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Encyclopedia > Electronic Literature Organization

The Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO) is a nonprofit organisation initiated in 1999 to promote the creation and enjoyment of electronic literature. Until 2005, the organisation was based at the University of California, Los Angeles. The organisation was founded by electronic author Scott Rettberg, novelist Robert Coover, and internet business leader Jeff Ballowe. The current president of the Board of Directors is Thom Swiss. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The term electronic literature refers to works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. ...


Activities

The activities of the organisation include:

  • Maintaining the Electronic Literature Directory, a listing of electronic works and their authors.
  • Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination (PAD) project to archive notable and threatened works.
  • Holding the 2001 Electronic Literature Awards for fiction and poetry.
  • Hosting readings, symposiums and other outreach events such as the MACHINE series (since 2004) to publicise electronic literature.

For other uses of the word Archive, see Archive (disambiguation) Archives refers to a collection of records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...

See also

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. ... J. Yellowlees Douglas is Director of the Center for Written and Oral Communication at the University of Florida as well as serving as serving as an Assistant Professor of English. ... N. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999 [1]. // Background Hayles received her B... For the author of The Lottery and other short stories, see Shirley Jackson. ... Michael Joyce (b. ... Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. ...

External links

  • Official site
  • Electronic Literature Directory


 

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