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My conceptual field list, "New Media Theory & Poetics," collects a broad range of writers and artists who 1) theorize about new media technologies as cultural constructions and contructors or 2) examine the semiotics of new media. To lay a groundwork for an investigation of the poetics of digital media, I have included semiotic analyses and theoretical discussions of a broad range of media: the codex book, comics, photography, prints, cinema, television, holography. I have also included a variety of discussions from graphic designers and advertisers; I believe advertising has, perhaps more than any other art, been forced in the twentieth century to explore the delivery of messages in various new media, including color magazines, postal mailings, radio, television, posters, billboards, and digital media.
In addition to this groundwork, I have included a large number of texts focused upon representation and narrative in digital media. I have supplemented these critical texts with a representative selection of digital artists.
Again, I'm experimenting with an open research process, so I hope that everyone will give me feedback and suggest obvious texts and artists that I have missed. I'll be adding to the list based upon comments from my committee and my blog readers.
New Media Theory & Poetics
Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature.
Alexander, Charles, ed. Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts.
Antin, Tony. Great Print Advertising.
Barthes, Roland. S/Z.
Barthes, Roland. Image / Music / Text.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies.
Baudrillard, Jean. America.
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation.
Benedikt, Michael. Cyberspace: First Steps.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
Bolter, Jay David. Turing’s Man.
Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing.
Bolter, Jay David. Remediation.
Bootz, Phillipe. "The Functional Point of View: New Artistic Forms for Programmed Literary Works."
Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style.
Brook, James and Iain A Boal. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information.
Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think."
Carson, David and Lewis Blackwell. The End of Print.
Carson, David and Lewis Blackwell. David Carson, 2nd Sight: Grafik Design After the End of Print.
Cayley, John. Indra's Net.
Cayley, John and Loss Pequeno Glazier, ed. Ergodic Poetry.
Chomsky, Noam and Edward S. Herman. Manufacturing Consent.
Chomsky, Noam. Necessary Illusions.
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination.
Derrida, Jacques. Margins of Philosophy.
De Saussure, Ferdinand. Course In General Linguistics.
Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books--Or Books Without End: Reading Interactive Narratives.
Eco, Umberto. A Theory of Semiotics.
Eco, Umberto. The Role of the Reader.
Eco, Umberto. The Open Work.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change.
Eisner, Will. Comics and Sequential Art.
Glazier, Loss Pequeno. Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries.
Glazier, Loss Pequeno, ed. Electronic Poetry Center.
Goldsmith, Kenneth, ed. Object 10: Cyber Poetics.
Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art.
Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto.
Hayles, Katherine. How We Became Posthuman.
Hall, Stuart, ed. Visual Culture: The Reader.
Heim, Michael. Electric Language.
Hein. Michael. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality.
Heller, Steven. Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design.
Higgins, Dick. Computers for the Arts.
Higgins, Dick. Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia.
Innis, Harold. Empire and Communications.
Innis, Harold. The Bias of Communications.
Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedogogy and Poetics.
Ivins, William. Prints and Visual Communication.
Johnson, Steven. Emergence.
Kac, Eduardo. "Photonic Webs in Time: The Art of Holography."
Kac, Eduardo. "Beyond the Screen: New Directions in Interactive Art."
Kac, Eduardo. "Aspects of the Aesthetics of Telecommunications."
Kac, Eduardo, ed. Visible Language 30.2.
Kaplan, Nancy. "E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print."
Kaplan, Nancy. "Literacy and Technology: Beyond the Book."
Kirschenbaum, Matthew. Lines for a Virtual T/y/o/pography.
Kittler, Friedrich. Literature, Media, Information Systems.
Kittler, Friedrich. Grammaphone, Film, Typewriter.
Landow, George. Hypertext 2.0.
Landow, George, ed. Hyper / Text / Theory.
Landow, George and Paul Delany, ed. The Digital Word: Text-based Computing in the Humanities.
Lanham, Richard. The Electronic Word.
Lennon, Brian. Screening a Digital Visual Poetics.
Levinson, Paul. Digital McLuhan.
Licklider, J. C. R. "Man-Computer Symbiosis."
Manovitch, Lev. The Language of New Media.
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics.
McCloud, Scott. Reinventing Comics.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenburg Galaxy.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
McLuhan, Marshall and Eric McLuhan. Laws of Media.
McLuhan, Marshall and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage.
McLuhan, Marshall and Quentin Fiore. War and Peace in the Global Village.
Meadows, Mark S. Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative.
Meggs, Phillip. A History of Graphic Design.
Mitchell, WJT. Iconology.
Murray, Janet. Hamlet on a Holodeck.
McGann, Jerome. Radient Textuality.
Moulthrop, Stuart. "You Say You Want A Revolution: Hypertext and the Laws of Media."
Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital.
Nelson, Ted. Literary Machines.
Nielson, Jakob. Hypertext and Hypermedia.
Nielson, Jakob. Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond.
Nunberg, Jeffery, ed. The Future of the Book.
Ogilvy, David. Ogilvy on Advertising.
Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver. A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
Shirky, Clay. "This Essay Doesn't Fit on Your Screen: An Essay on Web Fiction."
Smith, Anthony. Books to Bytes.
Sondheim, Alan. Internet Text.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography.
Stallman, Richard. The GNU Manifesto.
Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture.
Taylor, Mark C. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture.
Taylor, Mark C. and Esa Saarinen. Imagologies: Media Philosophy.
Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence."
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet.
Ulmer, Gregory. Applied Grammatology.
Ulmer, Gregory. Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video.
Virilio, Paul. The Art of the Motor.
Virilio, Paul. Open Sky.
Weinberger, David. Small Pieces Loosely Joined.
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Nick Montfort. The New Media Reader.
Williamson, Julia. Decoding Advertisements.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations.
Representive digital artists:
Amerika, Mark
And, Meikal
Andrews, Jim
Babel
Beiguelman, Giselle
Bergvall, Caroline
Brace, Brad
breeze, mez
Bruno, Christophe
Bootz, Phillipe
Cayley, John
Clauss, Nicolas
Critical Art Ensemble
Davis, Joshua
Galloway, Alex
geniwate
Guertin, Caroline
Jackson, Shelly
Jevbratt, Lisa
jimpunk
jodi
Joyce, Michael
Kac, Eduardo
Kanarinka
Kendell, Robert
Knoebel, David
LaCook, Lewis
Laï, Tamara
Ley, Jennifer
Loyer, Erik
Lynch, Garrett
McDaid, John
Memmot, Talan
Miles, Adrian
Moulthrop, Stuart
Napier, Mark
Rosenberg, Jim
Schmitt, Antoine
Strasser, Reiner
Stefans, Brian Kim
Strickland, Stephanie
Tarbell, Jared
Uribe, Ana Maria
Warnell, Ted
Zeleznikar, Jaka
Zervos, Komninos
Great list! Here are some books that I've really appreciated that might be useful to you:
1. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Harrigan, Pat (eds.). First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2003.
(OK, it's not out yet, but some essays are online: Jesper Juul has one on games (http://jesperjuul.dk/text/timetoplay/), Henry Jenkins on narrative architecture (http://web.mit.edu/21fms/www/faculty/henry3/games&narrative.html), Eskelinen's reply (http://www.kolumbus.fi/mareske/failurologyjenkins.html), my analysis of Online Caroline (http://cmc.uib.no/jill/txt/onlinecaroline.html) (ah, there's the self-interest...)
Perhaps some of Marie-Laure Ryan's work, e.g.
Ryan, Marie-Laure. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Johns Hopkins UP, Baltimore, 2001.
or
Ryan, Marie-Laure. Beyond Myth and Metaphor: The Case of Narrative in Digital Media Game Studies, 2001. (http://gamestudies.org/)
and there are some good articles too in her
Ryan, Marie-Laure (ed.), Cyberspace Textuality. Computer Technology and Literary Theory. Indiana UP, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1999.
There is a good deal of literature on hypertext that you've not included that I think is really important for digital poetics. E.g.
Rau, Anja. Wreader's Digest - How To Appreciate Hyperfiction Journal of Digital Information, 2000, n/a. (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Rau/)
(another bit of self-interest: JoDI's (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) hypertext critcism theme has some good articles, but you know I would think that since I edit it with Susana Tosca... ;)
and various papers from the ACM Hypertext conferences, including:
Bernstein, Mark. "Patterns of Hypertext". Proceedings of Hypertext 98, (Pittsburgh, 1998), ACM Press, 106-112. (http://www.eastgate.com/patterns/Patterns.html)
Tosca, Susana Pajares. "The Lyrical Quality of Links". Proceedings of Hypertext '99, (Darmstadt, Germany, 1999), ACM Press, 217-218. (http://www.it-c.dk/people/tosca/lyrical.htm)
Miles, Adrian. "Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection". Proceedings of Hypertext 2001, (Århus, Denmark, 2001), ACM Press, 61-68. (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i03/Miles/)
Walker, Jill. "Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in 'afternoon'." Proceedings of Hypertext '99, (Darmstadt, Germany, 1999), ACM Press, 111?117. (http://cmc.uib.no/jill/txt/afternoon.html)
(ah self interest...)
and I'd particularly recommend the issue of JoDI just about to appear which also has a bibliography of hypertext criticism - it's online (though not yet linked and announced, but you can go look anyway) at
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i03/editorial.html
Good luck!
Posted by: Jill on February 7, 2003 07:35 AMSome of the links disappeared becasue I'd put them in angle brackets - perahsp you can edit that?
Posted by: Jill on February 7, 2003 07:37 AMThanks Jill. I made the changes to your comment, and will look over the sources you've provided.
Your pointers so far are reconfirming my belief in my decision to make my exam preparation transblogparent. :)
I'll adjust the list once I've had a chance to look over your suggestions!
b
Posted by: brandon on February 7, 2003 10:24 AMPossible additions:
a few essays in THE WORLD IN TIME & SPACE: Towards A History Of Innovative American Poetry In Our Time, special triple issue of Talisman, edited by Edward Foster & Joeseph Donahue:
* David Clippinger, Between Silence & Its Margins
* Linda Russo,The 'F' Word In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction: An Account Of Women-Edited Small Presses and Jounals
Also, might have a look at Burt Kimmelman's work, especially his textual work and his stuff on communications Technology and Epistemology:
http://eies.njiy.edu/~kimmelma/homepage.htm
*Glazier, Loss Pequeno, Poets | Digital| Poetics
Here's two that could easily be placed into the resource or performance column:
Damian Catera @ Rutgers, working in text, vid-streaming etc.
http://video.rutgers.edu/faculty/catera/
And, last for now, but no-way least: Chris Funkhouser: work centering on incorporating language and visual aspects of computerized text -- combining graphics, sound, animation, text, and video into compelling punch. Author page:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/funkhouser
cheers,
jerry schwartz