Purple Blurb Spring 2010 Series: Roderick Coover & Nitin Sawhney, Stephanie Strickland, Jeremy Freese & Emily Short, John Cayley & Daniel C. Howe :: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 14E-310, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.

Roderick Coover & Nitin Sawhney * VIDEO :: March 1; 5:30 - 7:00 pm ** Stephanie Strickland * POETRY :: March 8; 5:30 - 7:00 pm ** Jeremy Freese & Emily Short * INTERACTIVE FICTION :: March 29; 5:30 - 7:00 pm ** John Cayley & Daniel C. Howe * POETRY :: April 28; 7:30 - 9:00 pm.

Authoring Software and Platforms for Electronic Literature and New Media hosted by Judy Malloy:

A resource for teachers and students of new media writing, who are exploring what authoring tools to use, for new media writers and poets, who are interested in how their colleagues approach their work, and for readers, who want to understand how new media writers and poets create their work, Authoring Software is an ongoing collection of statements about authoring tools and software. It also looks at the relationship between interface and content in new media writing and at how the innovative use of authoring tools and the creation of new authoring tools have expanded digital writing/hypertext writing/net narrative practice in this vibrant contemporary creative writing field. Continue reading

In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice At The Edge: A Gathering :: February 18 - 21, 2010 :: Registration Deadline: January 29, 2010.

In(ter)ventions — Literary Practice At The Edge: A Gathering is a conference unlike any held previously in Canada. Over the course of three days, more than two dozen presenters and performers will create a context for the demonstration and discussion of cutting-edge literary practice. In a mixture of panels, papers, readings, performances, and more, participants will explore digital literature, interactivity, collaboration, cross-disciplinary work, formal innovation, “uncreative” writing, new modes of dissemination, and literary pedagogy.

Within the rapidly changing landscape of literary practice and dissemination, technology has rocketed forward, putting more power into the hands of writers and other artists. Continue reading

Streamflow Conditions: Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks with John Cayley (CA), Roderick Coover (US), Ian Hatcher (US), Mez Breeze (AU), José Carlos Silvestre (BR), Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US), Rui Torres (PT) :: December 5-6, 2009; 5:35 - 5:35 pm :: http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org.

Timestamp: 24 hours of networked writing :: Online Launch: December 5-6; 4:35 - 435 pm (UTC-7/MST sunset in Denver, Colorado): artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means. Continue reading

The Electronic Literature Organization and Brown University’s Literary Arts Program invite submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference to be held from June 3-6, 2010 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Keywords: electronic literature . writing digital media . language-driven digital poesis . literal art . literary hypermedia :: expressive processing, computational art, artificial cognition and intelligence, aesthetic gaming, information art, codework, digitally mediated performance, network & media art & activism.

The conference will focus on the theory, criticism, close-reading, practice and archiving of language-driven digital art and poetics. Our gathering will also embrace all the related cultural practices that continue to be addressed by scholars and artists in our growing field. Continue reading

Read | Write The Learning Screen by Greg Ulmer — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

ABSTRACT: Networked art, new media innovations, and the Internet as a cultural phenomenon in general are manifestations of a civilizational shift in the apparatus (social machine) from literacy to electracy. The historical analogy (grammatology) with the previous (and still ongoing) shift from orality to literacy shows that the shift is gradual, with many transitional features, but ultimately produces a new dimension of experience in every area of the lifeworld (technology, institutions, individual and collective identity behavior). This essay addresses the situation of teaching electracy in a literate institution, describing a pedagogy for bootstrapping literate practices into an electrate skillset. What is the fundamental practice (logic, rhetoric, poetics) of thinking and communicating native to online learning? Continue reading

Conference and Performanes: Network as a Space & Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice :: November 8 - 10, 2009 :: University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

This conference will focus on the increasing use of the network as a space and medium for collaborative interdisciplinary art practices including electronic literature and other network based art forms. Researchers will present papers exploring new network-based creative practices that involve the cooperation of small to large-scale groups of writers, artists, performers, and programmers to create online projects that defy simple generic definitions and disciplinary boundaries. Continue reading

Purple Blurb Fall 2009 Series: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Mary Flanagan, Fox Harrell, Marina Bers :: Mondays @ 6:00 pm :: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 14E-310, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.

Noah Wardrip-Fruin - September 14 … Noah Wardrip-Fruin is author of Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (MIT Press, 2009), co-creator of Screen (among other works of digital writing), and assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Continue reading

Noah Wardrip-Fruin: Meaning What We Play — Games, Fiction, and Expressive Processing, an illustrated talk on the occasion of the MIT Press publication of Expressive Processing :: September 15, 2009; 7:00 pm :: McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence, RI.

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is an alumnus of both Brown’s Literary Arts MFA program and its Special Graduate Study PhD option. He works to connect writing with the arts, humanities, and computer science - with a particular interest in fiction and playability. His digital media writing projects have been presented by conferences, galleries, research facilities, arts festivals, and museums. Continue reading