Electronic Literature Lab Tour at the 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities by Dene Grigar and Holly Slocum, Electronic Literature Lab, Washington State University Vancouver “Humans have contours;  so should their data.”–The ELL Team, October 2020 The Electronic Literature Lab is a media archaeology lab with a mission, since its founding in 2012, focused on human-centered 1) preservation and archiving, 2) curation, 3) documentation, and 4) production. It undertakes a lot of projects relating to those four areas, but the one we are quickly mentioning today is the development and maintenance the Electronic Literature Organization’s Electronic Literature Repository, 25 collections amounting to 2106 works of born-digital literature dating back to the…

The Electronic Literature Lab is happy to announce the forthcoming book in the Electronic Literature Series published by Bloomsbury Press, co-edited by Dene Grigar, ELL Director, and James O’Sullivan, University Cork College.   Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities:  Contexts, Forms & Practices Coming January 21, 2021 from Bloomsbury Press! ISBN-13: 978-1501363504 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities, co-edited by James O’Sullivan and Dene Grigar and published as part of Bloomsbury Press’ “Electronic Literature” series, is a collection of 32 essays by international scholars and artists that argues electronic literature is central to the humanities, particularly one focusing on questions relating to digital culture and “the symbolic representation of language, the graphical expression of…

On Indigenous Day the Electronic Literature Lab honors the work of media artist Jackson 2bears, a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia installation/ performance artist and cultural theorist from Six Nations, who is currently based in Lethbridge Alberta, Canada—Treaty 7, Blackfoot Territory. In spring 2012 Jackson served as Artist in Residence with the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. During that time he gave a multimedia performance entitled “Iron Tomahawks Episode 22, ” at the program’s launch party for its exhibition “Loud&Clear” held at the Northbank Artists Gallery. His work has been exhibited at the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal; Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC.); the Banff Centre (Banff, AB.);…

Join us for the second of nine Traversals this year, The Election of 1912, performed by authors, Mark Bernstein and Erin Sweeney. Because The Election of 1912 is the first of 48 born-digital works published by Eastgate Systems, Inc., this event should be of interest of scholars of hypertext studies, electronic literature, early digital culture, material culture, and electronic writing. Also of interest to an Americans audience is the political ramifications of the 1912 election: Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, ran against incumbent Republican president, Howard Taft, and 3rd party candidate Theodore Roosevelt of the Bull Moose Party, and won. It was the first time since 1892 that a Democrat had…

Below is the press release from Washington State University Vancouver dated 8 September 2020 about our new ELL Affiliates: https://bit.ly/2Zvv9Rl WSU Vancouver’s Electronic Literature Lab hosts two international scholars Two internationally renowned scholars will spend the 2020/21 academic year at WSU Vancouver as research affiliates in the Electronic Literature Lab. They are Astrid Ensslin, professor in digital humanities and game studies and director of media and technology studies at the University of Alberta, Canada; and Mariusz Pisarski, of the Department of Media Communication and Journalism at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland. The two will collaborate with ELL Director Dene Grigar on such projects as live-streamed performances…

Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3, co-authored by Dene Grigar, Holly Slocum, Kathleen Zoller, Nicholas Schiller, Moneca Roath, and Mariah Gwin, was released on Monday, August 31, 2020 at 8 a.m. PDT. This open-source, multimedia book produced on the Scalar platform features born digital literary works published on floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and other media formats held among the 300 in Grigar’s personal collection in the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. An annual publication, the book features selected works highlighted for a Traversal during the year.  The five works selected for Volume 3 all constitute long-form narrative writing often identified as a hypertext novel or interactive narrative. Several of them  have been deemed by critics over the…