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  1. All Tomorrow's Parties

    A plenary presentation for the biennial conference of the Electronic Literature Organization focused on the circumstances of the founding of the organization and on the work of novelist Robert Coover on the occasion of his retirement from teaching, delivered in a scripted and parodic style appropriate to the subject. Co-presented with Rob Wittig.

    Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 15:59

  2. Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Setting a Direction for the Electronic Literature Organization’s Directory (2010)

    Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Setting a Direction for the Electronic Literature Organization’s Directory (2010)

    Patricia Tomaszek - 01.02.2012 - 14:27

  3. Developing an Identity for the Field of Electronic Literature: Reflections on the Electronic Literature Organization Archives

    The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) was founded as a literary nonprofit organization in 1999 after the Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature conference at Brown University. Along with Jeff Ballowe and Robert Coover, I was a co-founder of the ELO, and served as its first Executive Director from 1999-2001, and have served on its board of directors in the years since then. Today it is one of the most active organizations in the field of electronic literature, central to the practice of e-lit in the United States and its establishment as an academic discipline. This essay briefly outlines the early history of the organization, the ways that the mission, profile, and the focus of the organization evolved and changed in its first decade, and offers some tentative insights into the ways that an institutionally structured community can facilitate network-mediated art practice.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2012 - 07:30

  4. Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Setting a Direction for the Electronic Literature Organization’s Directory (2007)

    Electronic Literature is not just a "thing" or a "medium" or even a body of "works" in various "genres." It is not poetry, fiction, hypertext, gaming, codework, or some new admixture of all these practices. E-Literature is, arguably, an emerging cultural form, as much a collective creation of new terms and keywords as it is the production of new literary objects. Both the "works" and their terms of description need to be tracked and referenced. Hence, a Directory of Electronic Literature needs to be, in the first place, a site where readers and (necessarily) authors are given the ability to identify, name, tag, describe, and legitimate works of literature written and circulating within electronic media. This essay grew out of practical debates among the ELO's Working Group on the Directory, established in the Spring of 2005 and active through the Winter of 2006. The essay offers a set of practical recommendations for development, links to potentially affiliated sites, and an overall vision of how literary form is created in a networked culture.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 24.08.2012 - 15:41

  5. Communitizing Electronic Literature

    Electronic literature is an important evolving field of artistic practice and literary study. It is a sector of digital humanities focused specifically on born-digital literary artifacts, rather than on using the computer and the network to redistribute, analyze, or recontextualize artifacts of print culture. Works of electronic literature appeal to configurative reading practices. The field of electronic literature is based on a gift economy and developing a network-based literary culture built on the collaborative practices of a globally distributed community of artists, writers, and scholars. This article situates the development of the field of electronic literature within academe, some of the institutional challenges currently confronting the field, and its potential for further development.

    Source: author's abstract (dhq)

    A draft version of this article was presented as "Communitizing Electronic Literature" at the 2008 ELO Conference.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 24.08.2012 - 15:56