Live Playthrough/Traversal/Performance of Robert DiChiara’s “A Sucker in Spades”
Friday, 9/11, 2020 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzeZQ05p_1Tli0lDBeWMxOA/live #ELitLab Join us for a live YouTube event: A playthrough of Robert DiChiara’s detective-adventure game, “A Sucker in Spades” (1988). For the playthrough we’ll be using the 3.5-inch floppy disk on which the work was originally published and a Macintosh Classic running System Software […]
Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3 Is Released!
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 […]
How We Spent Our Summer Vacation, or No Rest for the Wicked
The ELL Team spent some time during our weekly team meeting yesterday reflecting about the projects we took up and/or completed over the 14 weeks of the summer. As the time passed, the list grew. A frequent, “Oh, we forgot this one!” and “Oh, remember we did that, too?” produced a litany of work recounted […]
2020-2021 Traversal Schedule
Continuing with the documentation of born digital literature published on 3.5-inch floppy disks and CD-ROMs between 1986-2014, the Electronic Literature Lab is excited to announce the 2020-2021 Traversal Schedule. Additionally we are honored to be collaborating with two prominent scholars in the field––Mariusz Pisarski (Poland) and Astrid Ensslin (Canada)––in order to expand the Traversal schedule […]
Well, Now What?
Having just spent the better part of a month preparing for ACM Hypertext ’20 and ELO 2020, especially on the reading and exhibition associated with “An Afternoon with afternoon,” the question is, “Now What?” Ah, dear readers, never fear! The ELL Team has plenty to keep itself busy with. Here is the rundown as of […]
ELL Is Participating This Week in 2 Virtual Conferences
The ELL Team is involved in two virtual conferences this week: ACM Hypertext ’20 and ELO 2020. Both were meant to be co-located in Orlando, FL and hosted by the University of Central Florida. The coronavirus, however, moved them both to Zoom, Discord, and other platforms. On July 15, we are hosting the virtual […]
11 FAQs about Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story
For the past month I have been preparing for the live group reading of Michael Joyce’s hypertext novel, afternoon, a story and the paper Richard Snyder and I are giving about hypertext at the ELO 2020 conference. My research led to: identifying every available manifestation of the work renumbering past editions and organizing them with […]
Celebrating Our Literary Heritage
This year, 2020, marks the 30th anniversary of the commercial publication of Michael Joyce’s hypertext novel, afternoon, a story. While editions of it were given out at conferences and to friends in 1987 and 1989, it is 1990 that figures as the date it was sold through the publisher, Eastgate Systems, Inc. As media […]
Launch of The Digital Review
Launch of The Digital Review Thursday, June 11, 2020 10:30 a.m.-1:30 a.m. At TDR’s Twitter site: https://twitter.com/tdrbark We are very excited to announce the launch of the new journal, The Digital Review (TDR), a sibling online publication of the electronic book review, founded and edited by CMDC faculty member, Will Luers, and supported by a research grant from […]
Audio Files of Rob Swigart’s Downtime
Back in early February I began a study of Rob Swigart’s hypertext narrative Downtime, produced with Director and published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 2000. Rob had begun the work in the 80s when he was “doing tech writing for Apple” (5 Feb. 2020). I own three copies of the work: The 1st is dated […]