Literatura open source:raport z eksperymentu
Open Source Literature: A Report on an Experiment

Summary/Abstract: In this article Pisarski attempts to classify, analyse and provide an initial evaluation of the literary practice of open source – practices that have made possible by the code layer of digital poetry and prose. Made accessible in the digital era, this layer invites transformations; literary culture is opened up to competition; it raises authorial competence and facilitates collaborative creativity. Pisarski explores e-literary works that are “genuinely digital”. When the creator of a code opens up the computer code and encourages the creation of further works within a given framework, the reaction is not always as expected. Pisarski compares Jasona Nelsona’s digital poetry, Jim Carpenter’s Erica T. Carter project and Nick Montfort’s generative poem Taroko Gorge – one of which Pisarski considers a fully successful attempt; the digitalised reasons include references to the literary tradition of collective action, the choice of an appropriate poetics for the work (such as a narrative point of view), a clear indication of exchangeable elements and referential framework. Summing up, Pisarski sketches out the potential for open source literary practices and their future development.a

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