call for papers & works
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The review process is complete, and notifications have been sent; the conference schedule is being finalized. See also the link in the main menu to the "media arts show" showcasing the works accepted into the gallery.
The 2012 Electronic
Literature Organization
Conference will be held
June 20-23, 2012 in Morgantown, WV, the site of West Virginia
University. In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be
a juried Media Arts Show open to the public at the Monongalia Arts
Center in Morgantown and running from June 18-30, 2012. An accompanying
online exhibit will bring works from the ELO Conference to a wider
audience.
We invite titles and proposals of no more than
500 words, including a
brief description of the content and format of the presentation, and
contact information for the presenter(s). Send proposals
to elit2012 [at] gmail.com, using plain text format in the
email, or attached
as Word or PDF. All proposals will receive peer-to-peer review by the
ELO and will be considered on their own terms. Non-traditional and
traditional formats will be subject to the same peer-to-peer review
process.
Conference Planning Committee
Sandy Baldwin,
West Virginia University (Chair)
Philippe Bootz,
University of Paris 8
Dene Grigar,
Washington State University Vancouver
Margie
Luesebrink, Irvine Valley College
Mark Marino,
University of Southern California
Talan Memmott, Blekinge Institute of
Technology
Stuart
Moulthrop, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Joseph Tabbi,
University of Illinois, Chicago
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elo 2012
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Electronic Literature: Where is It?
Even if nobody could define print literature,
everyone knew where to
look for it - in libraries and bookshops, at readings, in class, or on
the Masterpiece channel. We have not yet created, however, a consensus
about where to find electronic literature, or (for that matter) the
location of the literary in an emerging digital aesthetic.
Though we do have, in digital media, works that identify themselves as
"locative," we don't really know where to look for e-lit, how it should
be tagged and distributed, and whether or how it should be taught. Is
born digital writing likely to reside, for example, in conventional
literature programs? in Rhetoric? Comp? Creative Writing? Can new media
literature be remediated? How should its conditions of creation be
described? Do those descriptions become our primary texts when the
works themselves become unavailable through technological obsolescence?
To forward our thinking about the institutional and technological
location of current literary writing, the Electronic Literature
Organization and West Virginia University's Center for Literary
Computing invite submissions to the ELO 2012 Conference to be
held from
June 20-23, 2012, in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Bearing in mind the changing locations of new media literature and
literary cultures, the conference organizers welcome unconventional
presentations, whether in print or digital media. The point is not to
reject the conventional conference 'paper' or bullet point presentation
but to encourage thoughtful exploration and justification of any format
employed. All elements of literary description and presentation are up
for reconsideration. The modest mechanisms of course descriptions,
syllabus construction, genre identification, and the composition of
author bios, could well offer maps toward the location of the literary
in digital media. So can an annotated bibliography of works falling
under a given genre or within a certain technological context. We
welcome surveys of the use of tags and keywords, and how these can be
recognized (or not) by readers, libraries, or other necessary nodes in
an emerging literary network Also of interest is the current
proliferation of directories of electronic literature in multiple
media, languages, and geographical locations.
The cost of the conference is $150; graduate students and
non-affiliated artists pay only $100. The cost covers receptions,
meals, and other conference events. All participants must be members of
the Electronic
Literature Organization. All events are within walking
distance of the conference hotels. Morgantown is a classic college
town, located in the scenic hills of north central West Virginia, about
70 miles south of Pittsburgh, PA. Local hotel and travel information
will be available on the conference website starting October 1, 2011.
Check http://el.eliterature.org
and
http://conference.eliterature.org
for updates. For more information,
email elit2012 [at] gmail.com.
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