Disperse the Light
ELO 2014 Media Arts Show June 19-21, 2014 in Milwaukee, WI
Kathi Inman Berens, Curator
The Media Arts Show runs June 19-21 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Golda Meir Library. Poster by Talan Memmott.
Now, when almost all writing is done digitally and when easy-to-use tools empower anybody with a socket to “make stuff,” the Electronic Literature Organization asks: what makes us different? Fifty responses to that question by artists from around the world converge for eighteen hours of live, on-site access at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Golda Meir Library. Many of these works are not available in a browser: whether its a program exploring the expressive potential of pi, or a motion-based story you make via Kinect, a MIDI sound mixer, a tablet and a computer, or a “Vniverse” that fits in your pocket: many of the works we’re exhibiting can’t be accessed in a browser. Visit the Media Arts Show in the Digital Humanities Lab 9AM-5PM Thursday and Friday June 19 and 20; 10-12noon Saturday June 21. Description of all works and linked access to browser-based art will be permanently archived on the ELO14 website for the conference HOLD THE LIGHT.
The Media Arts Show is free and open to the public.
Artists from France, Poland, Australia, Denmark, Norway, Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, Hong Kong, Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States will exhibit work. Artists will be on-site for two Media Arts Demo Sessions Thursday June 19 2PM-3:30 and Friday June 20th 9AM-10:30. They’ll talk informally with guests as guests wander the floor and interact with their works. Demo sessions are free and open to the public.
Evenings of Performance will start at 7:30PM Wednesday at the Hilton Doubletree, Thursday at the Golda Meir Library and Friday at the Doubletree. Evening shows are free and open to the public. Schedule of performers is forthcoming.
We who are steeped in “Acid Free Bits” understand more than most the ephemerality of digital art. This show is a stay against that, a moment we’ll stretch to accommodate our passion for literary discovery and play. An aubade.
The Featured Works of the ELO 2014 Media Arts Show
anna anthropy — And the Robot Horse You Rode In On
Abraham Avnisan — quantum collocation: experimental poems for the iPad
John Barber — Radio ELO
Joel Beeson & Dana Coester — War Poems: Critical Race Theory in Database Narrative in Digital Public Histories
Alan Bigelow — My Life in Three Parts
Jim Bizzocchi — ReCycle 3
Amaranth Borsuk, Kate Durbin and Ian Hatcher — Abra
Mez Breeze — Wish4[0]
Andy Campbell & Christine Wilks — Inkubus
Dana Coester — The Reverberatory Narrative: Toward Story as a Multi-Sensory Network
M.D. Coverley — Fukushima Pin-Up Girl
Luc Dall’Armellina — HD Project
Christy Dena — AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS
Claire Donato — Claire Donato’s “We Discuss Disgust: ’Patafeminism Rides The Digital Abject: Cixous, Kristeva, Lispector, Jackson, Hayles, Damon, Lorde, and Others”
Pierre Fourny (ALIS Company), Serge Bouchardon & Luc Dall’Armellina (i-Trace Collective) — La Séparation/Separation
Natalia Fedorova — Digital Lettrism
Natalia Fedorova, Taras Mashtalir, and Daniel Johnson — Objective Poet: Multimedia Sculpture
Caitlin Fisher — Cardamom of the Dead
Christopher Funkhouser — #4ArtForFreedom
Jacob Garbe & Aaron Reed — Ice Bound
Ben Grosser — ScareMail
Carolyn Guertin & Katherine Jin — Wandering Mei Mei
Tully Hansen — Writing
Daniel Howe — AdLiPo
David “Jhave” Johnston — Give Me Your Light
Jeff T. Johnson & Andrew Klobucar — LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVERSE
Eric LeMay — The Montaigne Machine
Silvio Lorussio — Douglas Rushkoff’s New Book
Will Luers, Hazel Smith, Roger Dean — Motions
Judy Malloy — And Speak of Long Ago Times [part VI of From Ireland With Letters]
Piotr Marecki & Aleksandra Malecka — The Postulate to Hyperdescribe the World: Film Poems by Katarzyna Giełżyńska
Mark C. Marino & Family — Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House: The Mysterious Floor
Mark C. Marino & Rob Wittig and many participants — Speidishow
Stacey Mason — Stop & Smell
Maria Mencia, Jeneen Naji, Christine Wilks, Zuzana Husárová — Upside-Down Chandelier
Joe Milutis — Stéphane Mallarmé’s The Conversation
Nick Montfort — Round
Judd Morrissey — The Operature
Kathleen Ottinger — Best.Hello
Joseph Peters — (Re)Playing the Lottery
Scott Rettberg & Roderick Coover — TOXI-City
Chris Rodley & Andrew Burrell — Everything Will Be OK
Johanna Rodgers — DNA: a Digital Fiction Project
Jim Rosenberg — Inframergence
Anastasia Salter & John Murray — View From Within
Catherine Siller — Not-Not
Stephanie Strickland & Ian Hatcher — Vniverse [adapted to iOS]
Eric Suzanne (né Meyer) — Post-Obsolete Book
Steven Wingate — daddylabyrinth
Rob Wittig & Mark C. Marino — The Mission [Statement]
Dozens of new electronic literature writers answered my call for submissions to the Gallery of E-Lit 1st Encounters. A warm welcome to all who submitted; artists from Mexico, Italy, Germany, Australia and the U.S. submitted work that captured the attention of the jurors. These works will be featured on one machine at the Media Arts Show and permanently archived on the ELO14 website.
Gallery of E-Lit 1st Encounters
Nichole Arvin –Traces
Chester Cunanan — wanted:Guild
Gabriel [Marquet] & Augusto [Wolfson] — Anacrón: hipótesis de producto todo
Dominique Giles — Don’t Panic
William Hicks — Symmetries
Morgan Hutchinson — Rea and the Squaw
Jaci Jones, Jason Robbins, Tyler Downey — @SONNETONEFOUR
mic mac — ION 1
Lans Pacifico — A Certain Slant of Light, Typographically Speaking
Marion Schwehr — #OutOfBlue
Hiram Sims & Steven Newell– Bridle Your Tongue
Art is one part of the Media Arts show. Community is another.
Many people at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who’d not previously been involved with ELO have unstintingly offered their expertise, time and resources. Ann Hanlon of the DH Lab secured ideal physical settings for the show and procured all of the equipment we borrowed, from computers to partitions to high-frequency microphone receptors, display tables, HD monitors and power strips. She and Matt Russell have championed this show. Without them it wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you, Ann and Matt, for being ideal partners.
UWM students, faculty and staff answered a call for assistance I posted on my website, and generously volunteered to aid with installation, supervision of art and machines, docenting, video recording evenings of performance, and show breakdown. Thank you Renato Umali, Joseph Donelan, Kris Purzycki, Tyler Smith, Rachael Sullivan, Cristina Ossers, Hal Hinderliter, Jed Fudally, Eddie Danecki, Jim Burling, Justin Schumaker and Chris Williams.
Jurors Jonathan Baillehache, John Barber, Alan Bigelow, Jim Bizzocchi, Stephanie Boluk, Amaranth Borsuk, Jim Brown, Odile Farge, Caitlin Fisher, Jerome Fletcher, Leonardo Flores, Jacob Garbe, Susan Garfinkel, Samantha Gorman, Claudia Kozak, Eric LeMay, Adam Liszkiewicz, Erik Loyer, Will Luers, Stacey Mason, Jeneen Naji, Aaron Reed, Anastasia Salter, Illya Szilak, Yra van Dijk, and Zach Whalen wrote brilliant and nuanced evaluations that became the core of the media arts selection process. Thank you.
Thanks also to ELO President Dene Grigar, who taught me about curating and brings e-literature to a broad audience, and ELO14 Program Committee co-chairs Sandy Baldwin and Marjorie Luesebrink, with whom I’m honored to work. Finally I commend and thank our host at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Stuart Moulthrop, whose acumen and goodwill helmed this year-long endeavor.
