The keynote speaker for the day was N. Katherine Hayles from UCLA. Jill Walker also has notes up. Here are my notes:

  • A simple proposition: “literature” requires words, “the literary” is literature plus artwork which interrogate context, history, and production of literature

  • “the literary” is how we talk to coworkers

  • Three institutional paradigms

  • Department Of Media Arts including film, computers, literature

  • Interdisciplinary studio spaces for dissertation writing and student research

  • Schools adding faculty lines for E-Lit

  • What does it mean to write literature?

  • Most assume print is what is meant by literature

  • Why is E-Lit considered literature?

  • Some examples shown:

  • Slipping Glimpse-Would count as literature, but much more is going on. “What it means to read and what it means to be read”

  • The Possession Of Christian Shaw

  • Code Movie-Legibility of screen under threat…”denumant” is return to structure on screen

  • Others mentioned-Birds Singing Other Bird Songs, Text Rain, Shaping Things

  • Is ballet literary? Where is the line drawn?

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