Issue Four Elit

Loss of Grasp

Serge Bouchardon graduated in literature from the Sorbonne University (France). After working as a project manager in the educational software industry for six years, he wrote his dissertation on interactive literary narrative and is currently associate professor in Communication Sciences at the University of Technology of Compiegne (France). His research focuses on digital creation, in particular electronic literature. As an author, he is interested in the unveiling of interactivity. Research: http://www.utc.fr/~bouchard/ Creation: http://www.sergebouchardon.com/

Even though Vincent Volckaert graduated in computer engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne (France), he has kept a taste for literariness and notably for the Oulipo gathering (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle). As a computer scientist, he likes to work with randomness and content generation. He followed Bouchardon's interactive & multimedia writing classes before starting projects with him.

Translators Isabelle Leguy and Valérie Bouchardon both graduated from the Sorbonne University (France). Valérie Bouchardon teaches English as a foreign language at the University of Technology of Compiègne. Isabelle Leguy teaches British and American literature at the Lycée Claude Monnet in Paris. Giovanna di Rosario is a researcher at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) where she teaches Digital Literature in the Department of Art and Culture Studies. Since 2008 she has been a research member of the Hermeneia research group – a Literary Studies and Digital Technology group – of the University of Barcelona (www.hermeneia.net). Di Rosario is also an Infolipo research member - a cultural group from the university of Geneva interested in web writing and creation problems (Informatique et Littérature Potentielle http://www.infolipo.org ) and she writes a regular column on digital culture for the Italian newspaper “paneacqua” http://www.paneacqua.eu/.

from gridworks2000-asciidrawings-anim09

"gridworks2000-anim09" is a reproduction of work originally created while the artist worked in information visualization at Master-List2000.COM. The drawings are recreations from memory. They were drawn individually in both ink on paper and ascii plaintext over the course of 6 months just after the artist was laid-off from the organization. As a part of the severence agreement, the artist was required to destroy all of his personal copies of his work for them.

A. Bill Miller is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Penn State Altoona. He earned his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he also served as Associate Lecturer. His nationally and internationally exhibited works include his acclaimed Gridworks Project, which comprises abstract ASCII drawings, ink drawings, animated GIFs, and video elements.

Semantic Disturbances

Slowly fluctuating cinematographic sequences of digital imagery and repeating flows of timely moving textual elements. Earlier iterations of this project can be found in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2.

Andreas Maria Jacobs lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Walkenried, Germany with Judith V. and their 3 children. Publishing editor of Nictoglobe magazine online since 1986!