Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices

Tom Abba is a writer and designer working with the form of digital and physical books. He is Associate Professor of Art & Design at UWE Bristol, UK, and a member of UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre. Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media at the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education at UWE Bristol, UK. Jon works across theory and practice and researches technology and cultural form. Kate Pullinger is Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University, UK, and the Director of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries. Her novel Forest Green will be published in 2020. 1.Jon Dovey, Kate Pullinger and Tom Abba, Introduction.- 2.Ian Gadd, Ready Reader One: Recovering Reading as an Ambient Practice.- 3.Michael Marcinkowski, What We Talk About When We Talk About (Ambient Literature) Context.- 4.Matt Hayler, Objects, Places, and Entanglements.- 5.Kate Pullinger and Duncan Speakman, It Must Have Been Dark By Then: An Artist Interview with Duncan Speakman.- 6.Michael Marcinkowski, Developing Ambient Attention.- 7.Jon Dovey and Matt Hayler, Critical Ambience.- 8.Matt Hayler, Jon Dovey and Tom Abba, The Politics of Ambient Literature.- 9.Kate Pullinger and James Attlee, The Cartographers Confession: An Artist Interview with James Attlee.- 10.Michael Marcinkowski,Where I'm Coming From: Studying the Novelty of Immersive Algorithms.- 11.Emma Whittaker, An Aesthetics of Ambient Literature: Experience, Narrative, Design.- 12.Jon Dovey and Kate Pullinger, Breathe: An Artist Interview with Kate Pullinger.- 13.Amy Spencer and Tom Abba, Writing Ambient Literature.