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Electronic Literature Organization Prizes

The ELO is proud to announce the ”The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature” and “The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature.” Below is information including guidelines for submissions for each.

“The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature”

“The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature” is an award given for the best work of criticism, of any length, on the topic of electronic literature. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from N. Katherine Hayles and others, this $1000 annual prize aims to recognize excellence in the field. The prize comes with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.

Call for Nominations: April 15-May 10

“The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature”

“The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature” is an award given for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from supporters and members of the ELO, this $1000 annual prize aims to recognize creative excellence. The prize comes with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.

Call for Nominations: April 19-May 10

Guidelines for submissions are available here.

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NMC On the Horizon > Natural User Interfaces

NMC On the Horizon > Natural User Interfaces

Join the NMC and our panel of Natural User Interfaces thought leaders on Wednesday, May 7 at 10am PT / 12pm CT/ 1pm ET (check for local time). This one-hour session will be held in the Google+ On Air platform and broadcasted live on YouTube. Participation is free for all attendees.

Natural user interfaces (NUIs) allow people to engage in virtual activities through movements, manipulating content intuitively. The idea of being able to have a completely natural interaction with devices is not new, but neither has its full potential been realized. What makes NUIs especially interesting is the burgeoning high fidelity of systems that understand gestures, facial expressions, and their nuances, as well as the convergence of gesture-sensing technology with voice recognition, which allows users to interact in an almost natural fashion, with gesture, expression, and voice communicating their intentions to devices. In this event, the panel will explore potential applications for teaching and learning.

Click here to register for the event.

 

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Director, University of Calgary Press

Libraries and Cultural Resources is currently seeking a Full-time Regular Director, University of Calgary Press.

Reporting to the Vice Provost (Libraries and Cultural Resources) and University Librarian, the Director of the University of Calgary Press works collaboratively with the Chair and members of the University of Calgary Press Editorial Board. This position requires a thorough understanding of the trends, challenges, and opportunities in the rapidly changing environment of scholarly communication. The Director works in close collaboration with colleagues in the Centre for Scholarly Communication to explore emerging technologies and new forms of publication, to create and enhance services that support digital scholarship and academic publishing for researchers on campus, and to advance the practices and reputation of the University of Calgary Press.

In addition to print books, the Press embraces open access publishing. The Press published its first open access book in 2010 and strives to publish new titles concurrently in print, open access PDF and other digital formats. It is currently engaged in a program to create open access PDFs for many of its backlist titles.

Application Deadline: May 24, 2014. See full details here.

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Professor of Game Design, Wilfred Laurier University (Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

Game design is a rapidly growing field that demands practitioners with a high degree of sophistication in understanding critical game studies along with the technical capabilities to create a finished game product or experience. A proposed program in Game Design and Development at the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University seeks a senior colleague to shape and guide the formative years of this program. Applications are being accepted for this position, beginning July 1, 2015, at the Associate or Full Professor level, subject to budgetary and program approval. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and will have academic and practical expertise in the area of games. The academic home for this position is in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences.

The deadline for receipt of materials is May 15, 2014 at 4:30 pm. See full details here.

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Lecturer, Communication & Human-Computer Interaction, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)

The Department of Communication and Media in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY invites applications for a non-tenure track one year, renewable fixed term-appointment Lecturer position in Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. The Department is home to an interdisciplinary faculty whose research broadly engages communication in technologically mediated environments and is situated within the fields of rhetoric, communication, media studies and design, game studies and design, literature, and human-computer interaction. The department offers innovative interdisciplinary degree programs that lead to the BS, MS and PhD degrees and also contributes to the interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Electronic Media Arts & Communication in partnership with the Department of the Arts.

Screening of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. Applications received by May 1, 2014 will receive full consideration. See full details here.

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“This Inspires Us 2014…” from Ars Electronica

 

This Inspires Us 2014…

by MAGDALENA LEITNER

This year’s Ars Electronica Festival is set for September 4-8. It’s being conceived as “a festival of extraordinary, creative, innovative ideas,” in the words of Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker. “This will be a celebration of people and the amazing concepts they come up with.”

Two examples of incredible projects that Gerfried Stocker cites as sources of inspiration for this year’s festival theme, “C … what it takes to change,” are Projekt Daniel and Solar Mamas. “These two examples inspire me because both have a lot to do with technology, albeit technologies that, basically, the way they’re used in these projects, are pretty simple. When it comes to finding examples of how technology can strengthen and develop human beings and communities, these two examples come to mind first of all.” And that’s reason enough to take a closer look at them.

Read about Project Daniel: Prostheses from the 3-D printer and The Solar Mamas of Rajasthan on the Ars Electronica blog.

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Projects Administrator, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub

Position: DML Projects Administrator

Department: Humanities Research Institute
Req No.: 2014-0336
Location: UCI Campus – Irvine

The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub coordinates an interdisciplinary network of researchers around the country, providing program and meeting support, organizing special events, and providing online infrastructure and communications. The position of project administrator requires strong administrative, organizational, accounting and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to take initiative and work independently in a collaborative, networked team. Responsibilities include administering and coordinating program-related activities, meetings, and events, and managing grant-funded budgets, including processing honoraria, subawards, contracts, and reimbursements. Additional responsibilities include supporting major events (e.g. the annual DML Conference), assisting with academic recruitments, and editing of grant proposal and reports. Salary range: $43,000-$53,000. Apply online. Job #2014-0336

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Enculturation, a Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture

Enculturation, a Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, announces the launch of Intermezzo, a series dedicated to publishing long essays – between 20,000 and 80,000 words – that are too long for journal publication, but too short to be a monograph. Intermezzo fills a current gap within scholarly writing by allowing writers to express themselves outside of the constraints of formal academic publishing. Intermezzo asks writers to not only consider a variety of topics from within and without academia, but to be creative in doing so. Authors are encouraged to experiment with form, style, content, and approach in order to break down the barrier between the scholarly and the creative. Authors are also encouraged to contribute to existing conversations and to create new ones.

Intermezzo essays, published as ebooks, will broadly address topics of academic and general audience interest. Longform or Longreads essays have proliferated in recent years across blogs and online magazine outlets as writers create new spaces for thought. While some scholarly presses have begun to consider the extended essay as part of their overall publishing, scholarly writing, overall, still lacks enough venues for this type of writing. Intermezzo contributes to this nascent movement by providing new spaces for scholarly writing that the academic journal and monograph cannot accommodate.

See details for submitting proposals or completed essays for review  at http://www.enculturation.net/intermezzo-announcement