Cris Ortega

I am also very grateful that I was able to co-host a preliminary round of SLAM25 and participate in the meetings of SlamAlphas, TINte, and the BiPoC/Migra network.
Congratulations to Ayşe Irem, who won the German-speaking championship title with fantastic performance poetry and standing ovations!

10.11.2025 08:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We could also talk about the exciting plans for my PhD!
Thanks to the slam scene for enthusiastically supporting my project to research corporeality in poetry slam as public literature in a multimodal and computational approach! Thanks for the many offers of donating performance videos! 💜

10.11.2025 08:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Selfie of Denise Bretz and me in front of the official banner of the publisher Lektora

SLAM25, the international German-speaking poetry slam championship, took place two weeks ago!
I was happy to toast with Denise Bretz from Lektora to celebrate their successful data donation for the creation of a poetry slam corpus of over 3,800 poetry slam texts for my master's thesis last summer 🎉

10.11.2025 08:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm beyond excited to continue my academic career in the rich environment of the RTG Literature and the Public Sphere and the Department DHSS at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg with Anastasia Glawion as my supportive PI.

@anastasiaglawion.bsky.social
@grk2806.bsky.social
@dhssfau.bsky.social
@fau.de

13.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just finished my MA thesis in Digital Humanities in August, for which I created a large-scale digital corpus of published poetry slam texts and examined the textual representation of corporeality in poetry slam. Building on this work, my PhD project expands to a multimodal perspective.

13.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm happy to announce that I am now a fellow of the RTG Literature and the Public Sphere at FAU! 🎉

In my PhD project I'm taking a multimodal approach to corpus creation & slam performance, investigating the role of corporeality in poetry slam.

#DH #CLS

@grk2806.bsky.social
@dhssfau.bsky.social

13.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I really enjoyed Jack Halberstam's lecture on anarchitecture & its relation to trans* bodies at @fau.de today! Material & social cutting of bodies as part of trans* experiences & the use of anarchitectural language to form imaginaries, deeply resonated with me. Can't wait for tomorrow's masterclass!

30.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shantanu Anand's keynote about spoken word poetry in India at #PoPAG @poetryoffthepage.bsky.social was poetry itself!
What a delight to learn about the vibrant slam scene in India. German slam could learn a thing or two about the participatory and activist slam culture shaped by people like him

13.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I am thrilled to participate in the #PoParoundtheGlobe conference and discuss the cutting-edge developments in spoken word research! A lot of new food for thought for my own endeavors in investigating German slam poetry 💜

13.06.2025 08:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm happy that I could share my passion for poetry slam & the potential for scientific exploration in DH, and introduce my corpus of German poetry slam texts at today's presentation! The lively discussion and the exciting Ideas for further use cases will be a massive enrichment for further studies!

14.05.2025 16:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📢New #DHKolloquium tomorrow
🗓️14.05.2025

👨‍🎓Cristian Ortega
💬Corpus creation and analysis and a mixed-methods approach to corporeality in poetry slam texts

👨‍🎓Hyunsook Kim
💬Nam June Paik’s A Tribute to John Cage: Linking Data in Contemporary Art Using Semantic Principles

👉 go.fau.de/1bibd
#FAU @fau.de

13.05.2025 19:50 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Es ist lange überfällig, dass ich mich hier auf BlueSky anmelde. Jetzt ist es soweit 💜 Aktuell bin ich auch auf Insta unter @cris_ortega_slam zu finden

22.01.2025 09:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0