common practice/language Texts by mez breeze 3 June, 5pm-8pm Reading Room in Arnolfini and online at http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice contact common_practice on Skype to join the session (next sessions: 24 June, 9 and 30 September) Italo Calvino said ‘the storyteller explored the possibilities implied in his own language by combining and changing the permutations of the figures [...]

Greetings all! A heads-up: the 7th issue of Hyperrhiz, “New Media Subversions,” is now online, guest-edited by Davin Heckman and Hai Ren. Featuring essays from Davin Heckman and Hai Ren, Neil Hennessy, Brian M. Reed, Benjamin J Robertson, Andrew Klobucar, and Brett Phares With gallery works by: Neil Hennessy, Nicholas Knouf, Angela Ferraiolo and Mary Flanagan, Jason Nelson, and Brett Phares And a very fine review [...]

I just got this from Simon Morris and am posting it here: Christine asked me to put this out to people in the creative industries…so here you are: Looking for anyone in the art and experimental literature field who uses any iPhone apps, has one made about them, has made one… anything art & app [...]

I’ve been going to these iota salons for the past year and they’re really interesting. I’m probably posting this a little late but if you have anything ready to send, do so! And check out their website to see what they do, along with the website of the Center for Visual Music, also here in [...]

Nick Montfort and I are working with a designer to develop a coffee-table photo book version of Implementation, the sticker novel we published in 2004-2005. Originally, most of the photos submitted were of a resolution only suitable for the Web. We are currently looking for readers to help re-implement Implementation and to send in higher [...]

ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate

The Electronic Literature Organization’s
Fourth International Conference
& Program of Digitally Mediated Literary Art

June 3-6, 2010
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA

The New River is a journal of digital writing and art, originally created and edited by Edward Falco. The current managing editors are graduate students in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Virginia Tech. The Fall 2009 issue editors, Josette Torres and Amy Vance, are interested in receiving submissions of original and unpublished digital [...]

Call for Presentations Transliteracy Conference Tuesday 9 February 2010, 9:30 – 17:30 Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK In association with the Institute of Creative Technologies & the NLab Small Business Network,  De Montfort University www.transliteracy.com/conference2010.html Deadline for Abstracts:  1 December, 2009 Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range [...]

All, Mark Sample’s post and subsequent comment about teaching e-lit…reminded me that easy to use tools such a Google maps is a lovely way to introduce e-lit to beginning writers. With that in mind, I wanted to announce the theme of NetPoetic’s first contest.   Using Google maps, create a small work of Electronic Literature/Fiction/Poetry/Creative [...]

Just a short info on interesting conference in Canada (February 18, 2010 – February 21, 2010): In(ter)ventions, Literary Practice At The Edge: A Gathering. In(ter)ventions will explore the edges of literature, where technology, innovation, and literary practice meet. There is also open call for papers (deadline Oct. 15, 2009).

I’ll soon be announcing the first NetPoetic exhibition, a net-based, peer reviewed exhibition of interactive works of electronic literature/digital poetry. Before I make the wider announcement, I’m looking for ideas for a theme, or should we even have a theme, and  expressions of interest to be a judge/reviewer. A few preliminary details: * all works [...]

Chris Joseph, author, artist, coder, thinker, scholar and collaborator in all things digital literature and art, has a wonderful blog/site to explore. Many of the posts discuss interesting and truly novel ways of using various net technologies to create narratives and/or poetry, particularly useful for those teaching digital literature. I know many of you teach [...]