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Mariusz Pisarski, PhD
Independent researcher; research associate
Departament of Intermedial and Intersemiotic Studies, Warsaw University, (03.11.1973) +4407871452513
[email protected] OBJECTIVE I’m interested in obtaining a position of a lecturer of Comparative Literature, New Media Studies and Polish Studies,
with an emphasis on history of literature, narrative theory, poetics of digital literature and art, Polish language.
PERSONAL PROFILE
Researcher and digital producer. Chief editor of "Techsty" – journal on e-literature. For his work on poetics of hypertext
nominated for Theodor Nelson by ACM (Hypertext 2011 in Eindhoven). Has been creative director for e-literature in
Korporacja Ha!art from Cracow. Author of Xanadu. Hypertextual metamorphosis of prose (Kraków, 2013), editor of Michael
Joyce: a Polish writer (2011) – a chapbook, and Literary hypertexts. Literature and the New Media (with Piotr Marecki). Holds
a PhD degree on hypertext theory and poetics from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In 2012 his PhD received
an award from the National Centre for Culture (Warsaw). Cooperating with the Electronic Literature Organization,
member of ACM. Papers (in Polish, English and Slovakian) were presented in peer reviewed academic publications
(“Cybertext Yearbook”, “ACM Hypertext”, “Slavia Occidentalis”, “Przegląd Humanistyczny”. Talks and presentations
were given at 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.
His translations of digital literature works include Hypertextual Counsciosness by Mark Amerika, L0ve0ne by Judy
Malloy Hegirascope by Stuart Moulthrop , Sea and Spar Between by Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort and a
collaborative opus magnum: afternoon, a story by Michael Joyce.
OCCUPATION AND RESEARCH
2012– CURRENT: Research Associate: Semiotics of literature. Research grant funded by National Centre for Culture and
coordinated by Intersemiotic and Interdiscipilinary Lab, University of Warsaw. Tasks: research in semiotics of digital
storytelling, cyberpoetry and hypertext [grant nr: 2011 NN 103 398340].
2011– CURRENT: Research Associate: Sociology of literature in Poland (1989-2010) according to Pierre Bourdieu: I’m co-
researcher in a 3 – year independent research project funded by the National Centre for Science and coordinated by
Korporacja Ha!art in Cracow. Tasks: writing an academic text book, preparing a reader, and several satellite
publications from the field [grant nr. 2011/01/D/HS2/05129].
2010– CURRENT: Digital producer, 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.
2010– CURRENT: Assistant Manager, The Book Warehouse, London. Managing the bookshop, meeting with the
suppliers, ordering books.
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2003– CURRENT: Chief Editor. “Techsty” – journal on new media and literature. Tasks: publishing hypertext fiction
and poetry, curating an online archive of experimental digital literature written both 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
2014
Culture of Algorithms – a lecture at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava 26. 11. 2014.
Methodological aporias and epiphanies in the studies of electronic literature – a lecture at the symposium "Literatura,
technologie, média", Institute of Literature, Czech Academy of Science, Prague 8. 10. 2014.
What could we gain from digital literature? Classical art through the digital perspective – symposium "Maszyny Kruszenia
Słowa", Jana Długosz Academy, Częstochowa 08. 10. 2014.
Hypertext translation. Theory and Practice [E.Szczęsna, U.Pawlicka, M.Pisarski], "Rocznik Komparatystyczny" 2014/5, s.
373-395).
Brunon Schulz na cyfrowo. Sieciowa gra paragrafowa "Bałwochwał" i przyszłość adaptacji Schulza na ekranie komputera, in: "Czas
Kultury" 2014, nr 1.
2013
From Meaning to Interaction and Back. New functions of the Literary in Cyberpoetry and Hypertext, “Przegląd Humanistyczny”
2013, nr 2 (437). [pl]
Translational Game - distributed translation. Translating ‘Sea and Spar Between’, (with Monika Górska-Olesińska), ELO
Conference, Paris, 25.09.2013 [eng]
Strategies of e-poetry in Poland and Elsewhere, a talk given at the conference e-Poetry, Kingston University, London
17-20.06.2013 [eng].
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 [eng].
Digital Text: Interpretation and Evaluation, in: Liberature, e-literature and... Remixes, Remediations, Redefinitions, ed. M.
Górska-Olesińska, University of Opole Press 2013 [pl].
Strategies 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 [pl].
2012
From Storyspace to Browsers. Translating Michael Joyce’s “afternoon a story”: a talk given at the conference “Translating ELiterature”, 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 Digital Forms, in: Media in Literature. Literature in Media, ed.
K.Taborska, W. Kuska, Gorzów 2012 [pl].
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 [pl].
When Hardware and Software Become an Obstacle. Towards Archeology of Digital Literacy, “Ha!art” 2012, nr. 38.
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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 [eng]
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 [eng]
Book Versus New Media, “Magazyn Literacki” [“Tygodnik Powszechny”], 02.11.2011 [pl]
Do You Want to Read About It? Reading Michael Joyce, in: Literary Hypertexts. Literature and New Media, ed. Piotr Marecki,
Mariusz Pisarski, Kraków 2011 [pl]
Text as a Mine Field. On Aesthetics of Hyperlink, From Liberature to e-literature, ed. Eugeniusz Wilk, Monika GórskaOlesińska, University of Opole Press 2011 [pl]
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 [pl].
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 a 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].
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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 and E-BOOKS
Xanadu. Hypertextual metamorphosis of prose, Kraków 2013 [author].
Obsessive anticipation [on works of Wojciech Bruszewski], Kraków 2013 [editor, with Piotr Marecki]
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 [editor].
Literary hypertext. Literature and new media (editor, with Piotr Marecki), Kraków: Korporacja Ha!art 2011, ISBN
978-83-62574-09-4 [editor].
Michael Joyce. Polish Writer, ed. Mariusz Pisarski, Kraków 2011. ISBN 978-83-62574-40-7 [editor].
Digital works: adaptations / translations / productions
Bałwochwał [pl] – an internet gamebook based on the stories of Bruno Schulz [co-op with Marcin
Bylak], Ha!art 2013. Tasks: concept, programming, editing, art direction.
Sea and Spar Between [pl] by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland [co-op with Monika GórskaOlesińska], Techsty 2013. Tasks: translation, coding, web design.
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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.
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.
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Rh+ – a hypertext fiction by Joanna Roszak, Techsty 2003. Tasks: concept, production, web
design.
Talks, workshops and courses
Pixel and Lyre, nationwide summer workshops on digital literature for authors that I gave in Poznań, Wrocław, Warsaw,
Łódź, Kraków, 06-09.08. 2013.
Experimental literature in Poland, a series of talks, presentations and public interviews with authors during Ha!wangarda
– international literary festival in Kraków, 03-05. 10. 2013.
E-books for everyone, summer workshops on e-book creation tools, Kraków, 11-13.07. 2012.
Experimental literature in Poland, a series of talks, presentations and public interviews with authors during Ha!wangarda
– international literary festival in Kraków, 6-7.09.2012.
Pułka versus Google, generative poetry workshop, Kraków 07.09, 2012.
Strategies of interactivity. On Polish Cyberpoetry and the Languages of New Media, talk given at Slovakian Academy of
Science, Bratislava, Slovakia, 04.05.2011, Brno, Czech Republic 05.05.2011 [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 Department of Theory and History of Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Kołobrzeg, November 1998 [pl].
Poetics, an academic course given at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 01.10.1999-30.06.2000.
EDUCATION
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, Poznań and prof. Anna Łebkowska,
Jagiellonian Universty, Cracow
Defended on 17.01.2012.
Master’s degree: Postmodernism in Polish Literary Criticism Between 1989 - 1996, “Czas Kultury”, “Nowy Nurt”, “Fa-Art”.
Granted 30.06.1997. Supervisor: prof. Bogusław Bakuła, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
SKILLS
General skills in teaching and writing, designing and editing content for journals, online academic compendiums, ebooks. General skills in e-literature production
Computing, Design and Editorial Skills: Web desing and programming tools: Dreamweaver, TextWrangler, Graphic
Design tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Visual data and project management tools: Tinderbox, Storyspace. Editing
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tools: Microsoft Office, Pages, Keynote, Scrivener. Programmming languages: html, css, javascript. Operating Systems:
Mac, Windows.
Teaching Skills: 1 year teaching experience: univeristy course on poetics. Have lead several worshops for
undergraduates and postgraduates.
Time Management: I'm used to work under deadlines in the research projects and editorial jobs I have (Ha!art,
Tedchsty). It was important to complete my post-PhD book within 6 months and conclude it with a lecturing tour and
this I did successfully. I have extensive experience of juggling different tasks and bringing these to a successful
conclusion.
REFEREES Ewa Szczęsna: Profesor, Zakład Komparatystyki, Instytut Literatury Polskiej UW, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Polska.
Nick Montfort: Associate Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
14N–233, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Bogumiła Suwara: Associate professor, Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Konventná 13, 813
64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
AWARDS
2010: My paper on poetics of hypertext was nominated for Theodor Nelson Award during international conference
ACM Hypertext 2010, held by American Association for Computing Machinery in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2012: My PhD dissertation was granted the second award during the yearly nationwide competition for best PhD
thesis held by National Centre For Culture in Cracow.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
1. Member of the American Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2. Member of the Electronic Literature Organization.