Hello and welcome!

Thanks so much, John

Can you send again? If we just joined we can’t see it.

I understand congratulations are in order for Stephanie Strickland!

Hello

Hello everyone!

Hello all!

¡Hola de México!

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/electronic-literature/

Congratulations Stephanie!

Congrats Prof. Dene

Hi, everyone!

Congratulations!

Welcome to Book Launch at Electronic Literature Organization SalonElectronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices. by Dene Grigar and James O'Sullivan

Congrats James O'Sullivan!

Hooray for Bloomsbury!

of course, Stephanie!

The ELO salons are going strong and we love the chance to celebrate!

Johannah is our wonderful archivist for the ELO salons!'

Congratulations to Dene and James!

Yes, because proactive artist is behind it, Deena!!!

and Caitlin has generously provided the stable zoom from York University

Yeah!! Editors!!

The book by the numbers: 31 Articles43 authors348 Artists and Scholars listed in the Index of Names

Thanks Caitlin Fisher for your generosity!

Woow Dene Grigar!

Loud cheers for Leo, our ELO resident~!!

ok yeah, he lives here, but he is also president

LOL

Join today: https://eliterature.org/membership/

https://eliterature.org/

So many member benefits

Please I have problem with the sound. Is it only me?

sounds fine for me

I can hear just fine.

I am not having trouble, Yohanna

Here’s a link to the book series: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/electronic-literature/

Here is a link to John Cayley’s book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/grammalepsy-9781501335761/

tosses out tasty blooms of semiotic modalities for all.

nomnom

And here is a link to Roderick Coover’s book to DOWNLOAD FOR FREE!: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-digital-imaginary-literature-and-cinema-of-the-database/introduction

Thanks, Johanna!

Tosses out streamers of congratulations!

So nice to see Katie in (virtual) person!

Nods

Folks, I need to go to my other meeting now. But I’m looking forward to watching the rest of the event in the recording.

So good to see you all!

thank you Leo!!

bye, Leo! Thanks for coming

Thanks, Katie. :-)

Bye Leo

https://electronicbookreview.com/

Nice to see virtually Will Luers

Yay: Alt-X!

hey I liked those essays!

altx.com/ebr/threads/threads.htm

https://www.altx.com/ebr/threads/threads.htm

Do you want to do my next one, Dene?

Inclusive indexes--the only way to show the diversity in the field!!!

I am so sorry to hear that James is ill!

Sending healing energy to James... who put toether the ELO 2019 and is an incredible friend to all of us!

Yes, we’re all sending the best healing energies to James!

Get well soon, James!!! <3

sorry folks I am here and on another meeting as well (on teams) back in a while. A big hug to James!!

thanks for being here Giovanna!

Hooray for mez and three d art!

Hooray for Astrid --I can see you two watching the raccoons by Dene's living room window and stealing the project into DH.

Dene, this remark alone (on re-focusing) is the most comforting thing I’ve heard for the last year or so!

Raccoons galore

I’m afraid I also have to go to another meeting, but it is great to see everyone and to celebrate the publication of this book.

Apologies, have to get back to editing some concert footage. Congratulations!!!

Thank you Johannah! hands round champagne flutes and lutes for all to sip from

passes around the joy sticks

Carolyn, you are on mute

I’ll sign, Deena. :-)

Hooray for google docs and instant communication. Hands round brass sneakers to celebrate the end of sneaker net

sounds familiar

Don't underestimate Sneakers!

non-boxable

hands out exploding boxes

This is a great project! Congratulations. I wonder if non-English e-lit representations are included. Thanks for commenting on inclusivity.

Tina, we have Reham Hosny's monograph on Arabic e-lit forthcoming in the series

We can hear you Yohanna

African eliterature is now on the horizon! We need to do a second volume

Yohanna is developing an entire database of African e-lit

*snaps like a cool guy* volume 2!

We now have elit on every continent and so many languages, we need to build world wide now!

Great idea, David

*waves hi*

Some attention to Indian e-lit would be great, too!

Video or the wave didn’t happen, Nick ;) (hi ;)

and Central European e-lit and its fascinating genealogies

What are your highest hopes for this work--in reaching out to digital humanities, universities, and just plain old readers? How can we use this to spread the word about elit?

Celebrate this year's 2021--where else could we have four universities all over the world in one conference?

hands out canastas and bangles so we can all clap

Can all the artists in the book raise their hands? come on, don't be shy now!

YEs, how can we use this book to further our discussions?

First Friday discordsELO calendaradding collections to the repository

hands out scatter shots for disappearing cannons

I say bah to canon. Humbug.

We keep reinventing. See Bill Bly's web We Descend, Marble springs, etc

ruffle!

so much discussion now is happening in all these spaces: Discord, Salons, various Zoom meetings - I’m just wondering how we’re gonna document this free flowing energy as it comes

Hooray for Ruffle! Hands out elizaabethan ruffs all round

as it emerges

ruffle will keep getting better

Very nicely said, Dene!

Is Rob attempting to hypnotise all of us?

it's working ...

More ELO every Second Tuesday at 11 am ESTMarch (RE)VERB Andrew Demirjian <ademirji@hunter.cuny.edu>April: Yohanna Joseph Waliya Topic: The birth of African e-litMay: Virtual Engagement SalonJune: Playable Comms (Lyle Skains)July: Metadata and nuts and bolts ELO Repository

Jason Nelson has made that argument, too.

Rob is conducting our shadow selves…

Rob is weaving us into a nice colourful ribbon of ideas

It IS freakin' good!

Weaving the invislbe ephemerality of our words

we call it "the lore"

I think that we are supposed to stop colonising

lol

Play in new spaces,, push their boundaries, is what we have been doing since the 1990s, and then the platforms disappear...

I think Rob has to go

conducting the ephemeral invisibility some muted words

Fondly remembers the bugs exploited in storyspace, the HyperCard...

or is that a hand raised to speak?

Let them go organically. There will always people who will want to impose order on that, but we’ll just keep getting into other nooks and crannies.

*be

I think Rob has the best background

We have to keep reweaving the thread...

Rob’s hand up!

his analogue hand!

Deena, this is happening though

I couldn’t see Rob’s hand because it was static.

ephemeral hand

hands out collector life preservers to all

aca-fans

The anthology--a handy way to keep and carry your collections

We don't even know what we have lost!

We are all friends here, and we are speaking to the wrong crowd.

The canon is a construction, following an agenda and statys quo. It is a system of dominance. Let’s create a de-centered canon (if that is not an oxymoron ;)

Hwo do we market our explications, and our expectations? The articles provide the foundation--

Trying a bit over here! http://Wonderbox.digital is about to be announced as out of beta, and more competitions (funded by the US Gov’t, little do they know…)

so the curated streaming of the memes which we already do

or at least a few folks do

@Tina, it's what I suggested in Canonizing. I used the word "dynamic" but "decentered" is great too

This book has bots, kinetic poetry, games, epoetry, database--all around the world--how do we share the term

We got some good responses to our Fall for The Book e-lit exhibition, and one of the creators from that was asked to do a Twine workshop that'll be coming up in March: https://fallforthebook.org/schedule/

We have netprov--which proves we can just improve and improvise

We’ve always been niche.

I have a meeting at 1:00, so I have to bail. But congrats Dene and send my best wishes to James! Can't wait to read through this collection!

Tom Friendman's latest op-ed: Is E-lit only for the E-lite?

the relationship between niche and mainstream is very complex, so I don’t think we need to “promote”, I agree with @Mark

I have to go too. Thanks, everyone, for coming, and for spreading the word about this book. Take care, folks!

Bye, Astrid! Great work!

We can keep the concepts and the conceits of elit(e) but we can see the literature in the wild--Lyle is still chasing and collating the electronic literature in the wild--applying the term to these digital art/digital lit/digital playthings

Let’s put some seed bombs here and there and let’s see what happens :-)

Where is ‘Tom Friendman's latest op-ed: Is E-lit only for the E-lite?’ Available?

packs seed bombs of netprov and bots and databases into the cannons so everyone can shoot them off

I must go now too. Thank you for organising this launch. I've really enjoyed it and I can't wait to read the book!

Let’s not get into the insidious rationale for teaching literature tho…

do you choose Earth-234 where Maureen Dowd pens the article, or do you choose Earth-729 where Thomas Friedman writes it?

Good to see you, Alice!

Unmuted throat clearing, sorry

thank you all of you for participating in the book and its launch

huh maybe I’m not paranoid

so wonderful to see and hear all of you. time for me to code up some more digital flotsam to one day be lost forever...

It means a lot to me that you have contributed the book and support the series

Thank you Dene for making this happen! So excited to read the rest of the book :-D

Again, congratulations, Dene!

yes that’s a good point re institutional place

Launching the fireworks and rocketships and huzzahs for this incredibly important work of scholarship!

I encourage you to consider submitting a manuscript to the series

Thank you a lot for making this happen, Dene & Deena!

thank you Deena and Dene!

Oh, I’m also doing a Playable Comms project, using digital fiction for science teaching, health messages, etc. That’s one way: to just use it as a tool!

If anyone's interested in submitting to the series and hasn't done an academic book proposal before, I've created some resources on that with samples from my book-submission journeys and can share, just shoot me an email :)

fyi I have a digital poetry book out in march and it is a realll page turner - gripping stuff ;-)

Thanks, Anastasia!

Sorry for being late

I am looking forward to your book, Jeneen

Good shout, Anastasia! I’m happy to help, too

thx dene :-)

thx Deena

hi Judy!

Great to see everyone!

Take care, all!

Great to see y'all! :-D

Don’t miss out on Nick Montfort’s book launch the next ELO First Friday!

Some of us have to go to the next Zoom :( sorry!

I have to go. Thanks everyone!

Please do join us on Discord March 5 for a presentation of Golem

enjoy the coffee! <3

great to see you all!

Hi, Judy!

I have to go to class now but i’ll be late for judy

(heading to a meeting now, bye & congrats!)

I need to go too, thank you a lot so much!

go Stephanie!

Congratulations to all on a terrific book!

Thank you everyone - what a wonderful publication! see you for the next one!

Thanks for everything Dene! Pass along regards to James!

Hi Judy

Congrats!!!

Thanks! Have to go to the next meeting, too!

Thanks all and congratulations!

thank you Dena!

John sasys Thank you everyone for this good morning conversation. Congratulations for the release of this fabulous book. Best wishes to all. Stay well. Must go now.

Thanks, Katie and Dene and Astrid and James and Deena!

Thank You all, take care! And congratulations for all authors.