elo 2014 keynote: life poetry told by sensors
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My opening keynote for ELO2014, the annual conference of the Electronic Literature Organization, held in Milwaukee this year. The presentation connects my current work on quantitative self-representations and surveillance to my earlier work on feral hypertext and other disruptive forms of electronic literature.TRANSCRIPT
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Life poetry told by sensors
Opening keynote // ELO2014: Hold the light // Milwaukee, June 18, 2014
Jill Walker Rettberg!Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen
Image by stAllio! (http://stallio.tumblr.com/image/87127357349)
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Life poetry told by sensors
Opening keynote // ELO2014: Hold the light // Milwaukee, June 18, 2014
Jill Walker Rettberg!Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen
Image by stAllio! (http://stallio.tumblr.com/image/87127357349)
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trixietracker.com
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Sunday at home with the kids.
Monday at work.
Tuesday - walked to work, used standing desk, more aware of not just sitting still.
Fitbit as diary
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The Shine Misfit uses badges to represent your activity through the day.
(the moment the Shine first detected
movement - i.e. was picked up -
becomes read as my wakeup time)
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Chronos: Find your time. See how you are spending your time without lifting a finger. chronos runs in the background on your phone and automatically captures every moment.
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The more automated the better.
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Our technologies track us in many ways we don’t even consider.
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There are no digital natives but the devices themselves; no digital immigrants but the devices too. They are a diaspora, tentatively reaching out into the world to understand it and themselves, and across the network to find and touch one another. This mapping is a byproduct, part of the process by which any of us, separate and indistinct so long, find a place in the world.
http://booktwo.org/notebook/where-the-f-k-was-i/James Bridle
Machine vision - new aesthetics
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And of course, often we can’t see the data about us. But others can.
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Action Figures
Animated Films
Arts & Entertainment
Autos & Vehicles
Babies & Toddlers
Banking
Bicycles & Accessories
Billiards
Building Toys
Business & Industrial
Cats
Celebrities & Entertainment News
Computer & Video Games
Computers & Electronics
Consumer Electronics
Consumer Resources
Custom & Performance Vehicles
Die-cast & Toy Vehicles
Dodge
Interest
Apartments & Residential Rentals
Baby Care & Hygiene
Baby Food & Formula
Chicago
Clip Art & Animated GIFs
Computers & Electronics
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Education
Fitness
Games
Mobile Phones
Movies
Music & Audio
News
Office Supplies
Online Video
Parenting
Photo & Image Sharing
Photographic & Digital Arts
based on my searchesMy interests according to Google,
based on websites I visit
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“Numerical narratives”— Roberto Simanowski in his
keynote to Remediating the Social, Edinburgh 2012.
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709. Hard winter. Duke Gottfried died. 710. Hard winter and deficient in crops. 711. 712. Flood everywhere. 713. 714. Pippin, mayor of the palace, died. 715. 716. 717. 718. Charles devestated the Saxons with great destruction. 719. 720. Charles fought against the Saxons. 721. Theudo drove the Saracens out of Aquitaine. 722. Great crops. 723. 724. 725. Saracens came for the first time.
The Annals of St Gall
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1976-2001 2003-2007 2008-2013
Our ideas of electronic literature change
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Feral Hypertext Hypertext
Jill Walker, Dept of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen
ACM Hypertext 2005 Salzburg, 6-9 September
escapes
When
Literature
Control
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Feral (a): Of an animal: Wild, untamed. Of a plant, also (rarely), of ground: Uncultivated. Now often applied to animals or plants that have lapsed into a wild from a domesticated condition. (Oxford English Dictionary)
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“Author announces mortal work of art.”
Shelley Jackson: Skin
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Flickr
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The Impermanence Agent
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Michel Foucault, 1969
“How can one reduce the great peril, the great danger with which fiction threatens our world?”
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Michel Foucault, 1969
“The author allows a limitation of the cancerous and dangerous proliferation of significations within a world where one is thrifty not only with one’s resources and riches, but also with one’s discourses and their significations. The author is the principle of thrift in the proliferation of meaning.”
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it seems evident that various web/net/code artists are more likely to be accepted into an academic reification circuit/traditional art market if they produce works that reflect a traditional craft-worker positioning. This "craft" orientation [producing skilled/practically inclined output, rather than placing adequate emphasis on the conceptual or ephemeral aspects of a networked, or code/software-based, medium] is embraced and replicated by artists who create finished, marketable, tangible objects; read: work that slots nicely into a capitalistic framework where products/objects are commodified and hence equated with substantiated worth. (Breeze 2003)
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Disciplined.
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Scumbag Steve
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Grumpy Cat
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Seeing Ourselves Through TechnologyHow We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves
Parmigianino: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1524)
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Three modes of self-representation:Written
Diary: (CC) Ellen Thompson http://www.flickr.com/photos/eethompson/2142754337 Selfie: (CC) TempusVolut http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmorodo/11230014075 Nicholas Fultron: The Fultron Annual Report, 2007. http://feltron.com/ar07_01.html
Visual Quantitative
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To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power.
Susan Sontag: On Photography (1977)Image (c) Chris Felver http://www.chrisfelver.com/portraits/writers2.html
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Germaine Krull: Self-Portrait with Cigarette and Camera (1925)
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Look at the intimacy of the selfie; the outstretched arm embracing the viewer.
(http://www.makingselfiesmakingself.com)
Katie Warfield
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What is a work of art if not the gaze of another person? Not directed above us, nor beneath us, but at the same height as our gaze.
Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle
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jilltxt.net Blogging (Polity Press, 2013)
Read more:
Rettberg, Jill Walker. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. Forthcoming, Palgrave, October 2014.
AND CHECK OUT MY BOOK! (IT’S OPEN ACCESS)