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  • People
  • History
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  • 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
  • Catalog
    • Beta Catalog
    • Expanded Catalog
  • Podcasts
  • CMDC Studios
  • News

    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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    Deena Larsen’s Donation to ELO

    December 1, 2018

    Curatorial Statement for “Tear Down the Wall” Exhibition at ACM Hypertext ’19

    August 11, 2019

    2020-2021 Traversal Schedule

    August 12, 2020
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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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    Celebrating Richard Holeton’s Figurski

    May 16, 2021

    CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman

    May 6, 2018

    Coping with Bits Project Meeting

    December 20, 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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    2020-2021 Traversal Schedule

    August 12, 2020

    Deena Larsen’s Donation to ELO

    December 1, 2018

    Traversal of Carolyn Guyer’s Quibbling

    November 7, 2020
  • News

    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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    Live Playthrough/Traversal/Performance of Robert DiChiara’s “A Sucker in Spades”

    September 3, 2020

    Congrats to Nicholas Schiller

    July 30, 2018

    ELL’s Undergraduates Win Award

    April 12, 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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    List of Hypertext Literature Published by Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1988-2016

    January 2, 2020

    Inventorying Riding the Meridian

    February 8, 2019

    Project Update

    June 15, 2019
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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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    Article about ELL in Library of Congress Publication, The Signal

    November 13, 2013

    Project Update

    June 15, 2019

    Traversal of Rob Kendall’s A Life Set for Two

    March 18, 2018
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    The New Addition to ELL

    July 4, 2013 /

    My friend Jeff brought a very nice treat to the lab today: a Kodak DataShow Projection Pad, replete with a cooling fan and the original case. It works with my Apple II GS just fine, and there is some speculation that it is the very first projector a PC.  A good find there! The bad news is that I do not have a vintage projection system for the Classic, as I hoped I would have in time for the Pathfinders traversals, which starts on Tuesday, but Jeff helped me rig up a system involving Apple iSight that is quite workable. Some very good news is that the Classic that Jeff…

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    Donation of Educational Media

    June 28, 2018

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

    April 5, 2018

    Moving Forward in 2020

    January 18, 2020
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    All the Macs Are Back Home

    June 24, 2013 /

    I got my Mac Plus back yesterday from repairs, thanks to my Mac Guru, Jeff, who has been overseeing the health of my Macs for several years.  Our love (okay, obsession) for Macs continues to bind us even after he has moved on from being a student to a full-fledged, well-paid programmer.  He is my go-to guy for all things Mac at the Electronic Literature Lab. The Plus (System Code Name:  “Mr. T”) was produced from January 1986 to October 1990.  Mine was manufactured in 1988, runs System 6.0.3, and has 2K of RAM installed on it.  It came with System Finder 5.1 and could, if pressed, run System 7.5.5,…

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    The Art and Science of Hypertext

    August 8, 2018

    Planet Electronic Literature

    November 29, 2020

    Researching E-Lit and Its Printed Materials

    March 14, 2018
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    Vintage G3 iMacs Are Now Online Running Netscape Communicator

    June 20, 2013 /

    We can now show Talan Memmot’s Lexia to Perplexia and other works of electronic literature requiring Netscape Communicator in the lab, thanks to our terrific IT team and my research assistant Greg Philbrook.

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    The Art and Science of Hypertext

    August 8, 2018

    Article about ELL in Library of Congress Publication, The Signal

    November 13, 2013

    Panel Accepted for the AWP

    August 16, 2022
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    Visitors to ELL

    June 17, 2013 /

    I invited Nathan Stahlman and Jim Voorhies, from Instructional Technologies, Inc. (ITI),  to visit the lab today to show them the computers and talk about the kinds of research we do in ELL.  ITI has been partnering with the CMDC program for the last year and a half, sponsoring our 2D simulation summer study last year and our iPublishing summer study this one.  Since meeting them, they have hired five of our students and Nathan now sits on the CMDC’s Advisory Committee.  But the most important issue to mention about Nathan and Jim is that they are both geeks. So, when they saw the vintage computers, it did get them pretty…

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    Rhizome’s Linked Open Data/Wikibase Summit

    September 23, 2018

    Congrats to Nicholas Schiller

    July 30, 2018

    Mellon Report Submitted

    March 28, 2019
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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

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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