The Laboratory for Electronic Literature (LabEL) was founded in 2022 to investigate and archive electronic literature. The project is born out of a long-term partnership between KBR and the Center for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL) at UCLouvain.
What is electronic literature?
A work of interactive fiction powered by Artificial Intelligence. A twitter account publishing random extracts from Moby Dick. A poem designed to erase itself after being read once. All of these works are part of the world of electronic literature.
Electronic literature includes all digital-born literary works in which the meaning and/or the aesthetics are closely linked to the affordances of digital media. These works are multi-disciplinary and often disconcerting because they question our understanding of the concepts of ‘writing’ and ‘reading’.