
Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media poet, artist, and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, where he directs research/creation projects devising new means of creating and reading digital texts, developing systems for creative use of mobile technology and using virtual environments to assist Aboriginal communities in preserving, interpreting and communicating cultural histories. Along with the artist Skawennati, he co-directs Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Stortyelling and Video Game Design and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. His other interests include computation as a creative material, emergent media theory and history, and methodologies for conducting art-led technology research. Lewis' creative work has been featured at Ars Electronica, Mobilefest, Elektra, Urban Screens, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, and FILE, among other venues, and has been recognized with the inaugural Robert Coover Award for Best Work of Electronic Literature, a Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mention, several imagineNATIVE Best New Media awards and six solo exhibitions. He's the author or co-author of chapters in collected editions covering mobile media, video game design, machinima and experimental pedagogy with Indigenous communities, as well as numerous journal articles and conference papers. Lewis has worked in a range of industrial research settings, including Interval Research, US West's Advanced Technology Group, and the Institute for Research on Learning, and, at the turn of the century, he founded and ran a research studio for the venture capital firm Arts Alliance. Lewis is a Trudeau Fellow, and a former Carnegie Fellow. He is the Concordia University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well as Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. He received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and B.A. in German Studies (Philosophy) from Stanford University, and an M.Phil. in Design from the Royal College of Art. Born and raised in northern California, Lewis is Cherokee, Hawaiian and Samoan.
Sessions in which Jason Edward Lewis participates
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Exhibition Attention à la marche! / Mind the Gap!
3 days 20 hours
Mon 13, 06:00 PM
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Fri 17, 02:00 PM
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Centre de Design (DE) UQAM
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Galerie du Centre de Design
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Eduardo Kac (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
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Alan Sondheim (Independent)
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Justine Bizzocchi (Bizarts)
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Jim Bizzocchi (Simon Fraser University)
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Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida)
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Anne Sullivan (Georgia Tech)
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Jules Deslandes (GHAM&DAFE)
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Delphine Gauly
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Boris Du Boullay (Université de Marseille)
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Lucie Plançon
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Héloïse d’Almeida
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Marjorie Terral
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Guillaume Verguin
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Cal LaFountain
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Duncan Speakman
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Tom Abba (UWE Bristol)
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Anna Dot (University of Vic)
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Steve Dipaola (Simon Fraser University)
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Nick Montfort (MIT)
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Mez Breeze (mezbreezedesign.com)
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Andy Campbell (One To One Development Trust)
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Marcelina Wellmer (Independent artist)
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Tina Escaja (University of Vermont)
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Laura Zaylea (Temple University)
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Shanmugapriya T
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Qianxun Chen
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Lucas Baisch (Brown University)
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Theadora Walsh (Brown University)
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Michel Lefebvre (Agence TOPO)
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Eva Quintas (TOPO - Laboratoire d'écritures numériques)
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Winnie Soon (Aarhus University)
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Tony Vieira (York University)
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Mark Marino (University of Southern California)
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John Murray (University of Central Florida)
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Joellyn Rock (University of Minnesota Duluth)
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Anna Tolkacheva
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Laura Okkema
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Jason Nelson (Digital Poet Land)
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Isabelle Raynauld (Films Musidora)
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Sophie Latouche
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Mickaël Lafontaine
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Richard Holeton (Stanford University)
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Kyle Booten (Neukom Institute, Dartmouth College)
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María Mencía (Kingston University)
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John Cayley (Brown University)
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Søren Bro Pold (Aarhus University)
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Manuel Portela (University of Coimbra)
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Will Luers
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Alan Bigelow (Medaille College)
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Christy Sheffield Sanford (Ms.)
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Erik Loyer
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Mehitabel Glenhaber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Caitlin Fisher (York University)
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Piotr Marecki (Jagiellonian University)
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Stuart Moulthrop (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
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Judy Malloy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
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Patsy Baudoin
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Istvan Chung
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Harriet Fisher
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Stella Fisher
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Sarah Van Dierdonck
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Exhibit
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Literature, Technology & Algorithms
1 hour 15 minutes
8:30 AM
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9:45 AM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-1525
Moderator
Kyle Booten (Neukom Institute, Dartmouth College)
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Álvaro Seiça (University of Bergen)
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Mark Wolff (Hartwick College)
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Ariane Savoie (Université du Québec à Montréal et Université catholique de Louvain)
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Panel
Trails and Trials of Composition: Children as Writers and Readers of Electronic Literature
1 hour 15 minutes
8:30 AM
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9:45 AM
Part of:
Children E-Lit & Forms of the Imagination
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Mark Marino (University of Southern California)
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Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Moderator
R. Lyle Skains
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Kathi Inman Berens (Portland State University)
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Leonardo Flores (Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez)
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R. Lyle Skains
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Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Moderator
Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen)
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Skawennati (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace)
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Participant
Jason Edward Lewis (Concordia University)
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Keynote
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
Digital Aesthetics & Imagination
1 hour 15 minutes
3:45 PM
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5:00 PM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-1545
Moderator
María Mencía (Kingston University)
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Josephine Anstey (Media Study, UB)
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Roy Roussel
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Melinda White (University of New Hampshire)
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Clara Fernandez-Vara
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David Gochfeld
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Ken Perlin
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Panel
Machine Reading: Literary "Deformance," Electronic Literature, and the Digital Humanities
1 hour 15 minutes
3:45 PM
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5:00 PM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-1420
Moderator
John Cayley (Brown University)
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Allison Parrish (New York University)
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david jhave johnston (Glia.ca)
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Kyle Booten (Neukom Institute, Dartmouth College)
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John Cayley (Brown University)
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Panel
5:15 PM
5:15 PM
Inner Telescope: The First Poem in Outer Space (A Conversation)
1 hour
5:15 PM
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6:15 PM
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Écomusée du Fier Monde
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Pool
Moderator
Marianne Cloutier (Université de Montréal)
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Eduardo Kac (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
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Talk
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
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Laura Hyunjhee Kim (SEICA Human Interaction Labs / University of Colorado Boulder)
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Marjorie Luesebrink (ELO)
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Alex Saum Pascual (UC Berkeley)
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Christopher Boucher (Boston College)
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Allison Parrish (New York University)
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Zach Whalen (University of Mary Washington)
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Moderator
Alice Van der klei (UQAM)
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Moderator
Stuart Moulthrop (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
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Performances
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
E-Lit Linguistic & Cultural Specificities III
1 hour 15 minutes
10:00 AM
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11:15 AM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-1420
Moderator
Jason Edward Lewis (Concordia University)
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Perla Sasson-Henry (United States Naval Academy)
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Andréa Catrópa (UAM)
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Anna Dot (University of Vic)
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Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Humor & Constraint in Electronic Literature
1 hour
11:30 AM
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12:30 PM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-R510
Keynote
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
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Alexandra Saemmer
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Ottar Ormstad
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Alan Bigelow (Medaille College)
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Jonathan Bélisle
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Philippe Boisnard (indépendant)
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Moderator
david jhave johnston (Glia.ca)
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Christopher Funkhouser
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Fulla Abdul-Jabbar (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
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Moderator
Eva Quintas (TOPO - Laboratoire d'écritures numériques)
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Serge Bouchardon (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
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Performances
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Electronic Epistemologies
1 hour 15 minutes
10:00 AM
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11:15 AM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-1420
Moderator
Ali Pearl (University of Southern California)
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
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Abraham Avnisan (University of Washington Bothell)
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Ali Pearl (University of Southern California)
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Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
(Latin American) E-Lit and its Experimental Nature. After the Great Divide?
1 hour
11:30 AM
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12:30 PM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-R510
Moderator
Leonardo Flores (Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez)
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Claudia Kozak (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
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Keynote
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Video Games & Disruptive Technologies
1 hour 15 minutes
2:00 PM
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3:15 PM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-1540
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Davin Heckman (Winona State University)
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Alan Sondheim (Independent)
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Talan Memmott (Winona State University)
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Matt Schneider
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Panel
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Cocktail
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
bleuOrange Cocktail & Performance Evening
2 hours
7:30 PM
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9:30 PM
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Concordia University - Building EV
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Black Box - 0S3-845
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Simon Dumas (Rhizome)
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Judd Morrissey (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
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Abraham Avnisan (University of Washington Bothell)
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Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen)
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Roderick Coover (Temple University)
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Rodrigo Velasco (Yecto)
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Moderator
Leonardo Flores (Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez)
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Moderator
Anais Guilet (Université Savoie Mont Blanc)
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Performances
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Mind the Gap! 10 Gaps for Electronic Literature?
1 hour
11:30 AM
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12:30 PM
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Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM
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DS-R510
Moderator
Bertrand Gervais (études littéraires, UQAM)
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Participant
Serge Bouchardon (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
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Keynote
6:30 PM
6:30 PM