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<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Literature Organization is proud to offer the following four prestigious awards: The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature, The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award The Maverick Award EXTENDED DEADLINE 2024 nominations are currently open through April 15, 2024 April 30,… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2024/03/call-for-nominations-2024-elo-awards/" class="more-link">Read more CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2024 ELO AWARDS</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Electronic Literature Organization is proud to offer the following four prestigious awards:
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<li class="li1">The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature</li>
<li class="li1">The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award</li>
<li class="li1">The Maverick Award</li>
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EXTENDED DEADLINE
2024 nominations are currently open through <del>April 15, 2024</del> April 30, 2024 and you are welcome to self-nominate for the Robert Coover and N. Katherine Hayles awards. <a href="https://forms.gle/mdR3xcUAhyWRKc2k8">Submit your nomination here.</a>
Winners will be announced at ELO 2024 during our online conference.
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature is an award given for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from supporters and members of the ELO, this annual prize aims to recognize creative excellence. The Prize for 1st Place comes with a $1000 award, with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level. One prize for Honorable Mention is awarded and consists of a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature is an award given for the best work of criticism, of any length, on the topic of electronic literature. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from N. Katherine Hayles and others, this annual prize recognizes excellence in the field. The Prize for 1st Place comes with a $1000 award, with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level. One prize for Honorable Mention is awarded and consists of a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation, it comes with a $1000 award that can go directly to the awardee or to a young scholar who would use the funds in support of developing content for online sources about the awardee’s achievements; a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement; and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level. (No self-nominations for this award.)
The Maverick Award honors an independent spirit: a writer, artist, researcher, programmer, designer, performer, or hybrid creator who does not adhere to a conventional path but creates their own and in so doing makes a singular contribution to the field of electronic literature. (No self-nominations for this award.)
For more information about the Awards, contact Holly Slocum, at holly at eliterature.org.
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<description><![CDATA[ELO Conference: Access Works January 18-19, 2024 online Please join in on our (Un)conference, Access Works! Two days of informal, interactive discussions and workshops to find ways to extend access to electronic literature for all. We will be global and online—come and join the discussion when you are awake! Electronic literature uses games, images, videos,… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2024/01/register-for-the-elo-unconference-jan-18-19-2024/" class="more-link">Read more Register for the ELO UnConference (Jan 18-19, 2024)</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="text-align: center;">ELO Conference: Access Works 
January 18-19, 2024 
online</h1>
Please join in on our (Un)conference, Access Works! Two days of informal, interactive discussions and workshops to find ways to extend access to electronic literature for all. We will be global and online—come and join the discussion when you are awake!
Electronic literature uses games, images, videos, sounds, links, navigation, and other digital qualities as an essential part of the reading experience. What can we do to make these experiences more accessible: financially, technologically, physically, internationally?
Registration is free with a current Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) membership.
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BnnrlBOKk3t_3D34Vlum89pRNRB0YDruDEiNos2cajM/viewform?ts=64ee02ca&edit_requested=true">Register for the UnConference</a>
<h2>Program</h2>
This will be a 24-hour (un)conference with world-wide moderators. See the full schedule: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WqU5O9iXNzjAPAjLaPzZeO25On25tc9N4ycLk0jZSeU/edit#gid=0">tinyurl.com/ELoJan18-192024</a>. Below are some highlights of what there is to look forward to.
<h3>Keynote Interactive Discussions</h3>
<h4>Access to and from Commercialized Platforms</h4>
Lai-Tze Fan will explore the asymmetry of access and accessibility in commercialized computational platforms, including those used to create and support electronic literature. As more and more platforms are restricting users’ and third-party developers’ access to code, databases, and application programming interfaces, Fan discusses social implications that may include misinformation, copyright restrictions, and biases in communication and technological literacy. What kinds of information and knowledge may still be accessed?
<h4>Barriers to Electronic Literature Works in India</h4>
Shanmugapriya T will address barriers in electronic works within the South Asian realm, with a focus on India. Shanmugapriya T is a Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies (HCS) at University of Toronto. implications that may include misinformation, copyright restrictions, and biases in communication and technological literacy. What kinds of information and knowledge may still be accessed?
 
<h3>Virtual Tours</h3>
<h4>Microsoft’s Inclusive Tech Lab</h4>
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/inclusive-tech-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">microsoft.com/en-us/inclusive-tech-lab</a>
During the tour we will share the history of the lab, explore how we intentionally designed the space to be accessible, discuss our inclusive design process, and showcase a selection of Microsoft’s accessibility hardware and software products.
<h4>Electronic Literature Lab’s The NEXT</h4>
<a href="https://the-next.eliterature.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the-next.eliterature.org</a>
During the tour we will explore the accessible features and works of The NEXT and discuss best practices for accessibility in sharing, archiving, and preserving electronic literature.
<h3>Demonstrations</h3>
<h4>Internet in a box</h4>
An innovative hard drive to share knowledge and works in places without the internet.
<h4>Inky</h4>
<a href="https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inky.com</a>
A free open-source authoring platform for writing branching narratives and dynamic text. The talk will be informed by the research and writing that went into <a href="https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/playablestoriesink/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creating Playable Stories with Ink and Inky</a>, an online open-education resource.
<h4>The Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform</h4>
<a href="https://revisioncentre.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revisioncentre.ca</a>
Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice will showcase the Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform, a cutting-edge, web-based platform featuring art and scholarship from the Bodies in Translation (BIT) research grant. This lively, digital born, multimedia teaching and learning platform will test the boundaries of multimedia scholarship and academic publishing.
<h3>Workshops and Roundtables</h3>
<h4>Tangled Arts</h4>
<a href="https://tangledarts.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tangledarts.org</a>
Tangled Arts will lead a workshop on Social Media Accessibility noting the various areas that need attention when creating accessible digital platforms (screen reader compatibility, alt text, image descriptions, audio descriptions, etc.)
<h4>Innovative Teaching Techniques for Electronic Literature</h4>
By sharing ways in which Electronic Literature lends itself to pedagogical experimentation, this roundtable will allow instructors to learn from one another.
<h4>Co-authoring Accessible Bits</h4>
ELO’s guide to Accessibility and Spreading the Word with Astrid Ensslin. Accessible Bits is a draft proposal for ensuring electronic literature works are accessible. Electronic literature writers love to play around the edges and push the boundaries of software. How can we engage in innovative practices while ensuring access? How can we spread the word about access and electronic literature? How can we increase visibility through documentation, analysis, and scholarship? Who can we partner with and reach out to?
<h4>But wait, there’s more!</h4>
We’ll also engage in discussions around low-vision designs (Patrick Lichty), AI issues (Vinicius Marquet), linguistic experiments (David Van Duzer) and so much more! Look forward to the full schedule releasing on December 18, 2023.
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference and Media Festival 2024 – Virtual – Call for Proposals – #ELOnline SUBMIT NOW! We invite submissions for presentations, performances, and exhibition pieces at the annual Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (ELO), to be hosted fully online July 18-21, 2024 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2024/01/cfp-elo-2024-feb-15-july-18-21-2024/" class="more-link">Read more CFP: ELO 2024 (Feb 15; July 18-21, 2024)</a>]]></description>
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2024 – Virtual – Call for Proposals – #ELOnline
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We invite submissions for presentations, performances, and exhibition pieces at the annual Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (ELO), to be hosted fully online July 18-21, 2024 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world.
ELOnline 2024’s theme is (Un)linked. We particularly encourage submissions that center on the web as a contested platform of community and computational creativity, with attention to both dystopian shifts (such as the slow demise of the platform formerly known as Twitter) and hopeful futures. As part of this theme, we invite submissions across all formats considering the 15th-ish anniversary of Twine and more broadly exploring the trajectories of hypertext and the web as a site of electronic literature making, community, and futures. Topics of particular interest include:
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<li>Utopian and Dystopian Imaginaries</li>
<li>Platform Deaths and Migrations</li>
<li>Sustainable Electronic Literature</li>
<li>Queer, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Pedagogies and Practices</li>
<li>Computational Creativity and Generative AI</li>
<li>Twine and Hypertext Fictions</li>
<li>Critical Making and E-Lit in Digital Humanities</li>
<li>Literary Games and Interactive Fiction Futures</li>
<li>Mixed, Alternate, Augmented, and Virtual Realities</li>
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Submissions are welcome in the following categories:
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<li>Panels. Panels or roundtables of 3 to 6 participants are welcome. We encourage groups proposing panels to prioritize engaging formats, rather than simply organizing a series of long talks. Panels will be scheduled live on Zoom in 75 minute blocks. For panel submissions, please provide a 350 – 500-word abstract of the session, anonymized for peer review.</li>
<li>Individual Talks. Individual talks (10 to 12 minutes) will be organized into sessions based on common themes. For an individual talk, please provide a 250-300 word individual abstract, anonymized for peer review.</li>
<li>Workshops. Workshops focused on specific skills, technologies, platforms, and techniques of interest to practitioners and/or scholars of electronic literature are welcome. For a workshop, please provide a 250-300 word individual abstract, anonymized for peer review, and any details about needs or timeslot requirements.</li>
<li>Performances. Due to the online-only format of the conference, all performances should be suitable for Zoom, and participants are particularly encouraged to make use of the distant modality and interface as part of their performance. For performance submissions, please provide a 350 – 500-word artist statement detailing the aesthetic intentions and structure of the piece. Statements should be anonymized for peer review. Performers should keep in mind the constraints of a 10 to 15-minute time slot.</li>
<li>Online Exhibition. Due to the online-only format of the conference, all exhibition pieces must be designed for web deployment using web standard technologies and hosted on UCF’s server space. We particularly encourage work engaging thoughtfully with the constraints and affordances of the web, and pointing towards the past, present, and imagined futures of hypertext literature. For exhibition submissions, please provide a 350 – 500-word artist statement detailing the aesthetic intentions and structure of the piece. If available, please provide a URL of the work or a demonstration of the concept in-progress.</li>
<li>Experimental Track. The experimental track invites participants to propose alternative platforms and modalities for sessions, ranging from text chat to in-game meetings. Hosts of experimental track sessions are responsible for access and moderation to their proposed platform for the duration of their sessions, and are asked to consider the environmental impact and accessibility of their approach as a means for exploring future conference modalities and opportunities. For experimental track proposals, please provide a 350 – 500-word abstract of the session, anonymized for peer review.</li>
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Our submission portal at <a href="https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/">https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/</a> are open January 1st, 2024 through February 15th, 2024. Notice of acceptances will be distributed by March 15h.
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All participants will be invited to submit a longer proceedings paper for publication in the UCF STARS repository (indexed via Google Scholar); however, this type of submission is not required. All conference sessions will be recorded and made available open access in the UCF STARS Repository.
 
Cost and Impact
This fully online iteration of ELO is developed in response to concerns raised both within the community and more broadly regarding the environmental impact, accessibility, and affordability of academic conferences. Our approach is intended to reflect an intentional, impact-conscious, approach using established platforms (Zoom, Discord, and the STARS Repository) and minimizing cost both to the organizers and participants.
Membership is not required to submit to the conference. However, all conference participants will be required to join the ELO, with membership fees payable directly to the organization. There is no additional conference registration fee beyond dues: however, those able to do so are encouraged to donate to ELO in lieu of registration.
Questions?
Please direct all queries to the conference co-chairs: Anastasia Salter (<a href="mailto:anastasia@ucf.edu">anastasia@ucf.edu</a>) and John Murray (<a href="mailto:jtm@ucf.edu">jtm@ucf.edu</a>) or exhibition and performance questions to Lyle Skains (<a href="mailto:lskains@bournemouth.ac.uk">lskains@bournemouth.ac.uk</a>)
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We’re excited to announce that this year’s Electronic Literature Organization Conference will be fully online July 18-21 2024, hosted by UCF and colleagues from around the world. Our team is committed to crafting an intentional, impact-conscious, conference using established platforms and minimizing cost both to the organizers and participants. We hope this will provide an… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2023/11/save-the-date-the-elo-2024-main-conference-is-coming/" class="more-link">Read more Save the Date: The ELO 2024 Main Conference is coming!</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[We’re excited to announce that this year’s Electronic Literature Organization Conference will be fully online July 18-21 2024, hosted by UCF and colleagues from around the world. Our team is committed to crafting an intentional, impact-conscious, conference using established platforms and minimizing cost both to the organizers and participants. We hope this will provide an opportunity to come together (virtually) and reflect on paths forward during difficult times.
Please keep an eye out for our CFP, coming December 1st!
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[2023 ELO AWARDS The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature Winner: “Anonymous Animal ” by Everest Pipkin From the jury statement: “This intricately crafted artwork offers a distinctive 15-minute durational browser poem that operates on an hourly cycle … This artwork attests to the power of electronic literature to provoke thought, evoke… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2023/08/2023-elo-prize-winners/" class="more-link">Read more Announcing 2023 ELO Prize Winners</a>]]></description>
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<h3 style="font-weight: 400;">The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature</h3>
Winner:<a href="https://anonymous-animal.neocities.org"> “Anonymous Animal ” by Everest Pipkin</a>
From the jury statement: “This intricately crafted artwork offers a distinctive 15-minute durational browser poem that operates on an hourly cycle … This artwork attests to the power of electronic literature to provoke thought, evoke emotions, and offer unique insights into the human condition and our shifting relationships with technology.
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Runner-up: <a href="https://www.alintakrauth.com/otherhood/">“The (m)Otherhood of Meep (the bat translator)” by Alinta Krauth</a>
From the jury statement: “This work sits at a perfect nexus of co-creation, algorithm-driven literature, and emergent text. That it is co-created not only with other humans, but primarily with another species altogether—bats—is truly remarkable … “The (m)Otherhood of Meep (the bat translator)” is a beautiful and meaningful convergence of science, literature, and human-computer interaction. It serves as an example of what amazing good we can do with our work.
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Honorable Mention: <a href="https://www.decameroncollective.com">“The Decameron 2.0” by The Decameron Collective: </a>
Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Lai-Tze Fan, Caitlin Fisher, Angela Joose, Kari Maaren, Shi-vawn Of-len, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Monique Tschofen
From the jury statement: “The Decameron 2.0” is a product of plague. Like Giovanni Boccaccio’s bebonic-plague narrative that inspired it, it is a work that arises from and conveys the experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. The “collective” creators co-created a storyworld that can be explored through 100 works of experimental multimedia poetry… “The Decameron 2.0” not only stands out as an artistic, fun, compelling, and highly affective world of electronic literature, but also as a historical record (an archive indeed) of women during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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<h3 style="font-weight: 400;">The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature</h3>
Winner: “Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction” by Lyle Skains
From the jury statement: “The book is a granular exploration of both the evolution of digital fiction and its impact on (and positioning in) popular culture. The author’s focus on marginalized authors/creators, as well as reframing accepted aspects of digital fiction, sets their work apart. Skains does more than justice to a complex topic with her ambitious work spanning over half a century of digital literature development.”
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Runner up: “Opera aperta: Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present” by Emanuela Patti
From the jury statement: “The author methodically develops a theoretical framework based on Umberto Eco’s ‘open work’ concept and applies this framework to analyze a diverse range of literary and artistic forms. The book’s argument is deeply rooted in a thoughtful examination of the digital revolution in Italy and its transformative impact on avant-garde literary production.”
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Honorable mention: “Girl Online” by Joanna Walsh
From the jury statement: “a profound exploration of the intricate dynamics of online identity with a direct focus on the experiences of women. The book delves into the challenges and opportunities that arise from the process of self-creation in the digital realm … The book’s strength lies in its ability to resonate on a deeply personal level while maintaining scholarly rigor.”
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<h3 style="font-weight: 400;">The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award.</h3>
Stephanie Strickland
The jury statement reads: “Stephanie Strickland is a renowned poet whose influence in the field of electronic literature cannot be overstated. Her for-midable critical and creative practices span decades, with pioneering work in hypertext, generative and multimodal digital formats … Strickland has cultivated and shaped the field of electronic literature as we know it today, growing a broader community of creative and critical practice, and inspiring others to appreciate, and often follow, these resonant lines of poetic inquiry and insight.”
<h3 style="font-weight: 400;">Maverick Award</h3>
Deena Larsen
Deena Larsen has been a pioneer in electronic literature for over three decades. From her first work Marble Springs to her most recent collaborations, she has been sculpting new forms of digital art. Spanning genres from hypertext to interactive bots to e-poetry, Larsen’s extensive collection of works includes Andromeda and Eliza, Playing with Rose, Modern Moral Fairytales, and Firefly. Dedicated to community building, since 2020, Larsen has been hosting Second Tuesday Salons and other events for ELO, welcoming new members and creating new venues to explore and celebrate to creative projects and scholarship. She has also co-hosted the first ever ELO Unconference and plans to host the second under the theme Access Works in January 2024, continuing her advocacy for a more inclusive and accessible e-lit world. Larsen’s archive is at University of Maryland, where among other wonders, scholars can find a shower curtain on which she composed a hypertext. Larsen continues to find new ground, welcoming newcomers even as she discovers it.
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Literature Organization is proud to offer the following four prestigious awards: The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature, The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature, and The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award. The Maverick Award 2023 nominations are currently open through May 1, 2023. You may… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2023/03/call-for-nominations-elo-awards-2/" class="more-link">Read more CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: ELO AWARDS</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Electronic Literature Organization is proud to offer the following four prestigious awards:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature,</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature, and</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The Maverick Award</li>
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<h5>2023 nominations are currently open through May 1, 2023. You may self-nominate for the Robert Coover and N. Katherine Hayles awards but not for the Marjorie Luesebrink or Maverick awards. </h5>
<h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyb-iA0aXHi7d3zcNUeNZj4t1PxtBQWv_YCwzuYUR7UTr63w/viewform?usp=sf_link">Submit your nomination here.</a></h5>
Winners will be announced online and in-person at ELO 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal!
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature is an award given for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from supporters and members of the ELO, this annual prize aims to recognize creative excellence. The Prize for 1st Place comes with a $1000 award, with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level. One prize for Honorable Mention is awarded and consists of a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature is an award given for the best work of criticism, of any length, on the topic of electronic literature. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from N. Katherine Hayles and others, this annual prize recognizes excellence in the field. The Prize for 1st Place comes with a $1000 award, with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level. One prize for Honorable Mention is awarded and consists of a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation, it comes with a $1000 award that can go directly to the awardee or to a young scholar who would use the funds in support of developing content for online sources about the awardee’s achievements; a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement; and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
The Maverick Award is awarded to an independent spirit: a writer, artist, researcher, programmer, designer, performer, or hybrid creator who does not adhere to a conventional path but creates their own and in so doing makes a singular contribution to the field of electronic literature.
For more information about the Awards, contact Holly Slocum, at holly at eliterature.org.
 
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<title>ELO Fellowship Call for Applications</title>
<link>https://eliterature.org/2023/02/elo-fellowship-call-for-applications/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Marino]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ELO FELLOWSHIP CALL FOR APPLICATIONS DEADLINE 15 MARCH The ELO is continuing its expansion of scholarly activity, creative, and curatorial practices with the appointment of four graduate and early career Research & Creative Fellows for 2023, each of whom will be awarded a $500 stipend along with a one-year ELO membership. The awards will be announced at… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2023/02/elo-fellowship-call-for-applications/" class="more-link">Read more ELO Fellowship Call for Applications</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ELO FELLOWSHIP CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 
DEADLINE 15 MARCH
The ELO is continuing its expansion of scholarly activity, creative, and curatorial practices with the appointment of four graduate and early career Research & Creative Fellows for 2023, each of whom will be awarded a $500 stipend along with a one-year ELO membership. The awards will be announced at the ELO2023 Conference in Coimbra. In the coming month, we’ll be welcoming applicants who will be working with established ELO scholars and practitioners on a variety of ELO projects, such as the Electronic Literature Directory (<a title="http://directory.eliterature.org/" href="http://directory.eliterature.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://directory.eliterature.org/&source=gmail&ust=1676747013282000&usg=AOvVaw0G_-yLZ2bbtCZtHHTqP2Zj">http://directory.eliterature.org</a>), CELL (<a title="http://www.cellproject.net/" href="http://www.cellproject.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cellproject.net/&source=gmail&ust=1676747013282000&usg=AOvVaw1Wz2ZJF0czmTuZNaawOz_O">www.cellproject.net</a>), The Digital Review (<a title="http://www.thedigitalreview.com/" href="http://www.thedigitalreview.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thedigitalreview.com/&source=gmail&ust=1676747013282000&usg=AOvVaw3NErbYidXRuOV3E9ZzUPiX">http://www.thedigitalreview.com</a>), the electronic book review (<a title="https://electronicbookreview.com/" href="https://electronicbookreview.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://electronicbookreview.com/&source=gmail&ust=1676747013282000&usg=AOvVaw1uzvaXw00Z-arHS2jgucFA">https://electronicbookreview.com </a>), and The NEXT (<a title="https://the-next.eliterature.org/" href="https://the-next.eliterature.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://the-next.eliterature.org/&source=gmail&ust=1676747013282000&usg=AOvVaw04iMi9BHfGABsvPiII75Gw">https://the-next.eliterature.org/</a>). Each of the Fellows will be expected to complete a minimum of two encyclopedic ELD entries during the term of their appointment. Fellows can also work with their supervisors to develop metadata for works in collections, creating content for the works’ exhibition spaces, writing descriptions of works in the collections or the collections themselves.
The ELO celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for the benefit of our whole community. Therefore, we actively encourage applications from individuals who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and come from broad geographic, ethnic, and language backgrounds. We ask all applicants to consult our ELO Code of Conduct: <a title="https://eliterature.org/about/code-of-conduct/" href="https://eliterature.org/about/code-of-conduct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eliterature.org/about/code-of-conduct/&source=gmail&ust=1676747013282000&usg=AOvVaw2v1pLUsyfwy4MyTSXu6Ju4">https://eliterature.org/about/code-of-conduct/</a>. Linguistic diversity will be particularly useful as our Fellows translate works in many languages from our growing consortium of e-lit databases.
Applications should include a cv and one-page description of the candidate’s qualifications and approach to e-Lit scholarship. These can be sent to <a title="mailto:joseph.tabbi@uib.no" href="mailto:joseph.tabbi@uib.no" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joseph.tabbi@uib.no</a>.
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<title>Unconference 17-18 January 2023</title>
<link>https://eliterature.org/2023/01/unconference-17-18-january-2023/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Marino]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of the annual New Media Writing Prize, for the first time, we are hosting a fully online 2-day “unconference” symposium, 17-18 Jan 2023, hosted by BU in partnership with with the Prize and the British Library. The Unconference will culminate in the awards evening for the New Media Writing Prize on 18 January 2023. NMWP Unconference Theme: Social Good How… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2023/01/unconference-17-18-january-2023/" class="more-link">Read more Unconference 17-18 January 2023</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[As part of the annual <a href="https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw3mGTHcNcpvVWZeWb6JR2PU">New Media Writing Prize</a>, for the first time, we are hosting a fully online 2-day “unconference” symposium, 17-18 Jan 2023, hosted by BU in partnership with with the Prize and the <a href="https://www.bl.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bl.uk&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw3O3DvZH-FvWQC6ZFj0P3XL">British Library</a>. The <a href="https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw3mGTHcNcpvVWZeWb6JR2PU">Unconference</a> will culminate in the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/486943610447/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/486943610447/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw03UN4oyeK7LUbx1EWtvFGF">awards evening</a> for the New Media Writing Prize on 18 January 2023.
<h3>NMWP Unconference Theme: Social Good</h3>
How can we change our world with our digital art and literature?
Our unconference call for proposals sought creative approaches to conference activities: events, works, and activities that aim to serve a social purpose (such as projects aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals): “Digital Literature for Social Good”. Activist projects, works for education and sustainability, events to brainstorm new digital lit approaches to improving society and culture—it’s all fair game. How can we change our world with our art and literature?
Over the past couple of months, we’ve put together a fantastic two days of discussions, workshops, artists’ talks, and brainstorming sessions. (See the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR6afJv8wdDubHH20wOvLvXtCrGyifxl_d_TDOIkv_TwnAk51w5WbBuo5Pbu9nIqw01sCIRpqLxhOyt/pub" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR6afJv8wdDubHH20wOvLvXtCrGyifxl_d_TDOIkv_TwnAk51w5WbBuo5Pbu9nIqw01sCIRpqLxhOyt/pub&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw0biLk4ekh8e0zulDsmFibV">schedule here</a>.)
<h3>Join us!</h3>
<a href="https://forms.gle/Z2r8QdavAXeUXifF7" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://forms.gle/Z2r8QdavAXeUXifF7&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw0gUtNEwsmJbzHErYLNFCmS">Registration</a> is open to those who would like to attend and participate in these creative sessions.
Please also join us for the ultimate event in our NMWP Unconference, the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/486943610447/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/486943610447/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw03UN4oyeK7LUbx1EWtvFGF">New Media Writing Prize Awards Evening</a>, which is free and open to the public. Our keynote is <a href="http://deenalarsen.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://deenalarsen.net/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw13zvcuRqMjFbFhEKrhWEiH">Deena Larsen</a>, creator of <a href="http://deenalarsen.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://deenalarsen.net/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw13zvcuRqMjFbFhEKrhWEiH">Marble Springs</a>, <a href="http://www.deenalarsen.net/mmf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.deenalarsen.net/mmf&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw3L_r0K3-Zs_Zap365mK0GW">Modern Moral Fairy Tale</a>, and other frequently studied and taught works of electronic literature. The 2021 NMWP winner, Joannes Truyens for <a href="https://omnipedia.app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://omnipedia.app/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw1kFEACaXv3Gq21kZdLW5ly">Neurocracy</a>, will give a featured talk, and awards will be given for the Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize, the Journalism Prize, Student Prize, and the Opening Up Prize (which is still <a href="https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2022/&source=gmail&ust=1673071088540000&usg=AOvVaw3eD0KLaSO_SKUOIMVHWNyw">open for voting here</a>!).
We hope to see you there!
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<title>CFP: ELO 2023 Coimbra (Extended Jan 31; July 12-15, 2023)</title>
<link>https://eliterature.org/2022/11/cfp-elo-2023-coimbra-jan-20-july-12-15-2023/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Marino]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION 2023 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MEDIA ARTS SHOW OVERCOMING DIVIDES: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE JULY 12-15, 2023 – COIMBRA, PORTUGAL Deadline January 31 (CFP: updated January 20, 2023) Join us this summer for four days of digital art and scholarship at the ELO 2023 Conference and Media Arts Show in beautiful Coimbra,… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2022/11/cfp-elo-2023-coimbra-jan-20-july-12-15-2023/" class="more-link">Read more CFP: ELO 2023 Coimbra (Extended Jan 31; July 12-15, 2023)</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="text-align: center;">ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION 2023 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MEDIA ARTS SHOW</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">OVERCOMING DIVIDES: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">JULY 12-15, 2023 – COIMBRA, PORTUGAL</h2>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">Deadline January 31</h1>
(CFP: updated January 20, 2023)
Join us this summer for four days of digital art and scholarship at the ELO 2023 Conference and Media Arts Show in beautiful Coimbra, Portugal, the 12th to the 15th of July.
The 2023 conference, “Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change,” advocates the dismantlement of economic, political, linguistic, and cultural barriers, focusing on the relation between art and society, as well as on the subversive potential of electronic literature.
Art and literature compulsively respond to undergoing socio-political transformations. Whether overtly committed to social causes or inevitably engulfed by waves of change, writers and artists are influenced by dramatic shifts motivated by local or global issues such as climate change, economic crisis, military conflicts, and repressive or coercive government policies. The field of electronic literature, whose continuous reconfiguration is deeply intertwined with technological advancements, is no exception to this pattern. Equipped with the pervasiveness of network technology, as well as with software that can analyze and portray reality with the utmost detail, electronic literature is harnessed with adequate tools to voice environmental and social concerns and to expose oppressive and corrupt regimes. Highly experimental and focused on an introspective journey that aims to explore the creative amplitude of emerging technologies, electronic literature’s self-reflexive nature is also frequently mobilized to defy normative perspectives over literature and art, as well as to challenge deep-rooted cultural misconceptions.
During this conference, we aim to explore how electronic literature uses its critical media approach, as well as its close affinity with computation, to assume a socially engaged stance. In a time when walls are being raised once again, this conference examines electronic literature’s role in the dismantlement of new and old barriers between people.
ELO23 will be held in a national monument (Convento São Francisco), overlooking the University of Coimbra as well as Coimbra’s Uptown and Downtown areas, both designated World Heritage by UNESCO in 2013. Challenging the social asymmetry represented by the uptown/downtown divide, ELO23 will be extended from the university to the entire city center. Performances will be opened to the public, and exhibitions will take place at different locations in the city, thus integrating ELO Conference into Coimbra’s rich cultural life. Remote (online) participation will be limited to the scholarly dimension of the conference.
We welcome scholarly and artistic proposals that explore a connection between electronic literature and the following themes, among others:
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<li>the role of literature in social change;</li>
<li>collaborative platforms and activist software;</li>
<li>digital humanities and memory preservation (archive);</li>
<li>environmental damage caused by digital technologies;</li>
<li>the impact of climate change;</li>
<li>language barriers, translation and linguistic diversity;</li>
<li>disabilities and accessibility;</li>
<li>mental health, trauma and cognitive diversity;</li>
<li>social and economic inequality;</li>
<li>digital literacy and societal transformation;</li>
<li>gender divide and identity diversity;</li>
<li>migrations and border enforcement;</li>
<li>hybridity, recombination and multilinearity as aesthetics of subversion;</li>
<li>documentary forms and nonfiction narrative.</li>
</ul>
Organizers 
Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) 
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (FLUC)
Partners and Sponsors 
Center for Portuguese Literature (CLP) 
Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA (ICNOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa 
Programa de Doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura, Universidade de Coimbra 
Universidade Fernando Pessoa (UFP) 
Câmara Municipal de Coimbra 
Exploratório – Centro Ciência Viva de Coimbra 
Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra 
Berkeley Center for New Media
<h3>How to submit your proposals</h3>
How to submit your proposals
All proposals will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Please read the instructions carefully. You may submit only one proposal for each mode of participation (paper/panel; workshop; artwork; performance).
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS: PANELS AND PAPERS 
We welcome submissions for stand-alone papers as well as organized panels. Individual submissions for stand-alone papers should include an abstract (250-350 words), as well as a short list of references (4-6 main works). Individual papers will be presented as part of conference organized panels. Each presentation will be 15 minutes long, followed by a 20-minute Q&A. Please specify in your submission if this presentation will be in person or online.
Three or four-person panels should include a brief overview of the panel’s rationale (100-150 words), as well as individual abstracts of each presentation: abstracts (250-350 words), including a short list of references (4-6 main works). Panels will have a total presentation time of one hour, and should allow for a 20 minute Q&A section. Please specify in your submission whether this panel will be in person or fully online. Hybrid panels will not be supported.
Please submit via Easy Chair <<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">https</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">://</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">easychair</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">.</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">org</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">/</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">conferences</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">/?</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">conf</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">=</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">elo</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">2023</a>> by January 31, 2023, 11:59pm EST. While proposals should be in English, panels can be presented in other languages. Note that no translation services will be offered. In case of acceptance, abstracts will be included in the program and proceedings.
Participants will be notified of acceptance by February 20, 2023.
WORKSHOPS 
We welcome submissions for hands-on and participatory workshops. Proposals should include a 250-350 word abstract (as well as a short list of references if applicable; 4-6 main works). Please specify in your proposal the structure of the workshop, any tangible outcomes (if any), pedagogical goals, expectations from participants, requirements for participants (previous knowledge, technical expertise, devices needed, etc.). Make sure you describe any technical requirements for your workshop’s implementation at the conference.
All workshops will have an allocated time of 2 hours. Please specify in your submission if this workshop will be in person or online.
Please submit via Easy Chair <<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023</a>> by January 31, 2023, by 11:59pm EST. While proposals should be in English, workshops can be presented in other languages. Note that no translation services will be offered. In case of acceptance, abstracts will be included in the program and proceedings.
Participants will be notified of acceptance by February 20, 2023.
ARTWORK: EXHIBITION OF DIGITAL WORK 
We welcome submissions for two different public exhibitions addressing (1) environmental issues and (2) social issues, i.e., repression, inequality, and segregation.
Please send proposals including an artist statement (250-350 words) detailing the aesthetic intentions, the structure of the piece, and its relationship to the conference and chosen exhibition theme (Exhibition 1 or Exhibition 2). In addition, provide documentation of the work (URLs), author name(s), biographical note(s), and specific technical requirements for display at the exhibition venue.
Please submit via Easy Chair <<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">https</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">://</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">easychair</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">.</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">org</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">/</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">conferences</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">/?</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">conf</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">=</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">elo</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">2023</a>> by January 31, 2023, 11:59pm EST. Proposals should be in English, but displayed work can be in other languages. In case of acceptance, artist statements will be included in the program and proceedings.
Artists will be notified of acceptance by February 20, 2023.
PERFORMANCES
ELO23 will host two nights of performances open to conference participants and the general public. We welcome performance proposals addressing the conference’s main theme of electronic literature and social change.
Please submit proposals including an artist statement (250-350 words) detailing the aesthetic intentions, the structure of the piece, and its relationship to the conference theme. In addition, provide the author name(s), biographical note(s), and a description (250 words max.) of the nature of the performance, as well as any technical requirements.
Please submit via Easy Chair <<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">https</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">://</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">easychair</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">.</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">org</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">/</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">conferences</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">/?</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">conf</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">=</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">elo</a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2023">2023</a>> by January 31, 2023, 11:59pm EST. Proposals should be in English, but performances can be in other languages. In case of acceptance, artist statements will be included in the program and proceedings.
Performers will be notified of acceptance by February 20, 2023.
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Manuel Portela (Universidade de Coimbra) 
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<title>Announcing the 2022 ELO Prizes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the annual conference of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), hosted by the Collegio Gallio of Como, ELO Board Member Erik Loyer announced the 2022 ELO Prize winners. The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature Winner: “ReRites” by David Jhave Johnston Runner Up: “Travesty Generator” by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Honorable Mention: “Al-Barrah (البرَّاح)”… <a href="https://eliterature.org/2022/10/announcing-the-2022-elo-prizes/" class="more-link">Read more Announcing the 2022 ELO Prizes</a>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[At the annual conference of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), hosted by the Collegio Gallio of Como, ELO Board Member Erik Loyer announced the 2022 ELO Prize winners.
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
Winner: “ReRites” by David Jhave Johnston
Runner Up: “Travesty Generator” by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Honorable Mention: “Al-Barrah (البرَّاح)” by Reham Hosny and Mohamed A. Nasef 
Committee: Deena Larsen, Madison McCartha, Illya Szilak
 
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature honors the year’s best work of electronic literature, of any form or genre. It comes with a $1000 stipend. The Winner of the 2022 Award is “ReRites” by David Jhave Johnston.
According to the judges: “In this pandemic time, new forms of ritual have developed — people had zoom drinks and parties, and funerals were held via livestream. ReRites speaks to this.
In essence, the work is a documentation of the performance of the private ritual of writing and the obsessive-compulsive need for writers to communicate — even when no one else is reading. The work is generated through this neurotic compulsive repetition, linking it to both the pleasure principle and the death drive. It is not in an attempt to make perfect sense but to try and fail to make what is hidden, manifest. It is this, compulsive repetition above all that gives this work literal weight. 12 volumes worth. Profoundly, the author ends up communicating most poignantly not through words, but through a physical embodiment of those words. We feel the weight of his labor. It is a muscle memory. 120 hours of neural net text generation video! It is, let us be honest, mostly nonsense, punctuated occasionally by serendipitous wonder, when, impossible to predict! machine logic meets the ineffable logic of the reader as when ‘thunderous bismol’ trips deliciously off the tongue.
Jhave leans into the pleasure of performance by having poets read at superhuman speeds and by having human hands manipulate lines of poetry through gesture. Body and machine are linked, but this is not about being slave to that machine, but rather in re-discovering the peculiar pleasures of being embodied. Or, as Turing put it, in his seminal paper on artificial intelligence ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence,’ we get to enjoy ‘strawberries and creme.’”
 
The Runner Up for the 2022 Coover Award is “Travesty Generator” by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.
According to the judges, “Travesty Generator uses computational logic to create gut-punch poetry that speaks poignantly to the recent highly publicized racist killings at the hands of US law enforcement. Although the book’s method is not novel, the content – racial injustice in the US – applies pressure to the ways racism might function as an algorithm, and creates in the process a new precedent in computational poetry which has typically been a-political. Here, the relentless ill-logic of the machine replays the violence against black bodies in all the variety one would expect from a generative system.
The lack of personalized authorship is critical to the working of the poetry. We, the reader, are the bearers of meaning-making, memory, and feeling. We are the ones who bear witness. If we do not change the algorithm, the machine will spit out more. It is inevitable. It is programmed that way. The work itself reveals that the ‘print(list(permutations)))’ of ‘I can’t breathe’ are endless.”
 
Honorable Mention for the 2022 Coover Award is “Al-Barrah (البرَّاح)” by Reham Hosny and Mohamed A. Nasef.
According to the judges, “‘Al-Barrah (البرَّاح)’ by Reham Hosny and Mohamed A. Nasef (2021) deftly intertwines game, story, augmented reality, and social media for tales that also overlay a poetic commentary on oppression and voicelessness. Al-Barrah is the first paper novel to combine augmented reality and hologram technologies with Arabic language text inside the borders of a paper page to provide the reader with a unique experience, and immerse her in the narrative. The project is an amazing example of dedicated work over five years without institutional support. The work invites the reader in to answer questions such as memories of lecture halls, what autumn looks like, and what it is to leave your homeland far behind. The graphics invite readers into the story as a helmeted figure gazes and we move along her gaze into a story about the past and one about the present that converge in the middle. This unique and immersive experience has real-world implications, from AI to AR, from voiceless to voiced, from holograms to hidden depths.
The reviewers admit that we are necessarily viewing this work through a lens of cultural myopia. Though we appreciate the authors’ claim that this is a work of ‘activist e-lit (that) speak(s) up against injustice and give voice to those who have been deprived from their freedom just for practicing their right of freedom of speech,’ we do not know the tradition of protest through literature or poetry in the Arabic speaking world, nor do we claim to understand the political and cultural constraints the authors are operating under in creating this work, or the political and cultural ramifications this work might have. However, by asking readers to assist in the construction of the story, specifically through the creation of a DIY plastic viewing pyramid for holograms, the authors offer readers an opportunity to consider their responsibility and complicity in consuming other, more conventional, government-sanctioned, and societal narratives.”
 
<h2>The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature</h2>
Winner: “Critical Making, Critical Design,” Issue 01 of The Digital Review, edited by Lai-Tze Fan
Runner Up: Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives by Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop (Amherst College Press)
Honorable Mention: Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Committee: Sarah Laiola, Viola Lasmana, Marisa Parham
 
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature honors the best work of criticism of electronic literature of any length. Endowed through a generous donation from N. Katherine Hayles and others, this annual prize recognizes excellence in the field. The Prize for 1st Place comes with a $1000 award. The 2022 N. Katherine Hayles award goes to “Critical Making, Critical Design,” Issue 01 of The Digital Review, edited by Lai-Tze Fan.
According to the judges, “‘Critical Making, Critical Design,’ edited by Lai-Tze Fan, is an exciting collaborative effort that reimagines and brilliantly presents the inseparability of theory and practice that is essential to the work and ethos of electronic literature. In judging, we were particularly struck by the ways these edited co-issues carve out critical space to think about processes of creative-critical work — necessary components to all critical work that, in the institutionally disciplined spaces of arts and humanities, are too often left in the ‘drafts’ folders. Finally, we are excited by the opportunity to offer the Hayles award to a work of e-literary scholarship that, as we have regularly argued about e-literary practice, resists traditions of thought that would set born-digital work as subordinate to print.”
 
Runner Up: Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives by Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop.
According to the judges: “Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop’s Twining foregrounds the multiple pathways writers, artists, critics, and students take into and out of Twine, the eminently flexible interactive text creation platform. Highlighting codework, implementation strategies, critical perspective, and pedagogical example, Twining takes the software seriously, and in so doing is able to highlight its deep importance to a broadly diverse and deep user community. In reviewing Twining, the committee was also struck by how the very form(s) of Salter and Moulthrop’s text, which includes a print edition, a digital open access edition, and a GitHub repository, reflects the ethos of access that defines Twine itself. Twining both describes and celebrates how e-lit lives in classrooms and pet-projects, in the work of developers and hobbyists, and for scholars and artists alike.”
Honorable Mention: Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew Kirschenbaum.
According to the judges: “A critical and timely intervention in the intersections of e-lit, media archaeology, bibliography, and software and platform studies, Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Bitstreams thoughtfully and beautifully captures the techno-social aspects and material history of literary production, while always foregrounding the importance of history and memory. Highlighting various significant literary legacies through a forensic approach of their writing and textual production processes, Bitstreams is a necessary text and delightful read in electronic literature, material book studies, and literary history.”
<h2>The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award</h2>
Winner: Alan Sondheim
Committee: Angélica Huízar, Jessica Pressman, Jody Zellen
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation, it comes with the following: a $1000 award that can go directly to the awardee or to a young scholar who would use the funds in support of developing content for online resources about the awardee’s achievements; a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement; and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
The Artist or Scholar selected for this award should demonstrate excellence in four or more of the following categories:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Creation of opportunities for younger scholars</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Publication of influential academic studies of electronic literature</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Practice-based artistic research in the field, with significant presentations and exhibitions of creative work</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Curatorial activities, particularly including editing and the organization of exhibitions, conferences, workshops, roundtables and research groups</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Preservationist work, whether individual or institutional</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Active participation in conferences and exhibitions, both national and international</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Contribution to ELO as an organization, whether as a member of the Board of Directors or Literary Art Board or as informal advisor</li>
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We are delighted to announce this year’s winner of the Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award, Alan Sondheim.
The judges offered the following celebration of Alan Sondheim:
“Alan Sondheim has had immense impact in broad and diverse ways, across aesthetics and disciplines, to produce what we now call “the field of electronic literature.” He helped to pioneer digital artistic practice for decades and continues to innovate, merging theory and praxis in creative-critical ways. He has dedicated his life to creating an established field through artistic creations, critical publications, and mentoring of junior makers/scholars. It should be recognized that he did this field-creating work from the position of independent artist, without institutional support. Sondheim is a steadfast presence at ELO, and his work and his commitment to the field– the people and organization in it– make him deserving of this field-building award.”
ELO awards these prizes at its annual conference. The call for next year’s awards will be issued months before via ELO’s website.
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