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Happy new year! This month, we publish our final instalment of the 4-part series on the metainterface—“a reconsideration of interface studies.” Scott Rettberg and Shelley Jackson’s “Room for So Much World,” is a special conversation with celebrated writer Jackson, detailing her experiments with writing mediums (including fresh snow and skin) and with materiality/language in more classic forms (see her newest novel Riddance). “Room for So Much World” anticipates themes in a forthcoming ebr gathering, Natural Media, edited by Editors Eric Dean Rasmussen and Lisa Swanstrom. Please look forward to… continue

This December, ebr has eight publications to share! We have the pleasure of publishing select essays from the Arabic E-lit Conference in Dubai (February 2018), starting with N. Katherine Hayles’ “Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature” (published in ebr in August 2018). As the editor of this gathering, Dani Spinosa introduces these texts in her note “Essays from the Arabic E-lit Conference.” I encourage reading Spinosa’s thoughtful introduction. Including Hayles’ work, the five essays of the gathering are Reham Hosny’s “Mapping Electronic Literature in the A… continue

Resuming from last month, ebr will continue to publish texts that reflect upon the politics of the metainterface, as well as cultural practices and works that have emerged in response, starting with last month’s re-publication of a chapter of Christian Ulrik Anderson and Søren Bro Pold’s The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds (MIT 2018). This month, we feature a discussion from Rod Coover and Scott Rettberg on their project Toxi•City: A Climate Change Narrative, a narrative film that combines fictional and nonfictional stories of people affected by rising sea levels and rec… continue

This month’s publication initiates an exciting 4-part assemblage—one of a series initiated with ebr version 7.0, on the topic of “metainterfaces,” a term from Christian Ulrik Anderson and Søren Bro Pold’s new text The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds (MIT 2018). Over several months, ebr will publish texts that reflect upon the politics of the metainterface, as well as cultural practices and works that have emerged in response. In the spirit of these and similar relational series that ebr version 7.0 is proud to offer, please look forward to forthcoming gatherings, includi… continue

The publications of September are preceded with several exciting announcements. I write this monthly post after having returned from ELO 2018 in Montréal, Canada—five days and nights of critical discussion, creative exhibition, and much-needed reunion in the city of microbreweries and cheese. We hope to see you at the 2019 Meeting of the ELO in Cork, Ireland, from July 15-17! Many congratulations to the winners of the 2018 ELO prizes: – the Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature was awarded to Will Luers (ebr’s own Managing Editor), Hazel Smith, and Roger Dean for their work N… continue