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Schedule
2026
Wednesday, July 15th
2:15 PM

AI-Generated Code + E-Poetry: Exploring the possibilities of digital poetry with AI generated code in TouchDesigner

Roque Fernández Alcañiz, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Connected/Disconnected

Emery Beckman, University of Central Florida

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

The Shadow of Situationism: AI-Generated Poetry at the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde

Francisco Reyes Betancourtt, University of California, Irvine

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Words Have Their Final Weapon: AI and Six Decades of Generating “Japanese Poetry”

Andrew Campana, Cornell University

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

3:30 PM

Making the Writer’s Project

Alex Calderwood, University of California, Santa Cruz

Algorithms & Imaginaries

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Individual Talk

3:30 PM

Singulars: Performing the Reverse Turing Test

Halim Madi

Algorithms & Imaginaries

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Individual Talk

3:30 PM

Solar Powered Alba Generator

Allison Parrish

Algorithms & Imaginaries

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Individual Talk

3:30 PM

The Subcutanean Variorum

Mark Sample, Davidson College

Algorithms & Imaginaries

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Individual Talk

Thursday, July 16th
9:15 AM

Publishing Electronic Literature Research in Metric-Driven Academia: A Roadmap for Electronic Literature Scholars

Samya Brata Roy, Gitam (Deemed) University, Hyderabad
Shanmugapriya T, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Mehulkumar Desai, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Workshop

10:30 AM

Portuguese Net Art and e-Poetics

Johanna Drucker
Sofia Ponte, IADE
Rui Torres, University Fernando Pessoa
Diogo Marques, University of Porto
Manuel Portela, University of Coimbr

Algorithms & Imaginaries

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Panel

1:00 PM

(Un)easily Writing the Future

Stuart Moulthrop, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Judith Pintar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John G. McDaid, Roger Williams University

Algorithms & Imaginaries

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Panel

2:15 PM

Techno-Human Desire or Techno, Human Desire? Sensuality and Machine Texts.

Chloe M. A. Mauvais, University of California - Berkeley
Paz Regueiro, University of California - Berkeley
Joseph Rager, University of California - Berkeley

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Panel

3:30 PM

E-Lit Periodicals in the Age of AI

Peter D. Edgar, University of Central Florida
Glenn S. Ritchey III, University of Central Florida
Kiera Obbard, University of Waterloo
Kavi Duvvoori, University of Waterloo
Margot Machado Knuth, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Algorithms & Imaginaries

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Panel

4:45 PM

Co-Habited Texts: Designing Cooperative Interactive Fiction as Auto-Ethnographic Method

Abhik Hasnain, University of Alberta
Adeline K. Piercy, University of Alberta

Algorithms & Imaginaries

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

4:45 PM

National Fictions: Reading the Free Republic of Verdis as Electronic Literature

Elizabeth Losh, William & Mary

Algorithms & Imaginaries

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

4:45 PM

Necrotextual Poetics: Fine-Tuned Language Models and Oscar Wilde's Unfinished Aphorism

Zach Whalen

Algorithms & Imaginaries

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

4:45 PM

Remaking the Red Death: An Interactive Fiction Post-mortem

Kenton T. Howard, University of Central Florida

Algorithms & Imaginaries

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

7:00 PM

Authority Figures

John Murray, University of Central Florida
Mark C. Marino, University of Southern California
Maria Cecilia Reyes, Universidad del Norte - Colombia

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

7:00 PM

Hacking Stone Moons: Or, a Re-viving a still born child A behind-the-scenes melodrama in three acts.

Denise Larsen, Independent
Claire Leyden, WSUV
Quinn Carrick, WSUV
Jenn Duyen, WSUV

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

7:00 PM

The Female Voice, The Male Gaze: AI Colonial Paradox and African Feminist Futures

Aishat Olayetunde Isiaq Mrs, The Nigeria French Language Village Ajara Badagry Lagos, Nigeria

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

7:00 PM

Writing for More Hands: Distributed Improvisational Text and Networked Authorship

patrick lichty, Winona State University
Negin Ehtesabian

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

Friday, July 17th
9:15 AM

A Machine That Eats Books: Reflecting on the Impact of AI on Our Understanding of Reality Through Inkle’s TR-49

Alex Mitchell, National University of Singapore

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Blurring Ontologies: An Analysis of Metalepsis in Mark C. Marino’s Living Will (2010)

Lopamudra Saha Ms, Pondicherry University

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

"I Believe You": Unsupervised Unlearning in a Human–AI Philosophical Encounter

Xiang Yu, Independent

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Supervising the Creation of New Forms of Philosophy

Sebastian R. Richter, University of Regensburg

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

The Headless Seven: A Live Hydraen Field Experiment

Lyle Skains, Wonderbox Digital

Algorithms & Imaginaries

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Experimental Track

2:15 PM

An/archivism, Chronopoetics, and Experimentation: Transformations of Literary and Artistic Creation in the Era of Generative AI

Claudia Kozak, UBA/CONICET
Carolina Gainza, Universidad Diego Portales
Jhoerson Yagmour Figuera, Universidad Católica de Chile
Milton Läufer
Verónica Paula Gómez, Freie Universität Berlin
Wolfgang Bongers, Universidad Católica de Chile

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Panel

3:30 PM

Inventing ELIZA: an exploration of the first chatbot

Mark Marino, University of Southern California
Sarah Ciston
David Berry
Anthony Hay
Jeff Shrager
Arthur Schwarz
Peter Millican

Algorithms & Imaginaries

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Panel

4:45 PM

Essay on the future of writing-reading: thought, meditation and synchronicities

Vinicius Marquet, National University Autonomous of Mexico

Algorithms & Imaginaries

4:45 PM - 8:30 PM

Experimental Track

7:00 PM

Inscription

Xiang Yu, Independent

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

7:00 PM

Latent Laughing Medusa

Judd Morrissey, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

7:00 PM

man.A.machine.txt

James H. Pardue, SUNY University at Buffalo

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

7:00 PM

Surveillance as Care: Introducing the PureGenius™ Learning Platform

Erin R. Glass, CUNY Graduate Center

Algorithms & Imaginaries

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance

Saturday, July 18th
9:15 AM

Coding a Poetics of Love and Politics: On the Remixing Potentials of Christopher Strachey and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s Poem Generators

Tiffany Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Coding the Wild: Digital Poetics, Artificial Intelligence, and More-Than-Human Futures in Mechanical Treehouse

Yolanda De Gregorio, University of Cadiz

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

From AI to EI: Towards an ‘Environmental Intelligence’

Richard A. Carter, University of York

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Vibe Coding: AI, Digital Text Recycling, and the Remediation of Digital Poetry

Yohanna Joseph Waliya, The Nigeria French Language Village, Ajara-Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria,

Algorithms & Imaginaries

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Exiled to Latent Space: Writing from Dimensions We Cannot Enter

Kavisha D. Alagiya, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Algorithms & Imaginaries

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Workshop

2:15 PM

Algorithmic Narrators: Linguistic Boundaries and Institutionalized Cultural Storytelling Across Generative AI Systems

Yingzi Kong

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Algorithmic Translation versus Human Imagination in Electronic Storytelling

Dr. Gloria Wilson Inyang, Akwa Ibom State College of Education

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Once Upon an Algorithm: Ebook Authors’ AI Folk Theories and the Standardization of Creative Practice

Bridget Kies, Oakland University

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

When AI Magic Meets Creative Writing: The AI Noberisuto Literary Prize and the Boundaries of Non-human (Co)authorship

Kateryna Shabelnyk, Nagoya University

Algorithms & Imaginaries

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk