ELO25 - Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Category: Event
For its 25th anniversary, Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is holding an international in-person conference and media arts festival themed “ELO25 @ 25: Love Letters to the Past and Future” from July 10-13, 2025. ELO25 @ 25 is a joint hosting between the University of Waterloo and York University. Optional workshops will happen July 10 at the University of Waterloo in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. The main conference will happen July 11-13 at York University in Toronto, Canada. We are also excited to announce that we are partnering with Vector Media Arts Festival to share attendees of our respective media art festivals and to collaborate in select events. The ELO has always been a future-focused organization, with a deep understanding of both digital and analogue histories and processes. And for 25 years the Electronic Literature Organization has nurtured born-digital experimentation. E-lit is an expansive, interdisciplinary arena bridging literature, technology, art, design, and performance, and there is no better time to learn from ELO’s foundational histories as we collectively move toward society’s literary and technological futures. Honoring this, we encourage submissions that delve into the rich histories of e-lit and of our own organization. Affection, critique, desire, nostalgia, honoring pioneers. At the same time, an anniversary is a moment to look forward, so we also solicit work that speculates on possible futures–future e-lit, future technologies to support literatures, ELO2050, new speculative avant-gardes, e-lit as a world-building practice. We want your ideas around archives and what we save, futureproofing, accidental futures, equity, steampunk, future libraries and practices, e-lit for technologies that do not yet exist. We welcome approaches to how e-lit also brings Arts-based questions, frameworks, and practices to technological applications and developments. How might our practices inform future tools? Literacies? Audiences? We also welcome work that stretches the boundaries of where e-lit might connect that we don’t yet see represented widely in the field, from physics and health to data science and misinformation. Join us as we ask what the ELO has learned and ponder what the next 25 years will bring.
Initiator(s):
Electronic Literature Organization
Deadline: 15.01.2025
https://eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-elo25-25-toronto-july-11-13-due-jan-5-2025/
Event: ELO25 - Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein