The event is postponed. The lecture and the panel discussion will be held at a later date, online.
Philippe Bootz
Lecture “One Way in Programmed Digital Poetry”
Lecture and panel discussion, live and on line
Friday, 26 November 2021, 5 p.m.
Friday, 26 November 2021, 6:15 p.m.
You're kindly invited to attend an on line lecture by Philippe Bootz, a digital literature theorist and Professor at the University Paris 8.
His approach in programmed digital poetry considers that reading and writing are the fundamental dimensions of literariness. He proposes to show how it questions the literary fact and, beyond that, the very notion of work and therefore preservation.
He will analyze examples taken from his productions to illustrate the concepts. He will deal in particular with the following concepts: the aesthetics of absence, the aesthetics of frustration and uncomfortable reading, the limits of digital reading and the concept of “reading machine” which aims at making readable the aesthetic dimensions of a work which remain invisible when the program runs.
The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with Narvika Bovcon, PhD, Janez Strehovec, PhD, Jaka Železnikar, MA, and Aleš Vaupotič, PhD, as moderator.
Philippe Bootz, born in 1957
PhD in physics, PhD in communication science, Professor at the University Paris 8. Theorist of digital literature, he did about 200 papers and lectures on this topic, in several languages.
He has programmed poetry since 1977, mainly programmed digital animated poetry. Co-founder of two groups of authors in digital literature: L.A.I.R.E. (1989) and Transitoire Observable (2003).
He was the publisher of the review Alire (1989–2009), the oldest digital review on digital literature. His works are mentioned in all databases of digital literature and have been shown in many countries.
https://master-t3l.univ-paris8.fr/?Philippe-Bootz
https://elmcip.net/person/philippe-bootz
Narvika Bovcon, PhD
Narvika Bovcon, PhD, teaches computer-aided design and new media art at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljana, where she works as Associate Professor and researcher at the Computer Vision Laboratory (areas: user interfaces, extended reality, digital humanities).
Bovcon obtained her MA and PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. She is the author of numerous new-media art projects and scholarly articles. In 2009 she published the monograph Umetnost v svetu pametnih strojev.
https://www.fri.uni-lj.si/sl/o-fakulteti/osebje/narvika-bovcon
http://dragan.fri.uni-lj.si/sl
Janez Strehovec, PhD
Janez Strehovec is an independent researcher of (new) media art, electronic literature, and digital culture, and author of eight scholarly volumes, including Text as Ride (Morgantown: WV UP, 2016) and Contemporary Art Impacts on Scientific, Social, and Cultural Paradigms: Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020).
http://www.inm.si/
Aleš Vaupotič, PhD
After obtaining his PhD in literary science from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana (2011, “Aktualnost realističnega diskurza v literarni in intermedijski umetnosti” [The Topicality of Realistic Discourse in Literary and Intermedia Art]), Aleš Vaupotič went to work for the University of Nova Gorica in 2012, developing the fields of new media theory and digital humanities. A video and new media artist, he included his artistic knowledge in comparative art research, in accordance with the increasing introduction of not-only-verbal forms of argumentation in the humanities. In 2021 he was appointed Director of Moderna galerija in Ljubljana.
https://www.mg-lj.si/si/o-nas/3398/direktor-ales-vaupotic/
Jaka Železnikar, MA
Jaka Železnikar is a website developer and creative programmer, and a pioneer of net art and online e-literature. He uses a variety of (mostly electronic) media: in addition to websites, also mobile apps, browser add-ons, and a puppet-robot that tells site-specific stories. Železnikar exhibits and publishes internationally. In 2010 he obtained an MA in creative writing and new media.
https://jaka.org
In conjunction with the lecture, a display of several Philippe Bootz’s restored, old digital poetry works that no longer run on contemporary technology will be put on view at the +MSUM (the ground floor) between 23 November and 12 December 2021.
