Constant members Catherine Lenoble and An Mertens will present Algolit at the conference on Poetics of the Algorithms. During this lecture, they will share the latest discussions around automatic writing and reading machines. This comes with an overview of interesting ’algoliterary’ works and questions of authorship, reading, writing and publishing.

Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ’Unidentified’ Media is an international and bilingual conference organized by the ACME Comics Research Group and hosted by the University of Liège (Belgium), from June 16 to June 18, 2016. It focuses on interactive fiction, apps, digital comics, games, e-literature and other emerging, ’new’ media. The conference will host workshops, roundtable discussions, panels, and presentations of papers.