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1. Dank Memes and Tactical Media

   This paper will consider how during and following the 2016 US Presidential election internet memes transformed from fairly frivolous digital artifacts into a potent form of tactical media capable of eliciting passionate responses. Though this is not the first occasion that memes have veered toward the political, there is a marked difference in the rhetorical strategies employed in political memes in what we might call the Trumpian era. In essence, memes have lost their sense of humor. Bad Luck Brian has been replaced by a post-ideological alt-right frog.

   Li Yi - 03.10.2018 - 15:42

2. Splatter Semiotics / Semiotics of Splatter

   The paper would be a presentation, with video, on the subject of Splatter Semiotics, and The Semiotics of Splatter, which is concerned with 'messy' digital lit / digital literacy. It will discuss Trump's tweets, Russian hacking, blockchain, and disruptive technologies which possess 'spread' as, not only a form of digital literature, but also a new and dangerous cultural horizon, one that threatens the very foundations of democratic institutions. This work stems out of my thinking about 'gamespace / edgespace / blankspace' that I've presented at other conferences (including ELO); the three terms reference gaming and habitus as forms of political, social, and artistic thinking; I would include a summary of this work and indicate its relationship and dissolution in splatter.

   Li Yi - 03.10.2018 - 15:52

3. Hybrid Praxis and Collaborative Culture in an E-Lit Classroom

   In this paper, I share my experiences and some strategies developed while teaching my first E-lit course at a small urban liberal arts college. Mills College at that moment, had no campus digital curricular resource center for faculty or students and the English department’s approaches to digital humanities were, by necessity, hyper local and “small batch.” As the first E-lit course offered at Mills it was designed to be both an introduction to E-literature and criticism, and to literary critical practices and it was also to have a creative component that allowed students to develop their own born-digital projects. 

   The course drew students from literature and creative writing majors and non literature majors and enrolled both graduates and undergraduates. It was an exuberant group who brought a tremendous range of skills to the table. Figuring out how to teach this cohort and this material was a creative-critical challenge of its own. E-lit as topic and medium invited me to think in new ways about my pedagogy. 

   June Hovdenakk - 05.10.2018 - 12:55

4. Seduced by the Gap: Writing (E-Lit) Criticism into Crisis

   This paper invites the “dangerous vertige” once brought on by the “endless oscillation of an intersubjective demystification” at the heart of the crisis of literary criticism famously illuminated by Paul de Man in 1967. I investigate two conventions of writing e-lit criticism (and digital art criticism). The first utilizes the figure of the participating observer/reader in a phenomenological narrative that serves as a textual or formal analysis of the primary object. The conjuring of such a figure is often necessary to the articulation of e-lit’s capacity to deliver us from a finite and single text, in a way that hearkens back to critiques of the fallacy of a finite and single interpretation.

   June Hovdenakk - 05.10.2018 - 13:22

5. CELL Project Meeting

   A project meeting with members of CELL.

   Hannah Ackermans - 28.11.2018 - 14:59

6. Diffractive Reading in the Reading Club

   Annie Abrahams discusses, referring to Karen Barad, Donna Haraway
   and Iris van der Tuin among others, how the Reading Club can be considered an example of a diffractive reading and writing practice.

   Annie Abrahams - 15.09.2019 - 16:35

7. Preserving, Curating and Visualizing Latin American Digital Literature and Art

   Digital literature and art are currently being produced right across the globe. However, some digital works are more visible than others, depending on where in the world they are being produced, who is producing them, and how they are being circulated. The works that this panel will address are from Latin America, a region that has usually occupied a peripheral place in terms of global geopolitics, and whose digital cultural production, and its theorization, has typically been less visible than that produced and analyzed in the Global North. Furthermore, some of the works featured in the panel are produced by marginalised communities even within a Latin American setting (eg. indigenous communities).

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 14.11.2019 - 14:20

8. CELL Roundtable on Naming Authority and Interoperability

   At meetings in Siegen (2009), Sydney (2010), Provincetown ( 2010), Bleckinge (2010), Bergen (2011), and Morgantown (2011), the editors of the Electronic Literature Directory have established and developed a Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL). The related database projects originating in each of these locations, is committed to the development of bibliographic standards, interoperability, and data-sharing to ensure the broad reach and wide range of literature and criticism that new media literary scholars are obligated to document and cultivate. In Paris this year, present members will meet to discuss the achievement of interoperability across our various platforms. First on our agenda, will be a report on progress toward the establishment of a "naming authority" for authors and works in the field of electronic literature, and we will continue towards our goal of institutionalizing basic bibliographic practices consistent with the emerging norms of the field.

   Ole Samdal - 25.11.2019 - 14:47

9. Prototyping Resistance: Wargame Narrative and Inclusive Feminist Discourse

   Prototyping Resistance: Wargame Narrative and Inclusive Feminist Discourse was the first panel at the 2016 ELO conference. In it Stephanie Boluk, Diane Jakacki, Elizabeth Losh, Jon Saklofske & Anastasia Salter discuss wargames relationship to feminist discourse. They also discuss what a feminist wargame would look like.

   Ole Samdal - 25.11.2019 - 19:30

10. Medium and Meaning

    Medium and Meaning was a session held at the 2016 ELO conference.

    Session 1.2: Medium & Meaning
    MacLaurin D110
    Chair: Rui Torres, University Fernando Pessoa

    • “From eLit to pLit,” Heiko Zimmerman, University of Trier
    • “Generations of Meaning,” Hannah Ackermans, Utrecht University
    • “Co-Designing DUST,” Kari Kraus, University of Maryland College Park

    Ole Samdal - 25.11.2019 - 22:21

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