joachim Paech/Jens Schröter (eds.): Intermedialität - Analog/Digital. Theories - Methods - Analyses. Munich: Fink 2008, pp. 509-520.
  • "More space? On the Dissolution of Texts into Images in New(est) Media", in: Gottfried Boehm/Gabriele Brandstetter/Achatz von Müller (eds.): Figur und Figuration. Studies on Perception and Knowledge. Munich: Fink 2007, pp. 293-306.
  • "Phantoms of the South. On the utopian difference of literature in virtual space", in: Alexandra Karentzos et al. (eds.): Topologien des Reisens. Online publication, University of Trier: http://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/volltexte/2010/565/pdf/Topologien_des_Reisens.pdf, pp. 134-148.
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  • "Literature, space, new media. Eine Annäherung", in: Language and Literature 42 (2011), H. 108, pp. 2-12.
  • "Reading (in) the Net. Aesthetic Experience in Computer-Based Media" (together with Peter Gendolla), in: Roberto Simanowski/this. (eds.): Reading Moving Letters. Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. Bielefeld: Transcript 2010, pp. 81-108.
  • "Net Literature in the Classroom. Teaching Practice at the University of Siegen" (together with Patricia Tomaszek), in: Roberto Simanowski/this. (eds.): Reading Moving Letters. Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. Bielefeld: Transcript 2010, pp. 273-289.
  • "Playing With Signs: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Net Literature", in: dies. (ed.):The Aesthetics of Net Literature. Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media. Bielefeld: Transcript 2007, pp. 17-42.
  • "Interplays. Zur ästhetischen Differenz in Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikationen", in: Urs Meyer/Roberto Simanowski/Christoph Zeller (eds.): Transmedialität. Studies on paraliterary processes. Göttingen: Wallstein 2006, pp. 82-97.
  • "Alla ricerca di tracce. Letteratura nella rete, letteratura creata per la rete e la loro storia", in: Testo: Studi di teoria e storia della letteratura e della critica 25 (2004), H. 47, pp. 65-75.
  • "In search of traces. Literatur im Netz, Netzliteratur und ihre Vorgeschichte(n)", in: TEXT + KRITIK 152/2001: Digitale Literatur, pp. 74-85.
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  • Exhibition and conference "Shapeshifting Texts" in Bremen

    International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality and exhibition Shapeshifting Texts at the University of Bremen, November 3-5, 2016

    Jörgen Schäfer takes part in the conference Digital Media and Textuality
    and exhibition opening Shapeshifting Texts
    at the University of Bremen, organized by the great Daniela Cortés Maduro.

  • Cologne Media Lecture: "The acts of reading. Reception-theoretical considerations on literature in digital media"

    Lecture by Jörgen Schäfer as part of the "Cologne Media Lectures", University of Cologne, June 7, 2016, 6:30 pm, WISO building XXIII (Schmalenbach lecture hall)

    The Internet as a global writing and reading environment is changing the communication relationships that have been quite stable in book culture for several centuries. Literary production and reception are related to each other in a fundamentally different way when computer-based and networked media link the software-controlled signal processing in the computer with the actions of recipients in an increasingly dense way. Works of 'electronic net literature', such as The Readers Project by John Cayley and Daniel Howe, raise questions in experimental variations such as: Who writes and who reads? Who speaks and who remains silent? What does 'reading' even mean? Who observes, controls and defines what the reader reads? What degrees of autonomy do the computer systems have in this process, which control and control the recipient, which enable but also interrupt the literary imagination again and again? Following on from theories of reception theory, the lecture uses a number of examples to explore the 'co-productions', but also 'co-receptions' between human and non-human actors.

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  • p0es1s. Digital Poetry. Positions

    Reading and discussion with Friedrich W. Block (artist and author, Kassel) and Jörg Piringer (artist, Vienna); moderated by Jörgen Schäfer, literary scholar, Siegen; Haus der Poesie, Berlin, January 14, 2016, 7 p.m.

    What languages does poetry speak? Natural, artificial, all of them? For years, the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin/Haus für Poesie has been exploring the languages of poetry, including the digital. The first major exhibition p0es1s. Digital Poetry
    took place in Berlin back in 2004.
    "It is clear that digital poetry has reached the time of the retrospective. Is it already at its end?" summarizes Friedrich Block. What new potential is it developing and in which direction is it moving? The "digital natives" have grown up and there are countless products for a networked, digital life. However, the mass of new devices and applications and the associated possibilities do not automatically produce artistic innovations.
    Two protagonists of this genre, which moves between programming languages, multimedia art and natural speech, present computer-oriented language art and discuss its development.

    Friedrich W. Block (*1960 Berlin) has curated the "p0es1s" exhibitions since 2004 - the first was shown in 1992. He is a literary scholar, artist and curator and is the director of the Brückner-Kühner Foundation
    in Kassel and the Kunsttempel. He deals theoretically and artistically with digital poetry, most recently in p0es1s. A look back at digital poetry
    (Ritter-Verlag 2015) - the basis and occasion of the evening.
    Jörg Piringer (*1974 Vienna) is a member of the Institute for Trans-Acoustic Research and the Gemüseorchester. Piringer operates between language art, music, performance and poetic software; for example, he has trained his computer to generate sound poems.