Submissions will be accepted from April 12 to September 30, 2011.

ELMCIP involves seven European academic research partners and one non-academic partner investigating how transnational and transcultural creative communities of practitioners form within global and distributed communication environments. Focusing on the electronic-literature community in Europe as a model of networked creativity and innovation in practice, ELMCIP intends both to study the formation and interactions of that community and to further electronic literature research and practice in Europe.

The anthology will provide a sample of Europe’s diverse electronic-literature practices. It will include around thirty works along with teaching materials from educators interested in electronic-literary practices. The anthology will be published online and on a cross-platform DVD.

All content will be offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 License allowing the disc to be installed, duplicated, and shared by individuals, libraries, and educational institutions. The intent is to provide educators, students and the general public with a free curricular resource containing a variety of examples of electronic literary works.

http://elmcip.net/story/call-works-elmcip-anthology

During the fall of 2011, an additional call for pedagogical materials will be distributed, partially based on the works chosen for the anthology.

Selection Committee:

• Simon Biggs, Edinburgh College of Art
• Yra Van Dijk, University of Amsterdam
• Maria Engberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology
• Jerome Fletcher, University College Falmouth
• Raine Koskimaa, University of Jyväskylä
• Talan Memmott, Blekinge Institute of Technology
• Scott Rettberg, University of Bergen
• Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen

Editors:

• Talan Memmott, Blekinge Institute of Technology
• Maria Engberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology
• David Prater, Blekinge Institute of Technology

A screencast video walking through the process of submitting a work is available on the call for works at the ELMCIP site or http://vimeo.com/22296413

I’m quoting from the presentation provided by the organizers:

The main purpose of the conference is to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the Ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition will be questioned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital revolution. A public evening will conclude the conference on the 25th August with a round-table: “What will come after the book?”.

A call for papers is open until the 30th April 2011 in New Testament, Early Christian Literature, Antiquity, Modern History, English Literature, French Literature, Humanities and Computing. In the various fields, papers dealing with the following are looked for :

1. History of reading, of ancient and modern literacies, with reference to written, oral and visual technologies in cultural communication.
2. The challenges and possibilities presented by the digitalisation of ancient manuscripts and modern texts.
3. Analysis of the transformations entailed by the digital culture in these fields of study.
Specific call for papers : “What kind of digital edition of the New Testament do we need ?”

More details about the programme and the call for papers can be found on the website of the conference:

http://www.unil.ch/digitalera2011

Please submit an abstract of no more than 1,000 words and a short CV to Jessica Pressman and Lisa Swanstrom at <DHQliterary@gmail.com> by Feb. 15, 2011.  We will reply by March 15, 2011 and request that full-length papers of no more than 9,000 words be submitted by *July 15, 2011*.

If you know of a current student or recent graduate whose work you would recommend, could you either send a link to Alan Bigelow at eabigelow@gmail.com or encourage them to submit to The New River, also via the same email address? Also if you could pass the word on this, that would be terrific…

The deadline for first-round submissions is late February, 2011. For previous issues of the journal, please visit http://www.TheNewRiver.us

Given that, as Lisa Gitelman puts it, “media represent and delimit representing,” this special session seeks papers on how electronic literature creates, responds to, or reworks reading/writing interfaces; papers may also explore the relationship between electronic literature and the recent turn to the “interface-free.”

I would be grateful if readers would pass this CFP on to any e-literature scholars you think might be interested.

We invite proposals for panels, artworks, papers and workshops from artists, scientists and academics interested in how the digital and electronic media are re-shaping contemporary society and behaviors.

ISEA2011 Istanbul will be open to proposals encompassing a large range of topics under the general theme of interdisciplinarity at the intersection of Art, Science and Technology.

It is our intention to appeal to the hard sciences and the humanities as well as the art community.

For this reason ISEA2011 Istanbul will host a large variety of thematic strands ranging from digital art to curatorial studies, from electronic media to digital architecture, from the intersection of art, science and technology to the concept of the digital city, from digital humanities to social media, from nanotechnology and art to urban ecologies, from transculturalism to mobile art, and more.

The Call for Papers, Artworks, Panels and Workshops for ISEA2011 Istanbul http://www.ISEA2011ISTANBUL.org is available at this link http://ow.ly/36HW0

The deadline for submission is December 01, 2010.

In order to stay in touch You can subscribe to ISEA2011 Istanbul and Leonardo Electronic Almanac Newsletters following this link http://ow.ly/36I5H

The newsletters will provide you with information on upcoming projects and events of ISEA2011 Istanbul as well as on the Leonardo Electronic Almanac http://www.LEOALMANAC.org which is the publication venue of the conference proceedings and selected essays.

Please feel free to disseminate widely.

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
and the actions, and of the objects on which these actions could be brought
to bear’. It is by following this principle that common practice will start.

The first session will open with mez breeze’s mezangelle poems, written in a
blend of code and language, and we will be practising a simultaneous
reading/writing reworking of these texts to experience their language-code
operations during the event.

common practice is a reading group that uses Wiki and Skype to perform a
Calvino-style manipulation of texts. Through unpredictable cobbling together
of texts, poetry, people, code, language, Wiki, chat, conversations etc. we
will co-produce untagged and free style body/ies of knowledge.

The reading groups that make up common practice will take place in June and
September. You are invited to read, write, tinker with and intervene in the
literary and theoretical texts and poetry together with others through the
simple-to-use online tools. You can join us in the Reading Room at Arnolfini
or online and via Skype (contact: common_practice).

common practice references the widespread and increasingly familiar activity
of using online tools in everyday to communicate, contact, work, socialise,
play, research, be entertained etc. The practice embodies the curiosity to
experience ways in which human and machine skills and abilities perform
together.

More importantly, however, common practice also refers to the fact that it
is done in common – together with others. Thus it is social space of
knowledge materialised through co-labour, codeworking and language. Anxiety,
concern and conflict might be part of the practice in the same way that
curiosity, hospitality and kindness are hoped for. This is practice in flux,
nomadic practice that exists in the common. Knowledge and experiences
generated during the session will be captured by its users.

common practice is a series of curated events initiated by Magda
Tyzlik-Carver, hosted by the Reading Room in Arnolfini, and online by
Department of Reading
http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice and
project.arnolfini  http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/?t=5 .

Please bring your own laptop with wireless enabled to join the common
practice in the Reading Room. If you don’t have your own laptop, there will
be a common computer available to use by those without one. Wiki-page will
be also projected on the wall so it will be possible to follow the practice.

- MANUAL FOR THE COMMON PRACTICE SESSION -

In order to take part in common practice all you need is an account on Skype
and a connection to the internet for the time of the session. You can also
join us in the Reading Room at Arnolfini at the time of the session. Please
bring your laptop with you.

The space of the session is a Skype-chat and a Wiki-page. The Wiki
(http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/Seisure) contains two
poems by mez breeze, each line marked by a number.

The Department of Reading Internet System (doris) connects the chat and the
pool directly. doris listens to the chat, records all entries and allows for
manipulation of the poems directly through the chat. In this session we will
make use of the module [getput]. This module consists of two commands,
namely [get], which allows to get any one of the lines from the poems
directly to the chat; and [put], which allows to put any entry of the chat
into any one of the numbered lines on the Wiki.

To get any line from one of the poems into the chat, write: “get 1″ or “get
6″ depending on which section you want to get the line from. The text will
not be deleted on the Wiki, but can be altered in the chat and replaced
later on by using the command “put”. In between the two poems is an empty
column that can as well be addressed by the commands [get] and [put] via the
related numbers – this will become operative during the session.

doris allows to modify, rewrite, edit or manipulate the poems with the
command [put]. To place any entry or rewritten line into the poems, write it
in the chat, then press ENTER, and then write: “put 1″ in the chat and press
ENTER again. This will place the entry in line 1 of the Wiki and overwrite
the previously given line of the poem. If you want to position an entry in
section 3 or 4 or 9 or any other, you need to change the number in the
command accordingly. For example, if you want an entry to be in section 4,
the command should be: “put 4″, etc.

There are some signs, so called markups, that allow for italic, bold and
coloured text. They can be used as well through the Skype-chat, simply in
writing them along with the related entry that you would like to post on the
Wiki. In order to set an expression italic, you would have to use two
apostrophes at the beginning and the end of that expression – like
”italic”. When it comes to bold, just use three apostrophes ”’bold”’.
It’s also possible to use colours in this reading session. The signs % is
necessary in this case, again one before the name of the colour, then one
after the name of the colour. Next comes the text and then comes another %
sign to stop the colouring. Like this: %blue%coloured-invisi.belles%.
The mark-up [[<<]] introduces a line-break.

You need to refresh the Wiki-page from time to time to see the changes.
Since the poems easily might interfere with the marks-ups as it plays with
quite similar signs, it can happen that you don’t necessarily get, what you
might have intended with an entry.

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 of Matt Kirschenbaum’s Mechanisms, by Dene Grigar.

Hyperrhiz considers submissions on a rolling schedule; our next deadline is August 1st.  We’re now accepting scholarly essays as well as standalone net art/e-lit.  Hyperrhiz is peer-reviewed, ISSN’ed (is that a word?), and is shortly to be indexed in the EBSCO Art & Architecture database.

Free cybernetic implants.

Cheers,
Helen J Burgess
Editor

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 related really is what I am after for a project I am working on related to Apps and Hats, a quirky iPhone application review show. We would love to talk to any artists / designers / performers / similar who could talk with us about their apps! Thanks~

Check out the show: www.appsandhats.com

contact Christine directly here: cmoz@appsandhats.com

Basically, she would like to review any art or experimental writing i-phone apps on her show. It’s an online show with about 50,000 viewers a month, an international audience…so a good platform/showcase for your work.

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Start out the new year by coming out to the iotaSalon on January 7th. The theme for this screening is Text and Speech. We will be examining works that explore the confluence of abstraction and language. What choices do artists make when using text in abstraction? How do speech and poetry compliment or complicate visuals?

We are still accepting submissions for the Salon, so if you have any work you would like to screen and discuss, please submit it to us.

For DVD submissions, please send to:

The iotaCenter
10401-106 Venice Blvd. #330
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Additionally, please send an email to info@iotacenter.org with:
1. your name, and contact information
2. The title, date, and running time for the work
3. Please tell us that you intend this for the iotaSalon.
for more information, please check our our submission guildelines: http://iotacenter.org/submissions

Alternatively, if you have already submitted work that you feel we should consider for this salon, or if you have any questions about submitting work, please feel free to contact jeremy@iotacenter.org.

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Stephanie Sapienza
Managing Director
iotaCenter
310-842-8704 work
626-676-6451 cell
stephanie@iotacenter.org