I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to help organize – alongside Dene Grigar and Kathi Inman Berens – the first ever electronic literature exhibit and reading at the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle, WA January 5th through the 7th. The exhibit in particular, which is formally supported by the MLA, marks an important moment in [...]

Recently I stumbled upon an odd but thrilling little publication from 1966 called Astronauts of Inner-Space: An International Collection of Avant-Garde Activity which includes – according to the front cover -  17 manifestoes, articles, letters, 28 poems and 1 filmscript. The collection is so astounding that I had to make a pdf of it – [...]

Below are abstracts for the papers that Dene Grigar, Stephanie Strickland and Marjorie Luesebrink, myself, and Mark Sample will present at the January 2012 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle. We’re all delighted to find that our session is part of the Presidential Theme on “Language, Literature, Learning.” Our papers could certainly change between now and [...]

Below is the paper I’ll be presenting at the E-Poetry Festival next week in Buffalo, NY. I may re-post slight edits on my own website between now and then, but only slight. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you there! * Between the much-needed efforts of the Electronic Literature Organization‘s Electronic Literature Directory (ELD) [...]

I’ve been writing lately, here and on my own website, about what media studies offers us as a way to read a whole range of writing machines. And for some reason, it’s just a quick step from looking at the typewriter and typewriter poems to the ways in which poets have been hacking copy machines. [...]

Media studies is commonly associated with the study of digital media structures and related phenomena. But the more media theory I read (and lately I’ve been voraciously reading everything by Marshall McLuhan that’s outside of the well-worn Understanding Media) the more drawn I am to thinking through the defining effects of earlier analogue and digital [...]

I’ve written a short blog post on the upcoming E-Poetry Festival in Buffalo, NY on my own website – partly as a way to give homage to Loss Pequeno Glazier‘s and Sandy Baldwin‘s efforts over the years to put on this extraordinary event for e-literature critics and practitioners, partly as a way to think back [...]

Some time ago I wrote a post here on netpoetic about “Meaning as Making: From Dirty Concrete to Critical Code.” Since then, I have been working on turning this post-turned-conference-paper into an essay for a special issue of the Canadian journal Open Letter on Steve McCaffery. This piece now has the title “Marking as Meaning: [...]

Jason asked us netpoetic contributors to write a little something about our work-space – and quite honestly, I’m happy to do so because my work-space is something I put (sometimes too much) time and energy into – tidying, tweaking, moving furniture, changing the light-bulbs etc. until everything feels just right. It seems I have very [...]

Reading Writing Interfaces: Electronic Literature and the “Interface-free” 2012 Modern Language Association Conference in Seattle (Jan. 5-8) Send 300 word abstracts and a brief bio. by 15 March 2011 to Lori Emerson (lori dot emerson at colorado dot edu) Given that, as Lisa Gitelman puts it, “media represent and delimit representing,” this special session seeks [...]

Later this month I'll be presenting a paper on “Making as Meaning: from Dirty Concrete to Critical Code” – I will post the entire text of the paper once I've presented it. In the meantime I thought I would give readers a sneak peek. In short, something I've been exploring is the way in which [...]

This past summer I had the luxury of indulging in every passing intellectual whim (learning Processing, playing with old Commodore 64s, learning about typography, reading every digital poem I came across, etc.) at the same time as I tried to assimilate these nearly absurdly diverse interests into a coherent book project. I thought I would [...]

I thought readers of Netpoetic might be interested in this call for job applications. The Electronic Literature Organization is accepting nominations and applications for two Directory Editors. The positions are part of the NEH-funded “The Electronic Literature Directory: Collaborative Knowledge Management for the Literary Humanities.” The project uses open source content management and social networking [...]

Friends and colleagues, as I try to begin working on revising the dissertation into a book on digital poetry, I wonder what you think of this idea: turning my (currently haphazardly constructed) Diigo list on digital poetry into something like a bibliography or reading list for digital poetry that could be included at the end [...]

I haven’t yet heard any discussion of Scott Rettberg’s excellent essay “Communitizing Electronic Literature” that’s in the recent issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly. It’s one of the most clear-headed and smart assessments of the field that I’ve read in a long time. But where Scott questions – rightly – the future popularity of e-literature – [...]