Electronic Literature

Submit your digital poems—HTML5 + JavaScript, 2kB max—that explore thresholds, transitions, and remix between human and machine. Think rituals, remix culture, tarot devils, and code that fiddles at the edge of meaning.

🕯️✨ Taper 15: Crossroads Submissions close August 15, 2025 (AoE) Submit your size-coded digital poems regardingcrossroads and 15!
taper.badquar.to/14/about.html#submit
#CreativeCoding #DigitalPoetry #HTMLPoetry #JavaScriptArt #NetArt #PoeticComputing #TaperZine #CallForSubmissions #IndiePublication

Exposition : Le monde selon l'IA - Jeu de Paume Les IA génératives en art, photographie, cinéma, littérature et musique suscitent étonnement, frayeur, enthousiasme ou scepticisme.

My & Patsy Baudoin’s French/English text-generating installation will be part of the show at Jeu de Paume in Paris, April 11 – September 21. The public opening is April 10!

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I'm thrilled to announce that I have ported by Taco Hell Menu bot to Bluesky!

Follow it for speculative new menu items automatically generated and posted every 2 hours.

Powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com.

I ❤️ E-Poetry I ❤️ E-Poetry

After a catastrophic site crash in January 2024, I ❤️ E-Poetry is back online!

Please remember that it's no longer a .com site, but a .org: iloveepoetry.org

Read all about it here:
iloveepoetry.org/news-2/i-lov...

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Joefest Celebrating Joseph Tabbi and 30 Years of electronic book review.

We have published our recordings from #Joefest – celebrating Joseph Tabbi and 30 years of the journal electronic book review. On our website, or our Youtube channel:

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

www.uib.no/en/cdn/17799... #electronicliterature

The Electronic Literature Lab has been awarded a Society of American Archivist's Catalyst grant to make The NEXT's 78 born-digital works of literature and art created originally in Shockwave accessible as video playthroughs. We start work early summer.

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

The Electronic Literature Lab in the BBC News www.bbc.com/future/artic...

frag Generate a text by using a Markov process on a specified file

Just finished an @elo2025.bsky.social workshop using codeberg.org/nickmontfort... — a *very* short program to not only explain some about Markov chain generation, but also to allow people to use different documents for generation, try different parameters, and make modifications to the code.

Launch of Gyms - Kyle Booten with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, lvetta Sunyoung Kang, Nick Montfort TYPE Books 883 Queen St W, Toronto Thursday July 10 7:30pm

I’m reading on July 10, 7:30pm at TYPE Books 883 Queen St W #Toronto with a wonderful group! We’re celebrating the publication of Kyle Booten’s GYMS, I’ll read from my new ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN w/ @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Ivetta Sunyoung Kang

Summer 2025 reading from MIT A summer reading list features books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from July 2024 to June 2025.

From an anthology of computer-generated text to a model for the equitably resilient city, MIT News's 2025 Summer Reading List includes 12 Press books from MIT authors: news.mit.edu/2025/summer-...

Here's a blog post with the abstracts and slideshows for my presentations at #ELO25.

June 12 at 1:45 "From ELIZA to GenAI: A Literary History of Bot-Making"

June 13 at 10:30 "After the Botpocalypse: Porting and Rescuing Bots"

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"Sonnets"-- Issue 14 of Taper is OUT.Read it, get inspired, submit to #15 here: taper.badquar.to/14 #DigitalPoetry #ElectronicLiterature #CreativeCoding #LitJournal #OnlineLitMag #CodeArt #InteractivePoetry
@wolfchirp.bsky.social @geryon.bsky.social @leoflores.bsky.social @docmofo.bsky.social

Output The discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation, as it...

Hello Folks!!!
Here is another foundational text: “Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023”, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort (with an image from my computer-generated text “…and by islands I mean paragraphs” on the cover) mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981...

archipelagos A journal of Caribbean digital praxis

Everything that's going on won't stop me from being immensely proud to announce the launch of the 8th issue of archipelagos journal. In this special issue we highlight papiamentu and the ABD islands. With deep gratitude for our guest editor Margo Groenewoud. Enjoy! archipelagosjournal.org

So, this is pretty surreal...

But the @peabodyawards.bsky.social Nominee list just came out and @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social is on it.

An immense honor for our staff to be recognized amongst the very best in storytelling: www.pablo.show/p/were-a-pea...

ELO25 @ 25: Love letters to the Past and the Future - ELO25 @ 25: Love letters to the Past and the Future For its 25th anniversary, Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is holding an international conference and media arts festival themed “ELO25 @ 25: Love Letters to the Past and Future” from July 10-...

Hey #MLA25, #elit, & #DH folks. Today is the last day to submit proposals for the ELO 2025 conference on July 10-13.

CFP: elo25.org

This is a community with decades of experience with computer generated texts, digital writing, #AI, #GenAI, #bots, digital preservation, platform studies, and more.

If you're new to the field, this article is a must-read for a comprehensive introduction to electronic literature and its evolving landscape. @electronicbr.bsky.social @eliterature.bsky.social
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Why your internet habits are not as clean as you think The internet allows us to send messages, share pictures, download music and stream videos at a touch of a button, but our online habits have a surprising impact on the environment.

Did you know that streaming online videos accounts for 60% of global internet traffic, generating about 300 million tonnes of CO₂ annually? This is roughly 1% of global emissions.

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@e-lit.bsky.social
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