[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Digital Literatures in Europe: State of the Art (3/31/06; journal issue)

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From: Ana Pano <ana.pano@unibo.it>

Call for Journal Submissions

RiLUNe - Review of Literatures of the European Union

RiLUnE (http://www.rilune.org) is a refereed bilingual journal publishing
scholarly articles which examine the development of a European cultural and
literary conscience.

For its 5th monographic issue, we are now calling for articles on the topic
"Digital Literatures in Europe: State of the Art". Articles can be in 
any of the
following languages of the European Union: French, German, English, 
Italian and
Spanish.

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): March 31, 2006
Deadline for articles: June 15, 2006


Digital Literatures in Europe: State of the Art

According to the Electronic Literature Organization, digital literature 
refers
to «works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the
capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked 
computer».
The technical sophistication of digital literature is inevitably related to
literary and artistic aesthetics which, like the European avant-gardes, come
across experimentation on narrative and poetic forms. Digital works concern
multiple procedures and involve poems and stories that are generated by
computers, hypertext fiction and poetry, random exploration and reading, 
kinetic
writing, interactivity, visualization, etc.

In Europe, authors like Philippe Bootz set the origin of digital literature
around 1959, when the first experimental texts based on combination and
variation were written. After 1980, Jean-Pierre Balpe created the first
automatic generator. From that moment, the basis of digital literature or
cyberliterature are developped thanks to works produced with automatic
generators (i.e. Action Poétique n. 95, 1981 and ALAMO founded in 1981, 
together
with animated poetry or e-poetry published on the review Alire). Literary
hypertexts or hyperfictions will appear on the Web few years later. 
Today this
kind of works are developping fast thanks to new software that allows both
grafic design and animation to be associated with verbal, visual and sound
aspects of texts, with the aim of creating dynamic and interactive 
narratives.
Moreover, collaborative writing experiences like Websoap or MOOs 
(Multi-Users
Dimensions Object-Oriented), have been developped on the Internet, 
anticipating
the!

Weblogs and becoming spaces for new literary and creative experiences.

Many of the studies on Digital Literature consider both the creative
possibilities and innovations of this kind of narrative and the 
implications of
the digital dimension on writing and reading. It is time, for us, to 
discuss and
develop a general and dynamic perspective that will consider not only the
evolution of the technical aspects but also the state of the art of 
those works,
from a literary and thematic point of view. It should take into account the
formal, technical and esthetic tendences that they are following and the
evolution of their language, the collaboration among authors and the 
question of
the hybridisation and transformations of traditional genres and geographical
frontiers on the Web. In this fifth number of RiLUnE, we hope to 
consider all
these questions in order to compare points of view on technology and 
literary
and artistic creation within a European perspective.

For this number we will accept proposals for papers that will explore 
works by
European authors (automatic generators, e-poetry, hyperfiction, weblogs, 
etc.)
so to outline similarities and differences among creative experiences 
both on
the level of expressive modalities and themes. Considering the 
inter-relation
between writing, graphism and computer science and the status of images, 
sounds
and animation in the texts, we will discuss objectives and values of digital
literature.



Submission guidelines:

Please submit a paper copy (together with a digital one, i.e. cd-rom or
floppy-disk) or email your proposal to the Editorial Board. The texts 
shall be
MS Word-compatible (in case a different word-processor is employed, the text
shall be saved in a compatible format) and about 20.000 characters long 
(spaces
and notes included).

Articles are accepted in any of the following languages of the European 
Union:
French, German, English, Italian and Spanish. Every article shall be 
accompanied
by two abstracts in English and French, each one not exceeding 750 
characters
(spaces included), together with the translation of the title in these two
languages.

Four or five keywords shall be submitted to the Editorial Board together 
with
every article.

A short resume of not more than 200 characters shall be attached to the 
article
in either English, French or Italian. The affiliation which authors 
wishes to
have under their names shall be indicated at the end of the article, in
brackets, next to the name of the author (family name first).



Submit abstracts and papers to:
Ana Pano
ana.pano@unibo.it <mailto:ana.pano@unibo.it>

Address questions to the editorial board: <mailto:rilune@unibo.it>
rilune@unibo.it <mailto:rilune@unibo.itFor>

For further information, visit: www.rilune.org



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