The shortlist and Scandinavian Selection for the “The Public Library Prize for Electronic Literature” 2019 has been selected after carefull scrutiny by the jury. 55 works of literature were submitted for the contest and due to the high quality of works in the pool, it was difficult to select the shortlist. This is why the jury has has choosen to include an honorable mention to a group of works that were runner-ups to the shortlist.
Danish libraries will from autumn 2019 to spring 2021 work with multi literacy in high schools and public schools and present to the general public works of electronic literature. The selection of works from the Prize for Electronic Literature will form the core of this dissemination effort.
The winner will be announced fourth of April at a public event at Dokk1, Aarhus Denmark and online at litteraturesiden.dk.
Shortlist
Mez Breeze: Perpetual Nomads, http://perpetual-nomads.com/
Virtual Reality
Winnie Soon: Vocable Code http://siusoon.net/vocable-code/
Web based
Will Luers: Tales of Automation, http://will-luers.com/tales-of-automation/
Web based
Alan Bigelow: The Forever Club, http://www.webyarns.com/forever/missing/missing.html
Web based
Amira Hanafi: A dictionary of the revolution, http://qamosalthawra.com/en
Web based
Serge Bouchardon and Vincent Volckaert: Loss of Grasp http://lossofgrasp.com
Web based/App
Jason Nelson: Acesulfame K, http://www.dpoetry.com/falling/
Web based
Nordic selection
Simon Theis Hansen: MÅNENS FASER ( Phases of the Moon), https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.exsitu.manensfaser
Android app
Thomas Seest, Christina Hagen, Per Aage Brandt, Kasper Hesselbjerg, Peter Højrup et. al.: Taler til et sted (Talking to a Place), https://vimeo.com/album/4790769
Web based/VR360 Video
Andreas Refsgaard : Poems About Things, http://andreasrefsgaard.dk/project/poems-about-things/
Smartphone/web based
Honorable mentions
Helen Burgess and Margaret Simon: Intimate Fields, https://hyperrhiz.github.io/intimate-fields/
Installation
Mark C. Marino, John Murray, Joellyn Rock, Ken Joseph: Salt Immortal Sea, http://www.lucidbard.com/elit/saltimmortalsea/
Web based
J.R. Carpenter: This is a Picture of Wind, http://luckysoap.com/apictureofwind
Web based
Mikkel Loose Thybo & Andreas Refsgaard: BooksBy.AI, https://booksby.ai/
Web based/Machine Learning
Jacob Riising: SMS fra Karmaboy – Det store pølsemysterium (The Great Sausage Mystery), http://smspress.dk/udgivelser/sms-fra-karmaboy-det-store-polsemysterium/
SMS story