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February 2021: “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics” special gathering
Special gathering: “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics” electronic book review is delighted to publish a special gathering this month called “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics,” edited by Dani Spinosa (ELO Fellow and ELD Managing Editor) and Lai-Tze Fan (ebr Editor and Director of Communications, and tbr Co-Editor). The objectives of this gathering are not only to highlight what has been accomplished in early digital poetics in the 1990s and early 2000s in Canada, but also to represent what new literary voices and digital experiments can be identified in Canadian scholarship and poetics, along… continue
January 2021: e-lit in the digital humanities, ELO 2021, A Toast to Flash
Happy new year to you and yours, and all best wishes for 2021! This month at ebr, we are publishing the final contributions to Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual’s salient gathering “Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities.” To celebrate Dene Grigar and James O’Sullivan’s newly released co-edited volume Electronic Literature As Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2021), we are re-printing its introduction! * ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2021 meeting of the ELO will be held virtually from May 24 — 28, hosted by Scott Rettberg at the University o… continue
November 2020: “poetics of juxtaposition”; what do we do with games and what they do to us
This month we bring two insightful reviews: Sarah Whitcomb Laiola discusses Stephanie Strickland’s wonderfully intricate new poetic book Ringing the Changes (Counterpath Press, 2020) and Stuart Moulthrop follows Noah Wardrip-Fruin in his effort to urge game studies into a new direction (How Pac-Man East, MIT Press, 2020). Next Sunday, on November 8, three new [Frame]works Gathering essays will be published: “Documenting a Field: The Life and Afterlife of the ELMCIP Collaborative Research Project and Electronic Literature Knowledge Base” by Scott Rettberg, “Speculative Interfaces: How Electroni… continue
October 2020: Frameworks Gathering part III
“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * Call for Proposals: The ELO is currently seeking to encourage the creation of new… continue
September 2020: Frameworks Gathering part II
“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * ebr is delighted to announce that our Editorial Board has expanded to include four new Editors. I… continue
August 2020: Special gathering of “Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities”
“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * In “Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking: The Disruptive Potential of Electronic Lite… continue
July 2020: E-Lit as a Garden; Third Generation E-Lit as Art; Lackey’s Biofiction; and Vanderhaeghe’s Charøgnards
This month, ebr is publishing three essays, one riPOSTe, and one book review. * Anna Nacher’s “Gardening E-Literature (or, how to effectively plant the seeds for future investigations on electronic literature)” offers a glimpse into “semi-peripheral avant-gardes” that are more open than other fields of digital culture to decolonization, and not restricted to the Anglophone world. Exploring Scott Rettberg’s Electronic Literature (2018), she describes “planting the seeds for future research on e-literature” as a call for an intertwined, mutually aware, and diverse understanding and inclusivity o… continue
June 2020: Launch of The Digital Review (TDR); CFP “Critical Making, Critical Design”; essays on Joe Brainard and Charles Bernstein
On Sunday, electronic book review and The Digital Review chose to postpone our launch of the inaugural issue of tdr until today, Tuesday, June 9, out of respect for George Floyd’s memorial service this weekend and in support of related activities on Monday. In alignment with the ELO Board of Directors, we stand in solidarity with the Black community. Black Lives Matter. * We would like to announce the launch of our sibling publication, The Digital Review, led by Will Luers and Joseph Tabbi. Please check out our inaugural issue, “Digital Essayism,” for born-digital essays and works by J.R. Carp… continue
May 2020: Special gathering of ELO 2019 in Cork, Ireland
We would like to issue a formal correction to our last newsletter. ebr was founded in 1995 by Mark Amerika, Joseph Tabbi, and Ron Sukenick, so 2020 marks its 25th anniversary. This month’s issue is a special gathering—ebr’s largest ever—by Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez and James O’Sullivan of select works from the 2019 Meeting of the Electronic Literature Organization in Cork, Ireland. With 19 works in total, this issue commemorates the conference through keynote addresses, scholarly essays, and artistic reflections. In the Keynote Addresses of this gathering, the April 2020 issue of ebr was delight… continue
April 2020: 25 years of ebr; keynotes from ELO 2019
March 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of electronic book review. Though we are all apart, we wish to recognize this milestone with you and which occurs through your support. ebr extends well wishes to you and your loved ones during this difficult time and hope that you will remain safe. We will continue to publish as normal. We would like to thank the Electronic Literature Organization for their hard work in organizing the 2020 Meeting of the ELO, particularly the team at UCF (Anastasia Salter, Mel Stanfill, and others). And while we can’t meet in person, it is fortunate that much of our work… continue