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

June 3-6, 2010
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Organized by the ELO and Writing Digital Media
at the Brown University Literary Arts Program
dedicated to Robert Coover

The Electronic Literature Organization and Brown University’s Literary Arts Program invite submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference to be held from June 3-6 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

electronic literature . writing digital media .
language-driven digital poesis . literal art . literary hypermedia .

We welcome papers and presentations on a broad range of topics. The conference will focus on the theory, criticism, close-reading, practice and archiving of language-driven digital art and poetics. Our gathering will also embrace all the related cultural practices that continue to be addressed by scholars and artists in our growing field:

expressive processing, computational art, artificial cognition and intelligence, aesthetic gaming, information art, codework, digitally mediated performance, network & media art & activism.

In addition we will give a special welcome to papers that engage with the contribution that Robert Coover has made to our field. A festschrift comprised of papers from the conference is proposed and Professor Coover will be our chief featured (e)Writer. (Other featured speakers to be announced shortly.)

In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Program of Language-Driven Digital Art, concentrating on but not confined to installation works. We plan to show the selected work in gallery spaces close to the conference venue in downtown Providence over a two week period. Subject to funding restrictions, selected artists will be awarded bursaries to assist with attending the conference.

If you want to give a paper, or form a panel, at this point, please submit a maximum 500-word abstract, with title and brief bio (indicating affiliation, if any). If you are proposing an installation, or an artistic presentation, or an alternative (innovative) proposal please also describe this in 500 words or less, with title, and bio(s). If you send illustrative, digitized AV materials, either keep these (byte-wise) small and short, or send us links.

Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2009

– Send to: elo.ai@eliterature.org.
Notification of Acceptance: January 25, 2010
PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for full papers will be May 1, 2010 to allow for reflection and exchange on the papers prior to the conference and to get a head-start in the publication process.

The basic cost of the conference is $150; graduate students and non-affiliated artists pay only $100. Conference registration covers access to all events, the reception, some meals, and shuttle transportation. All conference attendees are also expected to join the ELO before the conference and this can be done at registration.

We are planning to implement online submission and registration. Before submitting, please consult the conference website at http://ai.eliterature.org where these facilities will be available and where you will find much more information about both the content and the form of the conference and arts program.

After consulting the website, for further queries and all email correspondence contact: elo.ai@eliterature.org

The above address should be used for all conference business. It will checked by myself and also those colleagues and students who will be assisting me with the conference organization. But I appreciate that you may sometimes also want to get in touch with the conference organizer: John Cayley Literary Arts Program – Box 1923, Brown University, 68 1/2 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA. office: +1 401 863 3966, John_Cayley@brown.edu

FURTHER SUPPORT AND SPONSORSHIP SOLICITED
The Conference is currently sponsored and supported by The Electronic Literature Organization, Brown University Literary Arts Program, Brown University Creative Arts Council, Brown University Library, and the RISD D+M Program. Any organization or individual in receipt of this call who would like to sponsor and
support this major international conference, please get in touch. External sponsors are being sought and will be appropriately acknowledged.

A class in Multimedia Writing, offered by CLC Director Sandy Baldwin

The class blog and syllabus are here: http://engl303f09.blogspot.com/

Course Description: Study of communication and design issues in multimedia composition. Focuses on communication, creative expression, persuasion, interactivity, and rhetorical principles. Practice in composing multimedia documents such as online publications, interactive literary works and tutorials. ENGL 303 is part of the English Department’s Technical Writing and Editing sequence. Multimedia is broadly defined, including but not limited to text, image, audio, and animation. The course will focus on web-based multimedia.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: author and design web sites; write for the web with awareness of genres and audiences;
understand the complexity of representation and expression using multimedia; analyze the social and material transformation of writing in multimedia environments.

Multimedia Writing English 303

A class in Multimedia Writing, offered by CLC Director Sandy Baldwin

Course Description: Study of communication and design issues in multimedia composition. Focuses on communication, creative expression, persuasion, interactivity, and rhetorical principles. Practice in composing multimedia documents such as online publications, interactive literary works and tutorials. ENGL 303 is part of the English Department’s Technical Writing and Editing sequence.
Multimedia is broadly defined, including but not limited to text, image, audio, and animation. The course will focus on web-based multimedia.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
author and design web sites;
write for the web with awareness of genres and audiences;
understand the complexity of representation and expression using multimedia;
analyze the social and material transformation of writing in multimedia environments.

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ENG 273 Contemporary Literature

Professor Sandy Baldwin

The syllabus is here.

Avatar Identity and Being Online

Syllabus here: http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sbaldwin/courses/engl306f08

ENGL 303 Multimedia Writing Fall 2008

Syllabus at http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sbaldwin/courses/engl303f08 .

English 303 Multimedia Writing Spring 2008

Syllabus: http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sbaldwin/courses/engl303s08

“A Map of Home”

The Center for Literary Computing just completed a project for the “coming home” celebration, part of presidential inauguration week.

“A Map of Home” accompanies the the Coming Home website designed by WVU Web Services: (link no longer available). As you’ll see, Web Services created a site featuring audio and video reminiscences by students, alumni, faculty, etc. associated with WVU.
Our contribution tackles the same topic from a different direction: rather than extensive in-depth videos taken in a studio setting, etc., we sent CLC interns out on the streets of Morgantown to gather candid snapshots and short observations on Morgantown as home. We then mapped these to the geography of Morgantown using Google Maps. Please take a look: the link is at the bottom of the Coming Home website (url above) or directly here: http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/mapping_home.html The map features a selection of materials gathered over several weeks of interviews.

Project Credits: Sandy Baldwin, David Bello, Jon Harvey. Jeremy Justus, Christina Malcomb. Send comments or questions to clc@mail.wvu.edu.

CLC Awarded NSF Grant: The CLC received a $118K grant from the NSF.

The Center for Literary Computing received a $118,985 grant entitled “The Codework Project” from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research the relationship between creative writing and computer programming. The grant is from the NSF’s new CreativeIT program, which supports synergistic research in the intersection of creativity and information technology. The CreativeIT grant program will lead to new modes of thinking and problem solving, new approaches to scholarship and new paradigms for education.