future

The world as we know it is changing: drones can deliver burritos, cars can drive themselves, all movies are remakes, and our middle school math teachers were all wrong – we do always have a calculator in our pocket. Welcome to the future! We’re talking about your smartphone. These small rectangular devices have affected nearly every aspect of our lives. New media is no exception. For this issue, we have curated a collection of pieces, both desktop and mobile, that exemplify all that new media has to offer in this future we live in.

(Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/editor.html)

The world as we know it is changing: drones can deliver burritos, cars can drive themselves, all movies are remakes, and our middle school math teachers were all wrong – we do always have a calculator in our pocket. Welcome to the future! We’re talking about your smartphone. These small rectangular devices have affected nearly every aspect of our lives. New media is no exception. For this issue, we have curated a collection of pieces, both desktop and mobile, that exemplify all that new media has to offer in this future we live in.

Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/editor.html)

Five minute lightning talks addressing the question: What comes after electronic literature?

Steven Wingate: eLit and the Borg: the challenges of mainstreaming and commercialization
Leonardo Flores: Time Capsules for True Digital Natives
Maya Zalbidea, Xiana Sotelo and Augustine Abila: The Feminist Ends of Electronic Literature
Mark Sample: Bad Data for a Broken World
José Molina: Translating E-poetry: Still Avant-Garde
Daria Petrova and Natalia Fedorova: 101 mediapoetry lab
Judd Morrissey: Turesias (Odds of Ends)
Jose Aburto: Post Digital Interactive Poetry: The End of Electronic Interfaces
Andrew Klobucar: Measure for Measure: Moving from Narratives to Timelines in Social Media Networking
David Clark: The End of Endings
Damon Baker: "HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!": New Developments in the CaveWriting Hypertext Editing System

(source: ELO 2015 conference catalog)

This is a two-part meditation on where electronic literature came from, some of the places it’s been, and how (and why) it might possibly go on.

Espen Aarseth will look at the roots of electronic literature in the period before 1997, discussing the origins of digital writing in terms of contemporary art and theory. Particular attention will be given to interactive fiction and what happened to it.

Stuart Moulthrop skips over the really important bits (1997-2010) and concentrates on the state of electronic literature in the current decade, especially the intersection of various text-generation schemes with latter-day conceptualism and “the new illegibility.”

Both keynote speakers will offer critical prospects on the very idea of electronic literature, the meaning of the name, and various present and future ontologies for our discourse.

(source: ELO 2015 conference catalog)