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  • ELO’s Born-Again Bits Released

    Following up on its pamphlet Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature, ELO has released online Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature by Alan Liu, David Durand, Nick… Read more.

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  • afternoon, a story

    afternoon, a story is one of the most widely-discussed works of electronic literature. It is the story of Peter, a technical writer who (in one reading) begins his afternoon with… Read more.

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  • Drunken Boat’s First Annual Panliterary Awards

    Deadline Extended to: August 15th, 2005 Judges: Annie Finch, Sabina Murray, Alexandra Tolstoy, Talan Memmott, David Hall, and DJ Spooky Drunken Boat, http://www.drunkenboat.com, international online journal for the arts, announces… Read more.

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  • Galatea

    Short’s all-text simulation lets the interactor converse with a statue that has come to life. Depending on how the conversation affects the mood of Pygmalion’s creation, and where the conversation… Read more.

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  • Façade

    Façade, a finalist 2004 Independent Games Festival, is an interactive drama that is visually rich and dramatically deep. A first-person-shooter interface accepts typed conversational statements and allows the animated characters,… Read more.

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  • Job at Dartmouth

    A position for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in digital media with interests in one or more of the following areas: the cultures and aesthetics of digital media; electronic literature;… Read more.

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  • CFP: First Issue of HyperRhiz

    HyperRhiz, the peer-reviewed new media satellite of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, seeks web-based multimedia contributions for its first issue. HyperRhiz “affirms and extends the mandate of Rhizomes, which… Read more.

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  • Mainframe Experimentalism Anthology

    Douglas Kahn and Hannah Higgins are putting together an interdisciplinary collection on “the encounter of artists, musicians, poets and writers, and filmmakers working within avant-garde, experimental, and artistically innovative traditions… Read more.

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  • New Reviews in Cyberculture Studies

    Jeff Rice’s Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom is reviewed by J.M. King at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Other books reviewed include Women… Read more.

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  • Shade

    In this brief work of interactive fiction, Plotkin (a.k.a. zarf) causes the ordinary actions of looking for a glass of water and searching for plane tickets to turn terrifying, transforming… Read more.

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