Welcome to the "Electronic Literature" Exhibit at the MLA 2012 Convention, curated by Drs. Dene Grigar, Lori Emerson, & Kathi Inman Berens

"Electronic Literature" is gallery show featuring over 100 works by artists who create multimodal literary works involving video, animation, and sound for desktop computers, virtual environments, site-specific locations, and mobile devices. These works have been carefully selected by the curators because they represent a cross-section of born digital literary work from countries like Brazil, Canada, Australia, Sweden, the UK, the US, and Spain, and highlight literary art produced from the late 1980s to the present. Thus, the exhibit aims to provide humanities scholars with the opportunity to experience, first-hand, this emergent form of literature, one that we see as an important form of expression in, as Jay David Bolter calls it, this "late age of print."

Exhibit Location and Time

"Electronic Literature" takes place in Seattle, WA, at the Washington State Convention Center in Room 609. Exhibit times are:

Thursday, 5 January, 12 noon to 7:00 p.m.
Friday, 6 January, 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, 7 January, 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Readings & Performances

In conjunction with the exhibit, a special evening of Readings & Performances by artists featured at the exhibit will take place on Friday, January 6, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Richard Hugo House, located about 1.5 miles from the convention area at 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122-2419. This event, curated by Lori Emerson, is free and open to the public.

Student Docents

Along with the curators, student docents from The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver, trained in digital media and electronic literature, will be on-hand to provide technical assistance to visitors of the exhibit and talk about the works in the show.