Kicking Off Work on Preserving Shockwave Works

Today we are kicking off the project funded by a Society of American Archivists (SAA) Catalyst grant to preserve 78 works of media art, literature, and games held at The Next that were created with Shockwave from 1997 to 2011. The preservation method will be video playthroughs, what Stuart Moulthrop and I call “Traversals,” which […]
How to Write about Inaccessible Born-Digital Literature
Having authored critical writing about born-digital literature with Stuart Moulthrop for both the multimedia book, Pathfinders (2015) and print-based book, Traversals (2017) and, then, publishing Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 1 (2018) with the ELL Team, I’ve had much time and practice writing about born-digital literature that is inaccessible to the public. With few exceptions, the focus […]