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The following people were unable to attend the conference so were invited to display web poster versions of their material. |
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Absence or Presence: Email and Identity CLAUDIA BRENDEL University of Stellenbosch, South Africa See the poster This paper
will explore the way in which a user's Internet presence is facilitated
through email and email addresses. An email address can serve both
as an identifier, a name, and as an address - linking the user to
a specific "real" geographic location. But this domain
can also be "fake" or fictional. Similarly the "nick"
or name can be deliberately misleading. The focus of this paper
is on how email and email addresses serve as a (mis)representation
of Internet identity, and how users write themselves onto the Web.
The dialectic tensions between, on the one hand, presence and identity,
and on the other hand, writing and representation, are explored.
I will also ask how email, as a vehicle of online presence, affects
offline film.
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| Is Cyber-fiction Necessarily Postmodern? ARTHUR HELWEG PhD Western Michigan University, MI, USA ADRIAN MIHALACHE PhD Fulbright Scholar, Western Michigan University, MI, USA See the poster A natural
affinity between the vast amount of fiction posted on various web
sites and the postmodern theoretical approach is more often than not
taken for granted. It is a tacit assumption that the cyberspace provides
just another medium for the same old stories to be told. The way one
tells them is, however, quite anotherstory: Participation, immersion,
fragmentation, simulation seem to be the keywords that best describe
it. Moreover, it is expected that the delight a cyber-reader (an interactor)
may get out of his or her patient perusal of the screen would stem,
at least in part, from the kaleidoscopic juxtaposition of various
stylistics which hint, in a parodic mood or not, at past literary
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Art of M[ez]ang.elle.ing: Constructing Polysemic & Neology Fic/Factions
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MEZ (Mary-anne Breeze) Australia See the poster This paper
seeks to X-plore, X-pand and X-tend the techniques and patterns
N-herent in my new media work centred around the technique of technologically
induced text "mangleing". This technique/method is largely
dependent upon an electronic method of production that is exclusive
to a networked environment, and shares some characteristics with
the very format that houses it [such as n-tegration of email/Web
browser/IRC jargon and stylistic blueprints]. The paper and presentation
will focus upon the nature of my own language de/constr[reprod]uction
and the L-ements that denote the emergent patterns of similar fictocentric
/ infofictionalized styles.
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soft nothingness of zero space
MELINDA RACKHAM
In the beginning was the Word... a rather presumptuous statement, however our cognition of the world, be it online softspace or offline hardspace, is determined by our naming of it. This naming, the application of language constructs our world, and the world we call virtual is the most obvious consensual construction by language that we have today. our experience of virtual space lives in the interwoven threads between hard and soft consciousness, between body and mind; and within the social imagination it is a space ripe with spiritual, heavenly and transcendent metaphores. my work in progress, empyrean, a three dimensional Web based multi-user environment, is a parallel universe constructed in Virtual Reality Modelling Language which explores this transcendent otherness, rather than attempting to mimic hardspace sameness. this electronic domain draws from the medieval empyrean, the heavenly arena of a disembodied god, and the mutably bodied angels, which was thought to be the encompassing skin of our cosmos, the boundary of existence, the limit of earthly imagination -- an etheric arena beyond space and time. empyrean
is a world of gaps and intervals, marked and ordered by interactions
with others. the soft nothingness of zero space is transversed by
in-tensions, relations, attractions, and transitions between energetic
avatars. these texts are what enable us to make sense of the ones,
of the singularities, of the solid and hard edged. by encompassing
this duality, merely by interacting in multiple embodied states,
the user shifts meaning within themselves, altering their own experience
of reality...... and their Word becomes flesh.
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| Tale of Two Topologies: a Conversation About Creating Communities of the Spoken Word
BARBARA STEINBERG
We have
been doing some groundbreaking work at Radio Free Monterey. In an
alliance with e-poets.net, our live-streaming network opened their
point-to-point videoconferencing network to the Internet. And so
this Web poster is a conversation between Kurt Heintz, Director
of e-poets.net, and me - about Webcasting, video, poetry, and creating
a community of the spoken word.
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