Call for Electronic Literature Organization Prizes – deadline 1 April 2018 The Electronic Literature Organization is proud to offer the following three prestigious awards, The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature, The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature, and The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award.
Literary Creative Turing Tests 2018, competition for machine-generated lit – deadline 15 May 2018 Can algorithms create “human-quality” short stories, sonnets and limericks? The competition is to determine whether people can distinguish between human and algorithmic creativity. The goal is not to replace human creativity, but to assess whether current computational technology can produce outputs that cannot be distinguished from it.
New Media and Digital Storytelling (tenure-track Instructor position) – Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, Vancouver – deadline 28 February 2017 The Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies (CIS) at UBC-Vancouver invites applications for a tenure-track teaching and educational leadership position at the rank of Instructor, with starting date of 1 July 2017.
Digital fiction and the hopes and fears for storytelling – Wakefield, UK, 23 November 2016 In this interactive talk, Dr Alice Bell and Dr Isabelle van der Bom from the Reading Digital Fiction project will explore the origins and future of digital fiction, including the hopes and fears that digital technology bring to the future of writing.
Inanimate Alice, Episode 6: The Last Gas Station – official release Inanimate Alice, Episode 6: The Last Gas Station is now in official release and available at http://www.inanimatealice.com with the full soundtrack available on Bandcamp.
Free edX Electronic Literature course (online, 6 weeks, self-paced) – starts 12 October, 2015 https://www.edx.org/course/electronic-literature-davidsonx-d004x Interactive Fiction. Chatterbots. Hypertext and kinetic poetry. Explore these avant garde forms and other…