dichtung-digital Nr. 41 (2012), Scott Rettberg and Patricia Tomaszek (Editorial):

Simon Biggs and Penny Travlou: Distributed Authorship and Creative Communities

An investigation into creativity as driving force for emergent communities marks the research theme of this article that discusses the use of various ethnographic methodologies to gather information on the interpretation and on the performativity of ‘creativity’ by electronic literature practitioners within a transnational and multicultural context. As ELMCIP partners responsible for the ethnographic study of networked creative communities, Biggs and Travlou present their research in progress. Continue reading

Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language :: until July 28, 2012 :: EMPAC, 110 8th Street, Troy, New York. Continue reading

Spring 2012 Purple Blurb @ MIT, Cambridge, MA:

Purple Blurb is pleased to announce the start of our Spring Semester series next week with noted sound poet, book artist, and visual writer Steve McCaffery. We hope you will join us for this and our future events, which include a reading by Christian Bök, a symposium on the future of books, and an open mic /open mouse for all forms of digital writing!

March 19 in 6-120, 5:30 pm :: STEVE MCCAFFERY, Author of Carnival, The Black Debt, Seven Pages Missing; Professor and David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, SUNY Buffalo. Continue reading

Codings with Giselle Beiguelman, Commodore, Adam Parrish, Jörg Piringer, Casey Reas, Pall Thayer; curated by Nick Montfort :: until March 30, 2012 :: Pace Digital Gallery, 163 William Street, New York City. Continue reading

[Image: Les Belles Infidèles by Ethan Ham, et al] International Conference: Translating E-Literature :: June 12-14, 2012 :: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France :: Call for Papers - Deadline: March 15.

Translating E-Literature is organized by OTNI: Objets textuels non identifiés (UTO: Unidentified Textual Objects), a research project into the evolution of textuality in the digital age. It is supported by the Electronic Literature Organization.

E-literature is an emphatically global phenomenon. Its authors are of many different nationalities. Sometimes they write in a form of global English. Continue reading

RiTa† is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple tools for experimenting with generative literature. The philosophy behind the API is to be as simple and intuitive as possible, while still providing adequate flexibility for more advanced users. The download comes in two flavors: 1) the ‘core’ package, containing the jar files and documentation, and 2) the ‘TTS’ package that adds text-to-speech support. Additionally, statistical models for tagging, chunking, and parsing are available for more advanced users (see ‘Stat-Models’). RiTa optionally integrates with Processing and is both free and open-source. Continue reading

An Evening with Electronic Literature Organization :: December 13, 2011; 7:00 pm :: The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY.

Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) presents an evening of multimedia, interactive, performative readings highlighting a broad range of born-digital literary forms, including game-inspired, collaborative, database, film/video, generative, and kinetic image work. The evening’s presentations showcase five projects selected from the second Electronic Literature Collection, published in February 2011, and created by Oni Buchanan, Jhave Johnston, Illya Szilak, Sandy Baldwin, and collaborators — Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, and Paul Ryan. Continue reading

2012 Electronic Literature Organization Conference — Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints :: June 20-23, 2012 :: West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV :: Call for Papers — Deadline: November, 30, 2011.

ELO 2012 Media Arts Show :: June 18-30, 2012 :: Monongalia Arts Center, Morgantown + online :: Call for Works — Deadline: November 30, 2011.

Electronic Literature: Where is It? — Even if nobody could define print literature, everyone knew where to look for it - in libraries and bookshops, at readings, in class, or on the Masterpiece channel. We have not yet created, however, a consensus about where to find electronic literature, or (for that matter) the location of the literary in an emerging digital aesthetic. Continue reading

Fall 2011 Purple Blurb @ MIT, Cambridge, MA:

Seeing and Writing: Russian Multimedia Poetry by Natalia Fedorova :: October 24, 2011; 5:30 pm :: 14E-310 — Natalia Fedorova’s work includes an interactive novel, Madame Ebaressa and a Butterfly, co-written with Sergeij Kitov; 7, a  hyper fiction piece with three possible endings; Dialogue Between a Policeman and a Ballerina, a video installation with the Factory of Found Clothes; and two poetry films, Snow Queen and Just do not not do it. She is also the founder and curator of VIDE0.txt, a poetry film festival in St-Petersburg, Russia and the co-curator of SELF-ID.com, a digital publishing portal. Continue reading

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