2. • What is Russian e-lit?
• How did it come to be?
• When did Russian e-lit appear and
what happened next?
3. what is Russian e-lit?
• сyberature or neterature (Net Literature, Teneta)
• digital literature vs digitized literature (Enrika Schmidt)
• electronic literature (Mikhail Vizel, review of N. Kathrine Hayles’s book Electronic
Literature: New Horizons of the Literary)
4. traditions and influences
• Raek
• Russian avant-garde publishing
• Early film
• Soviet samizdat publishing practice
• “Mechanic” kinetic poetry
• European net-art
• American e-lit
5. Carmina figurata
Simeon Polotsky
Greeting to Tzar Alexey Michailovich on
Occasion of the Birth of Tzarevich Simeon, 1665
15. where is Russian E-lit?
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• hypertext My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1995) by Olia Lialina Waste Land (1999)
by Julia Morozova, Shatters (2000) and Voyage X (2000) by Vladimir Tatarintsev;
• hypermedia In the Subway (and Outside) (2001) by Sergey Vlasov and Georgy
Gerdiaev, F.M.Dostoevsky IDIOT (2001) and Starfall (2000) by Alexroma;
• literary games, Boutes Rimes (1995) and Garden of Forking Hokkus (1997) by Dmitry Manin;
• playable media, Avid Angels (2003) and Poetry Puzzle (2000) by Alexroma;
• PowerPoint poem, The Till (2003) by Maxim Borodin.
• flash poetry, Drama in the Forest (2001) and The City (2008) by Georgy Gerdiaev, Signs (2006) by Ivan Levenko, Sonets (2004) by Igor Loschilov and
Georgy Gerdiaev;
• poetry generator Cyber Pushkin (2002) by Sergeij Teterin and scholarly essay generator Robot Datzuk
(1997);
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21. where is Russian E-lit?
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• IF community
• media poetry groups
• portals
22. Where the Russian E-lit Should be?
• media art festivals (i.e. Cyberfest)
• electronic magazines (TextOnly, Chernovik, Mitin Journal etc) + reviews in printed
magazines (New Literary Observer)
• ELMCIP Knowledge Base
• poetry festivals and Slavistic conferences
• university curricula a nomination in a literary prize (i.e. Andrey Bely Prize)
23. ThankThank you
you
phd.natali@gmail.com
phd.natali@gmail.com