VISIONARY LANDSCAPES :: Conference Schedule

Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference

Thursday, May 29-Sunday, June 1, 2008
Vancouver, Washington

Sponsored by Washington State University Vancouver
and
The Electronic Literature Organization

Drs. Dene Grigar and John Barber, Co-Chairs

Conference Schedule

Last updated: 20 May 2008, 20:25 PM MST

Thursday, 29 May 2008—Workshops & Reception
Thursday 29 May 8:00 AM-6:00 PM	Registration	All participants should register Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Vancouver Hilton Vancouver, WA
Thursday 29 May 9:30-11:30 AM	Workshop 1 "Remix Writing and Postproduction Art"	Mark Amerika Art and Art History University of Colorado Boulder, USA	VMMC 111 WSUV Campus	More Information
Thursday 29 May 12:00-2:00 PM	Workshop 2 "Live Audio and Visuals"	Stefan Müller Arisona University of California Santa Barbara, USA and Steve Gibson University of Victoria, B.C., Canada	MOVE Lab WSUV Campus	More Information
Thursday 29 May 12:00-4:00 PM	Workshop 3 "See Spot Link. Link, Spot, Link: How to read and appreciate electronic literature"	Deena Larsen Independent Artist, USA	VMMC 111 WSUV Campus	More Information
Thursday 29 May 6:00 PM	Reception & Media Arts Show Opening Artists Talks Refreshments by Starbucks	North Bank Artists Gallery Conference badge required for all food and performance events	1005 Main Street Vancouver, WA

Friday, 30 May 2008—Sessions & Events
Friday 30 May 7:30 AM	Shuttle service	Leaves Vancouver Hilton for WSUV campus Return trip from WSUV campus leaves at 5:30 PM
Friday 30 May 7:45-8:45 AM	Breakfast Sponsored by Clark College	Welcome conference participants Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV Campus
Friday 30 May 8:00 AM-12 NOON	Registration	All participants should register Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV Campus
Friday 30 May 8:45-10:00 AM	Special Panel 1 Transliteracy and Digital Media Research (Featured Speaker)	"Transliteracy and Interdisciplinarity in Digital Media Research" Sue Thomas Institute of Creative Technologies De Montfort University, United Kingdom Respondents Dene Grigar Washington State University Vancouver, USA Talan Memmott Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden Rob Wittig University of Minnesota, USA	VMMC 6 WSUV Campus
Friday 30 May 10:15-11:30 AM	Break Out 1.1 Session A Log In! (Panel Presentation)	"Logging In" Sandy Baldwin University of West Virginia, USA "I Like IRC and SMS" Rita Raley University of California, Santa Barbara, USA "Logging Out" Alan Sondheim Independent Artist, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 10:15-11:30 AM	Break Out 1.1 Session B Form and Materiality (Individual Presentations)	"Hors-Categorie: An Embodied, Affective Approach to Interactive Fiction" David Benin Communication Department University of California San Diego, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Generative Visual Renku: Linked Poetry Generation with the GRIOT System" D. Fox Harrell Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and Kenny K. N. Chow Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong / Georgia Institute of Technology	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Cavewriting: Spatial Hypertext Authoring System" Damon Loren Baker UIUC, Krannert Art Museum, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 11:45-1:00 PM	Break Out 1.2 Session A Games and Narratives (Individual Presentations)	"Meta Discourse: An Investigation into Possibilities of Meta-Fictions in the 21st Century" Jennifer Smith Virginia Commonwealth University, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Hypermediating the Game Interface: Grand Theft Auto and the Alienation Effect" Jason Farman Washington State University Tri-Cities, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Blending the Crossword with the Narrative: An Examination of the Storygame" Jimmy Maher University of Texas Dallas, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 11:45-1:00 PM	Break Out 1.2 Session B The Body, Art, and Public (Individual Presentations)	"On Moving and Being Moved" Maria Angel University of Western Sydney, Australia and Anna Gibbs University of Western Sydney, Australia	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Blurring of Public and Private Space in New Media Art" Belinda Haikes Virginia Commonwealth University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Infinite Interfaces and Intimate Expressions: Hand-Held Mobile Devices and New Reflective Writing Spaces" Lissa Holloway-Attaway Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 1:00-2:15 PM	Lunch Purchase	Box lunch available at reasonable cost	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV Campus
Friday 30 May 2:15-3:30 PM	Break Out 1.3 Session A ReVisioning Electronic Literature: Origins and Influences (Panel Presentation)	"Digital Modernism" Jessica Pressman University of California Los Angeles, USA "Original Chat: Exploring the Origins of the Turing Test" Mark Marino University of Southern California, USA "Implied Code as Mental Geography" Jeremy Douglass University of California San Diego, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 2:15-3:30 PM	Break Out 1.3 Session B Literary Endeavors with Pixels and Sound (Individual Presentations)	"Brautigan Bibliography and Archive: Digitizing a Literary Life" John F. Barber Washington State University Vancouver, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Musical Time with Kinetic Type" Brian Evans Department of Art University of Alabama, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus
		"From Audio Black to Artful Noises: Looking at Sound in Electronic Literature" Kenneth Sherwood Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 3:45-5:00 PM	Break Out 1.4 Session A Rereading Elit as Information Systems (Panel Presentation)	"Electronic Literature as an Information System: A Foundational Framework" Juan Gutierrez Florida State University, USA "Literary Computation: The Role of Computers in the Construction of Literary Artifacts" Pablo Gervás Universidad Computense de Madrid, Spain "Examining The Information Systems Of The Electronic Literature Collection" Mark Marino University of Southern California, USA "A New Literary Information System: GPS, The Global Poetic System: Bringing Electronic Literature To The Greater Public" Laura Borràs Castanyer Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 3:45-5:00 PM	Break Out 1.4 Session B Interactive, Hypermedia and Multimedia Storytelling (Individual Presentations)	"Digging For The Roots Of Interactive Storytelling" Carolyn Miller Independent Writer, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Scott McCloud's The Right Number: Gaining Currency with Multimedia Technology and Digital Publishing in the Web Comics Revolution" Dawn Dietrich Western Washington University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Played by Hyperfiction. Modes of Reading Megan Heyward's Of day of night" Hans K. Rustad Hedmark University College, Norway	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Friday 30 May 5:30 PM	Shuttle service	Leaves WSUV campus for Vancouver Hilton Arrives Vancouver Hilton 5:45 PM
Friday 30 May 7:30 PM	Reception & Media Arts Show Opening Artists Talks	Conference badge required for admission	Clark College Fireside Room

Saturday, 31 May 2008—Sessions & Events
Saturday 31 May 7:30 AM	Shuttle service	Leaves Vancouver Hilton for WSUV campus Return trip from WSUV campus leaves at 5:30 PM
Saturday 31 May 7:45-8:45 AM	Breakfast Sponsored by ELO	Welcome conference participants Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV Campus
Saturday 31 May 8:00 AM-12 NOON	Registration	All participants should register Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV campus
Saturday 31 May 8:45-10:00 AM	Special Panel 2 "An Archival Approach to Curating Born-Digital and Electronic Literary Materials" (Panel Presentation)	Michael Forstrom Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University, USA Catherine Stollar Peters New York State Archives, USA Melissa Watterworth Thomas J. Dodd Research Center University of Connecticut, USA Gabriela Redwine Harry Ransom Center University of Texas, USA John Barber—Moderator/Respondent Washington State University Vancouver, USA	VMMC 6 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 10:15-11:30 AM	Break Out 2.1 Session A Sensory Modalities and Digital Media (Individual Presentations)	"The Aesthetic of Dissonance within 6amhoover.com" Donna Leishman Duncan of Jordanstone College, UK	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Visualising Language: The Aesthetics of Space in Digital Writing" Andrew Klobucar Capilano College, Canada	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"The Cuckoo Bird of Fiction: Pastiche, Hoax and the Evolution of Form" Rob Wittig University of Minnesota, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 10:15-11:30 AM	Break Out 2.1 Session B Code, Programs, and Interactive Environments (Individual Presentations)	"The Madeleine Effect" Melissa Berman State University of New York Buffalo, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Provocation by Program: Imagining a Next-Revolution Eliza" Nick Montfort Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Andrew Stern Procedural Arts, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Avatars Sharing Agency: Metaphor in Interactive Narrative Environments" Jeff Rush Temple University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 11:45-1:00 PM	Break Out 2.2 Session A Digital Poetry and the Avant-Garde (Individual Presentations)	"Digital Poetry Beyond Avant-Garde Readings: Proposing a Digital Lyric" Holly Dupej York University, Canada	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 11:45-1:00 PM		"Crossed Lines" Sarah Atkinson Independent Artist, United Kingdom	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 11:45-1:00 PM	Break Out 2.2 Session B Reading Digital Media (Individual Presentations)	"The Risk of Reading in Digital Literary Creation" Laura Borràs Castanyer Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain and Joan Elies Adell Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Reading Practices in Electronic Literature: A Dialogic Approach" Cheri Crenshaw Texas Woman's University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"The Aesthetics and Practice of Computational Literature" Daniel C. Howe and A. Braxton Soderman New York University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 1:00-2:15 PM	Lunch Sponsored by ELO	Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV Campus
Saturday 31 May 2:15-3:30 PM	Break Out 2.3 Session A Humanities + Technology + Science: The Use of Labs for the Production of Media Art (Individual Presentations)	"Augmented Reality Storyworlds: Building Spatial Hyperfictions in the York Future Cinema Lab" Caitlin Fisher York University, Canada	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Corporeal Poetry: Experiments with 3D Poetry in the MOVE Lab" Dene Grigar Washington State University Vancouver, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Practical Play: Research and Invention" Talan Memmott Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus
Saturday 31 May 2:15-3:30 PM	Break Out 2.3 Session B Aesthetics of Persuasion (Individual Presentations)	"Towards an Art of Rhetoric in Electronic Literary Works: The Figures of Manipulation" Serge Bouchardon Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 2:15-3:30 PM		"Making Meaning: Negotiating Seduction in New Media Works" Nanette Wylde Art and Art History California State University Chico, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 3:45-5:30 PM	Break Out 2.4 Session A Vision Scapes (Individual Presentations)	"Digital Panoramas and Cinemascapes" Roderick Coover Temple University, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Digital Oracles" Martha Carrer Gabriel University Anhembi Morumbi, Brazil	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Live Movies" Kirby Malone George Mason University, USA and Gail White Scott George Mason University, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 3:45-5:30 PM	Break Out 2.4 Session B Reading Electronic Literature (Individual Presentations)	"Textuality and Graphic Novels: Identity, Influence and Adaptation in V for Vendetta and Beyond" Kristine Trever Virginia Commonwealth University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"The Medium Is the Metaphor" Melinda White Virginia Commonwealth University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Words and pictures ex machina? Hypertext and ekphrasis" Diana Pimental University of Madiera, Portugal	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Saturday 31 May 5:30 PM	Shuttle service	Leaves WSUV campus for Vancouver Hilton Arrives Vancouver Hilton at 5:45 PM
Saturday 31 May 7:30 PM	Dinner & Keynote	"Artists, Personas, Mediums, Instruments: Envisioning the Visionary" Mark Amerika University of Colorado Boulder	Vancouver Hilton	More Information
Saturday 31 May 9:00 PM	Artist talks Refreshments by Starbucks	Conference badge required for all food and performance events	North Bank Artists Gallery 1005 Main Street Vancouver, WA
Saturday 31 May 9:00 PM	Media Art Performances	"Exploding Plastic & Inevitable Redux" Steve Gibson University of Victoria, B.C., Canada and Stefan Müller Arisona University of California Santa Barbara, USA	North Bank Artists Gallery 1005 Main Street Vancouver, WA	More Information

Sunday, 1 June 2008—Sessions & Events
Sunday 1 June 7:30 AM	Shuttle service	Leaves Vancouver Hilton for WSUV campus Return trip for WSUV campus leaves 4:00 PM
Sunday 1 June 7:45-8:45 AM	Breakfast Sponsored by ELO	Welcome conference participants Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV Campus
Sunday 1 June 8:30-10:00 AM	Special Panel 3 Critiquing Electronic Literature (Featured Speaker)	"Weapons of the Deconstructive Masses: Whatever Electronic Literature May or May not Mean" John Cayley Brown University Respondents Joe Tabbi University of Illinois Chicago, USA Scott Rettberg University of Bergen, Norway Stuart Moulthrop University of Baltimore, USA	VMMC 6 WSUV Campus	More Information
Sunday 1 June 10:15-11:30 AM	Break Out 3.1 Session A Mapping Process in New Media Landscapes (Panel Presentation)	"Extended Narratives in Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day" Margie Luesebrink Irvine Valley College, USA "Art at the Interstice" Carolyn Guertin University of Texas Arlington, USA "Flowchart Art: Programming Literary Flow" Jeremy Douglass University of California Los Angeles, USA "Mapping out Spaces for E-Lit Criticism" Jessica Pressman University of California Los Angeles, USA Respondent Stephanie Strickland Independent Artist, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Sunday 1 June 10:15-11:30 AM	Break Out 3.1 Session B Electronic Literature Revisioned (Part 1) (Individual Presentations)	"New Forms of Subjectivity? Writing and Corporeality in Australian New Media Art" Maria Angel University of Western Sydney, Australia and Anna Gibbs University of Western Sydney, Australia	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Locating the Literary in New Media" Joseph Tabbi University of Illinois, Chicago, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus
		"Towards and Away from a New Digital Poetic: An Artist Talk with Jason Nelson" Jason Nelson Griffith University, Australia	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Sunday 1 June 11:45-1:00 PM	Break Out 3.2 Session A Readings of Digital Media (Individual Presentations)	"Multimedia Project of Isaac Rosenberg and William Blake" Cynthia Deike-Sims University of Alaska, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Code: Redact <Redact>" Sandy Baldwin University of West Virginia, USA and Alan Sondheim Independent Artist, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Fugues: An Associative Project on Reading Poetry through the Use of Hypermedia" Alice Van der Klei Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Sunday 1 June 11:45-1:00 PM	Break Out 3.2 Session B Electronic Literature Revisioned (Part 2) (Individual Presentations)	"Landscape (Re)-Visioned" Jim Bizzocchi Simon Fraser University, Canada	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"The E-ssense of Literature" Rob Kendall New School University, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"The Communitization of Electronic Literature" Scott Rettberg University of Bergen, Norway	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Sunday 1 June 1:00-2:00 PM	Lunch Purchase	Conference badge required for all food and performance events	Firstenberg Student Commons WSUV Campus
Sunday 1 June 2:15-3:30 PM	Break Out 3.3 Session A Electronic Literature Critiqued (Individual Presentations)	"The (Vis)poetics of Jim Andrews: 'A Pen'" Leonardo Flores University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Subjective Boundaries: Shelley Jackson's Hypertexts and the Terrain of the Skin" Cara Ogburn University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"(R)Evolutionary Communication: Defining and Refining Digital Literature, Art and Storytelling" Allegra Pitera University of Detroit Mercy, USA	VMMC 1 WSUV Campus	More Information
Sunday 1 June 2:15-3:30 PM	Break Out 3.3 Session B Machine Dreams (Individual Presentations)	"The Machinimatic Moment" Gregory Turner-Rahman University of Idaho, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Eliza Revisited" Noah Wardrip-Fruin University of California San Diego, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
		"Narrating Artificial Daydreams, Memories, Reveries: Toward Scalable Intentionality in Expressive Artificial Intelligence Practice" Jichen Zhu Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and Fox Harrell Georgia Institute of Technology, USA	VMMC 16 WSUV Campus	More Information
Sunday 1 June 4:00 PM	Shuttle service	Leaves WSUV campus for Vancouver Hilton Arrives Vancouver Hilton at 4:15 PM
Sunday 1 June 4:00-6:00 PM	Final Reception	***	***