ELO'17. ELECTRONIC LITERATURE > AFFILIATIONS, COMMUNITIES, TRANSLATIONS
UFP - University Fernando Pessoa + Maus Hábitos/Saco Azul
8 a 22.07.2017
conference.eliterature.org

FESTIVAL @ MAUS HÁBITOS
1. Installations (Open 18 to 22.07 from 12h to 01h)
Álvaro Seiça & André Sier, “MathX (Metadata-Eye)”
Hartmut Koenitz, "The Multiple Lives of Walter B."
Matt Roberts, Terri Witek & Michael Branton, "Dream Garden"
Andy Campbell & Judi Alston, "WALLPAPER"
Tony Vieira, "Nightmares for Children"

2. Readings & Performances (18.07 from 20h30 to 23h)
Ian Hatcher, "All Hands Meeting"
Natalia Fedorova & Taras Mashtalir, "101, Performance with a Mediapoetry Beads"
Luís Leite, Rui Torres, Luís Aly & Nuno M Cardoso, "Common Spaces"
David Jhave Johnston, "BDP (Big Data Poetry): GAN + Human"
Mez Breeze (VR) & Ana Carvalho (localproxy), "Layering the New Real: Tracking the Self in Disembodied [Un]Virtual Spaces" (UnKeynote)

3. E-lit Jam! (22.07 from 22h to 23h)

The ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) organizes its 2017 Conference, Festival and Exhibits, from July 18-22, at University Fernando Pessoa, as well as several other venues located in the center of Porto, Portugal. Titled "Electronic Literature: Affiliations, Communities, Translations", ELO'17 proposes a reflection about dialogues and untold histories of electronic literature, providing a space for discussion about what exchanges, negotiations, and movements we can track in the field of electronic literature.
Electronic literature, or e-lit, refers to works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer, including computer-generated literature, computer-animated poetry, hyperfiction and hypertext poetry, computer art installations which ask viewers to read them or otherwise have literary aspects, interactive fiction, collaborative writing projects, literary performances online that develop new ways of multimedia and immersive writing.
The three threads (Affiliations, Communities, Translations) weave through the Conference, Festival and Exhibits, structuring dialogue, debate, performances, presentations, and exhibits. The threads are meant as provocations, enabling constraints, and aim at forming a diagram of electronic literature today and expanding awareness of the history and diversity of the field. Our goal is to contribute to displacing and re-situating accepted views and histories of electronic literature, in order to construct a larger and more expansive field, to map discontinuous textual relations across histories and forms, and to create productive and poetic apparatuses from unexpected combinations.

Organization:
Rui Torres, Chair (U. Fernando Pessoa, Porto)
Sandy Baldwin, Co-Chair (Rochester Institute Technology, USA)
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto
ELO-Electronic Literature Organization (eliterature.org)

Partners:
MSBV - Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória
Maus Hábitos / Saco Azul
Palacete Viscondes de Balsemão
Passos Manuel