Our Team & Acknowledgements - ELO25 @ 25: Love letters to the Past and the Future
Our Team & Acknowledgements Core Organizing Team Caitlin Fisher (co-chair) Lai-Tze Fan (co-chair) Renee Downey Karmvir Padda Alison Humphrey * Social Media Co-ordinator: Stella-Charles Fisher Juried ELO25@25 Exhibition Curators Melanie Wilmink Joel Ong Team WM Michael Irwin David Han Alexandra Verrilli Amy Cooper Timothy Nicodemo * Virtual Intrigue and Ephemeral Ruptures Exhibition Curators Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning Mary Bunch Installation/De-install Team Jadah- Leigh Wyatt Mich Pan Jarina Young Docents Harshani Ajanthal Jadah- Leigh Wyatt Fatma Ozen Mich Pan Jarina Young Further Acknowledgements Presented by the Peripheral Visions Co-Lab, Virtual Intrigue and Ephemeral Ruptures was undertaken thanks in part to funding from the Connected Minds Program, supported by Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Grant #CFREF-2022-00010″. Led by York University in partnership with Queen’s University, Connected Minds is a first-of-its-kind research program that studies the risks and benefits modern technology has on society, now and in the future. Thank you to our sponsors at York University, including Connected Minds, Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, The Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, The Department of Cinema and Media Arts and the Media Arts Program at York University as well as the the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. * Love Letters Exhibition Curator Dene Grigar Further Acknowledgements Holly Slocum, who designed the logo for the exhibition (based on her design for the conference branding) and the development of the exhibition website Greg Philbrook, who manages all aspects of the lab’s (and ELO’s) servers Andrew Thompson, who programmed the exhibition website’s special effects via JavaScript The rest of the Electronic Literature Lab members, who provided so much labor to The NEXT and all we do for the preservation, curation, and conservation of electronic literature. * Thank you to our Volunteers Oriana Confente Hannah Vines Brooke Sutcliffe Leah Greaves Harshpreet Mann Noah Desario Maddie Cranston Onella De Zilva * The Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival 2025 (ELO25@25) would like to thank the following organizations and bodies for their support, without which this event would not be possible. – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Connection Grant program (project #611-2024-0620) – School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD), York University – Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo – The Games Institute, University of Waterloo – U&AI Lab, University of Waterloo – Immersive Storytelling Lab, York University – Peripheral Visions Co-Lab, York University – Media Arts Futures, York University – Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University – York University Libraries – Connected Minds, York University – The Vector Media Arts Festival – Associate Dean of Research Ana Ferrer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo – Mary Culham at the TRuST Scholarly Network, University of Waterloo – Agata Antkiewicz at the Games Institute, University of Waterloo