Provenance & Collecting E-Lit: A Case for Human-Centered Archiving
We all know that information comprising a digital object can be studied forensically and that doing so can verify the authenticity of that object. Matthew Kirchenbaum’s Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (2008) documents this feature of digital media well with William Gibson’s Agrippa along with other examples. That is not what this post is […]
Traversal of Rob Kendall’s A Life Set for Two
Friday, 3/30, 2018 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 book-length, hypertext poem: Robert Kendall’s A Life Set for Two (1996). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured […]
Researching E-Lit and Its Printed Materials
Think back. It’s 1991, and you’ve just bought yourself a home computer. It’s one of those cute, little Macintosh Classics that smile at you as it boots up. Never in your life have you ever used a computer, but now you plan to learn. You had a friend set it up for you and show […]
Prof. Élika Ortega Speaks in ELL on March 9
Professor Élika Ortega from the Department of Cultures Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University will be giving a talk on Friday, March 9, 2018, in the Electronic Literature Lab (VMMC 211A) Washington State University, Vancouver, 1-2 p.m. The title of her talk is “Binding Media: Print-Digital Literatures from Latin America.” Here is the abstract of her […]
Hacking Electronic Literature Workshop
Hacking Electronic Literature, team-taught by Riham Hosny, John Barber, and me, was a full-day, hands-on workshop on the tools used in creating electronic literature (e-lit). Hosted at RIT Dubai and sponsored by the ELO, it was the first workshop of its kind ever offered in the Arab World specifically aimed at teaching digital tools used […]
Live Stream Traversal of Red Planet by Helen Burgess
Tuesday, 2/13, 2018 1:30 p.m.-3:00 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 interactive environment, Red Planet: Scientific & Cultural Experiences with Mars (2001) by Robert Markley, Harrison Higgs, Michelle Kendrick, and Helen Burgess. This is […]
Chapter 1 of Rebooting Electronic Literature is Released
We are pleased to announce that the introduction and first chapter––featuring Sarah Smith’s hypertext novel King of Space––of Rebooting Electronic Literature is ready to access. The book, co-authored by Dene Grigar, Nicholas Schiller, Vanessa Rhodes, Veronica Whitney, Mariah Gwin, and Katie Bowen and created on the Scalar platform, will eventually contain all seven live stream Traversals […]
Traversal of Thomas M. Disch’s AMNESIA
Friday, 1/26, 2018 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: Thomas M. Disch’s AMNESIA (Electronic Arts, 1986) This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured in […]