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1. Taroko Gorge Remixed: Repetition and Difference in Machine Texts

   In 2009 Nick Montfort wrote a short program--first in Python and later in Javascript--that generated an infinite nature poem inspired by the stunning Taroko Gorge in Taiwan. While Montfort never explicitly released the code of “Taroko Gorge” under a free software license, it was readily available to anyone who viewed the HTML source of the poem’s web page. Lean and elegantly coded, with self-evident algorithms and a clearly demarcated word list, “Taroko Gorge” lends itself to reappropriation. Simply altering the word list (the paradigmatic axis) creates an entirely different randomly generated poem, while the underlying sentence structure (the syntagmatic axis) remains the same. Very quickly Scott Rettberg remixed the original poem, replacing its naturalistic vocabulary (“crags,” “basins,” “rocks,” “mist,” and so on) with words drawn from what Rettberg imagined to be a counterpoint to Montfort’s meditative nature scene--a garage in Toyko, cluttered with consumer objects. J.R.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.06.2012 - 13:36

2. Cicatrix: Pain, Sex, and Dying in E-Literature

   This panel will deal with the relationship between extreme affect and electronic literature: How are pain, sex, and death _embodied_ in E-lit, virtual worlds, and textuality so that the abstract, for the reader, performer, or user, becomes empathetically embodied within hir? In other words, how can the skipping/skimming, which characterize the Net, be delayed, so that an actuality of politics and the body emerges? This panel will explore this and related issues. (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.06.2012 - 13:38

3. Vectors, Scalar, and Magic: Emerging Platforms for E-lit Scholarship

   Emerging media forms do not merely excite artists; they also inspire critics to develop innovative scholarly works. For over seven years, the USC-based Vectors Journal has promoted webbased scholarship by developing and publishing projects that utilize experimental design interfaces, data structures, and digital authoring tools. In this presentation, Vectors’ Creative Director Erik Loyer, Info Design Director Craig Dietrich, and 2011 Fellow Mark Marino will present glimpses of critical works that use innovative platforms to explore their material. Loyer will begin with a presentation that looks at several of his collaborations with scholars to create the dynamic multimodal works of Vectors. Dietrich will follow with a look at the new platform Scalar, a publishing platform based on Vectors’ workflows and Semantic Web technology. Dietrich will also detail Magic, an experimental design fork of Scalar centered on the presentation of software code. Marino will then present his Scalar piece based on the Magic fork which analyzes a work of electronic literature, the Transborder Immigrant Tool, including annotations of the tool’s code.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.06.2012 - 13:40

4. Alternative Avenues in Digital Poetics and Post-Literary Studies

   This panel explores alternative avenues for education in digital poetics and electronic literary studies. The panel pieces together problems with categorical, single discipline approaches to electronic literature, critical, cultural, and technological studies looking at the pedagogical and curricular issues associated with media-based and network forms of meaning-making, storytelling, and communication. The primary questions here are: What are the conditions under which a practitioner or scholar are considered expert in the as yet undefined field of media-based expression? And: What solutions are traditional academic institutions offering? Thinking beyond, or outside the exclusive field of electronic literature the panel examines and offers potential alternatives to traditional disciplinary scholarship and accreditation. Each panelist will offer viewpoints, curricular and structural suggestions.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 14:12

5. Electronic Literature: Linking Database Projects

   Electronic Literature: Linking Database Projects

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 15:15

6. Semiotic Cross Analyses of Digital Poetry

   Semiotic Cross Analyses of Digital Poetry

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.06.2012 - 15:02

7. Open Discussion Session on the Future of ELO

   At the ELO conference in 2012, several authors had a discussion on the future of the ELO.

   E-lit authors Stephanie Strickland and Marjorie Luesebrink organized a panel on the "Future of E--Lit" at the ELO 2012 conference, allowing emerging and early career authors to articulate institutional and economic, as well more familiar technological, developments that constrain and facilitate current practice. The panel papers were released in ebr in March 2014. Luesebrink and Strickland followed up with comments on the papers, offering a "progress report" on the future of the field. The individual responses are available as glosses on the essays and in full here.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.06.2012 - 15:04

8. Beyond Literary?

   Beyond Literary?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 12:15

9. Process-Intensive Literature

   Process-Intensive Literature

   Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2013 - 10:42

10. International Electronic LIterature

    International Electronic LIterature

    Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2013 - 10:54

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