[artinfo] prixars media.art.research award 2007 for Florian Cramer

[Inke Arns]

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MEDIA.ART.RESEARCH AWARD

Winning Project 2007

Exe.cut[up]able statements - Poetische Kalküle 
und Phantasmen des selbst-ausführenden Texts
 
Florian Cramer (NL/DE)

Florian Cramer's dissertation Exe.cut[up]able 
statements - Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des 
selbstausführenden Texts investigates 
literature-older works as well as contemporary 
ones-that are based on calculation and 
algorithms. This text analyses cabbalistic 
combinations of utterances, word permutations, 
aleatory (combinational), stochastic (random) and 
recursive (running in reverse) texts, 
computer-generated literature as well as the 
poetics of programming languages and encoding 
systems. In going about this, calculations and 
algorithms are regarded as dimensions of language 
and literature like graphics and phonetics are 
perceived as dimensions of visual and acoustic 
compositions. A general characteristic of 
algorithmic literature is that calculations and 
algorithms cannot be separated from the text (and 
its meaning); rather, they possess their own 
poetics, which is why the text is 
"self-executing." Its meaning (semantics) thus 
refers to the encoding system on which it is 
based and vice versa. Exe.cut[up]able contains a 
brief account of the history of this literary 
genre and also analyses two concrete texts: 
"Quirinus Kuhlmann's 17th-century permutational 
sonnet XLI" and "Vom Wechsel menschlicher Sachen 
and mez' _Viro.Logic Condition][ing][ 1.1_" by 
Libeskuß.