Event Series

[Description on the DHSI website]

All those connected to DHSI and its 2021 edition are invited to be part of the EPoetry event #GraphPoem by MARGENTO at 9:30 AM Pacific Time on June 11 by contributing text files or weblinks to a collectively assembled dataset and/or run a script plotting the latter into a real-time evolving network.

The Graph Poem is an ongoing transnational project combining natural language processing and graph theory-based approaches to poetry, with academic, DH-literary, and performative outputs.

When DHSI registration opens, participants will be able to sign up for GraphPoem and will receive an account giving them access to the data and the code.

#GraphPoem will have two main components viewable to anybody accessing the following online venues at the time of the event: a livestreamed performance on Margento’s Facebook page and the bot @GraphPoem tweeting text-nodes selected from the evolving graph by a network analysis algorithm and fed into the performance.

Thank you to all who participated in this virtual e-poetry event! The event was recorded and can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWg6_2Y-kuQ

Woman E-Lit was a symposium that took place on March 30, 2021 during Women’s History Month celebrating women who have contributed to the field of electronic literature. It also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL). The two events intersect in that it was important to the ELL Team to celebrate the lab's anniversary in a way that speaks to it mission––that is, to curate, document, preserve, and produce born digital literary works and other media. Hosting a symposium where women could come together to amplify achievements, provide a space of free and welcomed expression, and celebrate you, us, all of us, whether here today or not seemed to be the most joyful way to accomplish this goal.

Schedule:

9:00-9:10: Welcome & Introductions by Dene Grigar

9:10-9:30: "Women researchers in Latin American E-Lit," by Carolina Gainza, Rejane Rocha, Nohelia Meza, and Veroníca Gomez

9:30-9:40: "Provocation: Why Are Women Special?," by Lyle Skains

9:40-9:50: “Mothers and (sometimes unexpected) Daughters of E-Lit. On Polish women, (e-)literary theory, and VR poetry," by Agnieszka Przybyszewska

9:50-10:00: "Digital Poetry & Gendered Bodies," by Jeneen Naji

10:10-10:20: “Leading Women in the Assimilation of E-lit in Arabic Culture," by Eman Younis

10:20-10:30: “#Crossroads…,” by Annie Abrahams

10:30-10:40:  "Gender and Canadian Digital Poetics with Asterisks," by Dani Spinosa

10:40-10:50:  “Griottes of a New Age,”  by Judith Okonkwo

10:50-11:00: “Call to Action: Let Her Name Be Remembered,” by Dene Grigar

This is an activity whereby all participants at the event honor women who have shaped the field over the years by documenting their names and contributions.

At the ELO Town Hall, which was held on the first day of the 2019 ELO conference in Cork, the artist Annie Abrahams raised the topic of initiating and facilitating a series of virtual meetings for the ELO community to further community discussion, to increase the frequency of community-wide gatherings, to involve members who may not be able to participate in the annual conference in person as a result of economic or other issues, and to address growing environmental concerns about the contribution of long distance travel to global CO2 levels.  Abrahams' suggestion was met with interest by the ELO community though concerns were raised regarding the logistics of scheduling such meetings and the availability of resources for managing and administering such gatherings.  As a follow up to Abrahams' suggestion, Deena Larsen proposed, in August, 2019, that the ELO community engage in something she referred to as "small salons," which she described as a gathering "almost like an extended family, which has a core group of people that participated and could function online.”  She suggested that such a series of salons might foster more in-depth discussion and allow those with access issues a slight taste of the face to face networking and idea exchange possible at the ELO conference.  In November, 2019, Larsen and Rodgers scheduled a call with one another both to follow up on some discussions they had been involved in at the ELO/Cork conference and to revisit the "small salons" proposal from August.  In the course of this and one other conversation in December, 2019, Larsen, Abrahams, and Rodgers laid out a framework for facilitating a virtual meeting of ELO members, the first of which would take place on January 14, the second Tuesday of the month, at 10 pm GMT (5 pm Eastern, 3pm Mountain, 1 pm Pacific, 11pm Paris time) (this time was chosen as one that would allow for the maximal participation from all time zones).  The discussion on January 14 would be dedicated to discussing the purposes of these small salons and to signing up volunteers to facilitate the monthly salons.  Thirteen individuals signed up to participate in the first virtual ELO salon and ten sessions were scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month from February - November, 2020.  

(Source: Salon documentation, written by Johannah Rodgers)

Freeplay is Australia’s longest-running and largest independent games festival, located in Melbourne, Australia. Freeplay draws Australia’s independent games community together at its conference, public events program, arcade, and awards. The festival joins players, makers, critics, artists, designers, coders, academics, students, and families for a critical celebration of the artistry of games and digital culture.

Freeplay continues to champion creative and artistic exploration and experimentation in games, highlighting and uncovering grassroots talent in Melbourne and Australia, as videogames continue to grow and gain cultural significance and legitimacy.

The Digital Writers’ Festival is an online-first writers’ festival dedicated to celebrating the work of Australian writers and fostering new relationships through collaboration between writers, with a particular focus on engaging those in regional areas.

The New Media Writing Prize awards evening took place at Bournemouth University on January 17th 2018. Vanita Patel, BA English Student at Bournemouth University, captured the event for us.On January 17th, Bournemouth University hosted the 8th annual awards ceremony for the New Media Writing Prize. This year’s attendees were lucky to have the opportunity to listen to Adrian Smith, Amuzo Director and one of the creators of the original Tomb Raider games. The evening also consisted of a presentation with the competition’s shortlisted entries and winners as well as giving an insight on some of the judges own personal opinions on what new media narratives meant to them. The event was organised by Jim Pope and was graciously sponsored by if:book boss, Chris Meade, Unicorn Training CEO Peter Phillips and Gorkana’s Philip Smith and Cheryl Douglas.

Adrian Smith talked about his experience with interactive narratives whilst creating Tomb Raider in 1996. Using the New Media Writing Prize’s key elements: Innovation, Interactive and Immersive as a starting point for his presentation, Smith gave an interesting talk about the creation of the iconic gaming franchise. It was clear that during the creation of Tomb Raider, the most important element of it was what the heart of the game should be. Whether it was being able to let the player explore the world, making the game accessible to all, or to produce achievable goals and challenges, Tomb Raider provides many options for whatever type of gamer you are.

(Source: Article from www.theliteraryplatform.com :  ‘The Cartographer’s Confession’ wins the New Media Writing Prize 2017, http://theliteraryplatform.com/magazine/2018/01/cartographers-confession...  )

The subcategory of the 2017 New Media Writing Prize for the Student Prize Winner and Shortlist.

• Natasha Nunn: Mary Rose http://mary-rose.ca 
• Mark Briggs: Paranormal Interactivity http://idoc17.buprojects.uk/ParaInt/#Home
• Amanda Wilson: Clutter https://clutter-title.netlify.com

The Student prize was awarded to Natasha Nunn: Mary Rose http://mary-rose.ca 

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

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