Mariusz Pisarski, PhD!

Departament of Intersemiotic and Intermedial Studies , University of Warsaw(03.11.1973) +4407871452513mariusz.pisarski@techsty.art.pl !

!!Scholar, literary critic, editor, translator, journalist specialising in avant-garde literature, new media, future of the book and publishing, comparative studies (transmedial storytelling). My main field of interest has been hypertext, electronic literature and user interfaces, but I also have a broad experience as a radio journalist and reporter (7 years). In 2012 I was awarded a PhD degree (01/2012), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. In 2011 I was nominated for Theodor Nelson award during ACM Hypertext Conference, Eindhoven (organised by American Association for Computing Machinery). In 2012 my PhD was awarded by National Centre for Culture (Warsaw). I’m Cooperating with Electronic Literature Organization (MIT) and I’m a member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery (New York). !

My publications and talks (in Polish, English and Slovakian) were presented in peer reviewed academic publications and in places I was honoured to present my reflections (Slovak Academy of Science, University Paris 8, Kingston University London, University of Bergen, University of Jyväskylä, Technical University Eindhoven, Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, Bunkier Gallery in Cracow). !

!Current occupation !2011– CURRENT: Research Associate: Sociology of literature in Poland (1989-2010) according to Pierre Bourdieu: I’m co-researcher in an independent research 3 year project funded by National Centre for Culture and coordinated by Korporacja Ha!art in Cracow. Tasks: writing the academic text book, preparing a reader, and several satellite publications from the field [grant nr: 2011/01/D/HS2/05129]. !

2012– CURRENT: Research Associate: Semiotics of literature. Research grant funded by National centre for Culture and coordinated by Department of Intersemiotic Studies, Warsaw University. Tasks: research in semiotics of digital storytelling, cyberpoetry and hypertext. !

2010– CURRENT: Editor, digital editor, Ha!art publishing house, Cracow. Tasks: co-ordinator and producer of digital adaptations of literary work, producer of e-literature works, translator, reviewer, creation of e-books. !

2003– CURRENT: Chief Editor. “Techsty” – journal on new media and literature. Tasks: publishing hypertext fiction and poetry, curating the online archive of experimental digital literature written in Polish or translated from other languages, publishing yearly issues of the “Techsty” magazine on theory and criticism of new media art and literature.

!Selected publications / presentations !2013 From hyperlinks to heartbeat links. Remediating the hyperlink: Storyspace to iPad and beyond, a talk given at the conference Remediacia: w kontexte transcisciplinarity, Bratislava 17.01-18.01.2013. !

Digital text: interpretation and evaluation, in: Liberature, e-literature and... Remixes, remediations, redefinitions, ed. M. Górska-Olesińska, University of Opole Press 2013.!

Startegies of meaning in digital art, Proceeding of the International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design, North Cyprus 02-04.05, <http://www.cmdconf.net/2013/makale/PDF/49.pdf> [eng]!

“Speak and die”. Word, body and the web in the Arab Spring, “Fragile” 2013, nr 2. !

Startegies of e-poetry in Poland and elsewhere, a talk given at the conference e-Poetry, Kingston University, London 17-20.06.2013 [eng]. !

From meaning to interaction and back. New functions of the literary in cyberpoetry and hypertext, “Przegląd Humanistyczny” 2012, nr 2 (437). !

!2012

From Storyspace to Browsers. Translating Michael Joyce’s “afternoon a story”: a talk given at the conference “Translating E-Literature”, Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, June 12-14, 2012 [eng]. !

The many faces of digital adaptation, a talk given at the conference “Quo vadis elektronická kultúra?”, Slovak Academy of Science, 26-27.09. 2011 Bratislava [eng].!

When the medium speaks: transformations of narrative in the digital forms, in: Media in Literature. Literature in Media, ed. K.Taborska, W. Kuska, Gorzów 2012.!

The magic of interactives. Be (with) a child in the digital environment, a talk given at the conference “The word in children’s art”, Poznań 22-25.10.2012. !

When hardware and software become an obstacle. Towards archeology of digital literacy, “Ha!art” 2012, nr. 38.!

2011

New Plots for Hypertext, Proceedings of ACM Conference Hypertext 2011, New York–Eindhoven, Sheridian Press 2011. [eng].!

Hypertext and intertextuality. Affinities and Discordances, “Porównania” nr 1, 2011. !

Struktures of empathy. On the works of Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka, Catalogue of exhibition “Te[k]sty” by Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa 25.04–15.06 2011. [eng.]!

New challanges for text adaptation in digital environment. On Polish translation of afternoon, a story by Michael Joyce, “Slavia Occidentalis” 2011., nr 2.!

Book versus new media, “Magazyn Literacki” [“Tygodnik Powszechny”], 02.11.2011!

Do you want to read about it? Reading Michael Joyce, in: Literary hypertexts. Literature and New Media, ed. Piotr Marecki, Mariusz Pisarski, Kraków 2011.!

Text as a mine field. On aesthetics of hyperlink, From Liberature to e-literature, ed. Eugeniusz Wilk, Monika Górska-Olesińska, University of Opole Press 2011.!

!2010

Silva Rerum - A Book of Everything on Anything as a Cybertextual Experience, “Cybertext Yearbook 2010”, ed. R.Koskimaa, M. Eskelinen, Univeristy of Jyväskylä, [http://cybertext.hum.jyu.fi/index.php?browsebook=7, access date: 02.06. 2010], [eng]. !

In the Textual Caves of Malgorzata Dawidek-Gryglicka. Nonlinearity and Ergodicity in "A Short History of an Accident" and "Definition", “Cybertext Yearbook 2010”, University of Jyväskylä, ibidem. [eng].!

Contingency in literature and games, “Kultura” nr 50, Warsaw 2010, s. 26 [pl]. !

Under the glass and crystal. How do we read a digital text. “Dekada Literacka” 1 - 2 (239 -240), Kraków 2010, s. 24 - 31 [pl]. !

Proud, smart and naked. Cultural initiatives in the Polish internet 1998 – 2010, w: Kultura niezależna w Polsce, ed. P. Marecki, Kraków 2010.!

!2009

There is more to cybertext than cyber. Constructive level in contemporary Polish silvae rerum, paper prepared for Symposium Electronic Literature in Europe, University of Bergen, September 2009, available at: http://elmcip.net/sites/default/files/attachments/criticalwriting/pisarski_fullpaper.pdf [eng].!

The moving floe poetics. Introduction to the kinetics of a networked text, in: Tekst w sieci, vol 1, ed. A. Gumkowska, Wydawnictwo Profesjonalne i Akademickie, Warsaw 2009, p. 93 - 112, [pl],. !

Lector in (cyber)fabula. Reader of the networked text, „Techsty” 6(2)/2008. [http://techsty.art.pl/magazyn/magazyn5/artykuly/pisarski01.html, pobrano: 02.06.09] [pl]. !

Methodological Traps in Digital Literature Studies, e-Polonistyka, ed. J.S Żurek, A. Dziak, Lublin Catholic University, Poland, 2009 [pl].!

!2003-2008

Hypertext, a story. Ups and down of hypertext novel, “Artpapier” 4(100) 2008 [ http://artpapier.com/?pid=2&cid=15&aid=1203, access date: 2.06.2010 ] [pl].!

Evolution of net.art in the age of YouTube and Video Mobile Phones, or How to be (not only) an Internet Artist According to Mark Amerika, "Kultura Popularna", nr 1 (19) 2008 [pl].!

Character Evaluation in Computer Games (Neverwinter Nights). “Homo Communicativus” 3(5) ed. A. Surdyk and J. Z Szeja, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (co-written with Dorota Sikora) 2008 [pl]. !

Alice in New Media Land. Toward Transmedial Genology. "Slavia Occidentalis" nr 1, 2008 [pl].!

Poetry of the powerlines. A cybernetic verse, Catalogue of the exhibition “fail.unlimited”, Galeria AT, Poznań 20-14.03 2008 [eng.]!

Hypertext: redefinitions, “Techsty” 1 (3) 2006, [http://www.techsty.art.pl/magazyn3/hipertekst/hipertekst.html, access date: 02.06.2010 ] [pl].!

Hypertext Liberature? On “Koniec Swiata Wedlug Emeryka”, "Ha-Art" nr 2, 2005 [pl]. !

I'm Here and You There. Polish Hypertext Novel and Literary Canon, talk at “the New Media and Literary Studies” conference, Lodz University, Poland, November 2004. (co-written with Joanna Roszak) [pl].!

Discrete charm of hypertext. Mariusz Pisarski talks with Andrzej Mochola, Liternet.pl, ed. Piotr Marecki, Krakow 2003 [pl].!

Cartographers and the compilers. On Polish Hypertext Fictions and Theory, Liternet.pl, ed. Piotr Marecki, Krakow 2003 [pl]. !

Hyperfiction Compendium, Liternet.pl, ed. Piotr Marecki, Krakow 2003 [pl].!

Novel as a mirror of the mind. On classical hypertext fictions: “afternoon, a story”, “Patchwork Girl”, “Victory Garden”, Liternet, ed. Piotr Marecki. Krakow 2002. [pl]!

!BOOKS !The World in Hyper(de)Scription: On the Film-poems of Katarzyna Giełżyńska, editor, with Piotr Marecki), Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art 2012, ISBN 978-83-62574-78-0. !

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Literary hypertext. Literature and new media (editor, with Piotr Marecki), Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art 2011, ISBN 978-83-62574-09-4. !

Michael Joyce. Polish Writer, ed. Mariusz Pisarski, Kraków 2011. ISBN 978-83-62574-40-7!

!Digital works: adaptations / translations / productions !

Sea and Spar Between [pl] by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland [co-op with Monika Górska-Olesińska], Techsty 2013. Tasks: translation, coding, web design.!

!!Interactive, spatial, web adaptation of Jan Potocki’s Manuscript Found in Saragossa for Ha!art publishing house, 2012. Tasks: concept, editing, web-design, coding, art direction [artworks by Jakub Niedziela]!

!C()n Du It – video-poems by Katarzyna Giełżyńska, Korporacja Ha!art 2012. Tasks: production, web design.!

!!Schemat – a hypertext fiction by Konrad Polak, Korporacja Ha!art 2012. Tasks: concept, production, web design, hypertext design. !

!!afternoon, a story by Michael Joyce [pl], Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków 2011. Tasks: concept, coding assistance translating secondary text level, technical translation. !

!!Blueberries, a hypertext by Susan Gibb [pl], [http://ha.art.pl/hiperteksty/czarne_jagody/czarne_jagody.html] 2011. Tasks: translation, web design.!

!!Hegirascope - Stuart Moulthrop [pl][http://techsty.art.pl/HGS/index.html] 2008. Tasks: translation.!

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The Theatre Tree (a combinatory play) - Paul Fournel and Jean-Pierre Enard [pl] [ http://www.techsty.art.pl/magazyn2/oulipo/dramat/dramat.html] 2006. Tasks: translation, concept, web design.!

!L0ve0ne - hyperfiction by Judy Malloy, [http://www.techsty.art.pl/malloy/love1.html]

2003. Tasks: translation.!

!!Hypertextual Consciousness - Mark Amerika [http://www.techsty.art.pl/amerika/htc1.0.html] 2003. Tasks: translation. !

!!Rh+ – a hypertext fiction by Joanna Roszak, Techsty 2003. Tasks: concept, production, web design.!

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Talks, speaches and appearances !When the medium speaks: transformations of narrative in the digital forms, talk given at Media in Literature. Literature in Media, Gorzów Wlkp 11.10.2011. !

Strategies of interactivity. On Polish cyberpoetry and the languages of new media, talk given at Slovakian Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovakia, 04.05.2011 [eng].!

Strategies of interactivity. On Polish cyberpoetry and the languages of new media, presentation on festival Multiplace, Bratislava, Slovakia, 04.05.2011; Brno, Czech Republic 05.05.2011 [eng]. !

There is more to cybertext than “cyber”. Constructive level in contemporary Polish silvae rerum. Article sent for Electronic Literature in Europe Conference, University of Bergen, Norway, 11-13.09.2008 [eng].!

Text like a machine. Public reading of a hypertext novel. Dom Nauki i Sztuki, Józefów 23.11.2007. !

Rhizome - non- linear models of narrative a talk given at “Non - existent entries in the Dictionary of Literary Terms” - assizes of Departament of Theory and History of Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Kołobrzeg, November 1998 [pl].!

!Qualifications !PhD dissertation Hypertext metamorphosis of prose. Conditions for the text meaning in a digital, networked environment presented for assessment. Supervisor: Prof. Bogusław Bakuła, Adam Mickiewicz University!

Review committee: prof. Aleksander Mikołajczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan and prof. Anna Łebkowska, Jagiellonian Universty, Cracow!

Defended on 17.01.2012.!

Master’s degree: Postmodernism in Polish literary critics between 1989 - 1996, “Czas Kultury”, “Nowy Nurt”, “Fa-Art”. Granted 30.06.1997. Supervisor: prof. Bogusław Bakuła, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. [the scan of my diploma attached]