ELO's Ignition: Rob, Scott, Joe and (somewhere behind the curtain) me

In this recollection—published as part of the Celebrating Joseph Tabbi gathering—Kurt Heintz chronicles the early days of a strand of the electronic literature community as it moves from Chicago's Belmont Avenue to the UCLA'S 2002 ELO Conference. In doing so, Heintz argues that, then and now, Joseph Tabbi acts a vital point of convergence for the electronic literature field.