This Sunday’s Living section of the Los Angeles Times featured an article about the recent 2002 ELO State of the Arts Symposium at UCLA. Aside from a couple of factual inaccuracies (while the mention of Michael Joyce’s Aftermath brought a smile to some of our faces, the actual title of Eastgate’s classic hypertext is afternoon: a story) the article is a fine bit of journalism that captures the spirit of what many are already calling the most important gathering in the history of the nascent field of electronic literature. (Abstract available, article can be purchased for $2.95)
[Link updated April 2005; the article was removed from the Web]
State of the Arts Symposium a Success
The ELO Symposium was a huge success. Three nights of hypermedia readings by new and established artists and two full days of panel discussions by speakers from multi-disciplinary experiences and perspectives. 150 people from all over the world attended the event, proving that this type of Symposium is vitally important to the field and the future of electronic literature.
State of the Arts Gallery Online
The Gallery of creative works and papers accepted for the ELO Symposium is now online. Access the analytical papers and creative works that were exbhibited in the Gallery from your own computer.
New Volume of TIR Web
The journal of new media and experimental writing and art published at the University of Iowa contains: the new work “Dervish Flowers,” a shockwave work by French painter Nicolas Clauss and composer Jean-Jaques Berge, and interview with Shelley Jackson by Rita Raley, an interview with William Poundstone by Brian Kim Stefans, poems by Marjorie Stelmach, and a talk about the art of translation by Eliot Weinberger.
New CTHEORY Issue
CTHEORY’s “Theory, Technology and Culture” contains an interview with a pioneer in the field of virtual reality and interactive art — Myron Krueger.
New Journal of New Media & Culture
The first issue of NMEDIAC, the Journal of New Media & Culture is now available. It includes articles by Amy Davila, Kavita Philip & Terry Harpold, Miriam Fernndez Santiago, Megan Sapnar, and Brian Walsh; New Media Art by Jason Nelson, Thomas Swiss and Motomichi Nakamura, and introductions to the art by Jennifer Ley and Megan Sapnar; and a review of Loss Pequeo Glazier’s new book Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries by George Hartley.
New ebr Riposte
Mark Hansen responds to Linda Brigham’s review of his book, Skip LaPlante, responds to Kermani’s article “The Sonic Spectrum,” Elise Kermani answers LaPlante, Scott Rettberg proposes a more generative approach to hypertext, N. Katherine Hayles responds to Markku Eskelinen.
2002: a Palindrome Story in 2002 Words Released
Spineless Books releases a unique new work by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie, 2002: A Palindrome Story. Click on our link and log in with a username of “Bob” and a password of “Babs” for a sneak preview. [Update: Login is not required.]
[Updated April 2005]
ELO on NPR
Listen to John Cayley, Larry McCaffery and Scott Rettberg discuss electronic literature on Chicago Public Radio’s “Odyssey.” (Program description) (52 minute Realaudio stream)
[Links updated April 2005]
Eastgate To Release New Title by Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley
My Name is Captain, Captain. is the anticipated new work from Eastgate. Robert Coover says: “Using verbal and visual metaphors from the early days of flight in the hypermedia skies of these early days of electronic literature, My Name Is Captain, Captain. is already, even at the moment it is being published, a classic in its form. […] At times playful, at times somber, My Name Is Captain, Captain. is, at all points of the compass, a compelling and intriguing read.”
[Links updated April 2005]