<div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ELO’17 - Electronic Literature > Affiliations, Communities, Translations</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Hosted by UFP - University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, July 19 - 22, 2017</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://conference.eliterature.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://conference.eliterature.<wbr>org</span></a></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Call For Papers & Works</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) is pleased to announce its 2017 Conference and Festival, to be held from July 19-22. The Conference is hosted by University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, and the Festival and Exhibits will be held in the center of the historic city of Porto, Portugal.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Titled «Electronic Literature: Affiliations, Communities, Translations</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">», </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">the Conference and Festival welcome dialogues and untold histories of electronic literature, providing a space for discussion about what exchanges, negotiations, and movements we can track in the field of electronic literature. These three threads will weave through the conference, structuring dialogue, debate, performances, presentations, and exhibits. The threads are meant as provocations, enabling constraints, and aim at forming a diagram of electronic literature today and expanding awareness of the history and diversity of the field.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The goal of this International Conference is to contribute to displacing and re-situating accepted views and histories of electronic literature, in order to construct a larger and more expansive field, to map discontinuous textual relations across histories and forms, and to create productive and poetic apparatuses from unexpected combinations. Each of the three strands - </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Affiliations, Communities, Translations</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - is described in detail below. Participants can apply to the Conference and Festival by locating their work within a strand. In all cases, we are open to experimental proposals that integrate theory and practice, and proposals that challenge presentation formats.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Affiliations</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Electronic literature is trans-temporal. It has an untold history.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Conference</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: to be held at University Fernando Pessoa, July 19-22. We welcome submissions of Papers, Lightning talks, Posters, Panels, Roundtables, and Workshops for peer-review evaluation, disclosing multiple diachronic and genealogical perspectives on electronic literature, providing room for comparative studies, and exploring untold archeologies and commerces between electronic literature and other expressive and material practices. Topics include, but are not limited to: intermedia and ergodicity in Baroque poetry, futurism and dada; concretism, videopoetry and Fluxus; early experiments in generative and combinatory literature; videoart and soundart; and how these expressive forms are recreated and transcoded in digital forms of literature.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Festival</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: to be held at Culturgest, July 19. Proposals for performances, installations and screenings will be evaluated by the Artistic Committee. Evaluation criteria will include the works’ mapping of the aesthetic and material antecedents of electronic literature, and attention to remixing/re-coding of previous materials from the avant-gardes.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Exhibit</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: July 18-22</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">curated by Álvaro Seiça and Daniela Côrtes Maduro.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Communities</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Electronic literature is global. It creates a forum where subjects in the global network act out and struggle over their location and situation.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Conference</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: to be held at University Fernando Pessoa, July 19-22. We welcome submissions of Papers, Lightning talks, Posters, Panels, Roundtables, and Workshops for peer-review evaluation that expand our understanding of electronic literature communities and how literature is accounted for within diverse communities of practice. Papers may include case studies of individual communities as well as broader engagement with how communities form and develop, and how they interact with and create affinities with other communities. Topics for comparative case studies include but are not limited to artists’ books, Augmented and Virtual Reality; Perl poetry; Sound-video practitioners; ASCII art and Net.Art; Hacktivism/Activism; Memes and Fan Fiction cultures; kids’ e-lit; Minecraft, Twine, Bots and Indie Gaming; and how these practices are connected to electronic literature.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Festival</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: to be held at Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, July 20. Proposals for performances, installations and screenings will be evaluated by peers. Evaluation criteria will include the work’s engagement with the diversity of practices in electronic literature and affiliated communities, as well as their critical awareness of network aesthetics.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Exhibit</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: July 18-22,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">curated by Bruno Ministro and Sandra Guerreiro Dias.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Translations</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Electronic literature is an exchange between language and code. It contains many voices.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Conference</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: to be held at University Fernando Pessoa, July 19-22. We welcome submissions of Papers, Lightning talks, Posters, Panels, Roundtables, and Workshops for peer-review evaluation that understand electronic literature as translation in the broadest possible sense. Beyond interlinguistic translation, we will accept papers on emulations, virtualizations, re-readings, and interpretations. We particularly welcome papers that address the limits and specifics of the programmability of natural languages as a means of literary expression. Topics include but are not limited to plagiotropy; linguistic, intermedial and intersemiotic translation; code and text translation; generative literature; emulations of historic electronic literature; re-readings and interpretations of previous works; and how these activities expand our understanding of literature and textuality.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Festival</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: to be held at Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, July 21. Proposals for performances, installations and screenings will be evaluated by peers. Evaluation criteria will include the works’ linguistic reflexivity and their engagement with translation, broadly understood, i.e., as a transcoding mechanism involving exchange in and across media, languages and cultures.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Exhibit</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: July 18-22,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">curated by Ana Marques da Silva and Diogo Marques.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Guidelines</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Acceptance policy</span></span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Conference (peer-reviewed): </span></span></font></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Paper</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (10 to 15 mins - a presentation of a single paper by one or more authors - 500 word abstract).</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Lightning talk</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (5 mins - a short paper for a focused presentation - 250 word abstract).</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Poster</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (for poster sessions - submit 1-page poster).</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Panel</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (45 mins - a proposal for a complete panel including separate papers on the same general topic - 250 word overview plus 500 word individual abstracts).</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Roundtable</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (45 mins - a group presentation of a specific topic emphasizing discussion and audience interaction - 500 word abstract).</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (Action sessions, focused on hands-on group work on a given project or topic - 500 word abstract).</span></span></font></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Festival (peer-reviewed): </span></span></font></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Performance</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (10 to 15 mins - readings, actions, interventions - 250 word abstract; provide links to images, videos, etc.)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Installation</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (provide description of installation, as well as technical needs)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Screening</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (provide link to video)</span></span></font></p></li></ul></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submissions open</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: August 15th, 2016.</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Abstracts Due:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">December 5th, 2016</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">. Review will follow a double-blind process, using easychair (</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2017" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=elo2017</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">). The CFP and review process will take into consideration the differences between Paper, Lightning Talk, Poster, Panel, Roundtable, Workshop, Performance, Installation, Screening.</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Acceptances sent out</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: January 15th, 2017.</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Proposers must attend the conference. Authors can submit as many proposals as they want, but a maximum of two will be accepted for presentation. Submissions should be done using easychair:</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elo2017" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=elo2017</span></a></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Registration:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Early registration will close March 31st, 2017. There will be a registration fee for the Conference, which includes ELO Membership, invitations to all sessions of the Conference, Festival, and Exhibits, as well as access to the Banquet. Lunch and coffee-breaks will be served. </span></span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ELO 2017 will provide basic technological needs such as Internet, projectors, power cords, sound systems, and cables. Specific and/or specialized equipment needs should be provided by artists. ELO is not responsible for shipping costs. Proposals for all creative activities must be submitted via the conference website.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Abstracts, papers, lightning talks, posters, and audiovisual documentation of the Festival and Exhibits will be published. A selection of papers will be published in </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">(ISSN 1555-9351).</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Organization</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Organizing Committee</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Rui Torres, Chair</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (Univ. Fernando Pessoa, Porto)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Sandy Baldwin, Co-Chair</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (Rochester Inst. Technology, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Manuel Portela, Scientific Committee Chair (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Leonardo Flores, Artistic Committee Chair (Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dene Grigar, Exhibits Chair (Washington State Univ. Vancouver, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nadine Trigo, Local Chair (Univ. Fernando Pessoa, Porto)</span></span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Scientific Committee</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Manuel Portela, Chair</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Alckmar Luiz dos Santos (Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Alexandra Saemmer (Univ. Paris 8, France)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Claudia Kozak (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Daniela Côrtes Maduro (Bremen, Germany)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Davin Heckman (Winona State Univ., USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Domingo Sánchez-Mesa Martínez (Univ. Granada, Spain)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Helen Burgess (North Carolina State University)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Jill Walker Rettberg (Univ. Bergen, Norway)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Johannah Rodgers (New York City College of Technology)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Joseph Tabbi (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Joellyn Rock (University of Minnesota Duluth)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Jörgen Schäffer (Univ. Siegen, Germany)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Lisa Swanstrom (Florida Atlantic University)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Maria Engberg (Malmö University, Sweden)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">María Goicoechea (Univ. Complutense Madrid, Spain)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nick Montfort (Massachusetts Inst. Technology, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Patsy Baudoin (Digital Humanities, Media and Film Studies, and Women’s & Gender Studies Librarian at MIT)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Pedro Reis (Univ. Fernando Pessoa, Portugal)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Piotr Marecki (Jagiellonian Univ. Kraków, Poland)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Raine Koskimaa (Univ. Jyvaskyla, Finland)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Rogério Barbosa da Silva (CEFET Minas Gerais, Brazil)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Sandy Baldwin (Rochester Inst. Technology, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Scott Rettberg (Univ. Bergen, Norway)</span></span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Artistic Committee</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Leonardo Flores, Chair </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">(Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Alex Saum-Pascual (University of California, Berkeley, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">André Rangel (Univ. Porto, Portugal)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Carolina Gainza (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Chris Funkhouser (New Jersey Inst. Technology, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Daniel Howe (City University's School of Creative Media, Hong Kong)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Friedrich W. Block (Brückner-Kühner-Foundation; Kunsttempel Gallery, Germany)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Giovanna de Rosario (b. Italy; Univ. Barcelona, Spain)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Jason Nelson (b. USA; Griffith Univ., Australia)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Jerome Fletcher (Falmouth Univ., UK)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">JR Carpenter (b. Canada; UK)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Judd Morrissey (Art Institute of Chicago, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Kathi Inman Berens (Portland State University, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Laura Borràs Castanyer (Univ. Barcelona, Spain)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Maria Mencia (Kingston University, UK)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Mariusz Pisarsky (Techsty, Poland)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Mark Sample (Davidson College, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Monika Gorska Olesinska (University of Opole, Poland</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Philippe Bootz (Univ. Paris 8, France)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Reham Hosny (Minia University, Egypt)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Rui Torres (Univ. Fernando Pessoa, Porto)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Scott Weintraub (University of New Hampshire, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Serge Bouchardon (Sorbonne University, Université de technologie de Compiègne, France)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Stephanie Boluk (UC Davis, USA)</span></span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Curated Exhibitions</span></span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dene Grigar, Chair</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (Washington State Univ. Vancouver, USA)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Affiliations</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- Curated by Álvaro Seiça and Daniela Côrtes Maduro</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Communities</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- Curated by Bruno Ministro and Sandra Guerreiro Dias</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Translations</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- Curated by Ana Marques da Silva and Diogo Marques</span></span></font></p></li></ul><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For more information, contact Rui Torres, ELO’17 Chair, rtorres [at] <a href="http://ufp.edu.pt" target="_blank">ufp.edu.pt</a></span></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">More info @ </span><a href="http://conference.eliterature.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://conference.eliterature.<wbr>org</span></a></span></font></p></div>