I ♥ E-Poetry @ Caguas Mini Maker Faire

I ♥ Caguas MMF

El sábado 31 de enero de 2015 I ♥ E-Poetry estará presente en el Caguas Mini Maker Faire. Visita nuestra mesa para demonstraciones de literatura y poesía digital, un nuevo género literario que explora el potencial expresivo del lenguaje en ambientes digitales. He aquí algunos ejemplos de literatura digital.

La palabra en movimiento:

  • Seattle Drift – Este poema desea ser liberado de las reglas de la página que lo disciplinan y obligan a ser tradicional.
  • Bembo’s Zoo – Visita un zoológico donde las palabras se transforman en animales.
  • Strings – Palabras en cursivo se estiran y converten en otras palabras para formar poemas divertidos.
  • Word Crimes – Un video lleno de palabras que bailan al compás de una parodia de una canción pegajosa.

Experiencias cinemáticas:

  • Bust Down the Doors! – Una escena violenta descrita una y otra vez nos sorprende con sus cambios de perspectivas.
  • Project for Tachistoscope – Esta obra hipnótica narra la historia de un hoyo sin fondo en medio de los Estados Unidos.

Cómics interactivos:

  • A Duck Has An Adventure – Este cómic te permite explorar muchas historias alternas en la vida y aventuras de un pato.
  • Hobo Lobo of Hamelin – Este cómic historia del Flautista de Hamelin, pero con un lobo vagabundo y un alcalde sicótico.

Juegos Literarios:

  • The Flat – Tienes dos minutos para descubrir qué sucedió en este apartamento antes de que algo aterrador venga por ti.
  • Game, Game, Game and again Game – Un divertido juego de plataformas en el cual atraviesas espacios locos y poéticos.

Obras Generadas:

Robots Artísticos en Twitter:

  • Glitch [Meta] – Las ocurrencias tuiteadas por este gato provienen de comentarios que la gente hace acerca de sus gatos en Twitter.
  • HaikuD2 – Este robot detecta tuits que se puedan cortar en la forma de un haiku (poema de 5, 7, 5 sílabas) y los revela como poemas.

Obras Multimedios:

  • Memory – Este divertido poema por un poeta boricua está escrito con memes y sobre memes.
  • When I Was President – Este presidente dictatorial toma medidas absurdas y absurdamente efectivas durante su corta presidencia.
  • Nio – Esta obra musical y poética es una herramienta para jugar con sonidos, nuevas letras, y frases musicales.

 

2015 Call for Contributors

ialsoloveepoetryI ♥ E-Poetry is recruiting!

We are seeking regular and guest contributors to continue with our mission of developing a current, scholarly, and approachable guide to electronic literature, one that can transcend beyond academic circles to more general audiences. I ♥ E-Poetry is seeks to explore the poetics of language wherever it is deployed in digital media, particularly when it engages its media in artistic and literary ways.

With that in mind, we wish to recruit artists, students, and scholars of electronic/digital media interested in exploring the following areas:

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I ♥ E-Poetry: Year Three Retrospective

Text: "I ♥ E-Poetry Year 3"As the third year of the I ♥ E-Poetry project draws to a close, I’d like to offer some numerical data, reports on our activities, future plans, and acknowledgements– a tradition I started last year. This reader-friendly report should have special appeal to those who would like to know more about the community of readers they belong to and how the project is developing.

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Fall 2014 Interns

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As I ♥ E-Poetry continues to develop as a collaborative resource, it is important to recognize those who work behind the scenes to keep this site current. This semester, I had 6 UPRM students enrolled in my Digital Humanities Internship course who brought I ♥ E-Poetry to Pinterest, redesigned the blog using the GeneratePress theme, and have written entries, which will be published this week. Who are these remarkable interns who have cared for I ♥ E-Poetry’s health? Here’s an alphabetical listing:

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Site Redesign Underway

Dear readers,

We are currently redesigning I ♥ E-Poetry, so please be patient with any irregularities in its look and feel over the next few days.

Best,

Leonardo Flores, PhD
Publisher

I ♥ Bots

I love bots
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If you have been reading my daily entries on bots, and have explored the resource that compiles them, you may have noticed the great variety, sophistication, and artistry that characterizes this emergent genre. With these daily postings, I have tried to take a snapshot of a vibrant moment for this artistic and literary practice, knowing all along that it is growing too quickly to fully capture.

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Guest Contributor: Matt Schneider

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I ♥ E-Poetry welcomes its newest guest contributor: Matt Schneider.

Matt Schneider is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, where he studies digital materiality and print culture in his dissertation, RARchive Fever: The Materiality of Videogames. He has also amassed a small herd of Twitter Bots, including @MassageMcLuhan, @SketchCharacter, and @AlliterativAuto.

We are thrilled to be joined by this talented young scholar and botteur, whose expertise in videogames, bots, and coding will enrich our growing collection!