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  1. Guardians of the Gutenberg Galaxy: a Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries

    The primary aim of this paper is to identify some of the key structural elements of resistances to digital poetries, and emergent forms of resistance to digital poetries, exhibited in data collected from publishers associated with page-based poetry (Bohn) in Britain. This will start with analyses of interview texts from a spectrum of UK poetry publishers (collected as part of the first half of my PhD studies) with a particular attention paid to those newly developed modes of resistance to the digital, and the structure of organised and disorganised resistances. A guiding principle is that analysis of resistances, cultural hostility, and the negative spectrum of taste is often as revealing as that of the positive (Bourdieu). The relationship between these resistances and other statements of taste will be interrogated, their motives interpreted. These analyses will be used as a launchpad to raise wider questions about cultural authority, distinction and guardianship.

    David Devanny - 04.08.2015 - 11:50

  2. "Jailbreaking the Global Mnemotechnical System: Electropoetics as Resistance"

    This paper will explore subversive practices of electronic literature as contexts for the experience of agency within various systems of control. Through close readings of covert communication practices in prison narratives alongside the works like Rob Wittig’s Netprovs, Richard Holeton’s slideshow narratives, Nick Montfort’s !#, and Darius Kazemi’s “Tiny Subversions,” this essay will consider poetic interventions against media culture, professionalization, and cybernetic systems in relation to the codes, mnemonic devices, and flights of fancy used by political prisoners and POWs to maintain identity against isolation, torture, and manipulation. In particular, this paper will touch down on the question of “the ends of electronic literature” by exploring the interrelational aspect of writing as a process that is primarily concerned with the creator imagining an other (an “author” reaching out to a “reader,” in the conventional literary sense) and the user finding meaning in the text (the reader having an encounter with the work of literature).

    Xiana Sotelo Garcia - 04.08.2015 - 12:19

  3. Kid E-lit elektronisk litterature for barn og ungdom

    This is the booklet for the Kid E-lit exhibition affiliated with ELO 2015 at Bergen Public Library.

    Hannah Ackermans - 31.08.2015 - 13:18

  4. The Digital Diasthima: Time-Lapse Reading as Critical and Creative Performance

    In moving texts, such as digital kinetic poetry, the reader-user might no longer control the duration of their reading, unlike the traditional and static nature of printed texts. The user deals with readable time versus executable time, the human time-line versus the machine time-line. By having an imposed and fixed number of milliseconds to perceive the text on the screen, the user might find themselves completing or imagining the unread text, following the dynamic forms with an imposed dynamic content. Yet, to understand the shifting reading patterns of digital poems, one has to consider another methods or tools that may complement traditional models. Therefore, performing a critical approach solely based in close reading methods might not accomplish a fully comprehensible reading of digital poetry. In this sense, following upon methods taken from other areas, e.g. time-lapse photography and R.

    Alvaro Seica - 03.09.2015 - 20:26

  5. p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit

    The p2p exhibition brings to public different digital literary works produced by Polish and Portuguese authors in the past four decades. Polish and Portuguese literary, artistic, social, political, and even religious contexts are quite similar, even if geographically distant, and still quite divergent. It has been a fascinating surprise to find evidence of several common threads in works of experimental and generative literature, Spectrum-based animated poetry/Demoscene, and ActionScript-based digital poetry and fiction.

    The exhibition will therefore be constructed around three nuclei: experimentalism, activism and animation. For this purpose, the p2p exhibition proposes to present, face-to-face, works by authors such as Pedro Barbosa, Silvestre Pestana, E. M. de Melo e Castro, Rui Torres, André Sier, Manuel Portela, Luís Lucas Pereira, Józef Żuk Piwkowski, Marek Pampuch, Michał Rudolf, Kaz, Piotr Puldzian Płucienniczak, Leszek Onak and Andrzej Głowacki.

    A part of the ELO 2015 exhibition “Decentering: Global Electronic Literature” at 3,14 gallery in Bergen, Norway (August 4-23, 2015).

    (Source: Álvaro Seiça and Piotr Marecki)

    Alvaro Seica - 04.09.2015 - 22:29

  6. Polish Impact

    We believe that everything began and shall continue to begin in Poland. In Eden, Adam and Eve spoke Polish, the protong, or the first language, from which all other languages originated (which was scientifically proven by Stanisław Szukalski, Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Polish grandfather”), Christopher Columbus was Polish, and, of course, experimental literature also began in the land upon the Vistula River. “HOW COME”, YOU ASK? It is impossible to talk about experiments and pushing boundaries in literature without King Ubu or the Poles (because that is the full title of Jarry’s play). It is common knowledge that the teenage author set the action of his play “in Poland, that is, nowhere.” As, indeed, at the time he created his work, Poland was temporarily non-existent. We want to borrow Jarry’s metaphor to tell you about the existing/non-existing empire in the field of literary experimentation, literary thought, and digital textuality. The Polish empire. From this booklet you will learn that you have been misinformed about the history of world experimental literature.

    Hannah Ackermans - 21.09.2015 - 12:37

  7. End over End

    This is a two-part meditation on where electronic literature came from, some of the places it’s been, and how (and why) it might possibly go on.

    Espen Aarseth will look at the roots of electronic literature in the period before 1997, discussing the origins of digital writing in terms of contemporary art and theory. Particular attention will be given to interactive fiction and what happened to it.

    Stuart Moulthrop skips over the really important bits (1997-2010) and concentrates on the state of electronic literature in the current decade, especially the intersection of various text-generation schemes with latter-day conceptualism and “the new illegibility.”

    Both keynote speakers will offer critical prospects on the very idea of electronic literature, the meaning of the name, and various present and future ontologies for our discourse.

    (source: ELO 2015 conference catalog)

    Hannah Ackermans - 27.10.2015 - 10:46

  8. History of Digital Poetry in France

    This two-part workshop led by Philippe Bootz and Johnathan Baillehache will focus on the history and documentation of French Digital Poetry.

    Morning session: History of French digital poetry since Calliope (1952) until Transitoire Observable (2003). Lecture and discussion led by Bootz.
    Afternoon session: Documenting French digital poetry in ELMCIP French Language Electronic Literature research collection.

    Participants will first encounter some of the history of French digital poetry and view and interact with some early works. In the afternoon, participants will work together to document this history and these works in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base in a workshop led by Baillehache, who has been developing a research collection on the topic with students at Georgia University.

    (source: ELO 2015 catalog)

    Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:09

  9. Multimedia Authoring in Scalar

    This workshop invites participants to consider the possibilities for their work of emerging forms of digital scholarship. Participants will consider how digital platforms permit them to create media-rich and interactive publications that bring scholarly analysis and visual media together in lively and engaging ways. At the heart of the workshop is a hands-on introduction to the digital authoring platform, Scalar (http://scalar.usc.edu), a project funded by the Mellon Foundation as part of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture.

    (source: ELO 2015 catalog)

    Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:13

  10. Sonic Sculpture

    The participants of the workshop, experts from the field of IT and computer technologies, are acquainted with the concept and history of sound sculptures, learn about the technologies used in this field, and participate in a poetic media performance by Machine Libertine.

    Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:19

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