From the Avant-Garde to the Digital Vernacular Contemporary Digital Poetry and Poetics Keynote talk for Oslo Poetry Film Festival November 18, 2012 Scott Rettberg University of Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group Digital Culture Program Linguistic, Literary, and
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From the Avant Garde to the Digital Vernacular (Dada Redux)
A talk intended to introduce electronic literature by presenting it in relationship to the Dada. Derived from essay "Dada Redux" with some updates. Presented as keynote at the Oslo Poetry Film Festival, November 17, 2012.
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From the Avant-Gardeto the Digital Vernacular
Contemporary Digital Poetry and Poetics
Keynote talk for Oslo Poetry Film Festival
November 18, 2012
Scott RettbergUniversity of Bergen
Electronic Literature Research Group
Digital Culture ProgramLinguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic
Studies
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Raoul Housman, “Tête mécanique : l'esprit de notre temps” (1919)
Decentered Movements
In documenting art on the basis of the supreme simplicity: novelty, we are human and true for the sake of amusement, impulsive, vibrant to crucify boredom.…I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am also against principles.…I write this manifesto to show that people can perform contrary actions together while taking one gulp of fresh air; I am against action, for continuous contradiction, and for affirmation too, I am neither for or against because I hate common sense.
Olia Lialina “My Boyfriend Came Back from the War” (1996)http://myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru/
Mystery House Taken Over (2004)http://www.turbulence.org/Works/mystery/
Nick Monfort “Taroko Gorge” (2010)http://nickm.com/poems/taroko_gorge.html
Using Language as Raw Material for Abstract Art
Hugo Ball, “Karawane” (1917)
“The Hugo Ball” by Talan Memmott in Drunken Boat #8 (2006)http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/panlitjudges/memmott/hugo_db/index.html
“Nio” by Jim Andrews (2001)http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/andrews__nio.html
“Birds Singing Other Birds’ Songs” by Maria Mencia (2001)http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/mencia__birds_singing_other_birds_songs.html
Random Acts of Creativity
Tristan Tzara
To Make a Dadaist PoemTake a newspaper.Take a pair of scissors.Choose an article in the newspaper of the length you wish to give your poem.Cut out the article.Then cut out carefully all the words that make up the article and put them in a bag.Shake gently.Then remove each cutting one after the other in the order in which they emerge from the bag.Copy conscientiously.The poem will be like you.
You will now become ‘an infinitely original writer with a charming sensitivity, although still misunderstood by the common people’.
“Regime Change” by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, David Durand, Brion Moss, and Elaine Froehlich (2003)http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/wardrip-fruin_durand_moss_froehlich__regime_change.html