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For Advanced Inquiry into Born Digital Media

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    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 3
    • Live Stream Traversals
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    • Reconstructing Kanji Kus
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    From Pathfinders to The NEXT

    November 21, 2021 /

    Dene — I’m writing from Santa Cruz, where I’m at a workshop Noah’s organized for CS and digital humanities types.  Anne Balsamo’s here, and has told me about the project you and she have discussed, to make video records of readings of early e-lit works.  I’ve agreed to help Anne draft an NEH proposal. . . .  —————- Those are the opening lines of the email message Stuart Moulthrop sent on August 27, 2012 inviting me to participate on a potential NEH project to document early electronic literature published on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. We did indeed move forward with a proposal, though Anne had dropped off the project. In…

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    Inventorying Riding the Meridian

    February 8, 2019

    A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020

    January 12, 2020

    The Art and Science of Hypertext

    August 8, 2018
  • Electronic Literature,  History,  Updates

    Woman E-Lit Event & Initiatives

    March 30, 2021 /

      Welcome to Woman E-Lit, a very special symposium that took place on March 30, 2021 during Women’s History Month celebrating women who have contributed to the field of electronic literature. It also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL). The two events intersect in that it was important to the ELL Team to celebrate the lab’s anniversary in a way that speaks to it mission––that is, to curate, document, preserve, and produce born digital literary works and other media. Hosting a symposium where women could come together to amplify achievements, provide a space of free and welcomed expression, and celebrate you, us, all of…

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    The Art and Science of Hypertext

    August 8, 2018

    Special Live Stream Traversal of Mark Bernstein’s Those Trojan Girls

    March 13, 2019

    Richard Holeton’s Writings & Art about the 1970s Counterculture, Drugs, and Pigs

    January 11, 2019
  • History,  Updates

    Celebrating 10 Years of the Electronic Literature Lab, Part 1

    March 13, 2021 /

    As I mention in the History section of this website, the idea for the Electronic Literature Lab was born out of the successful “Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions—Special Collection on loan from N. Katherine Hayles,” exhibition that I curated at ELO’s Visionary Landscapes conference held at WSUV in the summer 2008. Using legacy computers that I had collected and those lent to me by a former student in my program, Jeff Grisso, I was able to provide conference participants with the opportunity to experience, first-hand, hypertext literature and other forms of e-lit published on floppy disks on computers for which they had…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope

    April 22, 2018

    Traversal of Carolyn Guyer’s Quibbling

    November 7, 2020

    Conserving Community: The trAce Online Writing Centre

    April 6, 2020
  • History,  Updates

    Women’s History Month 2021

    February 28, 2021 /

    Join us in celebrating Women’s History Month 2021. This year we are highlighting the output by women working in the area of born-digital literature from all over the world. Each day we will post, on Twitter, one work by one woman artist or scholar. All works will be accessible on the web and all posts will be archived at the Electronic Literature Lab’s (ELL) website for future study. Additionally, you are welcome to nominate works to be featured. Each Sunday during the month of March, we will post links to works by women you wish to honor. To nominate, contact ELL’s Project Manager. Posts Monday, March 1 Join us today…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Mary-Kim Arnold’s “Lust”

    May 8, 2018

    Organizing a Collection of Electronic Literature

    December 25, 2019

    Live Stream Traversal of Kathryn Cramer’s In Small & Large Pieces

    October 23, 2018
  • Critical Essay,  History

    The Future is Yesterday

    November 22, 2020 /

    On the side of a lonely stretch of highway in a bleak part of Kansas, a man is pasting a sign on a billboard. The activity frames this episode of Season 4 of Fargo, with the phrase, “THE FUTURE is,” lingering through the storyline until it is finally punctuated at the end of the episode with the word, “NOW!” The message’s optimism and urgency screams at the viewer and belies the unseemly demise of many character’s lives (a few by tornado) during the course of the hour. The future is Now! Hurry! I pondered that message on Friday during the launch of the book, The Future of Text, and excellent symposium of…

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    Resurrecting Flash: Hands-On Workshop

    September 23, 2021

    ELL’s Undergraduates Win Award

    April 12, 2019

    The Ethics of Digital Preservation: Obligation to Future Generations

    September 6, 2021
  • History,  News,  Updates

    11 FAQs about Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story

    June 29, 2020 /

      For the past month I have been preparing for the live group reading of Michael Joyce’s hypertext novel, afternoon, a story and the paper Richard Snyder and I are giving about hypertext at the ELO 2020 conference. My research led to: identifying every available manifestation of the work renumbering past editions and organizing them with the, heretofore, unidentified editions so that there is consistency throughout all of the manifestations of the novel versioning the novel according to changes to software so that it is easier for scholars to know what tech to use when accessing it tracking down more precise publication dates through email interviews, databases, and the Internet Archive…

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    CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman

    May 6, 2018

    Article about ELL in Library of Congress Publication, The Signal

    November 13, 2013

    Announcing the Publication of Rebooting Electronic Literature!

    May 26, 2018
  • History

    “Let Her Name Be Remembered: A Final Post about the #womenofelit Project”

    March 29, 2020 /

    By Dene Grigar, Professor & Director, Electronic Literature Lab 280 women e-lit pioneers and visionaries hailing from 30 countries, 162 of which were featured on Twitter shout outs: This was the final tally for the celebration of women e-lit pioneers and visionaries the Electronic Literature Lab held during Women’s History Month. (See Appendice) The event generated from the simple desire to honor women, tell their stories, amplify their deeds, and encourage others to know about them. For the Electronic Literature Lab, such an event exemplifies one aspect of the mission of a feminist lab. That said, the impetus for this particular approach to the event––that is, honoring women e-lit pioneers…

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    Celebrating Women in E-Lit

    February 29, 2020

    Celebrating Our Literary Heritage

    June 17, 2020

    For the Love of the (Video) Game

    October 16, 2018
  • History

    Celebrating Women in E-Lit

    February 29, 2020 /

    March is National Women’s History Month and, so, in 2020 the Electronic Literature Lab celebrated the contributions women have made to the field of born digital literature, from its roots in early hypertext literature and theory to the more recent artistic practices of Virtual Reality and sensor-based haptic experiences, to name but a few. Each day we tweeted about women and the work they have done to grow the field. At the end of each day, we archived the tweets here on this site so that people could return and find them. It was a very successful event in that this blog post about the project was one of two…

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    Trans[Creation] Video Documentation Is Now Accessible

    June 28, 2021

    Inventorying Riding the Meridian

    February 8, 2019

    Data Collection, Week 4

    May 31, 2019
  • Electronic Literature,  History,  Updates

    Expanding the David Kolb Collection

    August 31, 2019 /

    On Friday, August 23, David Kolb, philosopher and author of the hypertext essay, Socrates in the Labyrinth (1994) spent the day with Astrid Ensslin and me in the lab. In the early afternoon, we held a formal event entitled, “For What Is Thinking, If Not Linear?’ – A Conversation with David Kolb, Astrid Ensslin, and Dene Grigar about Socrates in the Labyrinth, Hypertext, and the Lore of Electronic Literature,” that was videotaped by Undergraduate Researcher Moneca Roath and will be made available on Vimeo in early September. Later that afternoon, though, the three of us got together and went through the digital materials––lectures, published and unpublished hypertexts, printed essays, etc.––that David had brought…

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    Congrats to Nicholas Schiller

    July 30, 2018

    ELL Activities

    September 29, 2018

    Celebrating Women in E-Lit

    February 29, 2020

People

Director: Dr. Dene Grigar, PhD, Professor, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Associate Director: Richard Snyder, PhD Instructor, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Technical and Instructional Assistant: Greg Philbrook, B.A., The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Project Manager: Holly Slocum, B.A., The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Post-Bac Researchers: Kathleen Zoller, Joel Clapp, Ruth Woodcock

Post-Bacc Researchers: Andrew Thompson, Arlo Ptolemy, Ariel Wallace, Sierra O'Neal

ELO Fellows: Alexandra Martin, QUAM Research Affiliates: Mariusz Pisarski (Poland); Erika Fulop

This website was created by Katie Bowen, Mariah Gwin, Holly Slocum and Austin Fields. Madeleine Brookman produced the ELL logo. All custom icons were designed by Holly Slocum. It is managed by Dene Grigar

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