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A New ELO Project: The Electronic Literature Collection

The ELO is proud to announce a new project, the Electronic Literature Collection.

The Electronic Literature Collection will be an annual publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use. The publication will be made available both on the Web and as a packaged, cross-platform disc, in a case appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution. The contents of the Collection will be offered under a Creative Commons license so that libraries and educational institutions will be allowed to duplicate and install works and individuals will be free to share the disc with others. The Collection will feature a variety of electronic literature in many forms and genres – a broad selection of quality work. This will include new work that has been selected by editors as well as notable electronic literature from the past.

The Electronic Literature Collection is supported by:

A longer version of this announcement, with information about what electronic literature is and with information about the ELO, is also available: http://www.eliterature.org/publications/elc-announce/

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Stuart Moulthrop Wins Engelbart Award at Hypertext 2005

At the recent Hypertext 2005 conference in Salzburg, Austria, Stuart Moulthrop won The Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award for “What the Geeks Know: Hypertext and the Problem of Literacy”. The Ted Nelson Newcomer award was given to J. Nathan Matias for “Philadelphia Fullerine: A Case Study in Three-Dimensional Hypermedia”.

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Winter 05 Issue of UC Riverside’s AFT on “Digital Divides, Digital Domains”

The latest issue of the online undergraduate writing journal Actions Forms Technique, edited by UC Riverside Professor of English James Tobias is entitled Digital Divides, Digital Domains: Negotiating the Boundaries”. AFT, published quarterly, features work by UC Riverside undergraduates on “the cultures, aesthetics, and technologies of print, audiovisual, and interactive media”.

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Ph.D. Approved for UCSB’s MAT Program

The UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT) proposal for a PhD in Media Arts and Technology was approved by the University of California on 20 September 2005.

MAT will be accepting applications for Fall 2006 admission to the PhD program. Prospective applicants should apply online through the UCSB Graduate Division.

The Admissions information page on MAT’s web site will be updated before 1 November, a month before the early application deadline.

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CSU Monterey Bay Positions

The Department of Teledramatic Arts and Technology at California State University, Monterey Bay is hiring. Two tenure track positions are available at the Assistant/Associate Professor level: one emphasizing new media in general, the other focused on digital video. Both positions are within the Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department (TAT) of the College of Science, Media Arts and Technology (SMART). In both cases the successful candidate will be a forward thinking, transmedia educator and practitioner with emphasis in innovative production and theory and a strong background in application of new digital technologies to traditional storytelling practices.

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Electronic Literature Panels at SLSA

This year’s conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, set for November 10-13 in Chicago, features numerous panels that focus on “etextuality and computation”. Many of the ELO’s board of directors will be presenting. See the conference program for details on the following panels:

+ Thursday, November 10:

“Narrative, Media and Technology”
“Viral and Distributed Narratives”

+ Friday, November 11:

“There is No Media?
“Narrative and Emergent Knowledge”
“Dirty Code”
“The Error Engine: Writing and Creative Evolutionary Systems”

+ Saturday, November 12

“Cybernetics, Autopoiesis, Literature”
“Digital Cognition”
“Text/Image/Structure: Literary Hypertext 2005”

+ Sunday, November 13:

“Rhetoric and Image in Science and Literature”
“Emergence and Convergence in New Media Narratives”

ELO members will receive a discount of US $40 off the regular registration rate of US $120. Download the registration form here, and add a note on the form indicating that you are a member of the ELO.

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Digital Writing on Empyre

This month’s conversation on the empyre mailing list will be on the topic “Digital Writing.” The guests will include digital authors and commentators Bill Seaman (an ELO board member), Brigid McLeer, Friedrich Block, Giselle Beiguelman, and Sue Thomas.

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Call for Participation: Creative Versioning Project

Matthew Kirschenbaum is looking for poets and fiction writers willing to participate in a project to archive versions of texts in progress. An electronic document repository (known as a Concurrent Versions System, or CVS) will be used to track revisions and changes to original fiction and poetry contributed by participating writers who will work by checking their drafts in and out of the repository system. The goal is to provide access to a work at each and every state of its composition and conceptual evolution ­- thereby capturing the text as a living, dynamic object-in-the-making rather than a finished end-product. A reader will be able to watch the composition process unfold as though s/he were looking over the writer’s shoulder.

Participating writers must agree to:

* Work with your text exclusively within the confines of the CVS, checking it in and out each and every time you wish to edit or compose.

* Give their consent to make all archived versions of the work publicly accessible.

The result will be a Web-accessible archive, with the full text of each and every version of a writer’s text available for reading and relations between the versions expressed by means of maps and visualizations.

To participate, please contact Kirschenbaum at mgk =at= umd =dot= edu . Please indicate your willingness to abide by the above constraints.

Matthew Kirschenbaum
Assistant Professor of English
Acting Associate Director,
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
301-405-8927 or 301-314-7111 (fax)

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[Note: At this point Kirschenbaum is recruiting interested writers. He is not sure when the project will actually get off the ground – hopefully this winter.]

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Clues

Clues“Clues” is an adaptive hypertext that presents poems and asks the reader to uncover clues, figuring out what to investigate and who to trust. This metaphysical whodunit, couched in the language of the mystery novel and questioning the concepts of detection and communication, was developed in the Connection Muse. See the Directory entry for more information about this piece.

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Robert Coover Reading at UCLA Hammer Museum

Fiction writer and influential elit critic Robert Coover will read from recent works as part of the UCLA Hammer Museum’s fall “New American Writing” series on Sunday, October 16, at 6 pm. This series of readings of contemporary fiction and poetry is organized and hosted by author Benjamin Weissman. This event is free and open to the public. Visit the Hammer website for directions and parking information.