ELO 2015: The End(s) of Electronic Literature
- Front matter
- The End(s) of Electronic Literature Conference and Festival
- Scott Rettberg: Introduction: The End(s) of Electronic Literature
- ELO 2015 Organization
- Conference Schedule
- Keynote Debate
- Espen Aarseth and Stuart Moulthrop: End over End
- Workshops
- History of Digital Poetry in France
- Multimedia Authoring in Scalar
- Sonic Sculpture
- Documenting Events and Works in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base
- Live Writing
- Digital Scherenschnitte / Video Compositing with Cut-ups and Collage
- Revisiting the Spam Folder: Using 419-fiction for Interactive Storytelling. A Practical Introduction.
- Roundtables
- Intermediality and Electronic Literature
- Beyond the Screens: Transmediality in E-literature
- Archiving Roundtable
- Curating and Creating Electronic Works in Arts Contexts
- CELL ROUNDTABLE - The Consortium for Electronic Literature
- Lightning Talks
- What Comes After Electronic Literature?
- Research Presentations
- Ayoe Quist Henkel: Motions in Digital Young Adult Literature
- Kristin Ørjasæter: Hypermediacy in Garmann's summer
- Ture Schwebs: The Numberlys: An Interplay Between History, Urban Life and Technology in a Children’s Story App
- Nolwenn Tréhondart and Émilie Barbier: Remediating a Hyperfiction in ePub3: When Digital Literature Meets Publishing Models - The Case of Children’s Literature with The Tower of Jezik
- Lucas Ramada Prieto: Reading Apps: An Exploratory Research on Children's E-lit Reading Profiles
- Kamil Kamysz and Marcin Wichrowski: Between Paper and Touchscreen: Building the Bridge with Children's Book
- Agnieszka Przybyszewski: To Teach Reading by Playing (with) the Literary Wor(l)d: On Kid E-literature and Literacy
- Lucile Haute, Alexandra Saemmer, Aurelie Herbet, Emeline Brulé and Nolwen Trehondart: Digital Artists' Books and Augmented Fictions: A New Field in Digital Literature?
- Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen and Jonas Fritsch: Literary Interaction in the Age of the Post-Digital
- Kathi Inman Berens: Touch and Decay: Tomasula's TOC on iOS
- Davin Heckman: Jailbreaking the Global Mnemotechnical System: Electropoetics as Resistance
- Kaja Puto and Martyna Nowicka: Keleti Blokk Blokki Facebook Game as an Example of Non-fiction Literary Flash
- Mark Sample: Protest Bots
- Robert Fletcher: "Learn to taste the tea on both sides": AR, Digital Ekphrasis, and a Future for Electronic Literature
- David M. Meurer: Conditions of Presence: The Topology of Network Narratives
- Daniel Punday: Narrative Theory after Electronic Literature
- Eric Dean Rasmussen: Narrative, Affect and Materialist Aesthetics in Post-Digital Technotexts
- Sandy Baldwin: Literary Spamming in Games: Cold Dust in Lord of the Rings Online and Endgame in Counter-Strike
- Rob Wittig: Jokes, Prompts and Models: Engaging Player Collaboration in Netprov
- Mark Marino: A Workbench for Analyzing Electronic Literature
- Mario Aquilina, Ivan Callus and Gordon Calleja (Proposed Panel): Imagination, Eventhood, and the Literary Absolute
- Jim Brown: A Stitch in Twine: Platform Studies and Porting Patchwork Girl
- Odile Farge: Can We Define Electronic Literature Such as Authoring Tool Literature?
- Alex Mitchell and Tiffany Neo: Beneath the Surface: System Representation and Reader Reception in Electronic Literature
- Christine Wilks: The Interactive Character as a Black Box
- Stuart Moulthrop, Lane Hall and Rob Wittig (Proposed Panel): Electronic Literature as Action and Event: Participatory Culture and “The Literary”
- Lello Masucci and Roberta Iadevaia: The Electronic Literature, How, When, Where
- Philippe Bootz: The Myth of the End of a Myth
- Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen: E-literary Diaspora – The Story of a Young Scholar's Journey from Writing to Faces
- Claudia Kozak: Latin American Electronic Literature and Its Own Ends
- Eman Younis: Interaction Between Art and Literature in Arab Digital Poetry and the Issue of Criticism
- Patricia Tomaszek: Publishing without a Publisher's Peritext: Electronic Literature, the Web, and Paratextual Integrity
- Simon Biggs: A Language Apparatus
- John Cayley: Aurature and the End(s) of Electronic Literature
- Jörgen Schäfer: From Mechanism to Subjectivity: The Posthumanist Performativity of Electronic Literature
- Jeremy Douglass: The Many Ends of Network Fictions: Gamebooks, Hypertexts, Visual Novels, Games and Beyond
- Angus Forbes: "'Till Algebra is Easier —': Elements of Computation in the Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Elizabeth Losh: Reading, Seeing, and Sensing: The Internet of Things Makes Literature
- Maria Mencia: Data Visualization Poetics
- Renato Nicassio: The S.I.C. Method and the Great Open Novel: An Unconventional Method for a Conventional End
- Mariusz Pisarski: From The Unknown to Piksel Zdrój. Collaboration in E-literature: Models, Newcomers, Predictions
- Kate Pullinger: Letter to an Unknown Soldier: A Participatory Writing Project
- Heiko Zimmermann: Electronic Literature as a Means to Overcome the Supremacy of the Author Function
- Jonathan Baillehache: Abandoned and Recycled Electronic Literature: Jean-Pierre Balpe’s La Disparition du Général Proust
- Chris Rodley: Boolean Poetics: The Search String as Post-Literary Technique
- Mia Zamora: The Generative Literature Project & 21st Century Literacies
- Melissa Lucas: Bringing Scandinavian E-Lit in from the Edges
- Patricia Tomaszek and Aud Gjersdal: Archiving Electronic Literature Beyond its End: Archiving Nordic Works at an Academic Library, a Presentation of a Collaboration in Progress within the University of Bergen
- Nick Montfort: Renderings: An E-Lit Translation Project
- Aleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marecki: Literary Experiments with Automatic Translation: A Case Study of a Creative Experiment Involving King Ubu and Google Translate
- José Molina: Translating E-poetry: Still Avant-Garde
- Maria Angel and Anna Gibbs: Digitising Ariadne’s Thread: Feminism, Excryption, and the Unfolding of Memory in Digital Spaces
- Maria Goicoechea and Laura Sanchez: Female Voices in Hispanic Digital Literature
- Anne Karhio, Jeneen Naji, Michael J. Maguire and James O'Sullivan (Proposed Panel): Research and Practice in Electronic Poetry in Ireland
- Raine Koskimaa: Running Out of Time: The Strategies of Ending in Digital Fictions
- Álvaro Seiça: The Digital Diasthima: Time-Lapse Reading as Critical and Creative Performance
- Marika Wato, Andrzej Głowacki and Grażyna Pietruszewska-Kobiela: The Archetypture of Time - The Time of Interaction
- Natalia Fedorova: Digital Letterisms
- Sandra Guerreiro Dias and Bruno Ministro: Performance Art, Experimental Poetry and Electronic Literature in Portugal: An Intermedial Archive to an Intermedial Practice of Language
- Flourish Klink: Fandom Vs. E-Lit: How Communities Organize
- Piotr Marecki: The Road to Assland: The Demoscene and Electronic Literature
- Velimatti Karhulahti: Rhematics and the Literariness of Electronic Literature
- Anastasia Salter: Ephemeral Words, Ephemeral People: Suicide and Choice in Twine Games
- Fox Harrell, Dominic Kao and Chong-U Lim: Toward Understanding Real-World Social Impacts of Avatars
- Clara Fernandez-Vara: Digital Games: The New Frontier of Postmodern Detective Fiction
- John Barber, Hazel Smith, Roger Dean (Proposed Panel): Live Performance, Voicescapes, and Remixing the Under Language: Sounds and Voices at the End(s) of Electronic Literature
- Megan Heyward: On Landscape as an Interface: Textuality, Walking Practices and Augmented Location in Notes for Walking
- Jon Hoem: Locative Audio Play
- Anna Nacher: Borderline of Textuality, Materiality of Networks: From Land Art Geographical Poetry to Locative Literature
- Todd Taylor, Andrew Morrison and Cheryl Ball (Proposed Panel): The Ends of Publishing
- Steven Wingate: Watching Textual Screens Then and Now: A Cinema/E-Lit Conversation
- Ariane Savoie: Fill in the Blanks: Narrative, Digital Work and Intermediality
- Rachael Katz: The Poets' Dream Database
- Jose Aburto: Murmurs, Open Corpus of Online Written Poetry – The End of Isolated Poems
- David Devanny: Guardians of the Gutenberg Galaxy: A Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries
- Simone Murray: The Public Life of Electronic Literature: Writers’ Festivals Online
- Lyle Skains: The Practice of Research: A Methodology for Practice-Based Exploration of Digital Writing
- Donna Leishman: The Challenge of Visuality for Electronic Literature
- Johannah Rodgers: The Message is the Medium: Understanding and Defining Materiality in Representational and Communicative Practices Across Media
- Markku Eskelinen: It Is the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine
- Sandra Bettencourt, Diogo Marques and Ana Marques da Silva (Proposed Panel): This Is Not the Beginning or the End of Literature
- Jason Lewis: Not Found. Not Generated. Not Random.
- The Arts Program
- Roderick Coover: Art Director's Statement
- Performances and Screenings
- Caitlin Fisher and Tony Viera: Chez Moi: Lesbian Bar Stories from Before You Were Born
- Steven Wingate: Talk with Your Hands Like an Ellis Island Mutt: A Recombinatory Cinema Toolkit
- Penny Florence and Paolo Totaro: Inextrinsix: Multilingual, Collaborative Digital Poems
- Stuart Moulthrop: The End of the White Subway
- Jason Lewis: Vital
- Jörg Piringer: Text/Sound-Videos
- Leonardo Flores and Mark Sample: A Bot Sampler in Two Voices
- Kristian Pedersen and Audun Lindholm: The Pipes
- Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizzaro: Pry
- David Jhave Johnston: BDP: Big-Data Poetry
- Jason Nelson: Jason Nelson Digital Magic Show and Poetic Interfaces
- Judy Malloy: The Not Yet Named Jig
- Dene Grigar and Greg Philbrook: Curlew
- John Cayley: To Be With You
- Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik: Zenon Fajfer’s EYELIDS_Book of Emanations
- Donna Leishman and Steve Gibson: Borderline
- Kristian Pedersen and Audun Lindholm: Waves
- Zuzana Husarova: Any Vision
- John Cayley: Monoclonal Microphone: The Movie
- Hazel Smith and Roger Dean: text, sound, electronics, live coding
- Ottar Ormstad, Taras Mashtalir and Alexander Vojjov: OTTARAS: 3 CONCRETE
- Taras Mashtalir and Natalia Fedorova: Machine Libertine
- Judd Morrissey: Kjell Theøry
- Talan Memmott: The Exquisite Corpus
- Christopher Funkhouser, Sonny Rae Tempest and Louis Wells: Shy Nag Code Opera
- Kid E-Lit
- Emilie Barbier, Ana Abril Hernández, Leja Hočevar, Luis Javier Pisonero and Mario Aznav: The Tower of Jezik
- LeAnn Erickson: The Computer Wore Heels
- Pierre Fourny, Guillaume Jacquemin, Serge Bouchardon, Luc Dall'Armellina and Hélène Caubel: Typomatic
- Simon Flesser and Magnus Gardebäck - Simogo: The Sailor's Dream:
- Aleatory Funkhouser: My Own Alphabet
- Merete Pryds Helle, Kamila Slocinska, Tim Garbos and Aksel Køie - Touchbooks: Wuwu & Co
- Mark Marino and The Marino Family: Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House
- Jorge Andrés Gómez, Baptiste Ingrand and Florine Morestin: Poetracking
- Camilla Hübbe, Rasmus Meisler and Stefan Pasborg - Høst & Søn: TAVS
- Tove Jansson - Spinfy/WSOY: Moomin, Mymble and Little My
- Åshild Kanstad Johnsen - Gyldendal: Kubbe Lager Skyggeteater
- Timo Parvela and Jussi Kaakinen - mobilive/WSOY: Taro at the Center of the Earth
- Kari Stai - Samlaget: Jakob og Neikob
- Pernilla Stalfelt - Spinfy/Rabén & Sjögren: Alla Barns Rätt
- End(s) of Electronic Literature Festival Exhibition
- Deanne Achong: Lusca Mourns The Telegraph | In Search of Lost Messages
- Abraham Avnisan: Collocations
- Stephanie Boluk, Leonardo Flores, Jacob Garbe, and Anastasia Salter: Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3 Preview
- Kathi Inman Berens, Alicia Cohen, Kerstin Juhlen, and Eva Pfitzenmaier: Rest0ration: Kalfarlein 18
- Claire Donato, Álvaro Seiça and Luc Dall’Armellina: Langlibabex
- Eugene Garber and Lynn Hassan: Eroica: A Hypermedia Fiction
- Ian Hatcher and Stephanie Strickland: House of Trust
- Johannes Heldén and Håkan Jonson: Encyclopedia
- Megan Heyward and Michael Finucan: The Secret Language of Desire
- Alinta Krauth: if-notNow, if-then-when-else
- Will Luers: Phantom Agents
- Maria Mencia: Gateway to the World
- Jason Nelson: A Nervous System
- Loren Schmidt and Katie Rose Pipkin: inflorescence.city
- Aaron Tucker: The ChessBard Plays
- Hybridity and Synaesthesia
- Philippe Bootz and Nicolas Bauffe: Play Music for My Poem
- John Murray and Anastasia Salter: From Beyond Hybridity – Ouija Board Project
- Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell: #Carnivast
- Angus Forbes: Poetry Chains and Collocations
- Joellyn Rock and Alison Aune: Fish Net Stockings
- Caitlin Fisher and Tony Vieira: Mother/Home/Heaven
- Julie Vulcan and Ashley Scott: RIMA
- Decentering: Global Electronic Literature
- Jose Aburto: Small Poetic Interfaces – The End of Click
- Nicola Harwood, Fred Wah, Jin Zhang, Bessie Wapp, Simon Lysander Overstall, Tomoyo Ihaya, Phillip Djwa, Thomas Loh, Hiromoto Ida and Patrice Leung: High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese
- Francisco Marinho and Alckmar Santos: Liberdade
- Jakub Jagiełło and Laura Lech: Labyrinth…
- Natalia Fedorova: “This is not a utopia” Collection of Russian Electronic Literature
- Álvaro Seiça and Piotr Marecki: p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit
- Interventions: Engaging the Body Politic
- Damon Baker: Cavewriting Classics on the Oculus Rift
- David Clark: The End: Death in Seven Colours
- Sharon Daniel: Inside the Distance
- Donna Leishman: Front
- Jason Nelson: The Wandering: An Interactive Poetry Robot!
- Chris Rodley and Andrew Burrell: Death Of An Alchemist
- Andreas Zingerle and Linda Kronman: Faceless Patrons
Death Of An Alchemist
Chris Rodley (University of Sydney, Australia) and Andrew Burrell (Independent, Australia)
Interventions: Engaging the Body Politic
Friday, August 7 • 17:30 - 18:30 (Visningsrommet USF)
Death Of An Alchemist is a multimedia novel written by Big Data – a detective story generated in real-time from live online content.
The installation consists of an 8m wall displaying 128 pages of projected text, symbols and charts. This content is generated by scraping Twitter, Google and social platforms for today’s headlines, social media conversations, memes and more.
The text flickers and updates as new data is received, yet still creates a coherent narrative that can be read from beginning to end. This is thanks to a bespoke technique we have termed the “poetics of search”: using a combination of search operators and algorithms to mine data, then string manipulation to fit it cohesively into a new plot.
In the story, readers investigate the death of 16th century alchemist Trithemius. He has left behind a supposedly magical book, Steganographia, said to reveal the “clavis magna”: the idea from which all knowledge flows. Readers must decode the book to find the clues to Trithemius’ murder. But this is no ordinary leather-bound volume…
The work is an extended allegory for coercive uses of Big Data by technology companies such as Google and Facebook, which aim to create their own “clavis magna”. For further information, including a thematic statement and images, please see the attached PDF.
Death Of An Alchemist is an official selection of the 2015 International Symposium on Electronic Art, to be held in Vancouver, Canada. It also being made available as a free iOS/Android app.