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When TRAUMAWIEN publishes a book, there are standardised details such as the author, date of publication, number of pages, type of binding and information on the language the book is published in. The last of these, however, differs from the usual publisher’s information. Instead of the reference to a natural language one fined details such as Generative Text, IMDB, Feeds, Symbol Language, Cut Up, Skypelog, Logfile, Blogengine, Code Poetry or Keylogger. “We publish digital[ly] born stories”, it says on the TRAUMAWIEN website. “Our range not only includes networked texts, algorithmic texts, interfictions, chatlogs, youtube and twitter streetslangs, codeworks, software art and visual mashup prose. We also research possible touch points between the book as an object and virtual space.” The authors of TRAUMAWIEN use various software as the basis for artistic forms of expression of digital literature. Not only are specific features of the digital system analysed and checked for their aesthetic potential, but the technical-processual background and its codes are also highlighted, as a result of which programming language acquires a new – literary – meaning.

TRAUMAWIEN (since 2010), by Luc Gross et al.