I have been elected to the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) to serve as a board member and Treasurer. To be in such high regard by a group composed of some of the leading scholars and artists in my specialization is a great honor and a milestone in my career. My… Continue reading My Election to ELO Board of Directors
Leonardo Flores @ MLA 2014 Convention
I’ve prepared my MLA 2014 Convention calendar created as a convenience for me, and made public here for those interested in meeting up. I will be presenting at the Electronic Literature after Flash roundtable and performing a Bot Choral at the MLA Off-Site E-Lit Reading. If you want to get together, don’t hesitate to contact… Continue reading Leonardo Flores @ MLA 2014 Convention
I ♥ E-Poetry featured in “Critical Making in Digital Humanities” Archive
My scholarly blogging project has been featured in an archive curated by Roger Whitson and Dene Grigar, Critical Making in Digital Humanities. The concept of Critical making will be discussed in a special session at the MLA Convention, but Whitson and Grigar offer a great starting point in their resource. And judging from the quality… Continue reading I ♥ E-Poetry featured in “Critical Making in Digital Humanities” Archive
Performance: A Bot Choral
On Friday, January 10, I’ll be participating in the ELO’s MLA Off-Site E-Lit Reading at the Flaxman Library in Chicago. Here’s a link to the Facebook event invitation. And here’s a description of the part I’ll be involved in. Participants (listed in alphabetical order): Leonardo Flores Mark Sample Zach Whalen Roger Whitson Performance This 10-minute… Continue reading Performance: A Bot Choral
New NEH proposal: “A World of E-Literature”
Today I submitted an NEH Collaborative Research Grants proposal to collaboratively write 530 I Love E-Poetry entries and a book manuscript in a 3-year period. Here’s the 1000-character summary from the proposal, titled: This project seeks to use the publication and metadata structure of I Love E-Poetry to collaboratively produce a manuscript for a book… Continue reading New NEH proposal: “A World of E-Literature”
A Shifting Electronic Text: Close Reading “White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares”
How does one closely read a work that changes before your eyes and can produce more variants than can be read in a lifetime? My essay, “A Shifting Electronic Text: Close Reading White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares,” offers some suggestions to appreciate, play along with, or hack this e-poem by Loss Pequeño Glazier. Here’s a… Continue reading A Shifting Electronic Text: Close Reading “White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares”
Multimodal Literature in the Digital Age
My proposed Studies in Literature course has been approved by my Department’s Graduate Committee and has been scheduled for the Spring 2015 semester. If you’re interested, here’s the proposal.
Supercharge your Graduate Studies with External Funding Opportunities
Today (December 3, 2013 at 10:30-12:00 in Chardón 318) I’m giving a talk to UPRM Undergraduate and Graduate students about external funding for their graduate studies and beyond. You can see the embedded Prezi for the talk below:
Bot Summit
Last Saturday, there was a 4-hour long gathering in Boston with networked participants from around the world organized by Darius Kazemi, called the Bot Summit. And we talked about bots. Here’s a link to Kazemi’s documentation of the event, including a recording of the G+ video stream, the IRC chat logs, and deep links to… Continue reading Bot Summit
Electronic Literature Review (ELR) Interview
I was recently interviewed by Daniele Giampà for his blog Electronic Literature Review. The interview format consisted of five substantial questions and he was generous in providing me abundant time to answer them. Here are the questions: Leonardo Flores you are running a project called I ♥ E-Poetry and in the year 2010 you wrote… Continue reading Electronic Literature Review (ELR) Interview