Video essay / documentary

A video-essay by Talan Memmott and David Prater

Does electronic literature have a future? Is Google the end of the World? What is the role of digital poetics in global politics? These issues and more are discussed with J. R. Carpenter, John Cayley, Maria Mencia, Scott Rettberg, Alexandra Saemmer, Roberto Simanowski, and Jaka Železnikar.

The video-essay was shot September 2011 at the ELMCIP Electronic Literature and New Media Art Seminar in Ljubljana Slovenia.

Cris Cheek, Maria Engberg, Jörg Piringer, and Christine Wilks discuss tactile media, intentionality, messy screens, and electronic literary works fading into the past. The video-essay was shot at the ELMCIP Digital Textuality with/in Performance Seminar held in Bristol UK. May 2012. Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is a collaborative research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation. Length: ‎9:29