Seminar

The Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group welcomes you to a special event, a book launch for Post-Digital: Dialogues and Debates from the Electronic Book Review that will include a panel discussion with contributors to this landmark 2 volume collection.

For this interational celebration, we will be hearing from authors, editors, and contributors to the books including Joseph Tabbi (UiB), Scott Rettberg (UiB),  Eric Rasmussen (UiS), Lisa Swanstrom (U of Utah), Stuart Moulthrop (UW Milwaukee), Davin Heckman (Winona State U), Lai-Tze Fan (U of Waterloo), and Serge Bouchardon (UTC, Sorbonne) in a roundtable discussion of the project and their contributions to it.

Collecting more than 20 years' worth of major interventions from the pioneering journal electronic book review, this landmark 2-volume set contains close to 100 seminal articles from leading scholars, writers and digital artists, including Mark Amerika, Jan Baetens, Serge Bouchardon, Kiki Benzon, R. M. Berry, Anne Burdick, Stephen J. Burn, John Cayley, David Ciccoricco, Astrid Ensslin, David Golumbia, Paul Harris, N. Katherine Hayles, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Joseph McElroy, Brian McHale, Timothy Morton, Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop, John Durham Peters, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Strickland, Ronald Sukenick, Joseph Tabbi, Cary Wolfe, Laura Dassow Walls and Rob Wittig.

Post-Digital also includes new essays chronicling the most recent, multimodal developments in the literary field, a series of introductions by several generations of ebr co-editors surveying the long history of thinking about the digital, and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading.

On the 18th of September 2018, the Day of Online Survey, organized by the Center for Social Information Science (CDI) from the Faculty of Social Sciences, was held for the seventh time at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana.

The main goal of the expert meeting was to provide knowledge and experience to all those who encounter their online data capture (eg in teaching, research, evaluations, applications and administrative processes).

We organize the event at the Center for Social Information Informatics (CDI), Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV), University of Ljubljana, where we are also developing an open source tool for online interviewing 1KA.

The program began with a brief overview of trends in online surveying and the development of 1KA tool (Dr. Vasja Vehovar).

In the plenary part of the program, the legal expert dr. Benjamin Lesjak (Institute for Legal Solutions of the Information Society Maribor) presented important innovations in the field of online surveying and personal data protection in connection with the new European General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data (GDPR).

The program continued with four parallel seminars, among which three thematic seminars will be devoted to different levels of 1KA users (both beginners and advanced users), as well as a methodological seminar where general guidelines for the methodology of online research were presented.

No próximo dia 31 de março de 2017, no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (FLUC, 5º piso), realiza-se o colóquio “Ex Machina:  Inscrição e Literatura”, no qual serão apresentadas comunicações do projeto de investigação do mesmo nome, desenvolvido no âmbito do Grupo de Investigação “Mediação Digital e Materialidades da Literatura” do Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade de Coimbra. Coordenado por Paulo Silva Pereira, “Ex Machina: Inscrição e Literatura” permitirá conhecer parte da investigação em curso no Programa de Doutoramento FCT em Materialidades da Literatura. O colóquio conta ainda com a participação de dois oradores convidados: Rui Torres (Universidade Fernando Pessoa) e Jorge Martins Rosa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).

From Mai to June Forum Stadtpark Graz and three other European institutions for contemporary literature (Lettrétage – Berlin, Nuoren Voiman Liitto - Helsinki, Ideogramma – Nikosia) will carry out a project called CROWD which will host a literary bus-tour from Finland to Cyprus featuring around 100 authors with the main aim of establishing a more interwoven network for European Independent-literature.

In the framework of this bus-tour we will also make a stop at the Forum Stadtpark, where the symposium Text World World Text – About the relationship between experiment, politics and literature will be held. On two days (17th and 18th of June, 2016) more than 20 authors from Europe and beyond, who are working in the field of so-called experimental literature will discuss todays role of the author in society and also offer an in-depth look on their literary and aesthetic approach and perspective.

There has always been a brisk interaction between the political and artistical/literary discourse. Especially considering the most recent political developments the question what kind of role the artist/author can and should play in a society, becomes even more urgent. Particularly relating to the more experimentally working authors the question arises which role new artistic forms and methods can play in this relationship between literature and society. Can these new forms possibly activate new emancipatory and society transforming potentials? Is it even possible for art/literature to be a means of emancipation? How political can art/literature be at all? What are the coercions and restraints the process of literary production is allegedly or actually subjected to? What kinds of strategies exist to escape from or to deal with these internal and external restrictions of the literary production?

(Source: Forum Stadtpark)

A series of seminars exploring the ambiguity of the notion of media from an aesthetic and technological perspective.

The themes range from sonic art and theory of rhythm, through the emergence of narratives about multimedia systems in the amalgam of library science and peace activism, to a relation between early video art and ecological crisis. The speakers included Ina Blom, Florian Cramer, Knut Ove Eliassen, Olga Goriunova, Aud Sissel Hoel, Eleni Ikoniadou, and Femke Snelting. The series was programmed by Dušan Barok in collaboration with Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, and held at Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, throughout March 2015.

(Source: http://monoskop.org/The_Extensions_of_Many)

In what ways can we renew Literary Studies? How far can new approaches be combined with existing ones?

For more details see cross-referenced presentation on Wednesday, October 29th at 1:15pm.

The UiB Electronic Literature Research Group is pleased to welcome SPIRE guest researcher Maya Zalbidea (Ces Don Bosco University Madrid). Zalbidea presented the Spanish Language Electronic Literature Collection (2013-2014) she has developed in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base: http://elmcip.net/research-collection/spanish-language-electronic-liter…. The collection features Spanish language electronic literature from Spain and Latin America. Interactivity, collaboration and multimodality will be highlighted as elements that authors use in works that protest social injustice, demand equal rights, and increase the reader’s curiosity. Zalbidea will also present the results of a reader response study of some works from the Spanish language e-literature collection.