Category Archives: Electronic Literature

CFP: “Authenticity in Distributed Networks”

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At MLA 2015, to be held Jan. 8-11 in Vancouver, Canada, I wish to convene a Special Session panel that interrogates how distributed networks of human and non-human agents disclose new dimensions of “authenticity.” Referring to the material substrate that … Continue reading

Submit Art! E-Lit First Encounters due 2/15/14

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Do you remix, write stories, play with image and text? Have you ever jumped into a story as it unfolds on a Twitter hashtag? If you’re a teacher, please share this with your students even if you don’t teach media … Continue reading

Enlightenment Level Up

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Sony PlayStation 2 & The Night Journey [I showed this 10-minute walk-thru of The Night Journey while I presented this talk at MLA 2014.] The Night Journey (2007) is an experimental video game created by Bill Viola in collaboration with … Continue reading

Digital Humanities 2013: my talk

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Judy Malloy’s Seat at the (Database) Table a Feminist Reception History Before I read Jill Walker Rettberg’s excellent “Electronic Literature Seen From a Distance: The Beginnings of a Field,” I’d suspected that Judy Malloy’s elision from the electronic literature reception … Continue reading

MLA14 Panel Accepted! E-Literature Translations

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E-Literature Translations: Database, Platform, Language Panelists: Jonathan Baillehache Jill Walker Rettberg Kathi Inman Berens Davin Heckman The shared space of e-literature and translation is an emergent field. Iterating discussion from a groundbreaking conference at Universite Paris 8 in June 2012, … Continue reading

Trace of Race: E-Lit, Computation, DH

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Today I made a 17-minute audio lecture to guide DH 306 students through this week’s readings & assignment. This week we’re talking about e-lit and identity formation, and the role software plays in eliciting our interactivity with — our performance … Continue reading

Trillions of Tropes & Tweets in 2 Weeks

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I’m guest teaching a two-week unit about electronic literature in Jesse Stommel‘s new Digital Humanities program at Marylhurst University. Yesterday I made a 27-minute audio lecture to guide students through this week’s reading & assignment. Mainly it focuses on Hayles’ … Continue reading

The Catalog and The Ephemeral

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E-Literature At the Library of Congress “The Catalog and the Ephemeral” Kathi Inman Berens’ Curatorial Statement The twenty-seven works featured in the “Electronic Literature and Its Emergent Forms” exhibit, part of the Library of Congress’ first Electronic Literature Showcase, span … Continue reading

Exhibiting Electronic Literature Influences Scholarship

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In the first-ever exhibit of electronic literature at an MLA Convention, hundreds of members encountered over 160 pieces of e-lit and packed a standing-room-only reading offsite at Seattle’s Hugo House. The E-lit Exhibit ran Jan. 5-8, 2012. Continue reading