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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Documenting Events and Works in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base

   This half-day workshop will be focused on the preservation and archiving of Electronic Literature Organization events and conferences. Scott Rettberg has been asked by the ELO board to establish a standing committee of ELO members that will be focused on documenting and archiving current and past ELO events. This workshop will be focused both on the future scope and projects of that committee and on the hands-on documentation of ELO conferences in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. We will consider questions including:

   What are the best practices related to archiving for ELO conference organizers?
   Should relationships be established with one or more libraries or archives to preserve data and ephemera from ELO conferences?
   How should we best go about gathering ELO archives materials and preserving them?
   How can we archive events using the platform of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base?

   Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:25

5. Live Writing

   Learn a cutting-edge method of performative creative writing based on human-computer interaction.

   You will learn to “write with your voices” (as opposed to typing on a keyboard) by using speech recognition software. We will take turns saying impromptu lines out loud into a microphone. The computer will recognize the lines with varying accuracy and turn the speech into text on the computer screen. We will develop a set of improvisational tools to enhance dramatic writing by utilizing the computer’s errors (misrecognitions) in collaboration with other participants. You will be confronted with situations requiring quick decision-making, because the computer does not reproduce your speech with hundred-percent accuracy – a fact that will challenge you to deal with technological dysfunction in the here-and-now of a performative writing situation. Also, you will be challenged to listen and respond to your human writing partners and their texts. Through guided practice, you will learn to take the writing process in unexpected directions, further into an improvisational realm.

   Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:35

6. Digital Scherenschnitte / Video Compositing with Cut-ups and Collage

   Mixed-media artists Joellyn Rock and Alison Aune offer a hands-on visual art workshop on collage, paper-cutting, silhouettes and digital compositing. What does this have to do with electronic literature you ask? Well... In Rock and Aune's multimedia installation, Fish Net Stockings, which will be exhibited at the Hybridity Exhibition at ELO 2015, the little mermaid story unfolds with multivalent versions echoing folk art patterns and digital iterations. Bifurcating imagery, like that made by folding and cutting, plays a role in the aesthetics of the work. Hans Christian Andersen was known for his live scissor writing. His version of scherenschnitte was an improvised performance art with paper cut imagery, integrating the haptic visual experience into his storytelling. Andersen’s cut paper collages anticipate the collage art of dadaism and surrealism, and some e-lit experiments can trace their roots back to these very methods of assemblage. Join us for a playful workshop generating mixed-media collages, paper cuts, silhouettes, and testing their use in digital compositing for video projection.

   Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:39

7. Revisiting the Spam Folder: Using 419-fiction for Interactive Storytelling. A Practical Introduction

   This workshop will be offering the participants both a theoretical and practical introduction to interactive narratives in "419-fictional environments" created by scammers and scambaiters. We seek to understand different sides of online fraud and through creative storytelling reflect on issues like online privacy, virtual representation and trust within networks. We also draw parallels to other practices and cultures like: gaming, transmedia storytelling or creative activism. Through a participants take the first steps of creating their fictional characters and infiltrating a scammers storyworld to observe and interrupt their workflow.

   We explore how persuasive narratives are setup, how characters are designed and how dialog is exchanged to build trust between the acting parties. We will use social media and various content generators and other tools to orchestrate internet fiction, creating entrance points to a story world and spreading traces of information online. By reflecting on scam bait experiences we enter a discussion around the topic of interactive narration connecting to the participants' and their general work in this field.

   Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:44