About Techsty

Techsty is a Polish internet service for those interested in the subject of literature and new media, hypertext theory, ergodic literature, computer game theory and all forms of e-texts and literary activity on the web in which the language of the digital environment is not taken for granted, but is a subject of artistic considerations. Techsty has been on the web since 2001.

We present articles on hypertext and game theory by young Polish scholars and hypertext fictions and digital poetry by Polish writers. Among them - Radek Nowakowski, dr Muto, Sławomir Shuty, Dorota Sikora, Mariusz Pisarski, Grzegorz Stunża. Important part of Techsty editorial work are the translations of the most important examples of digital texts theory and practice, including Robert Coover, Mark Amerika, Judy Malloy, Stuart Moulthrop, Stefan Maskiewicz, Mark Bernstein. Our approach towards literature is rather of the avant-garde perspective and tradition, but the approach towards particular literary works is rather practical and functional, closer to poetics than metaphysics. Hence the broad section on hypertext poetics and rhetorics as well as hypertext avant-garde roots in the "hypertext" section as well as a presentation of some of the interesting experiments of OuLiPo in the "magazine" section. In the blog "Elektroblog" the more personal and informal perspective on all the subjects covered in Techsty

    Note about the authors:
  • Dorota Sikora - graduate of Wroclaw University, currently in the final stages of her phd dissertation on hypertext in Wroclaw.
  • Emilia Branny-Jankowska, graduate od Cracow University, PhD on cybertext in Theory of Literature Department.
  • Andrzej Pająk - editor of computer magazine CHIP, graduate of Warsaw University
  • Mariusz Pisarski - graduate of Literary Studies in Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, currently in the final stages of his phd defence process, disseration on hypertext theory in the Comparative Literature Department.

ENGLISH CONTENT

Zenon Fajfer: Ars Poetica

Magda Tyzlik-Carver: Distributed art of invisible networks Notes on network politics:

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