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1. 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

2. The Electronic Literature, How, When, Where

   The term Electronic Literature (EL) is already obsolete, just as the term contemporary art. The obsolescence of words depends on the changes that the content of their meanings are undergoing. These contents change in the light of the technical-logical progress. Their own form changes giving ultimately rise to new signs and signifiers. New concepts generate new interpretations.

   The change of technological processes introduces new types of communication and of social relations. These changes weaken the rules of linguistics. The content and the meaning of words change, as well as their own signs that are used to define the EL and to describe what comes from it as an end: politics, social philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, business, and business ethics. The works that are produced through the EL undergo changes and have an outreach that involve a dialogue on an augmented art synchronically developed on a augmented reality perceived through the use of new technologies.

   Hannah Ackermans - 14.11.2015 - 15:23