Electronic Literature Organization

Chats: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003

• January 9, 2000
  Topic: "What’s up with ELO?"
• January 26, 2000
  Topic: "Collaboration" with Mez and Talan Memmott
• February 13, 2000
  Topic: "Images and text" with Talan Memmott
• February 23, 2000
  Topic: "The Dinner Party" with Marjorie Luesebrink
• March 18, 2000
  Topic: "The ELO database" with Robert Kendall, Nick Traenkner, and Kurt Heintz
• March 29, 2000
  Topic: "Usability" with Julianne Chatelaine
• April 8, 2000
  Topic:"Interactivity and artificial intelligence in narration" with Andrew Stern
• April 26, 2000
  Topic:"No Spectators: Performing art on the web" with Julie Chase
• May 13, 2000
  Topic: Teaching CyberMedia with Meg Powers Livingston, Robert Kendall, Bill Bly, Richard Higgason, Bobby Arellano, and other elit teachers.
• May 24, 2000
  Topic: The future of hypertext with participants from HT00.
• June 10, 2000
  Topic: Celebrating E-zines with Jennifer Ley, Ed Buffaloe, and Marek Lugowski
• June 28, 2000
  Topic: Technology and art with Electronic Easel participants
  (note due to technical difficulties, this transcript is lost.)
• July 8, 2000
  Topic: Literary agents and the new electronic media with Christian Crumlish
• July 25, 2000
  Topic: Intimacies, information, politics –how hypermedia can foster a community, with Melinda Rackham.
• August 19, 2000
  Topic: Telling stories on the web with Digital Storyteller Maggie Sokolik
• August 30, 2000
  Topic: Everything you wanted to know about electronic publishing with Karen Wiesner
• September 09, 2000
  Topic: Celebrate the new ELO features: Bulletin boards, Directory, and more with ROb Kendall, Nick Monfort, and others.
• September 27, 2000
  Topic: Hamlet on the Holodeck–what’s happened since then? with Janet Murray
• October 15, 2000
  Topic: Checking out electronic literature with Chris Rippel
• October 22 , 2000
  Topic: Archiving electronic literature
• November 05 , 2000
  Topic: Impermanence Agent with Noah Wardrip-Fruin, a.c. chapman, Brion Moss, and Duane Whitehurst
• November 19 , 2000
  Topic: Writing erotic hypertexts with Adrienne Eisen
• December 3 , 2000
  Topic: Wiping out hypertext expectations with Wendy Morgan
• December 17, 2000
  Topic: Playing with hypertexts with Espen Aarseth

Visit the Slope Hyperliterature Feature to view works by Adrienne Eisen, Brandon Barr, Carrie McMillan, Giselle Beiguelman, Gloria Monaghan/John Landry, Jason Nelson, Jorge Luiz Antonio, Lewis Lacook, mez, and an introductory essay written by Edward Picot titled “Hyperliterature – The Apotheosis of Self-Publishing?”.

The Alt-X Online Network, “where the digerati meet the literati,” announces the release of “Solarcon-6,” an ebook collection of stories by Wiley Wiggins. Wiggins’ “Solarcon-6″ is the ninth ebook in the Alt-X Press series which features other titles by artists including Eugene Thacker, Mark Amerika, Adrienne Eisen, and Alan Sondheim.

Author Adrienne Eisen has released an online collection of erotic hypertexts. Mark Amerika, who calls Eisen the hypertext world’s Kathy Acker, says that “Adrienne Eisen’s avant-pop hypertexts are subversive narrative journeys into the mind of a contemporary twentysomething woman whose erotic encounters are charged with a post-feminist satirical edge that cuts deep into the American psyche.” (“Winter Break”)
[Links updated April 2005]