{"id":10683,"date":"2022-03-30T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/chairealtissia\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T07:46:16","slug":"literature-computation-week-uclouvain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/chairealtissia\/2022\/03\/30\/literature-computation-week-uclouvain\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature & Computation Week @ UCLouvain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LITERATURE & COMPUTATION Week @ UCLouvain<\/strong> (May 2nd through May 6th 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A week-long series of talks, presentations, workshops, and round tables on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Computational Approaches to Literature <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Analytical-creative Computational Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital\/Computational  Literary Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Electronic Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NLP & Machine Learning for Literature <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Platform Intermediality in Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AI Poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Computational Literary Performance <\/p>\n\n\n\n
and… many more…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The event will bring together contributions researching and\/or showcasing the most innovative computational approaches to practicing, theoretically articulating, and critically assessing literature in the age of connectivity. Most notably in recent trends and not always consistently covered by the relevant scholarship, computational approaches to literature have complemented algorithmic analysis with creativity and platform-based intermediality. While these directions are in part related to digital literary studies (DLS, mainly analytically) and electronic literature (e-lit, creatively), they comport aspects substantial and contributions significant enough already to require new and more complex and nuanced theoretical and critical approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Analysis in general and computational analysis in particular inevitably involve creativity, but what has emerged as particularly  salient over the past years is computation-based analytical creativity for<\/em> and in<\/em> literary practice. The latter actually acquires new meanings and manifestations in the context as artificial intelligence can \u2018learn\u2019 and quantify literary features only from text corpora and by means of literary text datafication (cf. Pold & Erslev 2020). Creativity therefore involves in our current literary culture, on the one hand, data-analysis-driven computer and human-computer-interaction (HCI)-based writing mainly as sampling (Johnston 2019) or translation (Margento et al. 2021). Such approaches provide an algorithmic consistency and specific scalable methodology to the previously advanced \u201cuncreative\u201d poetics (Perloff 2008, Goldsmith 2011). On the other hand then, and arguably even more relevantly, creativity in literature gained new meanings and approaches, specifically related to generating or creating new literary <\/em>or literature-relevant data.<\/em> Relevant contributions in this respect range from literary text maps (Eide 2015) to computationally assembled literary anthologies and automatically expanded poetry corpora (cf. Sondheim et al. 2019) to interactive and comparative web-based \u2018editions of editions\u2019 of certain literary work (Raposo et al. 2021). While drawing on fields like digital humanities (DH), DLS, and digital writing and publishing is obviously necessary in tackling such trends, new more inclusive and complex paradigms able to account for these strongly emerging types of analytical-creative literariness need also be defined and developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another significant phenomenon we will be exploring is platform intermediality. In the context of digit(al)ization and globalization literature has acquired more and more intermedial facets and manifestations, which boosted its mercurial and at times encompassing cultural and technological representativity. The history of (modern) literary genres has been revisited for instance, in certain cultural, economic, and political terms, as<\/em> the history of globalization (Habjan and Imlinger 2016), the ubiquity of (data) visualization and visualities encouraged exploring literature itself as<\/em> visual culture (Bodola and Isekenmeier 2017), while critically researching and overviewing the evolving, deep and chameleonic, relationship the literary has with computationality invited redefining contemporary literature as<\/em> the digital (Tanasescu 2021). Particularly this latter aspect, as foregrounded by a number of the featured presentations, can unveil the multilayered intermedial valences of the literary and the consequential relevance it has to platform culture and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selected References<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Armaselu, Florentina. 2022. \u201cGenetic Criticism and Analysis of Interface Design. A Case Study.\u201d In Digital Studies \/ Le champ num\u00e9rique,<\/em> ed. Daniel O\u2019Donnell, forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bodola, Ronja, and Guido Isekenmeier, eds. 2017. Literary Visualities. Visual Descriptions, Readerly Visualisations, Textual Visibilities.<\/em> Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eide, \u00d8yvind. 2015. Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling: Between Texts and Maps. <\/em>London: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Funkhouser, C.T. 2012. New Directions in Digital Poetry.<\/em> London and New York: Bloomsbury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Goldsmith, Kenneth. 2011. Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. <\/em>New York:Columbia University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Habjan, Jernej, and Fabienne Imlinger, eds. 2016. Globalizing Literary Genres. Literature, History, Modernity.<\/em> London and New York: Routledge.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnston, David Jhave. 2019. ReRites. Human + A.I. poetry. Generated by a computer. Edited by a human.<\/em> Montreal: Anteism Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Larrue, Jean-Marc, and Marcello Vitali-Rosati. 2019. Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures. <\/em>Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Margento, Steve Rushton, and Taner Murat. 2021. Various Wanted. An (almost) missing original and five\u2014literary, computational, and visual\u2014translations.<\/em> Iasi & London: Timpul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perloff, Marjorie. 2008. Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century.<\/em> Chicago: UCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pold, S\u00f8ren Bro & Malthe Stavning Erslev. 2020. \u201cData-Realism: Reading and Writing Datafied Text.\u201d Electronic Book Review,<\/em> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7273\/n381-mk15<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ramsay, Stephen. 2011. Reading Machines. Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. <\/em>Urbana-Champaign: UIP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Raposo, Jos\u00e9, Ant\u00f3nio Rito Silva, and Manuel Portela. 2021. \u201cLdoD Visual – A Visual Reader for Fernando Pessoa\u2019s Book of Disquiet:<\/em> An In-Out-In Metaphor.\u201d DHQ <\/em>Volume 15 Number 3,  http:\/\/digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/15\/3\/000569\/000569.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rettberg, Scott. 2019. Electronic Literature. <\/em>Cambridge: Polity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Siemens, Ray & Susan Schreibman, eds. 2013. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies.<\/em> Oxford: Blackwell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sondheim, Alan, Brian Kim Stefans, Johanna Drucker, John Cayley, and Margento. 2019. \u201cOur Shared World of Language: Reflections on \u2018US\u2019 Poets Foreign Poets.\u201d<\/em> Asymptote, <\/em>\u201cEssays\u201d section of the journal\u2019s blog, https:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/30\/our-shared-world-of-language-reflections-on-us-poets-foreign-poets\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tanasescu, Chris. 2021. \u201cLiterature and\/as (the) Digital. An Introduction.\u201d In Interf\u00e9rences litt\u00e9raires \/ Literaire interferenties<\/em> Volume 25, guest. ed. Chris Tanasescu, pp. 1-25, http:\/\/www.interferenceslitteraires.be\/index.php\/illi\/article\/view\/1078\/937<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Plenary opening talk by<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ray Siemens<\/strong> (University of Victoria, Canada) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0Code, Poetry and Traditions of Text: Editing in Open, Broad Context\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
on May 2nd from 2 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a hybrid (in-person and online) event<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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PROGRAMME :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
MONDAY 2\/05 – MORE 56 (GPLO-DROIT) (Place Montesquieu, 2) & Teams <\/p>\n\n\n\n