ELL @ ELO 2026
Members of the Electronic Literature Lab are involved in several activities at the forthcoming Electronic Literature Organization 2026 Conference & Media Arts Festival. Dene Grigar is curating an expanded version of the “Talan Memmott: Works on Screen” exhibition currently featured at The NEXT. Along with direct access to many of Memmott’s works, visitors will also […]
Welcome Brody Rodda to ELL
We are excited to announce that Brody Rodda, an undergraduate majoring in Digital Technology and Culture and a current ELL Fellow, received the 2026 Undergraduate Research Grant from WSU Vancouver. Starting June 1, he will be working with us to catalog all of the computers the lab owns and uses for their research. As he […]
Tending to Born-Digital Archives: Mission Statement from ELL’s 15th Anniversary Celebration
The video montage, above, produced by Holly Slocum, kicked off the lab’s 15th Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. Below are my remarks about the lab’s mission that I gave at the event. The video recording of the event is available via our Vimeo site. —– I’m a gardener at heart. I grow […]
The Irony of Preservation: Update 21 April 2026
May 8, 2026: Update on the progress of our Flash preservation work: All 680 works of Flash have been converted via Ruffle. We are now going back through The NEXT and versioning them so that the original version is listed as Version 1.0. April 28, 2026: Update on the progress of our Flash preservation work: […]
A Most Amazing Site
Websites in the early wildcatting days of dial up modems filled our monitors with zany repetitive tile pattens and delighted us with dancing hamsters and talking cows. We could program a parallel narrative in the status bar and emulate pages turning with Java Applets. A trail of ants could follow our cursor across the […]
Final Report for the SAA Catalyst Grant
Final Report: Making Shockwave Archives Accessible by Dene Grigar, PhD, Director, The Electronic Literature Lab, Washington State University Vancouver Tracking document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFS8soClkctSoFLeORqXnclTzps_KBUKfvibTaEmeto/edit?usp=sharing. This is the final report for “Making Shockwave Archives Accessible,” a project undertaken by the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. The Society of American Archivists awarded the lab the […]
Stephanie Strickland’s Traversal of “slippingglimpse”
Stephanie Strickland’s poem “slippingglimpse” was produced with Flash. The lab attempted to preserve it with Conifer, but the results were not satisfactory. We opted to include it in our Traversals this summer and were glad to have Stephanie perform it for us herself. Here is the recording of that event, which took place on Thursday, […]
Dedicating ELL’s Reading Room to Marjorie C. Luesebrink
All of us in the Electronic Literature Lab are very excited to be dedicating our Reading Room to Marjorie C. Luesebrink next Wednesday (July 23, 2025). The event starts at 1 p.m. PDT and will be recorded so that it can be accessed on the lab’s Vimeo account. We are flying her frequent collaborator and […]
Love Letters Continued
Love Letters: A Showcase of Ephemera of the Electronic Literature Organization 11-13 July 2025 Scott Library, 2nd Floor Atrium, York University Showcase Website: https://dtc-wsuv.org/projects/love-letters/ Because we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), the theme of ELO’s Conference and Media Arts Festival is “Love Letters to […]
Exhibition at the Scott Library in Toronto
Amidst the 78 Traversals we are doing this summer are the also the two exhibitions we are mounting. The first exhibition is the Jean-Pierre Balpe exhibition in Paris that we worked with our Affiliate Scholar Erika Fulop (University of Toulouse) to create. The second is called “Love Letters: A Showcase of Ephemera of the […]