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Virtual Engagement Session
Start Date
17-7-2020 10:00 AM
End Date
17-7-2020 11:00 AM
Abstract
How is the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting measures, and movement of cultural life online reflected in electronic literature and other digital narrative practices online? With this roundtable we propose an exploration and discussion of electronic literature during this time of COVID.
In the current situation, public libraries, theatres, cultural festivals have been closed across many countries and virtually all cultural life creative practices have moved online. This presents an opportunity for electronic literature and net art, but also necessitates new ways of understanding online media and making sense of current life worlds.
Works of e-lit, such as poetry and narrative generators, collective narratives, and interactive fiction, have already been developed that deal contextually and thematically with the virus, social distancing and isolation, and the absurdities of everyday life as we adjust to an online social sphere. Forms of a collective creativity, such as the popular meme of imitating classical paintings while sheltering place, and other types of online collective creativity, may signal the emergence of new e-lit related practices emerging during the COVID era.
The roundtable discussion will emerge from the shared activity of developing a focused research collection of works responding to or related to the pandemic in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base as an open-access research resource. We will use an online form and a Facebook group to launch this collective research, which will involve and be open to the larger research community.
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E-lit Pandemics - Roundtable
How is the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting measures, and movement of cultural life online reflected in electronic literature and other digital narrative practices online? With this roundtable we propose an exploration and discussion of electronic literature during this time of COVID.
In the current situation, public libraries, theatres, cultural festivals have been closed across many countries and virtually all cultural life creative practices have moved online. This presents an opportunity for electronic literature and net art, but also necessitates new ways of understanding online media and making sense of current life worlds.
Works of e-lit, such as poetry and narrative generators, collective narratives, and interactive fiction, have already been developed that deal contextually and thematically with the virus, social distancing and isolation, and the absurdities of everyday life as we adjust to an online social sphere. Forms of a collective creativity, such as the popular meme of imitating classical paintings while sheltering place, and other types of online collective creativity, may signal the emergence of new e-lit related practices emerging during the COVID era.
The roundtable discussion will emerge from the shared activity of developing a focused research collection of works responding to or related to the pandemic in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base as an open-access research resource. We will use an online form and a Facebook group to launch this collective research, which will involve and be open to the larger research community.
Please take your time to answer this questionnaire
Bio
Anna Nacher is Associate Professor at the Institute for Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Her current research interests include digital culture and electronic literature, media theory and new media art (including sound art). She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Electronic Literature Organization. She also pursue a creative practice in improvised music and sound art at Magic Carpathians Project which she co-founded in 1998.
Søren Bro Pold is Associate Professor of digital aesthetics at Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University. Søren Pold’s interests cover digital aesthetics and interface criticism broadly, including electronic literature, net art, software art, urban art and activism. Simultaneously, he is interested in establishing digital aesthetics and interface criticism as a perspective in the Humanities and in other IT research fields such as design, HCI, informatics and Internet research. His latest book is The Metainterface - The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds, (MIT-Press, 2018).
Scott Rettberg is an American digital artist and scholar of electronic literature based in Bergen, Norway. He is the co-founder and served as the first Executive Director of the Electronic Literature Organization. Rettberg is a Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of the book Electronic Literature, which won the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature in 2019[6], and has co-edited a number of academic collections, including Electronic Literature Communities.[7]