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litsci-l-digest         Tuesday, May 16 2006         Volume 01 : Number
178



In this issue:

     BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media (7/1/2006,
9/14/06-9/16/06) call for papers / performance
     Fwd: Vectors Spring 2006 Ephemera issue launch!
     Fwd: Codework on plain_text

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Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:43:19 -0400
From: "Charles Baldwin" 
Subject: BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media (7/1/2006,
9/14/06-9/16/06) call for papers / performance

Announcing BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, hosted by the
Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University in Morgantown,
WV. September 14-16, 2006.

BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is an interdisciplinary
symposium on the re-invention of life in digital media. The term BIOS
captures capture boundary-crossing and hybridization of human and
machine. For the ancient Greeks, BIOS referred to particular forms of
life rather than life in general (zoe). BIOS therefore, was the form of
life specific to the development of human society and political culture.
Understanding BIOS means understanding how humans adapt nature into
culture. In computer science, by contrast, BIOS means something quite
different: the basic input output system, the lowest level of code that
allows a computer to run. BIOS is burnt into computer hardware and
enables the machine to boot and run software programs and media. The two
meanings of BIOS resonate with each other as basic requirements for a
social system, whether in civic space or in cyberspace.

BIOS will combine talks and creative work / performances. We already
plan a rich and exciting schedule. Proposals are welcome on any area
within the topic. Keywords/subtopics include but are not limited to:
electronic literature; hypertext; embodiment; media specific analysis;
net.art; digital performance; complexity and emergence; the limits of 
computability; posthumanism and cyborgs; virtual reality; artificial
life; biotechnology; cyberfeminism; biopower; social software; ...
Innovative formats and approaches are welcome. We will also consider
remote/tele-presentations. Webcasts/podcasts of the event and an DVD
archive will be available. Send proposals of no longer than 200 words to
clc@mail.wvu.edu by July 1, 2006.

BIOS is organized and hosted by the Center for Literary Computing, and
co-organized by the Electronic Poetry Center / Digital Media Studies
program at SUNY-Buffalo. The symposium is associated with the E-Poetry
series of festivals and symposia.
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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 07:44:41 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Fwd: Vectors Spring 2006 Ephemera issue launch!

>>> Cristin Paul  5/11/2006 3:22 PM >>

**Please forward widely**

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is
pleased to announce the launch of its Spring 2006 issue devoted to the
theme of Ephemera: http://www.vectorsjournal.net 

This issue of Vectors features a range of projects related to the theme
of ephemera, from the perspectives of history, anthropology, cultural
geography, film, media studies, video games, tourism, politics, art and
literature. Contributors include Rick Prelinger, Judith Jackson Fossett,
Amelie Hastie, Melanie Swalwell, Jeffrey Schnapp, Kim Christen, Chris
Cooney, the Center for History and New Media and the Transcriptions
Project at UC Santa Barbara. 

Vectors is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated
to expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and
transitional media. Publishing two issues a year, Vectors proposes a
thorough rethinking of the dynamic relationship of form to content in
academic research, focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms
and reconfigures social and cultural relations. Vectors is edited by
Tara McPherson and Steve Anderson with art direction by Erik Loyer and
Raegan Kelly. 

Please share this announcement widely. We also invite you to explore
past issues devoted to the themes of Evidence and Mobility in the
Vectors Archive and contribute to an ongoing dialogue with project
creators and readers via the Vectors Forums. 


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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:14:24 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Fwd: Codework on plain_text

Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:34:52 -0400
From: "Charles Baldwin" 

New and updated wrytings on Codework on the plain_text zwiki. Read,
respond, post.

http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/FrontPage 

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