[…]perpetuate a deep faith in the promises of technological advancements at the expense of more critical and dystopian attitude to the high-tech issues that are at play in contemporary media art and its criticism. Unlike e-literature, new media art and its hacktivism (e.g. the recent drone art projects) contribute new devices and tactics to civil society (and to the social citizen science); issues of aesthetics are pushed aside in media art situated beyond the technopositivist ideology. Unfortunately, the significant part of digerati are not familiar with the procedures that demonstrate the malfunction and the role of high technology in the […]
[…]Potential of Electronic Literature,” Alex Saum-Pascual describes creative making as a form of critical thinking—an approach to applying theory as practice that has gained serious traction worldwide, often described as “critical making” (Matt Ratto) and “research-creation” (Chapman and Sawchuk). Saum-Pascual outlines the urgency of this approach for the humanities, and “more concretely, to the pedagogy and scholarship on digital or electronic literature,” through which the practice of digital creation in particular can shed critical light and self-reflexivity to media materiality, form, performance, deformance, and computational infrastructure writ large. * Joseph Tabbi’s “Something There Badly Not Wrong: The Life and Death […]
[…]USA) * Call for Papers: The Digital Review is looking for submissions for its 2021 issue on “Critical Making, Critical Design,” a special double issue with ebr edited by Lai-Tze Fan. See below for more information. * ebr is in the process of updating the site’s author pages. If you have written an essay or review for the journal and would like for us to update your bio, please send the revised copy (including links) to Will Luers (wluers@gmail.com). —Lai-Tze Fan Editor and Director of Communications, […]
[…]1, 2020. Call for Papers: The Digital Review is looking for submissions for its 2021 issue on “Critical Making, Critical Design,” a special double issue with ebr edited by Lai-Tze Fan. Deadline: 500-word abstracts due November 1, 2020. * ebr is in the process of updating the site’s author pages. If you have written an essay or review for the journal and would like for us to update your bio, please send the revised copy (including links) to Will Luers (wluers@gmail.com). —Caleb Andrew Milligan Editor, […]
[…]for, but doesn’t demand, time to eddy in Sentences, the first example being an example of time working in a closed loop, an eddy, and the second being an example of two time scales working at once. The possibility for simultaneity of event, of lyric, in a “perpetual present” demonstrates the unique relationship the analog shuffle has to time, and it’s all in the hands of the reader (Barthes, S/Z, 5). So too, explicitly calling the verses on Grenier’s index cards ‘lyrics’ implicates the personhoods in Sentences, the human presences in the work. In a standard lyric usage, the reader […]
[…]Dene Grigar and Leo Flores hosted a Zoom event called “A Toast to the Flash Generation”–a group of artists and writers from 1996 — 2020 who utilized Adobe Flash Player software. If you missed it, Dene graciously uploaded videos on Vimeo. If we must say goodbye, we might as well send off in style! Next month, we are releasing a special issue on “Canadian Digital Poetics,” co-edited by Dani Spinosa and Lai-Tze Fan, and featuring essays about Jordan Abel, J.R. Carpenter, Darren Wershler, among others. We are also featuring special interviews, including one with ELO Vice-President Caitlin Fisher, who wrote […]
[…]clear that Canada holds a rich variety of transmedial literature, digital poetics, and net art—a critical and creative landscape more recently brought to the attention of global e-literature communities through the 2016 ELO Meeting in Victoria, Canada (co-chaired by Dene Grigar and Ray Siemens) and the 2018 ELO Meeting in Montréal, Canada (co-chaired by Bertrand Gervais, Caitlin Fisher, and others). The objectives of the Editors Dani Spinosa and Lai-Tze Fan 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 […]
[…]of earlier eras, but as uncanny, hypermediated receptions of transmitted data, at times as massive coded data streams, minimally as disembodied voices. In the thrust and escape velocity of such cosmological narratives, the AI imaginary beams outward and away from Earth along expansionist and monolithic lines of evolutionary progressions toward cosmic heights ever receding from its human origins. Moreover, even within the human orbit, self-willed artificial personalities work so well that they overtake their programmers and assert their own goals. 2001’s HAL 9000 is an archetypal example of such a non-trivial or unpredictable machine intelligence. As this renegade AI is […]
[…]Research Center (University of Aarhus, Denmark) and the Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group (University of Bergen, Norway) in collaboration with dra.ft (India) and the Electronic Literature Lab (Washington State University Vancouver, USA). With over a year of experience with digital meetings, it was clear that the typical 20-minute conference presentations for a full week would simply be a battle of endurance rather than the generative space similar to the hustle and bustle of in-person conference. Instead, the organization chose a format of 5-minute presentations combined with extended time for engaged discussions. Most presenters also submitted a written papers in advance, […]
[…]at the outset for analysis. The solo works of E-Lit may seem very backward and of no use for critical conversations within the broader discourse of E-Lit but my proposition is to question the paradigm of the electronic itself and consider to what extent people, in a space like India, can experiment on their own in spite of the digital divide. The understanding that emerges is that there is immense scope for collaboration and if I am to add a cliché: a spectre of E-Lit is circling India and it’s just a matter of time before it gets more wide […]