It's next week, at FLUP and via Zoom!
The next Open class CODA in the area of Digital Humanities will be in collaboration with the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML) and the Master in Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies - UC Poéticas Comparadas.
Diogo Marques (CODA, ILCML | FLUP), Ana Gago (CITAR | UCP), Rui Torres (ICNOVA; UFP)
«Forests do not sprout, do not multiply, do not sigh»: cyberliterature and environmental education
26 April | 13:30-15:00 | room 307 - FLUP
Zoom: https://shorturl.at/qrIWX
Summary:
Starting from the exploration of the ludic-pedagogical potential of combinatorial and permutational processes of writing-reading, I propose to discuss possible applications of cyberliterature in the context of the development of environmental education strategies, inside and outside the institutional field of action. Through the analysis of the cyberliterary poem Árvore (2018), by researcher and experimental poet Rui Torres, and its relationship with artivist and hacktivist practices, cyberliterature is placed in dialogue with issues such as sustainability and technological obsolescence. Additionally, reference will be made to other examples of artistic-literary (post-)digital creations, with international impact, as integral parts of the same ecosystem, such as About Trees (2015), by Katie Holten, DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST (2017), by authored by Joana Moll, and Amazon (2019), by Eugenio Tisselli. In order to illustrate the continuity of Ciberliterature in the broader context of experimental practices in Portugal, some of its precursors will also be summoned, such as Soneto Ecológico (2005), installation of environmental poetry, by Fernando Aguiar. Putting tradition and innovation in dialogue, several paths of possibility are written (and recombined) from/to digital literature, as an artistic-literary manifestation and as an educational, interventional and mobilizing tool.
Organization:
CODA - Center for Digital Culture and Innovation, ILCML, FLUP and FCT.
