Welcome Ryan House

We are very excited to announce that Ryan House will be serving as Research Assistant in ELL during spring 2016. He holds a M.A. in English from WSU Pullman and is interested in video games, science fiction and electronic literature. His main duties will be to help inventory the software and manuals in the ELL […]

Algorithmic Criticism as an Approach to Electronic Literature

  Yesterday’s talk by Dr. James O’Sullivan, entitled Algorithmic Criticism as an Approach to Electronic Literature, in celebration of the re-opening of ELL was attended by faculty and students in the CMDC program. His research outlined a novel approach to e-lit criticism, demonstrating how computer-assisted critical methods can be used to help determine the extent to which […]

Celebration of the Opening of the New ELL

On Thursday, January 14, from 5-6 p.m. we will host a celebration of the opening of the new ELL. Dr. James O’Sullivan (University of Sheffield, UK) will give a talk about his research into Electronic Literature, and we will unveil the newest vintage Mac––an Apple II. Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome. VMMC 211A […]

My newest addition–Rey

  What a computer. A Christmas gift from my tech guru Greg Philbrook for ELL. An opaque white iBook G4 laptop, circa early 2004, comes with 1.0 GHz CPU speed and 640 MB of Memory. It runs System 10.4.11, the last OS for Tiger (the OS released in 2005) but the first one to work on […]

ELL is Moving to the Skybox

After three years across the quad in the Classroom building, ELL is moving. As a matter of fact, it is moving to the CMDC’s old office, the beautiful Skybox overlooking our computer classroom. Construction is underway, as you can see from this photo, but by spring we will be moved in and fully functional. We […]

ELL Gets a New Logo

We are very pleased to announce that ELL now sports a new logo.  Created by Madeleine Brookman, a student in the CMDC Program and Research Assistant for the Pathfinders project, the logo captures the spirit of the collection.

CMDC’s Fulbright Scholar Gave Research Presentation about E-Lit

Yesterday, the CMDC’s Fulbright Scholar, Ula Pawlicka, gave her formal research presentation to the CMDC community.  A video of this presentation was prepared and uploaded to Vimeo by CMDC Alum Amalia Vacca. Since August 2014 Ula has been working in ELL researching the works referenced in her presentation.  Her work will be an important contribution […]

Curating “New Text” Exhibit at ISEA 2015

  I have been invited to curate an exhibit of electronic literature and media art for a special show at ISEA 2015 entitled “New Text.”  Eleven artists or teams of artists have been selected for this exhibit including Astrovandalistas, Silvio Lorusso and Sebastien Schmieg, Simon Groth, Jody Zellen, John Cayley and Daniel Howe, Chris Rodley and Andrew […]

Digital Media Scholar James O’Sullivan Visits ELL

Scholars dream of other scholars finding their life’s work interesting, valuable, or relevant. Most of us toil away at research for years hoping that what we do may benefit others in some way. It is always heartening to give a paper at a conference and notice that the room is full, or to check the analytics […]