UCC Library and UCC researchers have made this item openly available. Please let us know how this has helped you. Thanks! Title ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival, Programme and Book of Abstracts Author(s) O'Sullivan, James Publication date 2019-07-10 Original citation O'Sullivan, J. [Chair] (2019) Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival (ELO2019), Programme and Book of Abstracts, University College Cork, Ireland, 15 -17 July. Type of publication Conference item Link to publisher's https://elo2019.ucc.ie/ version Access to the full text of the published version may require a subscription. Item downloaded http://hdl.handle.net/10468/8128 from Downloaded on 2021-10-02T05:17:35Z ELO2019 PROGRAMME & BOOK OF ABSTRACTS v1.0 University College Cork, Ireland July 15-17th, 2019 Chaired by James O’Sullivan ELO2019 University College Cork #ELOcork Contents Welcome to ELO2019, Cork ................................................................................................ 1 Committee Members ......................................................................................................... 2 ELO2019 Programme Committee ............................................................................................... 2 ELO2019 Operations Committee ................................................................................................ 2 ELO Board .................................................................................................................................. 3 Sponsors ............................................................................................................................ 5 PROGRAMME .................................................................................................................... 6 Monday July 15 .......................................................................................................................... 6 Papers: Session 1 (12 – 1.30pm) ................................................................................................................... 6 Artists: Forum 1 (12 – 1.30pm) ..................................................................................................................... 7 Town Hall ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Papers: Session 2 (2.30 – 4.00pm) ................................................................................................................ 8 Artists: Forum 2 (2.30 – 4.00pm) .................................................................................................................. 8 Keynote I: Michael J. Maguire (4.30pm) ..................................................................................................... 10 Tuesday July 16 ........................................................................................................................ 11 Papers: Session 3 (9 – 10.30am) ................................................................................................................. 11 Artists: Forum 3 (9 – 10.30am) ................................................................................................................... 12 CELL Meeting .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Papers: Session 4 (11.00am – 12.30pm) ..................................................................................................... 12 Artists: Forum 4 (11.00am – 12.30pm) ....................................................................................................... 13 Exhibition gathering at The Glucksman ...................................................................................................... 14 Short Papers: Section 1 (1.30 – 3.00pm) ..................................................................................................... 15 Artists: Forum 5 (1.30 – 3.00pm) ................................................................................................................ 18 Short Papers: Section 2 (3.30 – 5.00pm) ..................................................................................................... 18 Artists: Forum 6 (3.30 – 5.00pm) ................................................................................................................ 21 Keynote II: Anne Karhio (5.30pm) ............................................................................................................... 21 Wednesday July 17 .................................................................................................................. 23 Panels 1-5 (9.00 – 10.30am) ....................................................................................................................... 23 Artists: Forum 7 (9.00 – 10.30am) .............................................................................................................. 23 Panels 6-10 (11.00am – 12.30pm) .............................................................................................................. 24 Artists: Forum 8 (11.00am – 12.30pm) ....................................................................................................... 25 Panels 11-15 (1.30 – 3.00pm) ..................................................................................................................... 25 Artists: Forum 9 (1.30 – 3.00pm) ................................................................................................................ 26 Panels 16-20 (3.30pm – 5.00pm) ................................................................................................................ 26 Artists: Forum 10 (3.30pm – 5.00pm) ......................................................................................................... 27 Keynote III: Astrid Ensslin (5.30pm) ............................................................................................................ 28 Performance EVening .................................................................................................................................. 29 ABSTRACTS ...................................................................................................................... 30 ELO2019 University College Cork #ELOcork Welcome to ELO2019, Cork ELO2019 marks the first time that the annual Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival comes to Ireland. That this gathering should be hosted at University College Cork is indicative of the institution’s commitment to interdisciplinarity, soon to be reified through the formation of the new School of English & Digital Humanities. While hosted at UCC, ELO2019 is not just about Cork, but a tribute to scholars and practitioners throughout the island of Ireland who have long sought to synthesise screens, computers and the literary. We recognise two such figures—Michael J. Maguire and Anne Karhio, one from Dublin, the other Galway—in two of our three keynotes. There are many other individuals—some scholars, some artists, some both—equally worthy of recognition,1 and I do hope that they too see ELO2019 as a tribute to their efforts. My ambition is that ELO2019 will be seen as a new beginning for electronic literature in Ireland, encouraging more scholars and canon-makers to turn attention to creative activities on this island which have been, to date, somewhat neglected. ELO2019 is also an end, in that it brings to a close Dene Grigar’s tenure as President of the organisation. Professor and Director of the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver, Dene’s presidency has been marked by generosity and progress. She has built on the strong foundations laid down by her predecessors, working over two terms with the Board to establish the ELO as the major organisation for the development and promotion of electronic literature across the globe. She has considerably raised the profile of this field within the wider Digital Humanities community, and engaged with many colleagues to ensure the preservation of screen fictions which would otherwise have been lost. I do not think it an embellishment to remark that there is a generation of artistic endeavour which would have been lost had it not been for Dene Grigar. But most importantly, she has overseen the rise of a new generation of scholars and practitioners who will always see her as their president. Such rejuvenation is perhaps her greatest accomplishment. However else it might be remembered, I hope that ELO2019 will be a celebration of Dene Grigar, as well as a proper welcome to her successor, Leonardo Flores, whose distinction as a scholar in this space is evidenced by the frequency with which his work is referenced throughout this programme. The theme for this year’s conference and exhibition is “peripheries”, with delegates invited to explore the edges of literary and digital culture, including emerging traditions, indeterminate structures and processes, fringe communities of praxis, effaced forms and genres, marginalised bodies, and perceptual failings. When compiling this programme, the title of one paper struck me as particularly timely, Clara Chetcuti’s “Electronic Literature, or Whatever It’s Called Now”. Electronic literature—whatever you consider that to be or whatever you might want to call it—is quite simply a myriad of practices located across a great mire of communities