The Electronic Literature Organization ( ELO ) is a nonprofit organization "established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature ". It hosts annual conferences, awards annual prizes for works of and criticism of electronic literature, hosts online events and has published a series of collections of electronic literature.
24-599: The ELO was founded in 1999 in Chicago by Scott Rettberg , Robert Coover , and Jeff Ballowe. Rettberg took the role as CEO, and Ballowe was president. In a book chapter about this early phase, Rettberg describes the first three years as a "turbulent and exciting period". An article in the Los Angeles Times describes the first reading organised by the ELO in July 2000, "a recent evening at
48-564: A lack of funding, the ELO Awards were rekindled in 2014, and since then an annual award has been given to the best literary work and the best work of scholarship on electronic literature. Each award comes with a $ 1000 stipend. This award honors the year’s best work of electronic literature, of any form or genre. Honorable Mention: "Al Barrah" by Reham Hosny. Honorable Mention: "The Decameron 2.0" by The Decameron Collective Honorable Mentions: "Exocolony" by Lee Tusman; "Unboxing: Mrs. Wobbles and
72-651: 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 . He leads the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence from 2023 to 2033. Rettberg is a professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at
96-629: The Digital Humanities Quarterly , "Amidst the collection, there are some works that transcend the collection itself and stand out as pillars of electronic writing. Such pieces have already garnered much critical attention. Most notable among these would be Judd Morrissey ’s The Jew’s Daughter , Michael Joyce ’s Twelve Blue , Stuart Moulthrop ’s Reagan Library , Talan Memmott ’s Lexia to Perplexia , and Kate Pulinger ’s Inanimate Alice . Volume 2 (February 2011) Tim Wright explains that "the process of gathering, archiving and tagging
120-455: 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, described by Kathi Inman Berens as "a definitive overview of electronic literature". He has co-edited a number of academic collections, including Electronic Literature Communities. Rettberg was the project leader of
144-412: The "reshapable" characteristics of language in pictures. In Beauty in code - 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages, Author David Wright also use this work as an example in his visual verse. Poets have combined poetry and images for centuries. While poets of the past would use sculpture and poetry together, contemporary poets can use digital technology for the same purpose. shan shui
168-480: The ELO announced the Electronic Literature Awards, with a $ 10,000 prize (funded by ZDNet ) for the best work of fiction and the best work of poetry. 163 works were submitted, and each was reviewed by at least three people on the board, after which the highest scoring works were passed on to judges Larry McCaffery and Heather McHugh . Rettberg notes that the diversity of works submitted and shortlisted
192-605: The ELO include Jeff Ballowe, Scott Rettberg (as Executive Director), Marjorie Luesebrink , Matthew Kirschenbaum, Joseph Tabbi , Nick Montfort , Dene Grigar , and Leonardo Flores. Caitlin Fisher became president in July 2022. The ELO holds annual conferences that include both scholarly presentations and exhibitions and performances of electronic literature. The ELO website contains an archive of past conference websites. The ELO has curated and edited four volumes of electronic literature. Volume 1 (October 2006). Mark Marino noted in
216-563: The ELO moved to UCLA, supported by the English department. Marjorie Luesebrink became president, N. Katherine Hayles was faculty advisor, and Jessica Pressman was the managing director. The organization has since been hosted by universities, including the University of Maryland, College Park in 2006 where it was supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (under
240-587: The HERA-Funded ELMCIP research project (2010–13), and is the director of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base . Rettberg became known as an author of hypertext fiction in the 1990s. His first major project was the collaborative web novel The Unknown, A Hypertext Novel , which was written in collaboration with William Gillespie, Dirk Stratton, and Frank Marquadt, and won the trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998. It
264-948: The Revolution , Jeremy Height 's 34 North 118 West , J.R. Carpenter 's Along the Briny Beach , Mark Marino and Rob Wittig 's Being@Spencer Pratt , Caitlin Fisher 's Everyone at This Party is Dead, Anna Anthropy 's Hunt for the Gay Planet, N. Katherine Hayle ' s Speculation. Volume 4 (June 2022). ELC4 presents the largest and most diverse group yet of elit authors writing in Afrikaans , Ancient Chinese, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, isiXhosa, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mezangelle , Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Setswana, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, South African Sign Language, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Yoruba In 2001
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#1732848751883288-716: The Tangerine House" by the Marino family; "VideoDreams" by Fernando Montes Vera This award honors the best work of criticism of electronic literature of any length. Honorable mentions: Alessandro Ludovico , Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century ; Simone Murray: “The Short Story in the Age of the Internet.” This award honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to
312-468: The background images change. At the same time, a poem will be appear in every click, the poem was made by re-ordering some of the character in a library that has 38 Chinese character and the to create as a new landscape. Shan Shui' s author, Chen Qian Xun, is a media artist and researcher who has traveled to many countries and is passionate about learning languages. She is passionate about studying digital technology and language to express art. Shan shui
336-513: The direction of Matthew Kirschenbaum), and MIT under the leadership of Nick Montfort . The ELO is currently hosted at York University, Toronto, Canada, under the leadership of Caitlin Fisher, marking the first time this international organization has moved its headquarters outside of the United States. Since the 2007 conference, the ELO has grown annually and by 2015 was gathering hundreds of people at each of its conferences. Past presidents of
360-416: The field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field. This award "honors an independent spirit: a writer, artist, researcher, programmer, designer, performer, or hybrid creator who does not adhere to a conventional path but creates their own and in so doing makes a singular contribution to the field of electronic literature." Scott Rettberg Scott Rettberg
384-433: The home of Microsoft executive Richard Bangs", with "trays of light finger food and delicately chilled Chardonnay" with "guests from high-tech east side Seattle mingled with representatives of the old-guard arts establishment and half a dozen writers of new fiction who had come to read from their work". The new organization was able to ride the excitement of the tech industry during the dot-com bubble , but also suffered from
408-528: The project Republicans in Love. Rettberg co-founded the Electronic Literature Organization with Robert Coover and Jeff Ballowe in 1999. Shaun Shui Shan Shui is an electronic literature work that combines background images with poetry through digital technology. There are nine different background images in five different places on the page. When the reader clicks on the page,
432-784: The subsequent crash. The ELO had early successes in obtaining funding from individuals in the technology industry and the Ford Foundation (which funded the Electronic Literature Symposium at UCLA in 2002) and the Rockefeller Foundation (which funded work on the Electronic Literature Directory). However, the dot com crash made funding dry up, and despite some local funding in Chicago, the organization had to transition from having full-time staff and an office to being hosted by universities. In 2001
456-471: The works to make them more easily available to a wider audience, also freezes (necessarily) what may have been otherwise ephemeral or in situ." Volume 3 (February 2016) Urszula Anna Pawlicka noted that ELC3 represents a "post" code range of literature. This work also includes Qianxun Chen 's Shan Shui , Porpentine 's With Those We Love Alive, Borsuk 's Between Page and Screen , Illya Szilak 's Queerskins , Emily Short and Liza Daly 's First Draft of
480-458: Was "an eye-opener (..) in terms of what I might consider 'fiction' and 'poetry' to be in the e-lit context'. In 2001, These Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher won the fiction prize and windsound by John Cayley won the poetry prize. The excitement of the era can be felt in an interview by the cable television channel TechTV with Fisher after the awards gala in New York. After a pause due to
504-616: Was also featured in the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 2, and has been analysed by a number of scholars. Rettberg's cinematic collaboration with Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project , received the Robert Coover Award in 2016. The annual award is given by the Electronic Literature Organization each year in recognition of an outstanding work of electronic literature. The combinatory film Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative
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#1732848751883528-465: Was an E-Lit Writer: DeLillo's Language as Visual Art in the Digital Age cites Shan Shui as an example to show the image features of natural language. Random arrangements of poems and background images are combined into a variety of meaningful landscape paintings, making the language part of the background image. He believes that this work highlights the relationship between language and image, and shows
552-416: Was created with Roderick Coover, and is described as a film that "shape-shifts each time it plays; an algorithm selects fragments from each of the six narratives and reconfigures them to create an ever-changing, yet thematically consistent, production" In 2023 Rettberg began experimenting with using ChatGPT and DALL-E to generate narratives that "neither human nor AI could have created alone", including
576-729: Was her first work. This experimental work provided experience for her subsequent productions. This work was originally published in CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action, Issue 14, in Fall 2014. It was subsequently collected during the winter by Drunken Boats, an online literary journal. It was included in the Electronic Literature Organization Collection Volume 3 in 2016. This digital work combines images and language with coding. LICHENG XIE in If DeLillo
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