Elit As Information System

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A provocation on electronic literature -- calling for a shift in the aesthetics and paradigms used to evaluate works.

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ELC as information

Systems

ELC as information

Systems

Mark C. Marino,USC

Mark C. Marino,USC

Are We Boing Boing?

Are we siggraph?

Are we Fark?

Are we MLA?

Death to Authorware

• Is there a second “afternoon”?

Is there a second “Patchwork Girl”?

Don’t we still fetishize the novel?

The British Library

Is there an Elit Arms Race?

ALICE is interesting

Are the 60,000 ALICEbots as interesting?

3-tier system

• 3-tier system

• Presentation

• Process

• Data

Presentation

Logic

Data

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

N-tier system

Multiple Tiers

•Presentation

•Process

•Data

Presentation

Logic

Data

Emily Short:Novel Data Retrieval in IF

Jason Nelson: The Data is the Presentation

Jason Nelson: The Data is the Presentation

Presentation

Logic

Data

movie objects

Presentation

Logic

Data

movie objects

movie objects

11

22

33

44

55

66

Lexia to Perplexia

Mez “_trEm[D]0[LLS]R_”

New Elit

• Griot Renku

• Cavewriting Authoring System

• Rob Kendall’s program

http:laflood.metrocris.comCALL: 310.WATER.49

http:laflood.metrocris.comCALL: 310.WATER.49

Presentation

Logic

Data

Presentation

Logic

DataPresentation

Logic

DataCell phone

GPS

Simulation

Challenge to ELIT

Challenge to ELC

Challenge to PAD

Mark C. Marino, USC

Mark C. Marino, USC

http://WriterResponseTheory.orghttp://CriticalCodeStudies.com

markcmarino@gmail.com

http://WriterResponseTheory.orghttp://CriticalCodeStudies.com

markcmarino@gmail.com