智能写作实验与先锋派传统

Intelligent Writing Experiment and the Avant-Garde Tradition

以探索文学革新为目标的计算机写作实验,其前身可追溯至20世纪初的欧洲先锋派运动,这类实验沿着先锋派的传统继续发展,并不断融入新技术以更新其形式。90年代至今,随着数字技术突变迭代和信息化时代的来临,进入新阶段的智能写作实验也呈现出新特征:一方面,代码开源使作品的原创成分进一步消失,基于技术共享的集体写作工程现象出现;另一方面,交互特性得到强调,读者和作家传统的关系被颠覆。在对先锋派传统的继承与改造中,当代智能写作实验进入了“后先锋”的新状态,即高度重视数字技术的作用,力图在数字语境中制造新的艺术语言和新的感性分配格局,同时大幅降低作品的“信噪比”,对主流的商业化审美提出挑战,并揭示信息技术对文艺生产的介入性影响。

The computer writing experiment can be traced back to the European avant-garde movement in the early 20~(th) century. It has been developed in the tradition of the avant-garde, and constantly incorporated new technologies. With the rapid advancement in digital technology since 1990s, intelligent writing experiment has also shown some new features. On the one hand, originality has been diminishing due to open source code, and there are more and more collective writing projects making use of shared sources. On the other hand, interactivity is highlighted and in many new works, the traditional relationship between readers and writers is subverted. Through inheriting and reforming the avant-garde tradition, intelligent writing experiment enters a “post-avant-garde” state, in which the function of digital technology is emphasized to create, in the digital context, new languages of artistic expression as well as a new structure of perception and sensibility, while the “signal-noise ratio” in the works is significantly reduced. This poses a strang challenge to the mainstream commercialized aesthetics and unfolds the intervening impact of digital technology on literary production.