The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a nonprofit organization "established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature".[1] 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.
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".[2]
An article in the Los Angeles Times in describes the first reading organised by the ELO in July 2000, "a recent evening at 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".[3]
The new organization was able to ride the excitement of the tech industry during the dot-com bubble, but also suffered from the subsequent crash.[2]
Transition to academic hosts (2002-2008)
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).[2] 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 the ELO moved to UCLA, supported by the English department.[2]Marjorie Luesebrink became president, N. Katherine Hayles was faculty advisor, and Jessica Pressman was the managing director.[2] 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 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,[4] marking the first time this international organization has moved its headquarters outside of the United States.
2008-present
Since the 2007 conference, the ELO has grown annually and by 2015 was gathering hundreds of people at each of its conferences.
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.[10]
ELO Conferences
Year
Theme
Location
2002
State of the Arts Symposium
Los Angeles, California
2007
The Future of Electronic Literature
College Park, Maryland
2008
Visionary Landscapes
Vancouver, Washington
2010
ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate
Providence, Rhode Island
2012
Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints
Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change[16]
Coimbra, Portugal
Publications
Four volumes of the Electronic Literature Collection have been published, in 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2022.[17][18]
The Electronic Literature Directory[19] is a database of works of electronic literature.
Two reports on the preservation of electronic literature were published in 2004 and 2005 by the ELO as part of the Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination (PAD) project.[20][21][22]
A book series called Electronic Literature with Bloomsbury.[23]
Pathfinders, a documentation of the experience of early digital literature.[24]
Awards
The 2001 Electronic Literature Awards
In 2001 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.[25][26] 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.[2] Rettberg notes that the diversity of works submitted and shortlisted was "an eye-opener (..) in terms of what I might consider 'fiction' and 'poetry' to be in the e-lit context'.[2]
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.[27]
ELO Awards (2014-)
After a pause due to 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.[28] Each award comes with a $1000 stipend.
Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
This award honors the year’s best work of electronic literature, of any form or genre.
Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
Year
Awarded to
2014
Jason Edward Lewis, Vital to the General Public Welfare
N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
This award honors the best work of criticism of electronic literature of any length.
N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
Year
Awarded to
2014
Johannes Heldén and Håkan Jonson, Evolution
2015
Sandy Baldwin, The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature
2016
Jeremy Douglass, Jessica Pressman, & Mark C. Marino, Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope
2017
David Jhave Johnston, Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications
2018
Joseph Tabbi, Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature
2019
Scott Rettberg, Electronic Literature
2020
Mark Marino, Critical Code Studies
2021
Jessica Pressman, Bookishness
2022
Lai-Tze Fan (editor) “Critical Making, Critical Design,” Issue 01 of The Digital Review[29]
Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award
This award honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field.
^"Electronic Literature Organization". ELO. 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
^ abcdefgRettberg, Scott (2015). "Developing an Identity for the Field of Electronic Literature: Reflections on the Electronic Literature Organization Archives". Electronic literature communities. Scott Rettberg, Patricia Tomaszek, Sandy Baldwin. Morgantown, WV. p. 81-112. ISBN978-1-940425-99-3. OCLC 944133627.
^Murphy, Kim (2000-07-24). "Electronic Literature: Thinking Outside the Book". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
^Flood, Alison (2014-03-12). "Where did the story of ebooks begin?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^Burnette, Ellen Gwin. "Dr. Leonardo Flores named chair of Appalachian's Department of English". today.appstate.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^"ELO History – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^"Professor Caitlin Fisher named president of Electronic Literature Organization – YFile". 22 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^Marino, Mark (2022-07-15). "ELO Presidency Transition from Flores to Fisher". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^"Electronic Literature Organization Conference Archive". conference.eliterature.org. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^Marino, Mark (2018). "ELO 2018: Attention à la marche / Mind the Gap – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^O'Sullivan, James (2019-07-10). "ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival, Programme and Book of Abstracts". University College Cork: 1–166. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^"ELO2020 Conference and Media Arts Festival – Electronic Literature Organization 2020 conference". Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^"The 2001 Electronic Literature Awards". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^Richer, Adam (2000). "Electronic Literature Awards : $10.000 Prizes For Fiction & Poetry". University of Bergen Library Collection: Electronic Literature - posters and other historical documents.
^Swish, Laura (2001). Grigar, Dene (ed.). TechTV Interview with Caitlin Fisher. TechTV / Vimeo.
^"Past ELO Award Winners – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ abSnyder, R. (2022-10-04). "Announcing the 2022 ELO Prizes – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2022-10-13.
External links
Official website
Electronic Literature Directory
Wikiversity has learning resources about Collaborative_play_writing
May 20, 2023
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The Electronic Literature Organization ELO is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing publishing and reading of electronic literature 1 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 Electronic Literature OrganizationFormation1999 24 years ago 1999 FounderScott Rettberg Robert Coover Jeff BallowePresidentCaitlin FisherVice PresidentAnastasia SalterSecretaryMark SampleManaging Director of CELLDavin HeckmanBoard of directorsAstrid Ensslin Lai Tze Fan Leonardo Flores Erika Fulop Dene Grigar Reham Hosny Claudia Kozak Erik Loyer Marjorie Luesebrink Maria Mencia Anna Nacher Jason Nelson Alex Saum Pascual Stephanie Strickland Joseph Tabbi Key peopleMark C Marino Director of Communication Rui Torres Treasurer Websitehttps eliterature org Contents 1 History 1 1 Founding and early years 1999 2002 1 2 Transition to academic hosts 2002 2008 1 3 2008 present 2 Leadership 3 Conferences 4 Publications 5 Awards 5 1 The 2001 Electronic Literature Awards 5 2 ELO Awards 2014 5 2 1 Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature 5 2 2 N Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature 5 2 3 Marjorie C Luesebrink Career Achievement Award 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditFounding and early years 1999 2002 Edit 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 2 An article in the Los Angeles Times in describes the first reading organised by the ELO in July 2000 a recent evening at 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 3 The new organization was able to ride the excitement of the tech industry during the dot com bubble but also suffered from the subsequent crash 2 Transition to academic hosts 2002 2008 Edit 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 2 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 the ELO moved to UCLA supported by the English department 2 Marjorie Luesebrink became president N Katherine Hayles was faculty advisor and Jessica Pressman was the managing director 2 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 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 4 marking the first time this international organization has moved its headquarters outside of the United States 2008 present Edit Since the 2007 conference the ELO has grown annually and by 2015 was gathering hundreds of people at each of its conferences Leadership EditPast presidents of the ELO include Jeff Ballowe Scott Rettberg as Executive Director Marjorie Luesebrink Matthew Kirschenbaum Joseph Tabbi Nick Montfort Dene Grigar 5 and Leonardo Flores 6 7 Caitlin Fisher became president in July 2022 8 9 Conferences EditThe 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 10 ELO Conferences Year Theme Location2002 State of the Arts Symposium Los Angeles California2007 The Future of Electronic Literature College Park Maryland2008 Visionary Landscapes Vancouver Washington2010 ELO AI Archive amp Innovate Providence Rhode Island2012 Electrifying Literature Affordances and Constraints Morgantown West Virginia2013 Chercher le texte Paris France2014 Hold the Light Milwaukee Wisconsin2015 The End s of Electronic Literature Bergen Norway2016 Next Horizons Victoria BC2017 Electronic Literature Affiliations Comm Translations Porto Portugal2018 Attention a la marche Mind the gap 11 Montreal Canada2019 Peripheries 12 Cork Ireland2020 un continuity 13 Orlando Florida virtual 2021 Platform Post Pandemic 14 Worldwide virtual 2022 Education and Electronic Literature 15 Como Italy2023 Overcoming Divides Electronic Literature and Social Change 16 Coimbra PortugalPublications EditFour volumes of the Electronic Literature Collection have been published in 2006 2011 2016 and 2022 17 18 The Electronic Literature Directory 19 is a database of works of electronic literature Two reports on the preservation of electronic literature were published in 2004 and 2005 by the ELO as part of the Preservation Archiving and Dissemination PAD project 20 21 22 A book series called Electronic Literature with Bloomsbury 23 Pathfinders a documentation of the experience of early digital literature 24 Awards EditThe 2001 Electronic Literature Awards Edit In 2001 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 25 26 163 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 2 Rettberg notes that the diversity of works submitted and shortlisted was an eye opener in terms of what I might consider fiction and poetry to be in the e lit context 2 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 27 ELO Awards 2014 Edit After a pause due to 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 28 Each award comes with a 1000 stipend Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature Edit This award honors the year s best work of electronic literature of any form or genre Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature Year Awarded to2014 Jason Edward Lewis Vital to the General Public Welfare2015 Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizzaro Pry2016 Scott Rettberg and Roderick Coover Hearts and Minds The Interrogations Project2017 Alan Bigelow How To Rob a Bank2018 Will Luers Hazel Smith and Roger Dean Novelling2019 IP Yuk Yiu False Words 流 言2020 Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato The Library of Nonhuman Books2021 Leise Hook The Vine and the Fish2022 David Jhave Johnston ReRites 29 N Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature Edit This award honors the best work of criticism of electronic literature of any length N Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature Year Awarded to2014 Johannes Helden and Hakan Jonson Evolution2015 Sandy Baldwin The Internet Unconscious On the Subject of Electronic Literature2016 Jeremy Douglass Jessica Pressman amp Mark C Marino Reading Project A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone s Project for Tachistoscope2017 David Jhave Johnston Aesthetic Animism Digital Poetry s Ontological Implications2018 Joseph Tabbi Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature2019 Scott Rettberg Electronic Literature2020 Mark Marino Critical Code Studies2021 Jessica Pressman Bookishness2022 Lai Tze Fan editor Critical Making Critical Design Issue 01 of The Digital Review 29 Marjorie C Luesebrink Career Achievement Award Edit This award honors a visionary artist and or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field Marjorie C Luesebrink Career Achievement Award Year Awarded to2016 Marjorie C Luesebrink2017 John Cayley2018 N Katherine Hayles2019 Mez Breeze2020 Judy Malloy2021 Kate Pullinger2022 Alan SondheimMaverick Award Year Awarded to2021 Talan MemmottReferences Edit Electronic Literature Organization ELO 2008 Retrieved 2008 05 21 a b c d e f g Rettberg Scott 2015 Developing an Identity for the Field of Electronic Literature Reflections on the Electronic Literature Organization Archives Electronic literature communities Scott Rettberg Patricia Tomaszek Sandy Baldwin Morgantown WV p 81 112 ISBN 978 1 940425 99 3 OCLC 944133627 Murphy Kim 2000 07 24 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