Electronic Literature Organization

Calling all Southern California Elit Authors:

Calling All creators (and fans) of Electronic Literature: authors, designers, and programmers.  Sign up now to present your new or favorite work of elit in our Open Mic/Open Mouse.

Venue: Outdoors under the stars at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, 746 West Adams Blvd., LA, CA 90089 at the University of Southern California.

Potential Genres:

• Electronic Poetry
• Hypertext
• Interactive Fiction
• Interactive Drama
• Conversational Agents
• Video Mashups
• Serious Games
• Flash Works
• Codeworks

Any work that could be labeled “Electronic Literature” is welcome or you may read an excerpt of one of your favorite Elit works.
Performance Spots Length: 7 Minutes Max
The performance will be Free and Open to the public.
To sign up, contact Jeremy Douglass [jeremydouglass [at] gmail]

Organized by Mark Marino, Jeremy Douglass, and Jessica Pressman with support from Holly Willis of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and from the Electronic Literature Organization.
For more information go here.

Scott Rettberg writes: My lovely gravid wife has been stretching out my tattered ELO t-shirts and sweatshirt from back in the day, and it occurred to me that it has been a while since I was able to lay my hands on a new one. Until now, that is. This afternoon, I set up some ELO designs at the ELO Store at Cafe Press. Now available are the classic ELO sweatshirt ($29.99 in ash grey or white — ELO guy on the front/eliterature.org on the back), and t-shirt ($21.99 — ELO guy on the front/eliterature.org on the back), plus hats ($17.99 — khaki or white), coffee mug ($14.99), tote bag ($15.99), and last but not least, the ELO onesie for our youngest members ($13.99). A few bucks of every purchase come back to the ELO home office to support things like mailing out copies of the ELC. So show up at the Visionary Landscapes conference in style — get your ELO on.

A new book by N. Katherine Hayles: Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary was released today from the University of Notre Dame Press. The publication of the book is a major event for the field of electronic literature. In addition to the printed book, each copy comes with a CD-ROM of The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1. In addition, there is a great website accompanying the book hosted here on the ELO site at newhorizons.eliterature.org that includes syllabi for electronic literature courses, a blog/forum, and an additional online anthology of essays by students and scholars of e-lit. (more…)