In Honor of International Women’s Day
A Bookstore on Bissonnet St. In college my literature courses were filled with Hemingway, Bellow, Shakespeare, Pope, Vonnegut, Milton, Dryden, Hardy, Byron, Lawrence. . . . Yes, the list of men writers goes on and on. Occasionally we would read a poem by Dickenson or a novel by one of the Bronte sisters, but as […]
Reconstituting Annie Grosshans’ “The World Is Not Done Yet”
This week we kick off our new project: to reconstitute Annie Grosshans’ personal narrative, The World Is Not Done Yet. Called “[a] weblication of theoretical poetics,” the work was originally produced with Adobe Muse, another in a series of software programs––like Flash and Shockwave––that Adobe sold to the public but then later decided no longer to support. […]
Collect, Not Correct: A Response to the U.S. National Archives’ Alteration of an Image from the 2017 Women’s March
The news that the U.S. National Archives had altered an image from the 2017 Women’s March to tone down political messages and references to women’s bodies spread quickly on Twitter and generated what can be considered condemnation for the deed. On January 18, the day of the 2020 Women’s March, the U.S. National Archives posted this […]
Moving Forward in 2020
2020 marks the 8th year that our lab has been on the WSUV campus. We kick off this new year with some changes to our personnel and many, many exciting initiatives. First, we hired recent graduate, Holly Slocum, as the lab’s official Project Manager. Holly served for close to two years as an Undergraduate Researcher […]
A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020
The ELL Team, led by Holly Slocum, gave an excellent presentation at the Modern Language Association 2020 conference on Saturday, January 11. We were part of the Electronic Literature Organization’s special session, #594 “Making, Preserving, and Curating Electronic Literature.” Close to 50 people attended the six interactive demonstrations. All visited our station and looked over […]
MLA 2020 #594 Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature
Join us at session, #594 Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature, the ELO’s special session at MLA 2020. The program describes the session as: This session features interactive demonstrations about the creation, preservation, and curation of digital literary works that take advantage of the specific affordances of digital environments; participants discuss tools and strategies for making […]
List of Hypertext Literature Published by Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1988-2016
Those of you who have been following the activities taking place in the Electronic Literature Lab over the years may be aware that I have collected copies of 47 of the 48 works that Eastgate Systems, Inc. published since 1988 and validated publication dates for 20 of them. Dating works is not an easy task, […]
Organizing a Collection of Electronic Literature
One of the most satisfying experiences working in my lab is organizing a collection of electronic literature. Recently, for example, in preparation for writing an essay about Tim McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero, I went through the box of papers and disks he donated last March to the Electronic Literature Organization’s archives, which are housed […]
Getting Ready for MLA 2020
We spent the day getting ready for MLA 2020 which is taking place in Seattle, WA this year. Our session, #594 Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature, is included in the ELO’s special session and features the work we have been doing in the lab for the last year. The program describes the session as: […]
Focusing on the Feminine: Women, Literature, & Games
Curated by Mariah Gwin, Electronic Literature Lab Online version: http://dtc-wsuv.org/focusing-on-the-feminine/ “Focusing on the Feminine: Women, Literature, and Games” is an exhibit that presents women, literature, and games. It features literature, games, and hardware that date back to the mid-1980s to around 2014. Each item was inspired by prominent women and their works in relation to the […]