Members of the Electronic Literature Lab are involved in several activities at the forthcoming Electronic Literature Organization 2026 Conference & Media Arts Festival.
Dene Grigar is curating an expanded version of the “Talan Memmott: Works on Screen” exhibition currently featured at The NEXT. Along with direct access to many of Memmott’s works, visitors will also find those preserved via Traversals. Along with the 13 works already featured, the exhibition will include criticism about his work, ephemera associated with his art, and video recordings of his performances, testimonials, and commissioned essays.
Grigar is also giving a presentation, entitled “Archival Storytelling: Remembering Our Digital History.” She uses the physical and digital archives held in The NEXT’s collections as well as her own to introduce archival storytelling as a method for documenting and, thus, remembering our digital cultural history. Specifically, she focuses on the physical and digital archives belonging to the trAce Online Writing Centre as a case study for the archival storytelling methodology.
ELL is also giving the workshop, “Thinking Ahead about Your Legacy: A Workshop Aimed at Preparing Your Archives for Future Access,” provides guidance to born-digital artists and scholars about preparing digital and physical archives for long-term access.
Topics focus on:
- Archival practices
- Documenting process(es)
- Editions and versions
- File structure and naming conventions
- Archival storage materials
- Canonical copies
- Metadata
- Formats
- Finding aids and inventories
ELL team members include along with Grigar, Holly Slocum, Senior Designer and Project Manager; Greg Philbrook, Technical Specialist; James Lesperance, Digital Preservationist; and Ruth Woodcock, Metadata Specialist.
A special thank you to Holly for designing this activities poster.