1. Russian E-Lit 1.0 - 3.0
Natalia Fedorova
Bergen, January, 28, 2013

2. • What is Russian e-lit?
• How did it come to be?
• When did Russian e-lit appear and
what happened next?

3. what is Russian e-lit?
• сyberature or neterature (Net Literature, Teneta)
• digital literature vs digitized literature (Enrika Schmidt)
• electronic literature (Mikhail Vizel, review of N. Kathrine Hayles’s book Electronic
Literature: New Horizons of the Literary)

4. traditions and influences
• Raek
• Russian avant-garde publishing
• Early film
• Soviet samizdat publishing practice
• “Mechanic” kinetic poetry
• European net-art
• American e-lit

5. Carmina figurata
Simeon Polotsky
Greeting to Tzar Alexey Michailovich on
Occasion of the Birth of Tzarevich Simeon, 1665

6. Dmitry Avaliani,
Leonid Bourdonov
Horizontal Verses, 2001

7. World Cosmorama, lithography, 1858
from Dmitry Rovinsky
Russian National Pictures
Raek,

8. Russian avante-garde publishing
Vassily Kamensky
Tango with Cows:
Ferro-Concrete Poems, 1914

9. Dziga Vertov
Man with a Movie Camera, 1929

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Anna Tolkacheva Freedom Is, 2011

11. Ivan Khimin
asciiticism

12. Rulinet, Russian Literary Internet
• 90s
• Dmitry Manin Bout Rimes
• Roman Leibov’s ROMAN
• Zhurnal.ru
• Moshkov Library

13. Samizdat
vs
Internet

14. when did Russian E-lit appear?

15. where is Russian E-lit?
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• hypertext My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1995) by Olia Lialina Waste Land (1999)
by Julia Morozova, Shatters (2000) and Voyage X (2000) by Vladimir Tatarintsev;
• hypermedia In the Subway (and Outside) (2001) by Sergey Vlasov and Georgy
Gerdiaev, F.M.Dostoevsky IDIOT (2001) and Starfall (2000) by Alexroma;
• literary games, Boutes Rimes (1995) and Garden of Forking Hokkus (1997) by Dmitry Manin;
• playable media, Avid Angels (2003) and Poetry Puzzle (2000) by Alexroma;
• PowerPoint poem, The Till (2003) by Maxim Borodin.
• flash poetry, Drama in the Forest (2001) and The City (2008) by Georgy Gerdiaev, Signs (2006) by Ivan Levenko, Sonets (2004) by Igor Loschilov and
Georgy Gerdiaev;
• poetry generator Cyber Pushkin (2002) by Sergeij Teterin and scholarly essay generator Robot Datzuk
(1997);

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17. Anna Tolkacheva My Bernstein, 2013

18. ABC, St-Petersburg, Russia
Multi-media performance
Vanessa Place
Ivan Khimin
9 January 2013

21. where is Russian E-lit?
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• IF community
• media poetry groups
• portals

22. Where the Russian E-lit Should be?
• media art festivals (i.e. Cyberfest)
• electronic magazines (TextOnly, Chernovik, Mitin Journal etc) + reviews in printed
magazines (New Literary Observer)
• ELMCIP Knowledge Base
• poetry festivals and Slavistic conferences
• university curricula a nomination in a literary prize (i.e. Andrey Bely Prize)

23. ThankThank you
you
phd.natali@gmail.com
phd.natali@gmail.com