Elo25: Love Letters to the Past and Future

08/02/2025

Hey ELO folks, we hope you are still buzzing after the ELO conference this year!

As an addendum to the juried exhibition, we would like to highlight here the work ‘Howl: Elite Force Voyager Online’ by Joseph De Lappe which was unfortunately not presented in its entirety at the venue. In addition to the book that was installed, an accompanying video and printed screen shots would provide the context for De Lappe’s online gaming performance/intervention.

Those can be viewed here: https://www.delappe.net/howl-elite-force-voyager-online

"This work was my first online performance, occurring in the spring of 2001. I connected to "Elite Force Voyager Online", choosing as my character, "Allen Ginsberg" - I then proceeded to recite/type, in it's entirety, Ginsberg's seminal beat poem "Howl" using the game's text messaging system.. The entire performance took well over six hours to complete. . . I was a neutral interloper, never shooting my weapon, standing still as the chaos of the shooter game eventually results in my death. My avatar is constantly killed and reincarnated to continue the reading. I developed this concept in considering these, then new online gaming environments as a type of emergent online commons.”

Learn more about the gaming performance in the YouTube video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4J9i6jQXUg&t=1s

07/13/2025

07/13/2025

After party at the illuminarium! Come! We have an interactive signing wall !

07/11/2025

Welcome to YorkU! We hope you had wonderful waterloo workshops yesterday and are ready to take on another conference day of e-lit, art, tech, poetry, ideas, and more... so much to come, go to the SCHED platform for more details/time https://elo2025.sched.com/list/simple

07/09/2025

While we are meeting in Canada for this year’s conference, we have members joining us from across the globe. Swipe to see the list of where other ELO members are coming from. We are looking forward to having you! 🛫🌎🇨🇦

07/09/2025

ELO is only one day away! Here are some quick weather reminders for the week ahead:

Waterloo
July 10th: Becoming a mix of sun and cloud in the morning with 30 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm in the afternoon. High 27. Low 14. Clear nights.

YorkU
July 11th: Sunny. High 20. Low 19.
July 12th: Sunny. High 31. Low 20. Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Low 20.
July 13th: A mix of sun and cloud with 40 percent chance of showers. High 30. Low 17.

Schedule https://elo2025.sched.com/list/simple

🗓️July 10–13, 2025
📍University of Waterloo & York University
💻elo25.org

07/06/2025

💡Keynote Spotlight: Scott Rettberg

Join us July 11th at YorkU for a peek into the founding and history of early ELO with Scott Rettberg. Whether you’ve been here since ELO’s inception or this is your first year at the conference, you’re sure to hear something new about the rock and roll years of ELO’s past (and more to come!)

🎟️Registration reminder🎟️
visit elo25.org today to register or click the link in our bio!

07/06/2025

💡Keynote Spotlight: Libby Heaney

What is quantum computer art? And how does it differ from art made solely with digital or macroscopic physical tools? In this talk, Heaney will explore the physical phenomena of quantum superposition and entanglement, which demarcate quantum from digital tools, and argue that genuine quantum art should use these phenomena in non-binary ways.

By referencing her artworks such as Eat My Multiverse (2025), slimeQrawl (2023) and Ent- (2022), Heaney suggests that a quantum aesthetic might move beyond fixed representations of either quantum (microscopic) or classical (macroscopic) realities and into an abstracted, performative and experiential space bevond linear time.

Be sure not to miss it on Friday July 11th!

🎟️Conference Registration elo25.org or simpli.events/e/elo25

🎟️Illuminarium Afterparty (free with registration, but limited capacity) https://simpli.events/e/ELOxIlluminarium

🎟️Workshop Registration (Waterloo) https://simpli.events/e/elo25workshops

🗓️July 10–13, 2025
📍University of Waterloo & York University
💻elo25.org