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  • Home
  • People
  • History
  • Research Output
  • Projects
    • ELO’s The NEXT
    • Restorations & Reconstructions
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 1
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 2
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 3
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 4
    • Live Stream Traversals
    • Podcasts
    • Published Games
  • Catalog
    • Beta Catalog
    • Expanded Catalog
  • CMDC Studios
  • News

    An Afternoon with afternoon

    May 4, 2016 /

    ELL hosted noted e-lit authors and theorists Michael Joyce and Carolyn Guyer yesterday. Joyce read from his 1987 hypertext novel afternoon: a story, and both he and Carolyn talked about their involvement in the early development of the field. The papers, CDs, diskettes you see on the table come from my own archive as well as the one sent to me by Marjorie Luesebrink in preparation for the exhibit of e-lit history at the University of Victoria. Joyce and Guyer walked the audience through each item and provided background and context on the works and events they represent. We documented over two hours of conversation and plan to include it in the…

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    February 25, 2023

    Celebrating Women in E-Lit

    February 29, 2020

    Congrats to Nicholas Schiller

    July 30, 2018
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    Dr. Daniela Côrtes Maduro Coming to ELL

    March 1, 2016 /

    Portuguese scholar, Dr. Daniela Côrtes Maduro, will be conducting research in ELL from May 9-June 5. Maduro earned a PhD in 2014 in Materialities of Literature from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Bremen in Germany and a Marie Curie COFUND Fellow working on the project, “Shapeshifting texts: keeping track of electronic literature.” She comes to ELL to study in our archives. She will be with us until June 5 and travel then to the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2016 conference.

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    Provenance & Collecting E-Lit: A Case for Human-Centered Archiving

    March 25, 2018

    Moving Forward in 2020

    January 18, 2020

    Donation of Educational Media

    June 28, 2018
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    Preparing for Visitors of the 25th Anniversary Celebration

    September 8, 2014 /

    ELL was one of a handful of labs open on Saturday, September 6, for WSUV’s 25th Anniversary Celebration.  We showed many of the works of electronic literature featured in Pathfinders, like Victory Garden and Uncle Roger, as well as other others we thought the public would enjoy.  Among the favorites were Talan Memmott’s Lexia to Perplexia on my G3 iMac running Netscape.  With the event behind us, we will our attention back to finishing the multimedia book for Pathfinders.

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    Introduction to Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities & Forthcoming Book Launch

    January 12, 2021

    Donation of Educational Media

    June 28, 2018

    Love and Loss in Kendall’s A Life Set for Two

    April 5, 2018
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    My Macs are Back in Time for WSUV’s 25th Anniversary Celebration

    August 31, 2014 /

    You may remember that Bill Bly, electronic literature artist and author of We Descend, gave me a car full of Macs last summer when he visited me on the way to Milwaukee, MI to the ELO 2014 conference. I asked Jeff, my former student and resident Mac hardware guru who fixes the Macs in my lab, to clean them and service those that needed motherboards, switches, etc.  He arrived today with all but two ready for the lab. Not a minute too soon.  Next Saturday WSUV is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a celebration for about 3000 people.  I am opening both ELL and the MOVE Lab for tours.  I…

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    A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020

    January 12, 2020

    ELL Undergraduate Researchers Reconstitute Deena Larsen’s Kanji-Kus

    April 6, 2019

    Literary Mobile Apps as the Next Frontier of Digital Preservation

    November 10, 2019
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    Fulbright Scholar from Poland Researching in ELL

    August 17, 2014 /

    Urszula Pawlicka, a doctoral candidate  from the University of Warmia and Mazury, located in Olsztyn, Poland, has come to the CMDC program as a Fulbright scholar to study electronic literature and cyberculture with Dr. Dene Grigar, becoming the first ELL Visiting Scholar.  “Ula,” as she is called, comes with extensive training.  After completing the first stage of Polish Philology, she spent a year at the University of Warsaw.  Her masters degree was in Journalism and Social Communication, also at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn. Her master’s thesis was entitled “Category of communication in Polish cyberpoetry.”  She has published one book, Cyberpoetry. Contexts and Characterization, Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków 2012.  Her most important…

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    Reconstruction of Sarah Smith’s “King of Space”

    May 21, 2022

    Completed the Development of the Metadata for Turbulence.org

    July 4, 2018

    Love and Loss in Kendall’s A Life Set for Two

    April 5, 2018
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    Invited back to DHSI for 2015

    June 14, 2014 /

    I was very happy to receive the invitation, today, from Ray Siemens to return to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute next summer at the University of Victoria, to teach the course in electronic literature again.  This will make the 4th year in a row that I have taught at the institute. This year I brought my ELO colleagues Sandy Baldwin, Davin Heckman, and Margie Luesebrink with me.  We had 25 faculty members and graduate students in our course from universities in Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, and Poland. Along with the course we all read at an event organized by James O’Sullivan with whom I am collaborating on a book…

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    Planet Electronic Literature

    November 29, 2020

    ELL Is Referenced in Holeton’s Article

    February 25, 2023

    The Impact of Undergraduate Research on a Field

    December 31, 2018
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    More New Vintage Computers for ELL

    June 14, 2014 /

    The trunk to the black PF Cruiser popped open to reveal a pile of vintage computers, keyboards, boxes of software and other tech goodies destined for ELL.  In the car’s backseat was another mound of vintage tech.  The man who provided this “Christmas in June” experience was none other than Bill Bly, pioneering electronic literature artist and author of We Descend––one of the five works that Stuart Moulthrop and I worked to preserve in the Pathfinders project.   Bill, who drove to WSUV from Pennsylvania by way of Seattle, was on his way to Denver to visit with Deena Larsen, another pioneering electronic artist.  Both will end up in Milwaukee…

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    ELL’s Undergraduates Win Award

    April 12, 2019

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

    January 11, 2019

    Launch of The Digital Review

    June 9, 2020
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    Heading to DHSI 2014

    May 30, 2014 /

    ELL was in a shambles today as we packed up computers and other gear we needed for DHSI 2014 where I am teaching a week-long course in Electronic Literature with Sandy Baldwin, Margie Luesebrink, and Davin Heckman. We are taking 10 Mac Minis, iMac, my Apple IIe, Classic, and G3 iMac (my Bondi Blue baby) and setting up a lab for our participants.  Twenty-six people have signed up to attend, so it will be a busy week.  The course materials have been planned for quite a while and have been put online.  Stuart and I got rough drafts of the Pathfinders videos uploaded to our YouTube channel so that I…

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    Launch Party for Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

    June 29, 2021

    Happy Hour Featuring Alan Bigelow

    May 17, 2020

    Data Collection, Week 4

    May 31, 2019
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    Getting Ready for the Next Pathfinders Traversal

    July 27, 2013 /

    The Electronic Literature Lab is the site where the research for Pathfinders:  Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature is taking place.  The project extends the notion of digital preservation by developing a method that captures not just the content of a work of electronic literature but also attempts to recreate the experience readers had when they encountered the work at the time of its publication.  We have selected four artists at this stage of our research:  Stuart Moulthrop, John McDaid, Judy Malloy, and Shelley Jackson.  Each author is asked to come to ELL and, using the vintage Mac on which the work had been originally been read, the artist…

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    Data Collection, Week 4

    May 31, 2019

    Working on The Alan Sondheim Collection

    October 4, 2020

    Congratulating Our Graduating UG Researchers

    December 8, 2018
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    Upcoming Visitors to ELL

    July 26, 2013 /

    We are hosting two tours of ELL during the month of August. The first is scheduled for the 30+ members of the Seattle Metro Chamber Leadership Trip to SWWA on Thursday, August 1, from 4:00-5:00 p.m.  This event is sponsored by the Columbia River Economic Development Council. The second is a tour of various members of the state and federal legislators on Tuesday, August 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. It is such a great opportunity to highlight the work of the department to so many different people.

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    Why Collecting Is Important

    November 23, 2018

    Mellon Report Submitted

    March 28, 2019

    Traversal of Rob Kendall’s A Life Set for Two

    March 18, 2018
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People

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

Associate Director: Dr. Richard Snyder, Blackburn Fellow, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

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

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

Post-Bacc Researchers: Kathleen Zoller, Joel Clapp, Ruth Woodcock, Andrew Thompson, Arlo Ptolemy, Ariel Wallace, Sierra O'Neal, Ahria Nicholas, Stratton Slater, Danny Blanchard

PhD & 2022 PostDoc Fellow: Madison McCartha, UC Santa Cruz

2022 ELO Fellow: Alexandra Martin, QUAM (Canada)

Research Affiliates: Mariusz Pisarski, PhD (Poland); Erika Fulop, Phd, Lancaster University (UK; Agnieszka Przybyszewska, PhD, University of Łódź (Poland)

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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