The third issue of the academic journal Cibertextualidades has just been published by Fernando Pessoa University Editions, with essays on cyberliterature, digital culture and new media.
The organizers, Rui Torres and Sergio Bairon, have chosen to discuss the relation between Knowledge and Hypermedia, proposing a reflection about the conditions of knowledge production within digital media platforms. [...]

The Living Newspapers
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Hide and Seek exhibition
February 16 – March 12 & June 1 – 25

Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey
wings by Claire Ashley

The Living Newspapers is a live installation consisting of pairs of ‘museum visitors’ seemingly engaged in pedestrian conversation. These conversations are actually comprised of real-time data harvested from the social networking environment, Twitter. The performers in The Living Newspapers act as subtle embodiments of the collective voice of social discourse.

Many of the contributors to and readers of netpoetic knew Millie Niss and her work. Millie passed away November 29, 2009 at the age of 36, as has been noted here previously.
Martha Deed, Millie’s mother, has put together 111 photos of Millie from birth till shortly before her death. I’ve put those photos and Martha’s [...]

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, who died in November of last year.
“One thing which came across from Millie’s correspondence, as well as from her own work and her occasional online commentaries, was her sense of perspective about new media art… Her [...]

the following is From Deena Larsen.
“Please pass this out far and wide, as it is a wonderful chance to explain to NPR that yes, Virginia, there IS electronic literature.
In this story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529, writer Nicolas Carr laments “Over the last couple of years, I’ve really noticed if I sit down with a book, after a few [...]

Meaning-Making and Procedural Rhetoric in Casual, Art, and Indie Games (MLA 2011, Los Angeles)

This special session at the Modern Language Association’s 2011 conference aims to explore the cultural meaning of critically dismissed casual games, art games, and indie games. The format will be a Pecha Kucha style roundtable, with each presentation limited to 20 slides [...]

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 [...]

The University of Bergen department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies will have two PhD stipends available in 2010. The stipends are awarded competitively to two of the top candidates who apply. Candidates must have completed an MA degree, have an excellent educational and research record, and have a well-developed project description. Digital Culture is [...]

All,
A interesting introductory article on Electronic Literature in the lovely E-Zine Flavorpill.
Article author Sabrina Jaszi writes, “ Some of the best reads this season are being produced by electronic writers — techies devoted to the life of literature off the printed page. Their experimental fiction and poetry is colorful, cacophonous, animated and interactive — and often mediated [...]

All,
I’m pleased, no terribly pleased, no wonderfully pleased to announce that NetPoetic now has over 100 posts and well over two hundred comments.  So it seems the site is working, or at least beginning to work.  Although we can do much, much more. I’d like to encourage those out there, if they haven’t already, to [...]

Streamflow Conditions
Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks

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Timestamp
24 hours of networked writing

an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ Subito Press

http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

~Beacons~
John Cayley (CA)
Roderick Coover (US)
Ian Hatcher (US)
Mez Breeze (AU)
Jose Carlos Silvestre (BR)
Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US)
Rui Torres (PT)

code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics

curated by Judd Morrissey

TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST*]

[ *use this to translate into your timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ]

Announcing:
_:terror(aw)ed patches:_
A Google Wave(let) Transformation by Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez, 2009
Title: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_
Original URL: http://non-playercharacter.com/?p=43
Description: Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez create a new method of collaborative “fiction” through _live concurrent editing_ in Google Wave. This process results in expressive output[s] termed “Transformations”:
“Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of “operational transformations” [live concurrent editing] which [...]

Please find below details of the next austraLYSIS performance:
austraLYSIS Programme, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Saturday December 5th,
2009 at 20.00 in the New Music Network series.
Hazel Smith and austraLYSIS : Instabilities 2
Roger Dean : ElectroIntensities (premiere)
austraLYSIS : CloudSpotting #1 (premiere)
Robert Normandeau : Malina (2000) (first presentation in Sydney)
Interval
Robert Normandeau : Bédé (1990) (first presentation in Sydney)
Joanna [...]

NetPoetic is co-curating, with the AG3 Conference,  an online exhibition of newly created artworks and poetry that specifically responds to the ideas and theories of Arakawa and Gins.
The first deadline, Dec 1,  is a simple proposal stage, with all works due Feb 1, 2010.    Explore the Exhibition Call for Work page for all the [...]

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