Computer systems produce an unprecedented wealth of text, only the smallest part of which is contributed by users. Protocols, listings, algorithms, programmes, source codes, universal binary codes – the background operations of the systems themselves write a massively larger share. These text units – produced, read and transmitted by computers – internalize transcodability and transliterality as the computer system’s basic underlying operating principle. The emerging forms of text take place between writing systems and text generators. They produce a new kind of analphabetism, as most of their consumers cannot read nor write them, yet they are involved in our thoughts and actions.
TRAUMAWIEN perceives these new structures of text as literature — a system of virtualization in imagination, always describing breaking points in our perception of world.
TRAUMAWIEN considers the paradox of transferring late-breaking digital aesthetics into book form, as new media narrative snapshots of literary genres otherwise quickly lost in the immense output produced by web every second.
TRAUMAWIEN book publications help to highlight technological innovations while at the same time questioning imminent issues of text production in virtual space.
Our range not only includes networked texts, algorithmic texts, interfictions, chatlogs, codeworks, software art and visual mashup prose. We also research possible touch points between the book as an object and virtual space. In form of, for example, hybrid books (augmented reality) of which the first will be published in July 2010.
TRAUMAWIEN publications are understood as schemes in which the author remains, but already is marginalized as a producer.
The author – in a prototypical trauma book – remains exchangeable by the form of possible writing, writing systems, generating genre. ——————————————— july2010 ̷̗̠̱̿͗̐r ̷̗̠̱̿͗̐ ̡̖͆̓ͦeA̫̳̲̫̍͊̓ͧͣͮͨ̓҉̖̓҉̖̓҉̖ ̷̗̠̱̿͗̐
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Schmema 2.1 J.R. Carpenter, Montreal / Generation[s]. Code Narrative
J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer and performer of very short fictions, long fictions, non-fictions, fiction generators, web-based nonlinear intertextual hypermedia narratives, zines and books.
GENERATION(S) expands upon a series of short fictions generated by Python scripts adapted (with permission) from two 1k story generators written by Nick Montfort, and incorporates GORGE, a never-ending tract spewing verse approximations, poetic paroxysms on food, consumption, decadence and desire, a hack of Montfort’s elegant poetry generator Taroko Gorge. There was only one rule in creating GENERATION(S): No new texts. All the texts in this book were previously published in some way. The texts the generators produce are intertwined with the generators’ source code, and these two types of texts are in turn interrupted by excerpts from the meta narrative that went into their creation. Most of the sentences in the fiction generators started off as Tweets, which were then pulled into Facebook. Some led to comments that led to responses that led to new texts. All these stages of intermediation are represented in the print book iteration of GENERATION(S). (jr c)
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Schema 2.2 Ivan Monroy Lopez, Mexiko / Git2Pod. Poetry
Programmer, writer from Mexico. Studied Media at the Piet Zwart Institute Media in Rotterdam. His last zine was called “print soapbox”. He will give you a copy if you just ask :)
http://textzi.net/
www.piksel.no/pwiki/PrintSoapbox
GIT - the stupid content tracker
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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks
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Schema 2.3 Audun Mortensen, Norway / Surf's up (2010). Poetry
Audun Mortensen (b. 1985), Norwegian author and artist, currently lives in Berlin, maintains
Q&Q
Q: How to read taglines (i.e. branding slogans) for the "IMDb bottom 100 movies" as voted by IMDb.com users?
Q: As documentation of a series of "unsuccessful (marketing) lines"?
Q: How to read a poetry book composed of taglines for the "IMDb bottom 100 movies" as voted by IMDb.com users?
Q: As documentation of a series of "unsuccessful (marketing) lines" remarketed as literature?
Q: How to write taglines for a poetry book composed of taglines for the "IMDb bottom 100 movies" as voted by IMDb.com users?
Q: "Surf's Up (2010)" is remarketing taglines for the "IMDb bottom 100 movies" as voted by IMDb.com users as literature!!!?
Q: How to write a successful tagline that sums up the tone and premise of a product?
Q: How to write taglines successful enough to warrant inclusion in (popular) culture?
Q: How to write taglines?
Q: How to write?
Q: How to?
Q: How?
Q: How to?
Q: How to read?
Q: How to read taglines?
Audun Mortensen
Berlin, July 2010
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VIP schema2 / Barbara Anna Husar. Corpus Sublingual.
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Hybrid 1 Philip Hautmann / Yorick. Hybridbuch
Philip Hautmann, geb. 1977 in Linz, studierte Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Politikwissenschaften in Linz und Basel und lebt in Wien. Yorick – Ein Mensch in Schwierigkeiten ist sein erster Roman. Kontakt: philiphautmann at hotmail.com
This is a hybrid book. A popup book collaborating with your computer, in which content from the authors life can be - in contrary to QrTags - displayed in real time directly on books pages. The reader is invited to navigate freely in the between of material and virtual worlds. Real world becomes your interface.
Augmented Reality in this context requires a usual webcam, a monitor or a cellphone display, working as a kind of lense. the software to view the book, can be downloaded for free at http://traumawien.at after its release on 23rd.
Dies ist ein Hybridbuch. Ein rechnergestützes PopUp Buch also, in welchem Medieninhalte aus dem Umfeld des Autors - im Gegensatz zu QrTags - in Echtzeit über den Text, die Buchseite gezogen werden. Der Leser navigiert nahtlos zwischen Haptik und dem virtuellen Raum. Die reale Welt wird zur Benutzeroberfläche.
Augmented Reality in diesem Sinne erfordert eine (Web)Kamera, einen Monitor bzw ein (Handy)Display. Die mit dem Buch einhergehende Software kann ab dem offiziellen Veröffentlichungsdatum auf http://traumawien.at heruntergeladen werden.
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Yorick ist ein witziger Kerl! Er kommt uneingeladen zum Frühstück, und wenn man ausgeht, um ihn loszuwerden, so geht er mit aus, in eine andere Gesellschaft, da er glaubt, nirgends unangenehm sein zu können! Geht man wieder nach Hause, so geht er ebenfalls wieder mit, setzt sich endlich zu Tisch, wo er gerne allein und von sich selbst spricht und dort bis spät in die Nacht verbleibt, oftmals, um am nächsten morgen wiederzukommen! Wir lernen weiters Yoricks prekären Freundeskreis kennen, bestehend aus der immer auf dieselben Männer hereinfallenden Sabine, dem leutseligen Draufgänger Lasse Benissen, den künstlerischen Phantasten und ständigen Projektemachern Eisel und Peisel, dem anderen Philosophen sowie dem weltverbesserischen „Philosophenzirkel“. Außerdem begegnen wir Yoricks Feinden: dem rüpelhaften und derben Journalisten Garrick, dem ständig über alles kichernden und tuschelnden „Eisernen Dreieck“ sowie der Analytikerin und der Tante der Analytikern als Verkörperungen des narzisstisch-hysterischen Persönlichkeitstypus. Als Yorick schließlich in seiner eingebildeten Grandiosität versucht, ein großes Kunstwerk zu schaffen, um der Welt seine Außergewöhnlichkeit zu beweisen, nehmen die Dinge ihren unweigerlich dramatischen Verlauf. Über wunderliche Wege wird Yorick Unternehmensberater und als intellektueller Gesprächspartner des geheimnisvollen Milliardärs Mearsheimer Mitglied der Welt der Reichen und Mächtigen. Schließlich stellt sich die Frage: Existiert Yorick überhaupt? Oder ist er eine Schöpfung und eine ins männliche übertragene Selbstreflexion der hochintelligenten, jedoch in Beziehungsangelegenheiten infantil veranlagten Psychologin Sabine? Aber ist Sabine überhaupt, wer sie zu sein scheint? Oder stammt sie aus einer anderen Welt, in der es kein Leid gibt, und ist nur zu Forschungszwecken hier – um zu erfahren, was ein „Mensch in Schwierigkeiten“ eigentlich ist? All das und noch viel mehr ist Gegenstand dieser aufrüttelnden und packenden großen Erzählung.
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Olivia Kaiser. Là-bas.
