Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival – ELO 2026

The theme of ELOnline 2026 is (Un)Supervised. One interpretation of this might regard a kind of LLM development, but we also consider perennial questions in the field around who is watching, who is reading, and who is learning about Electronic Literature, especially E-Lit cultures outside this institution. We particularly encourage submissions that center on computational research questions and generativity and the university as spaces where community and computational creativity are contested by many actors and parties. We invite attention to both un-institutioning (such as the decoupling of the federal government from research initiatives at public and international institutions) and the adaptive, critical, reflexive processes of institution-building, maintenance, and reinforcement (initiatives, pedagogies, technologies, labs, partnerships, research organizations, platforms, large-language-models, publications, etc.).

Project Team

Project Lead

Contributors

John Murray

Associate Professor, Games and Interactive Media

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Alyssa Barrack

Former Graduate Research Associate

PhD Candidate, Texts & Technology

Mike Shier

Coordinator of Research Programs

Core Faculty, Texts & Technology

PD Edgar

PhD Student, Texts & Technology