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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Imagine how much harder it would have been for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg"><span style='color:black'>Gutenberg</span></a> to have invented the Western version of the printed book if he had also had to invent the literature this new technology was to print. In addition to the Bible, Gutenberg appears to have limited his output to sections of <span class=SpellE>Aelius</span> <span class=SpellE>Donatus</span>&#8217; Latin grammar and some papal documents. Just twenty years later, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton"><span style='color:black'>William <span class=SpellE>Caxton</span></span></a> is introducing printing into  </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, translating books himself &amp; even opening the first English language bookstore. His successor, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynkyn_de_Worde"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Wynkyn</span></span><span style='color:black'> de Worde</span></a>&#185;,is already printing <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The </i></span><st1:City><st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Canterbury</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Tales, Robin Hood </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>and the work of John Skelton. <span class=SpellE>Worde</span> is the man who gave English printing the use of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>italics</i>, ignoring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius"><span style='color:black'>Aldus <span class=SpellE>Manutius</span>&#8217;</span></a> patent thereon (tho it appears that one of <span class=SpellE>Manutius</span>&#8217; employees, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Griffo"><span  style='color:black'>Francesco <span class=SpellE>Griffo</span></span></a>, did the actual inventing).<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This line of thought kept flashing through my mind at <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Autostart</i></span> on Thursday during the early evening reading &#8211; if reading is the right word &#8211; by five contributors to the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/1/"><span style='color:black'>Electronic Literature Collection</span></a>, </i>Volume One (<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>ELC</i>) at Kelly Writers House on the Penn campus last Thursday. The collection, available at no cost both on CD and over the internet, is part of the <a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/"><span style='color:black'>Electronic Literature Organization</span></a> (ELO), an organization that has worked since <span class=GramE>1999<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>&#8220;</span>to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature.&#8221; The collection is edited by N. Katherine <span class=SpellE>Hayles</span>, Nick <span class=SpellE>Montfort</span>, Scott <span class=SpellE>Rettberg</span> and Stephanie Strickland, none of whom happens to actually be <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>in </i>the collection. As I overheard somebody say to Strickland, <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Autostart</i></span> was something akin to a &#8220;summit&#8221; of wired writers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> 
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Which is why it was amusing to see the event begin with a panel that included myself, Charles Bernstein, Bob Perelman &amp; Jena Osman, since in many respects we represent the &#8220;old&#8221; in contrast to much that is being done by the likes of Alan Sondheim, John <span class=SpellE>Caley</span>, Lance Olson, Jim Rosenberg, Brian Kim Stefans, Shelley Jackson, Michael Joyce, Rob <span class=SpellE>Wittig</span>, Bill Marsh, Kenny Goldsmith, Loss <span 
class=SpellE>Pequeño</span> Glazier, Emily Short, <span class=SpellE>Deena</span> Larsen or Maria <span class=SpellE>Mencia</span>, just a few of the 66 contributors to this digital anthology. We four are, after all, still writers committed to the idea of print culture. It&#8217;s the context out of which our writing emerges &amp; we aren&#8217;t particularly struggling with that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>During my own presentation, I reiterated some things I&#8217;ve discussed in bits &amp; pieces here on the blog, that I think there are two impulses behind the rise of digital lit, one of them demographic, the other technological. The demographic one is simple &#8211; how in a world in which there are 10,000 publishing poets, can somebody do something that will stand out? It also, to the degree that it can be replicated over the web (as not all digital lit can), bypasses the ancient distribution systems that print culture leaves in place for poetry, much in the way this blog enables me to have share my thinking with readers worldwide every day. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The technological impulse is infinitely more complex and ultimately vastly more interesting to think about, as people figure out what to do &amp; how to do it in ways that are often completely knew to poetry. This is a world in which a creative person can at least replicate the groundbreaking experiences of a Gutenberg &#8211; the possibility is right there in front of you, so no wonder it&#8217;s so attractive to so many people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The problem of what to do with all this is the thing, tho it may be simply that, like Gutenberg, this is all simply still too new &amp; that, soon enough, we will not only be &#8220;printing&#8221; the equivalent of the Canterbury Tales, but designing new forms altogether, as Laurence Sterne did the novel soon enough after the distributable book became a possibility.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>If distribution &amp; the web is the digital world&#8217;s answer to the problem of demographics, then the larger question will focus around the problem of constantly evolving platforms &amp; the relationship of these new works to time. I proposed a scale &#8211; Bob Perelman, following Zukofsky, referred to it as an integral, but that&#8217;s a term I&#8217;ve never fully understood &#8211; that I call <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Upper Limit Homer, Lower Limit Refrigerator Magnets</b>. The poetry we ascribe to Homer has lasted for perhaps 3,000 years. Poems composed with <a href="http://www.magneticpoetry.com/"><span style='color:black'>refrigerator magnets</span></a> often fail to survive for thousands (or even tens) of seconds before someone else comes along to rearrange the text. It&#8217;s worth keeping in mind just how much our work is like refrigerator magnets. Even the writing of Ezra Pound &amp; Gertrude Stein, which dates back now roughly 100 years, is much closer to the magnet end of the scale than to Homer&#8217;s. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But for a poem to survive at <span class=GramE>all,</span> it has to pass what I call <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>The Blake Test</b> &#8211; the work has to be platform independent. Long before any of us learns about the existence of an online <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/"><span style='color:black'>Blake Archive</span></a>, we have already confronted his work many <span class=SpellE>many</span> times, in anthologies that completely decontextualize his writing, even in something like </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dover</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yceez5"><span style='color:black'>William Blake Stained Glass <span class=SpellE>Colouring</span> Book</span></a>. </i>Not only does Blake&#8217;s greatness peek through all of these bowdlerized presentations, for many decades it was the only way his work could survive. Indeed, the same could be said for Homer. None of the Odyssey was written for the page, but it did make effective use of the first storage technology known to our species: rhyme. Twenty-eight centuries hence, sound repetition no longer has the same technological or social meaning, but the poem itself survives just fine, thank you. Already, graphic texts built in Harvard Graphics or through Ventura Publisher &#8211; <span class=GramE>programs</span> whose platforms no longer exist, save in computer museums or somebody&#8217;s attic &#8211; have become inaccessible. What makes us think Java or Flash is going to last any longer? Indeed, many of the works we would soon see were composed in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.inform-fiction.org/inform6.html"><span style='color:black'>Inform 6</span></a>, </i>a program that itself has already been <a href="http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html"><span style='color:black'>superceded</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>When, later in the day at Writers House, five of the collection&#8217;s authors<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'></span> &#8211; <a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/flanagan__thehouse.html"><span style='color:black'>Mary Flanagan</span></a>, <a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/howe_kaprinska__open_ended.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Aya</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Karpinska</span></span></a>, <a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/reed__whom_the_telling_changed.html"> <span style='color:black'>Aaron Reed</span></a>, <a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/moulthrop__reagan_library.html"><span style='color:black'>Stuart <span class=SpellE>Moulthrop</span></span></a> &amp; <a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/wardrip-fruin_durand_moss_froehlich__regime_change.html"><span style='color:black'>Noah <span class=SpellE>Wardrip-fruin</span></span></a> &#8211; presented works on the facility&#8217;s new giant <span class=SpellE>flatscreen</span> monitor, I wondered just how many of these pieces might pass the most rudimentary form of the Blake Test &#8211; how many of these would I bother to read if I saw it as pure text on a plain printed page? Realistically, only <span class=SpellE>Aya</span> <span class=SpellE>Karpinska&#8217;s</span> collaboration with Daniel Howe, which happily is one of the pieces actually included in the collection (and is what will come up if you click her link above), which uses simple reiteration of short phrases in a method that recalls both some of Zukofsky&#8217;s finger exercises or the reiterative writing of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/u7gxb"><span style='color:black'>Helmut <span class=SpellE>Heissenbüttel</span></span></a>. However, this piece also makes use of simple, elegant graphics and a breathy voiceover that will remind listeners of the deadpan operas of <a href="http://www.lovely.com/bios/ashley.html"><span style='color:black'>Robert Ashley</span></a>. If there is a difference between the <span class=SpellE>Karpinska</span>/Howe <span class=SpellE>collab</span> and, say, the work of someone like Zukofsky, it&#8217;s that, cognitively, the latter is much more formal, whereas the vaguely erotic elements of <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>open.ended</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>could be interpreted in wide range of ways, some of them quite sophomoric.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Now five contributors out of 66 is hardly a fair sampling, nor were the extremely short presentations even a fair sampling of the authors themselves. This collection does contain some breath-taking work on it, such as Brian Kim Stefans&#8217; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/stefans__the_dreamlife_of_letters/dre amlife_index.html"><span style='color:black'>The <span class=SpellE>Dreamlife</span> of Letters</span></a>, </i>a flash poem in response to the work of Rachel Blau DuPlessis. It was also obvious from the Q&amp;A session after the presentations that several of the presenters (and other contributors to the collection in the room, such as J.R. Carpenter) are superb thinkers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Yet at the same time, I often felt as if I were at a printers&#8217; convention circa 1455, all this intellectual frisson, so very little (as yet) work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>For decades now, the international community of electronic writers has been expanding the notion of what constitutes literature. Operating in circles as seemingly disparate as the academic community and the world of video game design, electronic writers have been producing award-winning and ground-breaking works that have re-defined our literary world. This <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/autostart.html"><span style='color:black'>conference</span></a>, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/"><span style='color:black'>Kelly Writers House</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.slought.org/"><span style='color:black'>Slought Foundation</span></a> galleries, offers Philadelphia a concentrated yet personal method for checking this stuff out. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Thursday, October 26<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:time Hour="13" Minute="0"><b  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>1:00 - 2:30 PM</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> in the Arts Cafe: DISCUSSION<br>
</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A conversation about writing and literature in the digital age, featuring:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Charles Bernstein (</span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>) </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jena</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Osman (</span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Temple</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>)<br>
Bob Perelman (</span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>)<br>
Ron Silliman (Silliman's Blog)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:time Hour="14" Minute="30"><b  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>2:30 - 5:30 PM</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>: OPEN MACHINE OPEN HOUSE</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
Electronic literature available for reading and discussion throughout the downstairs area, with guided tours at </span><st1:time Hour="15" Minute="30"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>3:30pm</span></st1:time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> and </span><st1:time Hour="16" Minute="30"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>4:30pm</span></st1:time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. Electronic literature is accessible on computers for interaction and reading throughout the first floor of the Writers House.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:time Hour="15" Minute="30"><b  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>3:30</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> and </span></b><st1:time Hour="16" Minute="30"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>4:30 PM</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>: &quot;GUIDED </span></b><st1:City><st1:place><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>TOURS</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>&quot;</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <br>
of selected works by <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Electronic Literature Collection</i>, <span class=SpellE>vol</span> 1 editors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Stephanie Strickland<br>
Nick <span class=SpellE>Montfort</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:time Hour="16" Minute="0"><b  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>4:00 - 5:30 PM</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> in the Dining Room: WET DIGITS WORKSHOP</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
An introductory digital writing workshop for newcomers to HTML, led by Nick <span class=SpellE>Montfort</span> (</span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Pennsylvania</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>). </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>RSVP required</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. Contact <a href="mailto:wh@writing.upenn.edu"><span style='color:black'>wh@writing.upenn.edu</span></a> to reserve a place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:time Hour="17" Minute="30"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>5:30 - 7:30 PM</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> in the Arts Cafe: READINGS &amp; PRESENTATIONS</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <br>
of Electronic Literature Collection contributors. Special Guests include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mary Flanagan (Hunter College)<br>
<span class=SpellE>Aya</span> <span class=SpellE>Karpinska</span> (Brown University)<br>
Stuart <span class=SpellE>Moulthrop</span> (University of Baltimore)<br>
Noah <span class=SpellE>Wardrip-Fruin</span> (University of California, San Diego)<br>
Aaron Reed (Salt Lake City)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Friday, October 27<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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</span><st1:time Hour="10" Minute="30"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>10:30 - 11:30 AM</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> at Slought Foundation: TOUR OF THE SLOUGHT FOUNDATION</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
Slought Foundation broadly encourages new futures for contemporary life through public programs featuring international artists and theorists. Guided by: Aaron Levy (Slought Foundation Executive Director<span class=GramE>)</span><br>
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</span><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="13"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>1:00 - 4:00 PM</span></b></st1:time><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> in Room 202: ELECTRONIC WRITING JAM</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
With LOCAL and REMOTE participants. New digital work will be composed and implemented on the spot! Writers will have a chance to informally discuss the forms, techniques, and technologies they use. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Hosted by: Jim Carpenter (University of Pennsylvania) Daniel C. Howe (Brown University) Brian Kim Stefans (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)<br> 
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With remote guests: N. Katherine <span class=SpellE>Hayles</span> (University of California, Los Angeles) Marjorie <span class=SpellE>Luesebrink</span> (Irvine Valley College) Jason Nelson (Griffith University) Scott <span class=SpellE>Rettberg</span> (University of Bergen, Norway)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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