Program

Thinking Through the Digital 2017 – Final program

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Wednesday 29 November

14:30–15:00 Registration at Östergötlands museum/Datamuseet

15:00–15:15 Opening words

15:15–16:45 KEYNOTE: KENNETH GOLDSMITH – “THE IDEAL LECTURE (IN MEMORY OF DAVID ANTIN)” (Wallenbergsalen)

17:00–18:00 Paper session 1

TEXT:SOUND (Wallenbergsalen)

  • Sten Sandell. Vertical Acoustics With Horizontal Prosody
  • Mikael Askander. Music videos and poetry videos – poetry–film–cultures in a digital age

Thursday 30 November

10:00–10:30 Coffee

10:30–12:00 KEYNOTE: Elena Lamberti – “Maleware Digitelling: Fakenews, or Mythmaking 2.0?” (KEY1)

12:00–13:00 Lunch at Universitetsklubben

13:00–14:00 Paper session 2 (KY23 & KY24)

IMAGINING THE DIGITAL: FEARS AND FANTASIES

  • Per Israelson. Parasites of the Mind: The Media Ecology of Horror
  • Ragnild Lome. Fear and curiosity of the brave new world – Das Gedankennetz (1961) and Der Orchideenkäfig (1961) by Herbert W. Franke

CODE

  • Aden Evens. Digital Structure and Creative Possibility
  • Hannah Ackermans. Source Code: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Meaning–Making

14:00–14:30 Coffee break

14:30–15:00 Performance/Lecture: Olle Essvik – »The Machine»

15:00–16:00 Paper session 3 (KY23 & KY24)

THE ARCHIVE

  • Johan Fredrikzon. Beyond the look of age: the eeriness of early digital archives
  • Jacek Smolicki. Post–Digital Arc

CONTEMPORARY ANALOGUE CULTURE

  • Øyvind Prytz. From telefax to e–mail. Erlend Loe’s Naiv Super and the introduction of the Internet in the Norwegian Novel.
  • Svante Landgraf. Mapping the Analogue Labyrinth

15:00–15:30 Coffee break

15:30–16:00 Performance/Lecture: Olle Essvik, »The Machine»

16:00–17:30 Paper session 3 (KY23 & KY24)

TEXT:SOUND (KY25)

  • Mikael Askander. Music videos and poetry videos – poetry–film–cultures in a digital age
  • Sten Sandell. Vertical Acoustics With Horizontal Prosody
  • Johan Alfredsson. Analogies between the Digital and the Ecological in Contemporary Transmedial Poetry – Cia Rinne & Johannes Heldén

THE ARCHIVE (KY24)

  • Johan Fredrikzon. Beyond the look of age: the eeriness of early digital archives
  • Jacek Smolicki. Post–Digital Archives

18:30 – Conference dinner at Munkkällaren

Friday 1 December

10:00–10:30 Coffee

10:30–12:00 Paper session 4 (KY23 & KY24)

PRODUCTION

  • Nils Olsson. The author / as editor / as producer
  • Solveig Daugaard. The end of reading
  • Diana Chester. Form Shifting Gertrude Stein

NEW TOOLS, NEW CONCEPTS

  • Talan Memmott. Meme Culture as Alienation Capital and Gestic Play
  • Alexander Svedberg. Bleeding Networks – On Literary Criticism and Augmented Reality
  • Odile Farge. The author’s imaginary through the prism of the authoring tool in digital literature

12:00–13:00 Lunch at Universitetsklubben

13:00–14:30 Paper session 5 (KY23 & KY24)

CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL CULTURE

  • Anne Karhio. Beyond landscape as interface: digital terrains and the aesthetics of perception
  • Karin Nygård. Updating Literature: Information Management as Time Management in the Work of Kenneth Goldsmith
  • Christian Lenemark. Digital Illness. Representing and Negotiating Cancer in Social Media and Beyond

TRANSMEDIALITY

  • Lars Kristensen. Digital Interpellation: ‘I am Zlatan’ – book/app/game
  • Heidrun Führer. Digital ekphrasis – transferring an old concept into a new sphere?
  • Heidi Stalla. Teaching Virginia Woolf in the digital age

14:30–15:30 Concluding discussion and closing words