MATLIT: Materialities of Literature

Autoras e leitoras em revistas literárias portuguesas dos anos 1910-1920

Patricia Baialuna de Andrade Baialuna de Andrade

O período das primeiras três décadas do século XX foi marcado pelo desenvolvimento do Modernismo (ou Modernismos) em Portugal, com intenso diálogo intelectual e propostas de renovação para a arte e a sociedade. Esse momento pode ser melhor compreendido pelo estudo das revistas de literatura e cultura que se multiplicaram durante aquele período. Entre os nomes que figuram com mais recorrência nesse debate observa-se a quase inexistência de mulheres como contribuintes de tais revistas. Este ensaio propõe analisar 1. A participação, ainda que escassa, de mulheres entre os colaboradores de revistas literárias; 2. Os artigos direcionados ao público feminino, e como definem os interesses e atuação da mulher naquela sociedade; 3. A construção do feminino em alguns poemas e excertos de prosa divulgados por tais periódicos. Pretende-se, assim, discutir como tais revistas ilustram e corroboram determinados papéis sociais e estereótipos para a mulher do Portugal novecentista.

Introduction to “Spreading the word: preserving and analysing electronic literature”

Daniela Côrtes Maduro, Paulo Silva Pereira — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Introduction to “Spreading the word: preserving and analysing electronic literature”

À volta da literatura digital para crianças e jovens

Diego Giménez — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Review of Literatura Digital para Crianças e Jovens. Teoria e prática da experiência estética (2024), de Aline Frederico e Elizabeth Cardoso (Eds).

Data and Process in Information Centered Creative Practice

Judy Malloy — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100

With increasing availability of online data and data visualization software, information art — and its historic role in environmental and social change
activism — is increasingly relevant in contemporary creative practice. Beginning with a summary of early conceptual and Fluxus information-based art, this
review paper explores uses of information by artists and by writers of electronic literature in the following areas: the role of documentation in the origins of
Information art; the role of process in the evolution of information art; the role of research and archives; and the role of data in shaping visual objects and texts. The paper concludes with pointing out issues in using commercial databases as sources of information for black identity, for Native American communities, and for feminist research. The conclusion also points out the importance of research design, ethical considerations in the use of data, and the importance of seeking opportunities for collecting and analyzing data that transcend usual sources.

Digital Zoopoetics

Alinta Krauth — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100

This article discusses the emergence of a genre of technologically mediated, computationally networked zoopoetic practices. I approach this discussion through an analysis of contemporary examples of zoopoetry, firstly drawing on print-based examples such as the poetry of e. e. cummings and the poetic animal dialogue of the novelist Laura Jean McKay. I then consider the ways in which digital technologies and digital aesthetics have the potential to add modes and imaginaries to zoopoetic authorial practices. I introduce digital zoopoetics through the creation of two related digital interfaces: The (m)Otherhood of Meep (2023) and The Songbird Speaks (2024-ongoing). These works invite new imaginaries for interspecies signal interpretation through machine learning technology by moving towards generative interspecies translation as its own zoopoetic form. From the practical contribution to zoopoetics that these works make, I offer a non-exhaustive series of suggested affordances of digital and computational aesthetics that come forth as representative of a digital zoopoetry form.