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    Women’s History Month 2021

    February 28, 2021 /

    Join us in celebrating Women’s History Month 2021. This year we are highlighting the output by women working in the area of born-digital literature from all over the world. Each day we will post, on Twitter, one work by one woman artist or scholar. All works will be accessible on the web and all posts will be archived at the Electronic Literature Lab’s (ELL) website for future study. Additionally, you are welcome to nominate works to be featured. Each Sunday during the month of March, we will post links to works by women you wish to honor. To nominate, contact ELL’s Project Manager. Posts Monday, March 1 Join us today…

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    Inventorying Riding the Meridian

    February 8, 2019

    A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020

    January 12, 2020

    Linking Literature & Games

    August 21, 2019
  • Updates

    Ruffle Preservation Report #3

    February 20, 2021 /

    This third report continues with our updates about the lab’s efforts to save Flash e-lit.  What Has Been Preserved Thus Far We finished preserving the Flash works published in the Electronic Literature Collections (ELC) 1, 2 & 3, Cauldron & Net, Word Circuits, and frAme. Yesterday Andrew Thompson and Arlo Ptolemy (the Ruff Rangers, as we now call them) began implementing Ruffle to the 37 works published in the 14 volumes of Poems That Go from 2001 to 2003. Ruffle Success Rate Here is the number of Flash works we have been able to save from each of the six publications: ELC 1: 12 of 26 ELC 2: 1 of…

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    Consider It Down

    September 22, 2019

    Welcome to ELL’s 2018-19 Undergraduate Researchers for the COPE Project

    June 7, 2018

    Organizing a Collection of Electronic Literature

    December 25, 2019
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    The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations

    February 14, 2021 /

    Mariusz Pisarski and I signed a contract with Cambridge University Press this week for a book entitled, The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations, for its Digital Literary Studies Element Series, edited by Gabriel Hankins, Adam Hammond, and Katherine Bode. It will be delivered in June 2022. The book will address the growing concern about how best to maintain and extend the accessibility of early interactive novels and hypertext fiction or narratives. These forms of born-digital literature were produced before or shortly after the mainstreaming of the World Wide Web with proprietary software and on formats now obsolete. Preserving and extending them for a broad study by scholars of…

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    Introduction to Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities & Forthcoming Book Launch

    January 12, 2021

    Celebrating Our Literary Heritage

    June 17, 2020

    Inventorying Riding the Meridian

    February 8, 2019
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    Ruffle Preservation Report #2

    February 7, 2021 /

    This is second report about the work the lab is doing to preserve born-digital literature created with Adobe Flash.  Today the team (CMDC juniors Andrew Thompson and Arlo Ptolemy) finished implementing Ruffle on the works published in the Electronic Literature Collections, Volumes 1, 2 and 3. This week we will begin adding scholarly commentary to their intro pages to alert visitors about their accessibility.  Sadly, of the 235 works published in the three anthologies, only 16 could be preserved with Ruffle. Some others appear to function, but when compared to their original files (using the Pale Moon browser on a Windows computer) actually showed problems. The sound files in Maria Mencia’s “Birds…

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    Researching E-Lit and Its Printed Materials

    March 14, 2018

    Celebrating Our Literary Heritage

    June 17, 2020

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

    January 2, 2020
  • Updates

    Saving Flash Works: Report #1

    January 31, 2021 /

    This is the first of several reports from the lab about its efforts to preserve born-digital literary works produced with Adobe Flash software. Where We Are and How We Got Here If you have been following us over the last two years, you may remember that we submitted a proposal, entitled “afterflash,” to the National Endowment for the Humanities in July 2019 to use Rhizome’s Conifer to preserve the 447 works published in the 12 publications hosted on the Electronic Literature Organization’s Repository. That proposal was rejected, but it received an evaluation of three “excellent” and two “very good.” We resubmitted that proposal in July 2020 with revisions that addressed…

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    Week 3 Data Collection: The 1st Trial Run

    May 24, 2019

    A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020

    January 12, 2020

    Traversal of Rob Kendall’s A Life Set for Two

    March 18, 2018
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    Michael Joyce’s Traversal of Twilight, a Symphony

    January 20, 2021 /

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    Hacking Electronic Literature Workshop

    February 24, 2018

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

    August 11, 2019

    Saving Flash Works: Report #1

    January 31, 2021
  • Updates

    Introduction to Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities & Forthcoming Book Launch

    January 12, 2021 /

    The “Introduction” to James O’Sullivan’s and my collection of essays, Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities, has been reprinted by the Electronic Book Review. The essay lays out the argument that:  . . . electronic literature is the logical object of study for digital humanities scholars who have, by the second decade of the twenty-first century, cut their teeth on video games, interactive media, mobile technology, and social media networks; are shaped by politics of identity and culture; and able to recognize the value of storytelling and poetics in any medium. The book, published by Bloomsbury Press, will be released on January 21, 2021. James and I thank the ELO’s Editorial Board…

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    Celebrating Our Literary Heritage

    June 17, 2020

    Saving Flash Works: Report #1

    January 31, 2021

    Chapter 1 of Rebooting Electronic Literature is Released

    January 28, 2018
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    Welcome 2021 ELO Fellow Sean Braune

    January 2, 2021 /

    ELL is very pleased to welcome its 2021 ELO Fellow, Sean Braune. Sean, who will be working directly under Professor Will Luers on the publication, The Digital Review, is a scholar, writer, and filmmaker. He has authored the full-length poetry collection, Dendrite Balconies (University of Calgary Press, 2019) and the philosophy book Language Parasites: Of Phorontology (Punctum Books, 2017). He has recently completed post-production on his first feature-length film, Nuptials, which has been submitted to several international film festivals. After completing a PhD at York University, he held a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brock University. He has had theoretical work published in Postmodern Culture, Western American Literature,  Journal…

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    Announcing the Publication of Rebooting Electronic Literature!

    May 26, 2018

    The Impact of Undergraduate Research on a Field

    December 31, 2018

    Deena Larsen Is Coming!

    October 28, 2018
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    Tribute to the Flash Generation

    December 23, 2020 /

    A Toast to the Flash Generation Thursday, December 31, 2020 10 a.m.-5 p.m. PST Zoom: bit.ly/ToastToFlash Hosted by Dene Grigar, Director, Electronic Literature Lab; Digital Preservationist, Electronic Literature Organization Join us on New Year’s Eve Day to celebrate the genius of the Flash Generation when over 20 artists of Flash narratives, poetry, and essays will read and perform their works throughout the day. You are invited to drop in anytime via Zoom, experience the works, and participate in the chat and the Q&A.  The term, “Flash Generation,” coined by theorist Lev Manovich in 2005, captured the zeitgeist of a new era of cultural production when artists and writers discovered they could express their…

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    CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman

    May 6, 2018

    Deena Larsen’s Donation to ELO

    December 1, 2018

    Getting Ready for the Next Pathfinders Traversal

    July 27, 2013
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    The Electronic Literature Repository

    December 11, 2020 /

    Last Tuesday Holly and I gave a presentation at the ELO Salon hosted by Deena Larsen about the Electronic Literature Repository. The lab has been managing the site since its creation and is now in the process of moving into phase 3 of its development.  The Repository is envisioned as the next generation exhibition and preservation space that will function as an open-access, online library/museum/archival site. Created in 2018-2019 with seed funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Repository currently holds 26 collections of 2207 pieces of born-digital literary art. The works held in the Repository include a wide variety of genres, such as hypertext novels, poetry, and essays;…

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    Getting Ready for the Next Pathfinders Traversal

    July 27, 2013

    Traversal of Eric Steinhardt’s Fragment of the Dionysian Body

    October 13, 2019

    Congrats to Holly, Kathleen, Mariah, and Moneca

    April 26, 2020
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Current Exhibit
An Afternoon with afternoon: 30th Anniversary Celebration of Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story, Launch: Wednesday, July 15, 2020.

Podcasts
Listen to Traversals by and Interviews of prominent e-lit artists and scholars on our Soundcloud playlist

2020-21 Traversal Schedule
Friday, September 11, 10-11:30 am PDT: Robert DiChiara, A Sucker in Spades (1988)

Thursday, October 15, 10-11:30: Bernstein and Sweeney, The Election of 1912 (1988)

Thursday, November 12, 10-11:30: Carolyn Guyer, Quibbling (1992)

Thursday, December 3, 10-11:30: Deena Larsen, Marble Springs (1993)

Thursday, January 21, 10-11:30: Michael Joyce, Twilight: A Symphony (1996)

Thursday, February 18, 10-11:30: TBA

Thursday, March 25, 10-11:30: Kathryn Cramer, In Small & Large Pieces (1994)

Thursday, April 22, 10-11:30: Richard Smyth, Genetis: A Rhizography (1996)

Thursday, May 13, 10-11:30: Rob Swigart, Down Time (2000)

2021 DHSI Course for E-Lit Scholars “Retro Media & Machines.” Co-taught by Dene Grigar & John Durno. Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2020.  University of Victoria. 7-11 June 2021.

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People

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

Associate Director: Nicholas Schiller, MLIS, Associate Professor, Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

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

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

Videographer: David Alonzo, MFA, Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Undergraduate Researchers: Kathleen Zoller, Betsy Hanrahan, Andrew Thompson, Arlo Ptolemy, and Katya Farinsky ELO Fellow: Sean Braune (Canada) Research Affiliates: Mariusz Pisarski (Poland) and Astrid Ensslin (Norway)

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. Header graphic design by Katya Farinsky.

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