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    • Live Stream Traversals
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  • Updates

    ELL Wins the 2022 Open Scholarship Award

    January 26, 2022 /

    The lab received the 2022 Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) for its work on ELO’s The NEXT (See https://the-next.eliterature.org). The award is given to projects that address “open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy.” In doing so, it “acknowledge and celebrate exemplary open scholarship, nominated via an open process.” Those projects given the award “demonstrate exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives.”   Here are the list of 2022 winners: Open Scholarship Awards (2022), for open scholarship carried out by…

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    Bill Bly, author of We Descend, Will Visit ELL

    September 3, 2018

    Consider It Down

    September 22, 2019

    Celebrating Richard Holeton’s Figurski

    May 16, 2021
  • Updates

    Follow the Pathfinders

    January 18, 2022 /

    We were excited to see Hannah Ackermans’s essay published in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures  (Volume 24, 2021, doi:10.20415/hyp/024.e01). Below is the abstract of her essay. One of the most fascinating aspects about it is that she uses the Pathfinders methodology in its presentation, down to the exact publishing platform, Scalar, that Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop used for their project, Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature (2015). Pathfinders has shaped the way the lab has been documenting works, including the production of the video playthroughs of Flash works we cannot preserve with Ruffle or Conifer and other forms of interactive media that involve functionality no longer accessible today, like…

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    Celebrating Richard Holeton’s Figurski

    May 16, 2021

    Saving Flash Works: Report #1

    January 31, 2021

    Completed the Development of the Metadata for Turbulence.org

    July 4, 2018
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    Welcome 2022 ELO Fellows!

    November 6, 2021 /

    The Electronic Literature Lab is so happy to welcome the two scholars from the Electronic Literature Organization’s Fellows program. They will be working remotely with the ELL Team on various projects aimed at enhancing ELO’s The NEXT and intersect with their own research agendas.  Alexandra L Martin (she/her) is a researcher and doctoral student specializing in digital literary arts, living and working in the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke. Since 2019 she has worked at the Laboratoire NT2 at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she also collaborates as a curator, notably on the exhibition S’éclipser | Phases of Resilience (2020) for the HTMlles Festival as well as Trans[creation] (2021). Her research centers on digital…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Kathryn Cramer’s In Small & Large Pieces

    October 23, 2018

    Resurrecting Flash: Hands-On Workshop

    September 23, 2021

    Bill Bly, author of We Descend, Will Visit ELL

    September 3, 2018
  • Updates

    Resurrecting Flash Workshop Report

    October 30, 2021 /

      On 27-28 October 2021 thirty-one artists and scholars from around the globe came together to learn about various methods for preserving Flash electronic literature and net art at the Resurrecting Flash Art workshop held by the lab via Zoom. The main methods we discussed were the ones the lab primarily uses for saving the Flash art for The NEXT:  Ruffle and Conifer. We also invited prominent net artist Alan Bigelow to talk about the work he has done to migrate his early Flash art to open web languages and briefly discussed video documentation and Pale Moon browser as alternative methods for making the work available to the public and…

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    Introduction to Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities & Forthcoming Book Launch

    January 12, 2021

    Richard Holeton’s Writings & Art about the 1970s Counterculture, Drugs, and Pigs

    January 11, 2019

    Planet Electronic Literature

    November 29, 2020
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    Horizon Insight: A Retrospective of the Art of M. D. Coverley

    October 21, 2021 /

    On Friday, November 5, 2021 we are launching the exhibition, Horizon Insight: A Retrospective of the Art of M. D. Coverley. Below is the schedule of the event and the curatorial statement that explains the works selected for the exhibition. To register, contact dgrigar@wsu.edu. Schedule 8:00-8:10 a.m. PST: Welcome, by Dene Grigar, Exhibition Curator 8:10-8:15 a.m. PST: Remarks of Appreciation, by N. Katherine Hayles 8:15-9:00 PST: Reading of Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day, by M. D. Coverley 9:00-9:15 PST: Curating this Retrospective: Comments about Design, Layout, and Restoration, by The Electronic Literature Lab Team 9:15-9:30 PST: Collection Highlights, by M. D. Coverley, Dene Grigar, & Richard Snyder…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Mary-Kim Arnold’s “Lust”

    May 8, 2018

    Mellon Report Submitted

    March 28, 2019

    CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman

    May 6, 2018
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    Resurrecting Flash: Hands-On Workshop

    September 23, 2021 /

    Resurrecting Flash Art Hands-on workshop hosted via Zoom by the Electronic Literature Lab with guest speaker: Alan Bigelow 28-29 October 2021; 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PST For more information, contact Dene Grigar dgrigar[at]wsu[dot]edu This 2-day, hands-on, workshop provides participants with experience for preserving Flash art using a variety of tools and methods. Participants are encouraged to bring in works of their own to save or choose from among those provided by the workshop organizers. Instruction will be provided over Zoom and Slack, with Basecamp serving as the archival space for docs and files. No previous experience with preservation is needed. At the end of the workshop, participants will have worked alone or in…

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    Deena Larsen Is Coming!

    October 28, 2018

    Live Stream Traversal of Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

    February 16, 2019

    Researching E-Lit and Its Printed Materials

    March 14, 2018
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    The Ethics of Digital Preservation: Obligation to Future Generations

    September 6, 2021 /

    This essay below is an expanded version of the one currently running in The Digital Review, Issue 2: “Critical Making, Critical Design,” a journal edited by Will Luers. Grigar’s essay lays out the ethics underlying the work we do in the Electronic Literature Lab. ———— The Ethics of Digital Preservation: Obligation to Future Generations By Dene Grigar In When We Are No More, Abby Smith Rumsey argues that culture is a “a collective form of memory” and that memory impacts not only the survival of a species but of that species’ culture (my emphasis, 13). Preserving the memory of digital culture, particularly the artistic output of that culture, involves a…

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    Inventorying Riding the Meridian

    February 8, 2019

    Live Stream Traversal of Bernstein and Sweeney’s Historical Hypertext, “The Election of 1912”

    October 13, 2020

    Mellon Report Submitted

    March 28, 2019
  • Updates

    Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 4 Goes Live!

    August 28, 2021 /

    Announcing the release of Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 4 ! This fourth volume of Rebooting Electronic Literature (REL) continues with the Electronic Literature Lab’s mission to document born-digital literary works published on floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and other media formats held among the 300 in Dene Grigar’s personal collection in the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. Since the publication of the Volume 1 in 2019, this annual publication has provided in-depth scholarly information that includes images of the physical media, videos of performances by and interviews with the authors for and critical essays about hypertext literary works no longer accessible to the public. The methodology used to document this art follows the Pathfinders…

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    Congratulating Our Graduating UG Researchers

    December 8, 2018

    Michael Joyce’s Traversal of Twilight, a Symphony

    January 20, 2021

    ELL’s Undergraduates Win Award

    April 12, 2019
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    The new Figurski… – blueprints for media translation

    July 14, 2021 /

    On July 9, the lab celebrated two major events relating to Richard Holeton’s hypertext novel, Figurski at Findhorn on Acid: the 20th anniversary of its publication on the Storyspace platform in 2001 on CD-ROM by Eastgate Systems, Inc. and the launch of the archival version Holeton commissioned the lab to produce. Speaking at the launch was prominent hypertext scholar Mariusz Pisarski. Below is the paper he read at the event. The Archival version of Figurski can be accessed at https://figurskiatfindhornonacid.com. To watch the videoclips recorded via Zoom and edited by Joel Clapp, go here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8664367. “The new Figurski…– blueprints for media translation” by Mariusz Pisarski, PhD Electronic Literature Lab Research Affiliate There is never…

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    Planet Electronic Literature

    November 29, 2020

    Project Update

    June 15, 2019

    Live Stream Traversal of Bernstein and Sweeney’s Historical Hypertext, “The Election of 1912”

    October 13, 2020
  • Updates

    Launch Party for Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

    June 29, 2021 /

    Join us for a celebration of the release of the archival version of Richard Holeton’s zany hypertext Figurski at Findhorn on Acid taking place on Friday, July 9 via Zoom, from 10-11:30 am PDT. To RSVP, contact Dene Grigar, at dgrigar @ wsu (dot) edu.    

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    Deena Larsen’s Donation to ELO

    December 1, 2018

    Upcoming Visitors to ELL

    July 26, 2013

    A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020

    January 12, 2020
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People

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

Associate Director: Dr. Richard Snyder, Blackburn Fellow, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

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

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

Post-Bacc Researchers: Kathleen Zoller, Joel Clapp, Ruth Woodcock, Andrew Thompson, Arlo Ptolemy, Ariel Wallace, Sierra O'Neal, Ahria Nicholas

ELO Fellow: Alexandra Martin, QUAM (Canada)

Research Affiliates: Mariusz Pisarski, PhD (Poland); Erika Fulop, Phd, Lancaster University (UK)

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. It is managed by Dene Grigar

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