The Electronic Literature Organization 2023 international conference and media art festival took place in Coimbra, Portugal, July 12 to 15, and I had the great pleasure of co-chairing this massive event with my beloved Rui Torres and Manuel Portela, as well as Daniela Côrtes Maduro (who first suggested this event should take place in beautiful … The great feat of ELO2023 Coimbra
I am super excited to share with you this special issue that Álvaro Llosa and myself have co-edited for The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol 24.1). Including articles by scholars Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega, Vega Sánchez Aparicio, Laura Sánchez Gómez and artist Tina Escaja; speculative essays by Belén Gache, and Álvaro Llosa; creative essays by Germán … Futuros: imaginarios, redes y prácticas digitales en la cultura española. Un catálogo de posibles
The semester ends and it’s been a busy one! Probably the busiest of my career at UC Berkeley. Students sometime ask me what’s that I do, and it is a poem to see their faces when I explain to them the many different roles a college professor has… or is made to have. In any … End of the semester: Thanks! + new talks, and a new art show at the Cervantes Institute in New York City
Last Monday, the Arts Research Center had the most beautiful party for the launch of Emerge/ncy, a chapbook presenting the work of the 2020 Poetry and the Senses Fellows, and my very dear friends, Menat Allah El Attma, Nathalie Khankin, Rusty Morrison, Gracia Mwamba, Beth Piatote, Jared Robinson, Jennif(f)er Tamayo (and myself). It was a … Emerge/ncy: a new poetry chapbook
Now that blogs and newsletters are back in style (and now that the storm has stopped), I feel compelled to update this blog with some news of what I have been up to lately so… Let’s see… Last December I published a new article, “Literatura digital para el fin del mundo: ecología y algoritmos en … End of 22, Beginning of 23: Storm, Strike, Script
I am honored to contribute a new chapter to the collective volume Escrituras hispánicas desde el exocanon (2022) edited by Daniel Escandell, where I discuss some of my current troubles with the dangerous environmental impact of digital technologies. In my chapter “Materialidad digital, algoritmos y otras abstracciones modernas” (“Digital Materiality, Algorithms, and Other Modern Abstractions”) … More on Digital Materiality: A New Publication
I am honored and humbled to be part of the ELC (Vol.4) with my project The Offline Website Project! The Electronic Literature Collections are arguably the most influential e-lit anthologies in the world, capturing the ethos of a time (as well as the state of the discipline worldwide), and although all previous volumes have been … TOWP is in the Electronic Literature Collection! (Vol. 4)
Remember those early days back in the Spring of 2020 when the world stopped? When we were paralyzed by fear and policy? A new documentary, COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic, produced by Anna Nacher, Søren Bro Pold, Scott Rettberg and Ashleigh Steele, follows sixteen digital artists’ experiences of the early COVID-19 pandemic … COVID E-LIT, a new documentary
Enter Corporate Poetry: I am thrilled to share this new article on my Corporate Poetry project that just got published in Texts of Discomfort (Carnegie Mellon ETC Press, 2021), edited by María Cecilia Reyes and James Pope. In their own words: Can discomfort be blissful? This volume presents an in-depth reflection of the selected artworks … On bodies, surveys, virus and rooms…
This Fall semester has been particularly quiet in terms of work, yet substantially louder in terms of life. Oh, the noise a new baby makes! Still, I didn’t want to let too much time pass without a little update, because I did participate in a couple exciting art projects. My interactive poem “Potential Ideas and … A new show, a new talk, and a new life