Untangling Threads in the Labyrinth
“He fought with the beast in the darkness, till the Minotaur fell down dead, and then Theseus retraced each step he had made, following the line of the thread.” — Rachael M. Nicholas, “The Minotaur” As David Kolb pointed out to the audiences who sat rapt during his Traversal of Socrates in the Labyrinth, […]
Pre-Traversal Sound Show
ELL Live Stream Traversal Pre-Show Spectacular http://www.nouspace.net/john/archive/radioelo/radioelo.html#ell2017 From 12 noon to 12:30 p.m. PDT just prior to David Kolb’s Traversal of Socrates in the Labyrinth, which begins at 12:30 p.m., ELL will feature a soundscape created by John Barber. This work is a compilation of recordings Barber gathered at the 2014 ELO conference from ELO […]
News about the Wikipedia-A-Thon
It’s called “internet time”––that is, the experience you have when you hunker down in front of your computer to work on a project and hours just fall away like minutes. Internet time is precisely what happened yesterday at the first Wikipedia-A-Thon hosted in the Electronic Literature Lab. Seven ELL Affiliates sat down at 10:15 a.m. […]
WIKIPEDIA-A-THON
WIKIPEDIA-A-THON Born Digital Preservation Series Friday, October 20, 2017, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Electronic Literature Lab, VMMC 211A Documentation is a form of preservation involving the transference of a human experience into a memory system that enables that experience to endure over a period of time and be made accessible to others. It can be carried […]
Traversal of David Kolb’s Socrates in the Labyrinth
Friday, 10/27, 2017 12 Noon-2 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in Electronic Literature Lab, WSUV Campus, VMMC 211A #elitpathfinders Experience a performance––what Stuart Moulthrop and I call a “Traversal”––of an early creative hypertext essay: David Kolb’s Socrates in the Labyrinth (Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1994). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also […]
Submitted a Proposal to INKE
The ELL team submitted a proposal to the upcoming Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) conference, entitled Beyond Open: Implementing Social Scholarship, on the topic of the Live Stream Traversals that we are experimenting with this year. The project is part of the Born Digital Preservation Series and may serve as a way to provide immediate access […]