E-Lit Scholar Astrid Ensslin Visits ELL

We are very excited about the arrival of e-lit scholar Astrid Ensslin to ELL, who will be doing research on the Eastgate Quarterly Reviews of Hypertext from August 14-28, 2019. The lab holds copies of all eight documented copies published by the company. Professor Ensslin is Professor in Digital Humanities and Game Studies at the University of […]

Paper Given at IAUPE 2019

Paper given by Dene Grigar at the 2019 International Association of University Professors of English Conference, Poznan, Poland. Kinetic Poetry: Poetry animated through the affordances of the computer environment, specifically programming languages like Apple BASIC, Visual Basic, and Javascript and software programs like Flash, Shockwave, After Effects, and others. Kinepoeia: “Movement suggested by the textual […]

President’s Final Remarks

Below are the remarks given at ELO 2019 by Dene Grigar, President, ELO, 2013-2019. 16 July 2019   Three years ago, the founders of Turbulence.org, Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green, put out a call on social media for support with hosting its prodigious archives of 344 works of net art that date back from 1996. […]

Afterflash

  Proposal for the 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Implementation Grant Dene Grigar, Principal Investigator; Professor, WSUV Holly Slocum, Project Manager; WSUV Nicholas Schiller, Consultant; Librarian III, WSU Libraries, WSUV Dragan Espenschied, Consultant; Preservation Director, Rhizome Greg Philbrook, Technical Support; Technical and Instructional Support II, WSUV List of works we propose […]

Kinepoeia in Animated Poetry

Paper given by Dene Grigar at the 2019 International Association of University Professors of English Conference, Poznan, Poland. Kinetic Poetry: Poetry animated through the affordances of the computer environment, specifically programming languages like Apple BASIC, Visual Basic, and Javascript and software programs like Flash, Shockwave, After Effects, and others. Kinepoeia: “Movement suggested by the textual […]

Sustaining Digital Vitalism: A Live Stream Traversal of Michael J. Maguire’s Work

    Join us for a Traversal of Digital Vitalism featuring its author Michael Maguire   Led by Dene Grigar, Stuart Moulthrop, John Barber, and David Alonzo at the Electronic Literature Organization 2019 Conference and Media Art Festival 17 July 2019 1:30-3:00 p.m. University Cork College DH Learning Space, Food Science Building 4.58 Digital Vitalism: […]

Finishing Up the Grant to Preserve Flash and Shockwave E-Lit Works

Since late April I have been working on a grant submission that would provide funding for the ELL Team to use Rhizome.org’s Webrecorder to preserve electronic literature works produced with Flash and Shockwave from 1996-2016 that are archived in the 12 journals, anthologies, and showcases held in the ELO Repository.  WSUV gave me seed funding so […]

ELL Welcomes Two ELO Fellows

The Electronic Literature Lab welcomes two Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Fellows in 2019-2020. They are Dr. Amy Spencer, a post-doctoral research assistant at Bath Spa University in the UK, and Julia Polyck-O’Neill, a Canadian artist, curator, critic, and writer completing her doctorate in Brock University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities program. Both researchers will work under the mentorship […]

Project Update

With Holly and Kathleen finalizing the list of 447 Flash and Shockwave works held in the ELO Repository and Greg finishing up the copying of the 75 Voyager CD-ROMS that Bob Stein shared with us during his visit in March, the ELL Team is turning its attention to the completion of several other projects. They […]