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ELO2015 Performance Night

Hybridity Performance Program

The second night of performances held as part of ELO2015 focuses on the ways electronic literature expand the sensory experience of literature.

Person interacting with electronic literature on projected screen.
Donna Leishman and Steve Gibson's "Borderlines" is one of the works of electronic literature you can see performed at this event.
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Leishman and Gibson
Updated: 10.11.2017 (First published: 19.07.2015)

Readings and performances of digital literature and screeings of films by artists including: Donna Leishman (UK) and Steve Gibson (CA) "Borderline", Kristian Pedersen and Audun Lindholm (NO) "Waves", Zuzana Husarova (SR) "Any Vision", Simon Biggs (AU) "Crosstalk", John Cayley (CA) "Monoclonal Microphone: the movie", Hazel Smith (UK) and Roger Dean (AU) "text, sound, electronics, live coding", Ottar Ormstad (NO) and Taras Mashtalir (RU) "LONG RONG SONG", Taras Mashtalir and Natalia Fedorova (RU) "Machine Libertine."

Presentation
06.08.2015 - 20.00–23.00
Østre: hus for lydkunst og elektronisk musikk. Østre Skostredet 3, 5017 Bergen.
Scott Rettberg
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This performance is held in connection with ELO 2015: The End(s) of Electronic Literature, the Electronic Literature Organization's annual, international conference, which in 2015 is hosted at the University of Bergen by the Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group. ELO 2015 is a combination of a conventional academic conference and a literary festival with exhibitions, readings and performances that are open for all.

Relevant links 
ELO 2015: Full schedule
Screenshot from Fish Net Stockings.

A Festival of Electronic Literature: Open Events at ELO 2015

Exhibitions and performances of electronic literature are open to the public as part of the 2015 international electronic literature conference and festival, ELO 2015.

Image of Natalia Fedora performing Machine Libertine.

Decentering: Global Electronic Literature

"Decentering" focuses on electronic literature from countries outside the Western mainstream, and is one of five exhibitions held in connection with the ELO2015 conference and festival.

title screen from The Pipes

ELO 2015 Festival Readings

This is the first of two nights of performances and readings held in connection with the electronic literary arts conference and festival ELO 2015. Free entrance.

Image of hands interacting with the work PRY.

The End(s) of Electronic Literature Festival exhibition

Experience key works of contemporary electronic literature and see the history of electronic literature in this hands on exhibition at the Humanities Library.

Figurer fra den danske iPad-appen for barn, Wuwu.

KID E-LIT: An Exhibition of Electronic Literature for Children and Youth

What can children's literature look like in a world of computers, tablets and mobile phones? This exhibition allows children, teens and adults to explore these new literary forms.

Image from Inside the Distance

Interventions: Engaging the Body Politic

Electronic literature that intervenes in our political world: the environment, social justice, surveillance and more.

Screenshot from Fish Net Stockings.

Hybridity and Synaesthesia in Electronic Literature

Experience works of electronic literature that appeal to our senses of touch, hearing and sight.

Screenshot from Tower of Jezik

Lectures on electronic literature for children

Two sessions of research presentations on electronic literature for children given as part of the ELO2015 conference are open to the general public, and may be of interest to librarians and school teachers as well as academics.