Electronic Literature Organization 2015: The End(s) of Electronic Literature
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04.08.2015 to 07.08.2015
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University of Bergen
Bergen
Norway
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"The End(s) of Electronic Literature" Conference took place August 5-7, 2015, and was hosted by the BEL, the Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group at the University of Bergen. Pre-conference workshops took place on August 4th. The call for papers and works resulted in more than 300 submissions and selections have been made for the conference, performances, and exhibitions. (Source: http://conference.eliterature.org/2015)
Critical writing presented:
| Title | Author | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| The Endgame for Electronic Literature? | Diogo Marques | |
| "Jailbreaking the Global Mnemotechnical System: Electropoetics as Resistance" | Davin Heckman | poetics, subversion, control, mnemotechnics, posthuman, inhuman, individuation |
| "Learn to taste the tea on both sides": AR, Digital Ekphrasis, and a Future for Electronic Literature | Robert Fletcher | augmented reality, electronic literature, digital ekphrasis, mediation, printed texts, multimodality, ekphratic poetry, epistolary novel, intermediation, performativity, locative poetry, born digital |
| A Language Apparatus | Simon Biggs | interaction, machine interpretation, recombinant poetics, virtual reality, performativity |
| A Stitch in Twine: Platform Studies and Porting Patchwork Girl | James Brown Jr. | Patchwork Girl, platform studies, twine, Storyspace, hypertext fiction, media-specific analysis |
| A Workbench for Analyzing Electronic Literature | Mark C. Marino | electronic literature, collaboration, scholarship, tools, digital humanities |
| Abandoned and Recycled Electronic Literature: Jean-Pierre Balpe’s La Disparition du Général Proust | Jonathan Baillehache | text generation, internet, French, poetry, Balpe, recycling, aesthetics of ruins, unoriginalty, hoarding, failure, electronic literature |
| Archiving Electronic Literature Beyond its End: Archiving Nordic Works at an Academic Library, a Presentation of a Collaboration in Progress within the University of Bergen | Patricia Tomaszek, Aud Gjersdal | archiving, preservation, digital obsolescence, database, acrchive, born digital, ELINOR, ELMCIP Knowledge Base |
| Archiving Roundtable | Leonardo L. Flores, Marjorie C. Luesebrink, Stephanie Strickland, Rui Torres | archiving, electronic literature, Electronic Literature Collection, hypermedia, hypertext, digital narrative, digital poetry, preservation, collection, curation, obolescence |
| Aurature and the End(s) of Electronic Literature | John Cayley | Auarlity, Aurature, electronic literature, digital literature, programmable media, writing in programmable media, grammatology, programmatology, sound art |
| Beneath the Surface: System Representation and Reader Reception in Electronic Literature | Alex Mitchell, Tiffany Neo | reader response, system representation, user interface, empirical study, procedural hypertext |
| Between Paper and Touchscreen: Building the Bridge with Children's Book | Kamil Kamysz, Marcin Wichrowski | interactivity, digital storytelling, ergonomy for children, fine motor skills development, usability tests, user study, e-books, readers, touchscreens, interface, display |
| Beyond the Screens: Transmediality in E-literature | Domingo Sánchez-Mesa, Rui Torres, Nieves Rosendo Sánchez | NAR_TRANS, ELO, I+D+i system, transmedial narratives, intermediality, transmediality, networking, locative narrative, distributed narrative, remediation, adaptation, e-poetry, immersive theatre |
| Boolean Poetics: The Search String as Post-Literary Technique | Chris Rodley | data, bigdata, remix, conceptualism, boolean, literary, postliterary, algorithm, rodley, burrell, buzzfeed, bots |
| Bringing Scandinavian E-Lit in from the Edges | Melissa Lucas | Scandinavian, e-lit, danish |
| Can We Define Electronic Literature Such as Authoring Tool Literature? | Odile Farge | authoring tool, electronic literature, rhetoric, figures, imaginary, digital tools, cultural software, remediation |
| CELL ROUNDTABLE - The Consortium for Electronic Literature | Sandy Baldwin, Maria Angel, Leonardo L. Flores, Anna Gibbs, María Goicoechea, Robert Kalman, Eric Dean Rasmussen, Johannah Rodgers, Patricia Tomaszek, Rui Torres | CELL, online database, electronic literature, index, search engine, archiving, databases, taxonomy |
| Conditions of Presence: The Topology of Network Narratives | David M. Meurer | network, narrative, participation, user generated content, digital fiction, media consumption, authorial agency |
| Curating and Creating Electronic Works in Arts Contexts | Roderick Coover, Sandy Baldwin, Dene Grigar, Mia Zamora | exhibition, curating, Public, art, theory, interdisciplinary, collaboration, Audience, alienation, Despair, contexts, conditions, public space, ideological issues, political issues |
| Data Visualization Poetics | María Mencía | data visualisation poetics, app, software, programming, open data, internet, translation, e-calligrams, elit, collaboration |
| Digital Artists' Books and Augmented Fictions: A New Field in Digital Literature? | Lucile Haute, Alexandra Saemmer, Aurélie Herbet, Emeline Brulé, Nolwenn Trehondart | hyperfiction, enhanced e-books, digital publishing, artist book, e-album, augmented |
| Digital Games: The New Frontier of Postmodern Detective Fiction | Clara Fernández-Vara | detective fiction, videogames, exegesis, postmodern literature, appropriation, genre, narrative, digital games, identity |
| Digital Letterisms | Natalia Fedorova | letterism, ASCII art, visual poetry, posdigital art, asemic writing |
| Digital Scherenschnitte / Video Compositing with Cut-ups and Collage | Alison Aune, Joellyn Rock | workshop, mixed media, visual arts, collage, paper-cutting, silhouettes, digital composition, exhibiting electronic literature |
| Digitising Ariadne’s Thread: Feminism, Excryption, and the Unfolding of Memory in Digital Spaces | Maria Angel, Anna Gibbs | digital memory, electronic literature, feminism, excryption, gender, digitization |
| Documenting Events and Works in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base | Scott Rettberg, Álvaro Seiça, Patricia Tomaszek | workshop, ELMCIP, preservation, archiving, ELO conferences, documentation, practices, libraries, ephemera, ELMCIP Knowledge Base |
| E-literary Diaspora – The Story of a Young Scholar's Journey from Writing to Faces | Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen | genre, Diaspora, new media art, close reading, Faces, Kim Yong Hun, composite portrait, fag face mask, composite face, facial weaponization suite project |
| Electronic Literature as a Means to Overcome the Supremacy of the Author Function | Heiko Zimmermann | author, author function, authorship, blog, fiction, Charles Cumming, electronic literature, ideology, literature, mashup, Michael Joyce, Michel Foucault, A Million Penguins reader, Renée Turner, She…, Slice, TeCEU chart, textual action space, Toby Litt, visualization, We Tell Stories |
| Electronic Literature as Action and Event: Participatory Culture and “The Literary” | Rob Wittig, Stuart Moulthrop, Lane Hall | performativity, social media, netprov, Social impacts, electronic literature, overpass light brigade, wisconsin milwaukee |
| End over End | Espen Aarseth, Stuart Moulthrop | approach to electronic literature, roots, origins, history of electronic literature, contemporary art, theory, interactive fiction, contemporary electronic literature, text generation, conceptualism, future, ontologies, discourse |
| Ephemeral Words, Ephemeral People: Suicide and Choice in Twine Games | Anastasia Salter | twine, text erasure, interactive fiction, suicide, choice, games, ephemera, hypertext, deletion |
| Fandom Vs. E-Lit: How Communities Organize | Flourish Klink | fandom, e-literature, community, fanfic, academic conferences, resources, born digital |
| Female Voices in Hispanic Digital Literature | María Goicoechea, Laura Sánchez Gómez | Female authors, Hispanic digital literature, Marla Jacarilla, Tina Escaja, Dora García, Teresa Martín Ezama, techno-cultural identity, gender discourse |
| Fill in the Blanks: Narrative, Digital Work and Intermediality | Ariane Savoie | intermediality, Figural, literature, cinema, narrative, hypermedia, Reality and Fiction, paper, DVD-ROM, fiction, non-fiction |
| From Mechanism to Subjectivity: The Posthumanist Performativity of Electronic Literature | Jörgen Schäfer | literary theory, performativity, ANT, actor-network theory, distributed agencies, translations, media technologies |
| From The Unknown to Piksel Zdrój: Collaboration in E-literature: Models, Newcomers, Predictions | Mariusz Pisarski | collaboration, creativity, digital tools, analytical model, history of e-literature, e-literature in Eastern Europe, hypertext fiction, digital adaptation, narratology, semiotics |
| Guardians of the Gutenberg Galaxy: a Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries | David Devanny | Cultural authority, resistance, British poetry, print publishing, page based poetry, distinction |
| History of Digital Poetry in France | Philippe Bootz, Jonathan Baillehache | French digital poetry, ELMCIP, history, documentation |
| Hypermediacy in Garmann's summer | Kristin Ørjasæter | children's literature, Picturebook applications, Remediation theory, Hypermediacy, narratology, literary modernism, focalisation, perspective, narration, cognitive competencies |
| If the Message Is the Medium, Then There Is No End: Understanding and Defining Materiality in Representational and Communicative Practices Across Media | Johannah Rodgers | media, materiality, textual dynamics, digital writing and reading practices, technologies of representation, communication practices, representational practices |
| Imagination, Eventhood, and the Literary Absolute | Mario Aquilina, Ivan Callus, Gordon Calleja | literary event, literary absolute, literariness, imagination, games |
| Interaction Between Art and Literature in Arab Digital Poetry and the Issue of Criticism | Eman Younis | Interaction between art and literature, Hypercritic, Archigenre, Archiarts, digital rhetoric |
| Intermediality and Electronic Literature | John F. Barber, Caitlin Fisher, Samantha Gorman, Dene Grigar | ELO 2015, ELO conferences, intermediality, electronic literature, academic diciplines, artistic practice, intermedial practice, literature, performance, sound, computation, viual art, physical computing, hybridity, syncretism, collaboration, multimediality, innovation, development |
| It Is the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine | Markku Eskelinen | electronic literature, literary theory, literary practice, literary history |
| Jokes, Prompts and Models: Engaging Player Collaboration in Netprov | Rob Wittig | netprov, collaboration, game, transmedia, participatory, improv, electronic literature |
| Keleti Blokk Blokki Facebook Game as an Example of Non-fiction Literary Flash | Kaja Puto, Martyna Nowicka | games, former Eastern Bloc, Eastern Europe, visual antropology, theory of stereotypes, non-fiction literary flash |
| Kid E-lit elektronisk litterature for barn og ungdom | Jill Walker Rettberg, Lucas Ramada Prieto | childrens' literature, curating electronic literature, electronic literature, exhibiting electronic literature |
| Latin American Electronic Literature and Its Own Ends | Claudia Kozak | Latin America, Aesthetic/Political Search, Glocalisation, hegemonic global imaginaries, technological modernisation, interculturalism, utopia, materiality |
| Letter to an Unknown Soldier: A Participatory Writing Project | Kate Pullinger | participatory media, writing, digital writing, war memorials, collaborative writing, crowd-sourced writing projects, transmedia writing, public art, World War One |
| Literary Experiments with Automatic Translation: A Case Study of a Creative Experiment Involving King Ubu and Google Translate | Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki | machine translation, automatic translation, Google Translate, King Ubu, pataphisics |
| Literary Interaction in the Age of the Post-Digital | Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Jonas Fritsch | post-digital aesthetics, literary interaction, interface criticism |
| Literary Spamming in Games: Cold Dust in Lord of the Rings Online and Endgame in Counter-Strike | Sandy Baldwin | games, gaming, spam, politics, intervention, online performance space, literary traditions, drama, theatre, defamiliarization |
| Live Performance, Voicescapes, and Remixing the Under Language: Sounds and Voices at the End(s) of Electronic Literature | John F. Barber, Hazel Smith, Roger Dean | sound-composition, digital-voice-manipulation, remixing, intermedia, under-language, new-media-writing, voicescape, live-performance, live-algorithms, live-coding |
| Live Writing | Otso Huopaniemi | workshop, creative writing, human-computer interaction, speech recognition, improvisation, dramatic writing, misrecognition, technological dysfunction, performative writing |
| Locative Audio Play | Jon Hoem | micro positioning, audio play, locative literature, environment, mediation, auditive text, fiction, dialogue, cell phones |
| Motions in Digital Young Adult Literature | Ayoe Quist Henkel | digital young adult literature, multimodality, intermediality, interaction, cross media reading, digital turn, young adult, aesthetics, reader perception, reader reception, lliterary artifact |
| Multimedia Authoring in Scalar | Samantha Gorman | workshop, digital scholarship, digital platforms, interactive publications, Scalar |
| Murmurs, Open Corpus of Online Written Poetry – The End of Isolated Poems | José Aburto | big data, online written poetry, hypertext, network, Poetic, algorithm, e-poetry, aesthetics, literary criticism, computation |
| Narrative Theory after Electronic Literature | Daniel Punday | digital poetry, narrative theory, Bakhtin, media ecology |
| Narrative, Affect and Materialist Aesthetics in Post-Digital Technotexts | Eric Dean Rasmussen | narrative, affect, materiality, materialist aesthetics, technotexts, digital fiction, affective hermeneutics, narrativity, post-print fiction |
| On Landscape as an Interface: Textuality, Walking Practices and Augmented Location in Notes for Walking | Megan Heyward | locative narrative, locative media, locative, site-specific, place-based storytelling, pilgrimage, walking practices, Shikoku, Poetic, augmented reality, AR, Notes for Walking, Sydney Festival |
| p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit | André Sier, Silvestre Pestana, Rui Torres, E. M. de Melo e Castro, Pedro Barbosa, Manuel Portela, Józef Żuk Piwkowski, Piotr Puldzian Płucienniczak | Portuguese experimental literature, PO.EX, Portuguese e-lit, Polish e-lit, p2p, digital poetry, videopoetry, ZX Spectrum |
| Performance Art, Experimental Poetry and Electronic Literature in Portugal: An Intermedial Archive to an Intermedial Practice of Language | Sandra Guerreiro Dias, Bruno Ministro | performance art, experimental poetry, electronic literature, performative archive, dynamic notion of time |
| Polish Impact | Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Katarzyna Giełżyńska, Monika Górska Olesińska, Mariusz Pisarski, Kaja Puto, Zenon Fajfer | Polish e-lit, Polish experimental literature, brochure |
| Protest Bots | Mark Sample | twitter, bots, tactical media, protest, algorithmic culture |
| Publishing without a Publisher's Peritext: Electronic Literature, the Web, and Paratextual Integrity | Patricia Tomaszek | paratext, peritext, publishing, web architecture, paratextual web |
| Reading Apps: An Exploratory Research on Children’s E-lit Reading Profiles | Lucas Ramada Prieto | Children's E-lit, Literary Education, Digital Reading Habits, childrens' literature, children's electronic literature, affective relations, interpretation of texts |
| Reading, Seeing, and Sensing: The Internet of Things Makes Literature | Elizabeth Losh | augmented reality, hci, object-oriented ontology, exigence theory, multimodal works, multimedia, modernism, immediacy, hypermediation, remediation, incommunication |
| Remediating a Hyperfiction in ePub3: When Digital Literature Meets Publishing Models - The Case of Children’s Literature with The Tower of Jezik | Nolwenn Trehondart, Émilie Barbier | digital publishing, enhanced e-books, remediation, hyperfiction, digital reading, young readers, ePub, ideology, software and hardware industry |
| Renderings: An E-Lit Translation Project | Nick Montfort | translation, poetry generators, computational literature, constrained writing, porting, editing, collaboration |
| Research and Practice in Electronic Poetry in Ireland | Anne Sofia Karhio, Jeneen Naji, Michael J. Maguire, James O’Sullivan | digital poetics, poetic culture, electronic publishing, digital landscape, multicultural poetics |
| Revisiting the Spam Folder: Using 419-fiction for Interactive Storytelling. A Practical Introduction | Linda Kronman, Andreas Zingerle | interactive narratives, scammers, scambaiters, online fraud, creative storytelling, online privacy, visual representation, networks, persuation, social media, content generation, internet fiction |
| Rhematics and the Literariness of Electronic Literature | Velimatti Karhulahti | rhematics, cybernetics, hermeneutics, interpretation, literariness, narratology, e-reader |
| Running Out of Time: The Strategies of Ending in Digital Fictions | Raine Koskimaa | closure, digital fiction, ending, fictional time, interpretation, temporal constraint |
| Sonic Sculpture | Taras Mashtalir | workhop, ICT, sound sculptures, poetic media performance, public space, city, statues, munuments, sound, sound pollution, sound design, multi-channel, sound composition, aesthetics, urban environment |
| The Challenge of Visuality for Electronic Literature | Donna Leishman | aesthetics, identity, Contemporary Culture, literariness, ocular, gaze, context |
| The Digital Diasthima: Time-Lapse Reading as Critical and Creative Performance | Álvaro Seiça | digital poetry, digital diasthima, time-lapse reading, performance |
| The Electronic Literature, How, When, Where | Lello Masucci, Roberta Iadevaia | contemporary art, eliterature, epoetry |
| The Endgame or a Wake?: Tropes of Circularity in Literature Then and Now | Diogo Marques | digital literature, circularity, multisensory reading, haptic, human-machine-relation, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce |
| The Ends of Publishing | Todd Taylor, Andrew Morrison, Cheryl E. Ball | speculative fictions, documentary filmmaking, academic publishing platforms, temporality, literature, hypermediation |
| The Generative Literature Project & 21st Century Literacies | Mia Zamora | generative literature, pedagogy, networked learning, 21st century literacies, community, collaboration, digital writing spaces, infrastructure, affordances |
| The Interactive Character as a Black Box | Christine Wilks | interactive storytelling, character, narrative, cybernetics, Possible Worlds, playable narrative |
| The Many Ends of Network Fictions: Gamebooks, Hypertexts, Visual Novels, Games and Beyond | Jeremy Douglass | electronic literature, hypertext, gamebooks, games, network analysis, graph databases, information visualization, digital humanities |
| The Myth of the End of a Myth | Philippe Bootz | definition of e-lit, programmed forms, field of e-lit, combinatory, Bourdieu |
| The Numberlys: An Interplay Between History, Urban Life and Technology in a Children’s Story App | Ture Schwebs | story app, children's literature, video game, narrative, intertextuality, ideology, interactive, multimediality |
| The Poets' Dream Database | Rachael Katz | database, dream, poetics, poets, collaborative, generative, networked, dialogue, idioms, narrative apparitions, interpretations |
| The Practice of Research: A Methodology for Practice-Based Exploration of Digital Writing | Lyle Skains | practice-based research, methodology, digital writing, creative process, experimentation, ethnomethodology, paratexts |
| The Road to Assland: The Demoscene and Electronic Literature | Piotr Marecki | demoscene, creative computing, demo, underground subculture, media archeology, platform studies |
| The S.I.C. Method and the Great Open Novel: An Unconventional Method for a Conventional End | Renato Nicassio | S.I.C., In territorio Nemico, collective writing, literary community, croudsourcing, contemporary Italian literature |
| This Is Not the Beginning or the End of Literature | Sandra Bettencourt, Diogo Marques, Ana Marques da Silva | electronic literature, print literature, materiality, post-digital, intermediation, haptics, interoception, motion, touchscreens cybrid environments automatic generation, text, language, code, time |
| To Teach Reading by Playing (with) the Literary Wor(l)d: On Kid E-literature and Literacy | Agnieszka Przybyszewska | kid e-literature, AR books, playable kid e-literature, liberacy, literary inteface |
| Touch and Decay: Tomasula's TOC on iOS | Kathi Inman Berens | obsolescence, media archeology, iOS, medium specific analysis, Steve Tomasula, new media novel, interactivity, haptics, touch, interface, aesthetics, ipad, TOC, digital medium, mobile technology fact sheet, electronic literature, operating system, non trivial effort, desktop toc, Steve Tomasula, read toc, complex writing surface, smithsonian cooper hewitt, pew research internet, research internet project, organic machine, human user interface guideline, tomasula new medium novel, hewitt national design museum, jessica pressman, N. Katherine Hayles |
| Toward Understanding Real-World Social Impacts of Avatars | D. Fox Harrell, Dominic Kao, Chong-U Lim | avatars, identity, stereotyping, demographics, affect, user interface, engagement, electronic literature authorship, replayability, emotional engagement |
| Translating E-poetry: Still Avant-Garde | José Molina | poetry, modernism, postmodernism, translation, Transcreation, e-poetry, avant-garde |
| Watching Textual Screens Then and Now: A Cinema/E-Lit Conversation | Steven Wingate | textual cinema, experimental cinema, textual screens, watching text, cinematc form |
| What Comes After Electronic Literature? | Steven Wingate, Leonardo L. Flores, Maya Zalbidea Paniagua, Xiana Sotelo, Augustine Abila, Mark Sample, José Molina, Daria Petrova, Natalia Fedorova, Judd Morrissey, José Aburto, Andrew Klobucar, David Clark, Damon Loren Baker | electronic literature, challenges, future, mainstreaming, commercialization, digital native, feminism, data, translation, avant-garde, mediapoetry, interfaces, interactive poetry, narratives, social media, CaveWriting, hypertext editing |
| Written. Not Found. Not Generated. Not Random. | Jason Edward Lewis | electronic literature, computational typography, digital poetry, performance poetry |
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