Interested women and Haecksen are advised
to inform themselves of the relevant prizes sponsoring women and of scholarships
for net-literature (Willemer Prize, "Die Höge" etc.).
The winning contribution will receive € 2000.00. In addition up to 3 "honored
mentions" will be announced.
Conditions of participation:
Participation is restricted to men.
The subject of the bachelors’ machine can be treated in the contribution
but this is not obligatory for participation.
The contribution must be submitted at the latest by 30.09.05.
Only web addresses ( URLs) can be submitted.
Jury
Dr. Florian Höllerer (Literaturhaus Stuttgart)
Johannes Auer (artist and curator of Code
- Interface - Concept, Stuttgart)
Dr. Friedrich W. Block (philologist, artist and curator
of the Literary Foundation Brückner-Kühner, Kassel)
Dr. Beat Suter (philologist and editor of edition
cyberfiction, Zürich)
Literaturhaus Stuttgart in co-operation
with Johannes
Auer
Literaturhaus Stuttgart
Breitscheidestrasse 4
D-70174 Stuttgart
Fon +49 (0) 711 – 22 02 17 3
Fax +49 (0) 711 – 22 02 17 48
www.literaturhaus-stuttgart.de
Literaturhaus Stuttgart:
1st Bachelors’ Prize for Net-Literature
1st price:
Florian Cramer: http://plaintext.cc
Honored mentions:
René Bauer: nic-las
Frank Klötgen: Endlose
Liebe - Endless Love
Dirk Schröder: Macelib
>> Statement of the Jury
(in german)
>> Click to see all submissions
1st Bachelors’ Prize for Net-Literature:
What characterizes net-literature? The fact that is has to do with computers
linked to the net, and that it can’t simply be transferred one-to-one
onto paper, of course. And so "net" is the most significant,
primary element of the compound.
So far, what has not been at the center of focus is the actual writing
apparatus, the computer itself, the universal machine, and if one is to
believe Dieter Daniels, a bachelors’ machine. Marcel Duchamp, inventor
of the "Machine Celibataire" defined it in the succinct and
cogent phrase "short-circuit on desire".
The 1st Bachelors’ Prize for Net-Literature is aimed
at making the sterile bachelors’ machine fertile and is calling for entries
in a productive net-literature competition. In accordance with the nature
of the venture, participation is restricted to men.
Issues to be examined and possibly revised are:
- the cliché of the hacker, without any contact to the opposite sex and hence in permanent "bachelor mode" (Daniels), sitting at his computer night after night, trying to penetrate strange systems.
- the topos of the computer-obsessed man who has been dreaming ceaselessly of the machine as the perfect lover ever since E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tale "The Sandman".
- the discriminatory claim that there is a male passion for frickeling around instead of producing art.