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SUMMARY:ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:The academic conference will take place May 24-28th\, 2021. Wor
 kshops will take place May 24-25 and the main conference will take place M
 ay 26-28th. The arts program will unfold over a longer span of time\, with
  a series of events and exhibitions during March\, April\, and May 2021.\n
 \nGlobalized platforms present new opportunities for writers and readers b
 oth because of their large audiences and the fact that new forms of electr
 onic literary cultures are emerging around them. The current rise of globa
 l platforms and platform culture however challenge Electronic Literature
 ’s history of developing independent\, purpose-specific platforms\, sinc
 e commercial platforms are often closed formats with largely rigid templat
 es for ‘content’. In this sense\, forms of criticality are challenged 
 by the fact that the platforms are typically owned\, maintained and often 
 quickly updated (and sometimes made obsolete) by global corporations.\n\nW
 ith the combination of social media\, apps\, search engines and targeted a
 dvertisement\, platformization has become increasingly dominant in digital
  media. The platformization of culture is highlighted during the COVID-19 
 pandemic as physical platforms for art\, culture and the public have beco
 me difficult to access at times where physical meetings\, travel\, public 
 institutions and life in general have been challenged. What do digital and
  digitization mean now\, and what is left out and missing when culture is 
 streamed?\n\nGlobalization has become less seamless\, as global trade and 
 collaboration is affected\, but we are more connected in our individual l
 ives and worries. Furthermore\, the big\, rapid changes of culture and soc
 iety during the pandemic have raised fundamental questions about other urg
 ent challenges: the climate crisis\, equality in relation to race and eth
 nicity\, the social\, and the liberation and equality of gender and sexual
 ity. The pandemic situation has led to both hope and despair in relation t
 o new and old politicalstruggles such as the #metoo and #BlackLivesMatter 
 movements\, which have also been fought on and off platforms.\n\nWith this
  conference we aim to investigate how the future will be platformed: what 
 will come after the pandemic and how can we explore this from the pandemic
 ? What are the practices and poetics of contemporary electronic literature
 ? How to thrive as electronic readers and writers within the constraints o
 f platform culture? How to be critical on and of platforms? How to develop
  alternative literary platforms? What are the global dimensions? How do we
  connect and disconnect on platforms? What could and should platform e-lit
  be? How does platform culture relate to the traditions and history of ele
 ctronic literature.\n\nRegistration opens in March 2021.
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.dariah.eu/events/elo-2021-conference-and-festival-platform-
 post-pandemic
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