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1. Electronic Literature Organization 2002: State of the Arts Symposium

   On April 4-6, 2002, many of the leading writers, critics, publishers and readers working in the field of electronic literature gathered in Los Angeles for the first Electronic Literature Organization Symposium. Titled "State of the Arts," the symposium featured three nights and two days of readings, demonstrations, and concentrated discussions on the state of the arts of electronic literature. Major Sponsorship of the State of the Arts Symposium was provided by the Ford Foundation. Keynote speakers for the event included novelist Robert Coover, critic Katherine Hayles, and author and publisher Jason Epstein. The event was a "Symposium" in the truest sense of the word: each panel featured experts engaging in a lively interchange of ideas. These moderated discussions allowed the panelists to share their insights and engage in dialogue about their specific topic.

   (Source: Conference website, archived by the Electronic Literature Organization).

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.03.2011 - 10:28

2. Electronic Literature Organization 2012: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints

   The 2012 Electronic Literature Organization Conference will be held June 20-23, 2012 in Morgantown, WV, the site of West Virginia University. In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Media Arts Show open to the public at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown and running from June 18-30, 2012. An accompanying online exhibit will bring works from the ELO Conference to a wider audience.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.08.2011 - 13:45

3. Mapping E-Lit: Lectura i anàlisi de la literatura digital

   Mapping e-lit: Lectura i anàlisi de la literatura és un Congrés Internacional organitzat pel Grup de Recerca Hermeneia i la Universitat de Barcelona que se celebra a la pròpia Universitat els dies 24 i 25 de novembre de 2011.

   El Congrés vol oferir una immersió en el camp de la literatura electrònica a través de la participació i el diàleg d'especialistes nacionals i internacionals en la matèria, al mateix temps que ofereix l'oportunitat d'establir un contacte dirtecte amb els autors i crítics d'obres digitals i de conèixer la diverses pràctiques de lectura possibles.

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   Mapping E-Lit: Reading and Analysis of Digital Literature is an international conference organized by the Hermeneia Research Group and the University of Barcelona, which will take place at the University on November 24-25, 2011. 

   The conference aims to provide an immersion in the field of electronic literature through participation and dialogue with national and international specialists in the field, creating the opportunity to establish direct contact with authors and critics of digital works while getting to know various reading practices.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.11.2011 - 08:59

4. Fourteen recipes for a sonnet

   This paper discusses a semester-long classroom project in which senior seminar students were required to take Shakespeare’s Sonnet 14 and convert it into various media objects and texts. The assignments made use of Ian Bogost’s “procedural rhetoric” (“a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation”), assigning tasks based on the core concepts of “encoding” and “algorithm.” Some objects were electronic (music, twitter feeds) while the majority were physical objects, but they all made use of a procedural rhetoric sketched out by the original shape of the sonnet itself and the long tradition of scanning poems. In doing so, the objects produced force us to ask: where, exactly, do we “hold the light”? Is it e-lit if there’s no “e”?

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   Sumeya Hassan - 26.02.2015 - 21:09