The reviewers admit that we are necessarily viewing this work through a lens of cultural myopia. This unique and immersive experience has real-world implications, from AI to AR, from voiceless to voiced, from holograms to hidden depths. The graphics invite readers into the story as a helmeted figure gazes and we move along her gaze into a story about the past and one about the present that converge in the middle. The work invites the reader in to answer questions such as memories of lecture halls, what autumn looks like, and what it is to leave your homeland far behind. The project is an amazing example of dedicated work over five years without institutional support. Al-Barrah is the first paper novel to combine augmented reality and hologram technologies with Arabic language text inside the borders of a paper page to provide the reader with a unique experience, and immerse her in the narrative. Nasef (2021) deftly intertwines game, story, augmented reality, and social media for tales that also overlay a poetic commentary on oppression and voicelessness. Nasef.Īccording to the judges, “‘Al-Barrah (البرَّاح)’ by Reham Hosny and Mohamed A. Honorable Mention for the 2022 Coover Award is “Al-Barrah (البرَّاح)” by Reham Hosny and Mohamed A. The work itself reveals that the ‘print(list(permutations)))’ of ‘I can’t breathe’ are endless.” If we do not change the algorithm, the machine will spit out more. We, the reader, are the bearers of meaning-making, memory, and feeling. The lack of personalized authorship is critical to the working of the poetry. Here, the relentless ill-logic of the machine replays the violence against black bodies in all the variety one would expect from a generative system. Although the book’s method is not novel, the content – racial injustice in the US – applies pressure to the ways racism might function as an algorithm, and creates in the process a new precedent in computational poetry which has typically been a-political. The Runner Up for the 2022 Coover Award is “Travesty Generator” by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.Īccording to the judges, “Travesty Generator uses computational logic to create gut-punch poetry that speaks poignantly to the recent highly publicized racist killings at the hands of US law enforcement. Or, as Turing put it, in his seminal paper on artificial intelligence ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence,’ we get to enjoy ‘strawberries and creme.’” Body and machine are linked, but this is not about being slave to that machine, but rather in re-discovering the peculiar pleasures of being embodied. Jhave leans into the pleasure of performance by having poets read at superhuman speeds and by having human hands manipulate lines of poetry through gesture. 120 hours of neural net text generation video! It is, let us be honest, mostly nonsense, punctuated occasionally by serendipitous wonder, when, impossible to predict! machine logic meets the ineffable logic of the reader as when ‘thunderous bismol’ trips deliciously off the tongue. Profoundly, the author ends up communicating most poignantly not through words, but through a physical embodiment of those words. ![]() It is this, compulsive repetition above all that gives this work literal weight. It is not in an attempt to make perfect sense but to try and fail to make what is hidden, manifest. The work is generated through this neurotic compulsive repetition, linking it to both the pleasure principle and the death drive. ![]() In essence, the work is a documentation of the performance of the private ritual of writing and the obsessive-compulsive need for writers to communicate - even when no one else is reading. The Winner of the 2022 Award is “ReRites” by David Jhave Johnston.Īccording to the judges: “In this pandemic time, new forms of ritual have developed - people had zoom drinks and parties, and funerals were held via livestream. The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature honors the year’s best work of electronic literature, of any form or genre. NasefĬommittee: Deena Larsen, Madison McCartha, Illya Szilak Honorable Mention: “Al-Barrah (البرَّاح)” by Reham Hosny and Mohamed A. Runner Up: “Travesty Generator” by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Winner: “ReRites” by David Jhave Johnston The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature At the annual conference of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), hosted by the Collegio Gallio of Como, ELO Board Member Erik Loyer announced the 2022 ELO Prize winners.
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