Although I am currently in Madrid taking a little breather, this summer has not been without excitement! Let’s catch up a little:
The month of May ended with my participation in Mexico City’s Festival El Aleph where I showed my piece, “Perspectiva_el Aleph”, part of a collaborative multimedia performance, “El texto infinito,” designed together with the talented Jonathan Basile and Edmar Soria. Last minute complications made it impossible for me to attend, but my piece still traveled South, which made me exceptionally happy! [I promise I will be sharing the actual piece soon enough, so stay tuned]
June took me to the U.K., where I had the privilege of giving a keynote lecture at the New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy International Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. In my talk “Digital Literacy, Critical Creativity and the (Digital) Humanities: Why Should We Care about Electronic Literature?,” I advanced a theory I am currently working on how to implement “creativity” as an integral competence to “critical thinking.” Here are my slides, although they won’t make much sense without further context… but I’ll share them just the same 🙂
July took me to Granada, Spain, where I further explored this theory by giving a talk (“Digital Creativity as Critical Thinking: The Case of Electronic Literature”) at the 17th International Conference, New Directions in the Humanities. I won’t share these slides because I am hoping to turn these two talks into an article I am currently working on, which, again, hopefully, will be part of a book I am co-editing together with Scott Rettberg on the exciting topic of the intersection between DH, e-lit and creativity. [This is going to be a kick ass volume with really amazing contributors so I am hoping I can share some more news very soon]
Aaaaaand, still in July, next week I will be in Cork, Ireland, attending my favorite yearly academic event, the Electronic Literature Organization conference <3. I am sure this will deserve its own full post, but for now I’ll share that I will be participating on a really cool panel together with Leo Flores, Rui Torres and Eugenio Tisselli interrogating conceptions of e-lit as a field, its social function, and how it situates itself in relation to literary and digital culture, experimental and mainstream art, high and popular culture. Sounds fun, uh?! If you happen to be in Cork next week, let me know!
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