Last month I had the good fortune of participating in a conversation on the past, future and present of AI together with my colleagues Josh Bloom, professor of Astronomy, and Keanan Joyner, assistant professor of Psychology, led by Marion Fourcade, Director of the Social Science Matrix and professor of Sociology. It was a fascinating multidisciplinary … Letters and Sciences in the Age of AI
Go, go, go, Chica-go! 2019 started with a quick but adventure-packed trip to Chicago to perform at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Jan 4), as well as participate in a roundtable discussion at MLA (Jan 5), and have the most decadent vegan feast at Matthew Kenny’s Althea (to celebrate my birthday in … Chica-go! Jan 2019: DH and #YouTubers
**please view and listen to poems through a desktop computer, they won’t work on mobile devices** “#SELFIEPOETRY: Fake Art Histories & the Inscription of the Digital Self” is an on going series of e-poems that I’ve recently started to write (although write might not be the right word to use), using the online platform NewHive–which … #SELFIEPOETRY
Last week I attended the international symposium “Reading Wide, Writing Wide in the Digital Age: Perspectives on Transliteratures” organized by the LEETHI group from the Complutense University of Madrid. It was a fantastic event where I had the opportunity to listen to very interesting work engaging electronic literature from very different perspectives, such as Vilashini … If the Future Is Digital, Why Print a Book?
Last week I had the wonderful opportunity of participating in the international symposium, Máquinas de inminencia, organized by UNAM’s lleomin Mexico City. This series of talks was part of their larger electronic literature project, Plataformas de la imaginación: Escenarios de la literatura electrónica (and, shameless plug here: also part of the even larger series of … Teaching E-Lit and DH: Plataformas de la imaginación
UC Berkeley students, beware! This Spring 16 I will be teaching two new courses: 1. A groundbreaking upper-division undergraduate course on e-lit that epitomizes digital humanities – literary analysis alongside basic programming skills and DH tools and methods [Find out more about this e-lit undergraduate course here] …and… 2. An exciting graduate seminar on the … Spring 16 Courses
JOIN US THIS FALL (as in, NOW) >>> In preparation for the spring exhibit, No Legacy || Literatura electrónica, this fall we will gather to explore tools for electronic literature and use them for creative work. We will play with tools such as Twine, Inform 7, Undum, Flash, generative grammars, and bots. Participants will receive … The E-Lit Critical Making Group (Working Group)
Last Wednesday I spoke at the launch for the Digital Humanities at Cal program, and the opening of the Future of Memory Exhibit at The Magnes. It was an absolute joy and honor to be there. This is what I said (more or less): To talk about memory and its relation to the future, … Memorias Futuras || The Future of Memory
(Reposteo casi simultáneamente aquí lo que colgué aquí) Buscando modelos para entender realidades narrativas complejas como a las que nos enfrentamos cuando experimentamos literatura electrónica en la Web, se me ocurrió—y estas ocurrencias generalmente surgen gracias a conversaciones previas con gente muy inteligente como mi querida Élika Ortega—que leyéramos en clase “El Aleph” y “El … Acceso al infinito gracias al aleph de la Red