KOSMOPOLIS International Festival of Literature

22. bis 26. Oktober 2008 Barcelona, Spanien

Christa Sommerer und Laurent Mignonneau präsentieren ihre Arbeit Life Writer auf der CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona) im Sektor KOSMOPOLIS International Festival of Literature:
www.cccb.org/en

Great authors and artists such as Donna Leon, Dave Eggers, Gao Xingjian, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Grahame Weinbren and many others will be there.

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are in the section of Kosmotica II:
www.cccb.org/kosmopolis/en

Kosmotica II is the natural evolution of Hyperiment, Lector Mundi and Kosmotica I, presented in past Kosmopolis editions.  It makes reference to a coming together of media which are in the process of expansion, but also to imaginary and recreational disciplines.  It is a space dedicated to learning and participation which delves into  hypertexts, the emergence of electronic literature, the development of digital interactive narratives, the dissemination of formats, changes in the way we read and write and the transition toward hypermedia.

If domotics deals with technological developments in the control and management of domestic space, then kosmotics is an experimental discipline investigating, processing and implementing the influence of new media on literature, literature in new media and the cultural changes implied by this dizzying process of convergence.

AREAS
0. Project genealogy
1. (R)Evolution of supports (selection of electronic reading devices, selection of audio books, digital encyclopaedias, online edition).
2. Interactivity (micro-archive of electronic
literature, Sommerer/Mignonneau's /Life Writer/, selection of narrative
videogames).
3. New tools for writing (electronic and hypermedia poetry, space for
writing in the 21st century).
4. Collective intelligence in literature *(brief introduction to the
history of collective creation in literature, selection of collective
online literary works, e-/paisajes.org:/ projects and literary
landscapes by Daniel García Andujar).
5. /Kosmopolis/ Archives *(special area devoted to archives from the
four editions of /Kosmopolis)/.

ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS at Kosmotica:
Life Writer, 2006 / Christa Sommerer i Laurent Mignonneau
e-paisaje.org, 2007 / Daniel García Andújar i Technologies To The People
Letters, 1997-2008 / Grahame Weinbren

PROJECTIONS at Kosmotica
Jeu / Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland and Canada, 2006, 4', ND.
IP Poetry / Gustavo Romano, Argentina, 2007, 5', OV.
Helvetica /Gary Hustwit, United Kingdom, 2007, 80', OVSS.
The Machine is Using Us and Information Revolution / Michael Wesch, United States, 2007, 10', OV.
Typolution / Olivier Beaudoin, Canada, 2007, 3'11'', ND.
The Tongue of the Hidden / David Alexander Anderson and Jila Peacock, Canada, 2006, VO./
When the telescope came / Kate Jessop, United Kingdom, 2006, 4'45'', OV.
Toute la mémoire du monde / Alain Resnais, France, 1956, 22', VOS. English