[Nettime-bold] ANNOUNCING THE SHORT LISTS FOR THE 2001 POETRY AND FICTIONELECTRONIC LITERATURE AWARDS

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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 2 $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).

16 judges have whittled the international pool of 165 works down to a short
list of 6 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."

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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 Memmot
 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.
 
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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.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Scott Rettberg <rettberg@eliterature.org>
               773.769.3540
               
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ABOUT THE WORKS

NOTE: More extensive info is available at eliterature.org/Awards2001

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"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.

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"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.

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"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.

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"_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.  

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"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...

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"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.

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"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.

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"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.

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"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.

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"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.

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"Nepabunna" by geniwate

MEDIUM: CD-ROM 

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.

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"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 'obejct 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.

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ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION

The Electronic Literature Organization 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, 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. ELO is supported by the donations of individual
members, by corporations including ZDNet, and by foundations including the
Ford Foundation.







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