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Fin de La condición || Bye bye La condición

I decided to migrate my blog La condición to this space hoping to streamline my work. Things should be easier this way; all my stuff in one place. I won’t delete the older site for a while, but I will...

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No Legacy || Opening Symposium

To celebrate the opening of the e-lit exhibit No Legacy || Literatura electrónica at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library, please join us in two round tables discussing critical approaches to electronic...

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Alternativas a la (ciencia) ficción en España ||Alternative (Science) Fictions

[ES] Tengo el gusto de compartir con vosotros un artículo que acabo de publicar en un especial sobre literatura electrónica en español en Letras Hispanas, “Paperless Text: Digital Storytelling in Latin...

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We Are Open! No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica

Last Friday we opened No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica (NL||LE), an exhibit curated by me and Élika Ortega now on display at the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery in Doe Library (right in the center of...

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Questions? Talk to Our Docent

Almost three weeks have passed since the opening of No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica, and while we wait for the second phase to be in place (we are working on having a website component that will...

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E-lit at the DH Faire 2016

Last Wednesday I was happy to participate at the 3rd Digital Humanities Faire at Berkeley–and I am even happier to report that the Faire was a total success! Thanks to the Berkeley DH team for making...

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The New Sentence

  Pretty words I found reading Ron Silliman. Some of them, he meant to write but didn’t get to. hallucinated dreamlike interwoven emphasis closure rhythm absence shaping syllogistic move deduce...

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#SELFIEPOETRY on Show at CODE/SWITCH

I am thrilled to share that my first set of #SELFIEPOETRY poems, part of my “Fake Art Histories and the Inscription of the Digital Self” e-lit project, will be on display at CODE/SWITCH, a multimedia...

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End of the Semester

This semester I taught two wonderful classes that are now officially over. A graduate class on the culture of the Spanish Transition to democracy, where we had the opportunity of screening some of my...

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#SELFIEPOETRY: 24_7 on Show at Print Screen Festival

My NewHive poem, 24_7, part of my ongoing, tongue-in-cheek series “WOMEN & CAPITALISM,” will be exhibited at Israel’s International Digital Arts and Culture Festival, Print Screen, this June 2016....

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Mis obsesiones online

Hace unos días los majos de New Hive me pidieron que escribiera un pequeño artículo seleccionando mi top 5 de obsesiones internaúticas. Como persona obsesiva y atormentada que soy, el top obsesivo real...

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Voces del extremo y la #selfiepoetry

La semana que viene voy a dar un par de recitales de poesía (aunque hablar de recitales suena raro, porque yo no recito y la #selfiepoetry no se deja recitar) como parte de las jornadas Voces del...

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De mutantes y de museos

En las últimas semanas he tenido la gran suerte de dar dos charlas que abarcan mis dos temas favoritos. Primero, tuve la oportunidad de retomar mi amor mutante, dando una conferencia plenaria en la...

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Nuevas prácticas poéticas? sobre ciberpoesía en Valencia

El próximo 31 de enero iré a la Universidad de Valencia a participar en el seminario Noves Pràctiques Poètiques? que organiza el agitador social, profesor y poeta David Trashumante. Para ir calentando...

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No Legacy opens in San Francisco!

[EN] I am thrilled to announce that (a mini version) of No Legacy || Literatura electrónica is going to open at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco! Starting this Thursday, up until...

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July 17: Lots of e-lit

I am still not sure when I’ll return to the States (I am finishing off my sabbatical year here in Spain, and working around my new maternity duties) so I am trying to make the most out of this European...

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Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities

I am thrilled to share with you two fantastic news in the area of electronic literature and digital humanities. First, my article “Teaching Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: A Proposal” is...

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El robot que escribía cartas de amor

Aparece hoy en El País un artículo que se pregunta si el próximo Shakespeare será un robot y se repiten el mismo debate (inútil) y los mismos miedos ante la suplantación de los seres humanos por las...

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No Legacy: una nueva reseña

Aparece en el número especial “La presencia de los ausentes” (editado por Heriberto Martínez Yépez y Mario Javier Bogarín Quintana) de la Revista de literatura mexicana contemporánea una reseña escrita...

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More e-lit at Cal: Neural Nets

As part of a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study grant that my colleague Scott Rettberg and I got, we’ll be convening a workshop this April on the fabulous topic of Electronic Literature as a...

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