Informing and Deforming Readings: ‘Critical Re-Making’ in Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities
Submission Type
Paper
Start Date/Time (EDT)
19-7-2024 10:30 AM
End Date/Time (EDT)
19-7-2024 11:30 AM
Location
Hypertexts & Fictions
Abstract
In the exploratory research project “To See the Tree and the Forest” (FCT 10.54499/2022.08122.PTDC) we investigate different modes of looking at the work of the contemporary Portuguese poet António Ramos Rosa (1924-2013). For the past year and a half, our team has been applying computational text analysis to his poetic oeuvre, and, in parallel, we have developed an ecocritical reinterpretation of his poetry. We aim to gain insights into how animal, vegetable, and mineral actors contribute to a poetic construct that conceives the world from an ecological perspective. We are also interested in further questioning the already troubled and ever-changing relationships between natural and digital environments (Posthumus and Sinclair 2014; Swanstrom 2016; Linley 2016; Cubitt 2017; Chang 2019).
At ELO 2024, we will first describe the computational text analysis component of our project and, in a second moment, we will show the preliminary versions of creative (e-lit and post-digital) works that we will later exhibit in Porto, including works by invited artists such as Rui Torres, Diogo Marques, Terhi Marttila and Isabel Carvalho. With this, we aim to discuss the potential connections between computational analysis and computational creation, contributing to the discussions around “electronic literature as digital humanities” or the “creative digital humanities” (Rettberg 2015; Saum-Pascual 2017; Rettberg and Saum-Pascual 2020; Grigar and O’Sullivan 2020). We will ask: do these practice-based research methodologies unveil aspects not revealed in our project through quantitative or qualitative research methods? Commenting on some of the results, we will show how these kinds of creative interventions foster an exploratory environment conducive to critical reinterpretation against the instrumentalism of “dh tools” and toward the speculative digital humanities.
Recommended Citation
Ministro, Bruno and Reina, Patrícia Esteves, "Informing and Deforming Readings: ‘Critical Re-Making’ in Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities" (2024). ELO (un)linked 2024. 9.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/hypertextsandfictions/schedule/9
Informing and Deforming Readings: ‘Critical Re-Making’ in Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities
Hypertexts & Fictions
In the exploratory research project “To See the Tree and the Forest” (FCT 10.54499/2022.08122.PTDC) we investigate different modes of looking at the work of the contemporary Portuguese poet António Ramos Rosa (1924-2013). For the past year and a half, our team has been applying computational text analysis to his poetic oeuvre, and, in parallel, we have developed an ecocritical reinterpretation of his poetry. We aim to gain insights into how animal, vegetable, and mineral actors contribute to a poetic construct that conceives the world from an ecological perspective. We are also interested in further questioning the already troubled and ever-changing relationships between natural and digital environments (Posthumus and Sinclair 2014; Swanstrom 2016; Linley 2016; Cubitt 2017; Chang 2019).
At ELO 2024, we will first describe the computational text analysis component of our project and, in a second moment, we will show the preliminary versions of creative (e-lit and post-digital) works that we will later exhibit in Porto, including works by invited artists such as Rui Torres, Diogo Marques, Terhi Marttila and Isabel Carvalho. With this, we aim to discuss the potential connections between computational analysis and computational creation, contributing to the discussions around “electronic literature as digital humanities” or the “creative digital humanities” (Rettberg 2015; Saum-Pascual 2017; Rettberg and Saum-Pascual 2020; Grigar and O’Sullivan 2020). We will ask: do these practice-based research methodologies unveil aspects not revealed in our project through quantitative or qualitative research methods? Commenting on some of the results, we will show how these kinds of creative interventions foster an exploratory environment conducive to critical reinterpretation against the instrumentalism of “dh tools” and toward the speculative digital humanities.
Bio
Bruno Ministro is a full-time researcher at the Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto. He received a PhD in Materialities of Literature from the University of Coimbra. His research explores the intersection of contemporary poetry and technological media, focusing mainly on works of experimental poetry, copy art, and electronic literature. He also dedicates his research and teaching to digital humanities by exploring computational methods and theories for studying literature. He is the Principal Investigator of the research project "To See the Tree and the Forest. Reading the Poetry of António Ramos Rosa from a Distance" (FCT 2022.08122.PTDC).
Patrícia Esteves Reina is a Ph.D. Candidate in Materialities of Literature at the University of Coimbra. She is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation for which she was granted an FCT Ph.D. Research Fellowship and a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholarship. She holds a Communication BA with a minor in Editorial Production and an MA in Contemporary Editorial and Typographical Practices. She is mostly interested in the intersection between graphic and literary arts, for which she is especially fascinated by typography. Lately, through a Research Scholarship, she has approached computational textual analysis and visualizations within the scope of the research project "To See the Tree and the Forest. Reading the Poetry of António Ramos Rosa from a Distance" (FCT 2022.08122.PTDC).