James O’Sullivan and Jeneen Naji Will Visit ELL
We are very excited to have our DH colleagues, James O’Sullivan and Jeneen Naji, visit in November. James arrives on November 5th to work with me on the proposal for our book on electronic literature. We are holding a formal reception for James on Thursday at 5 p.m. in ELL. Jeneen visits from November 12-15 […]
Preparing for Visitors of the 25th Anniversary Celebration
ELL was one of a handful of labs open on Saturday, September 6, for WSUV’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. We showed many of the works of electronic literature featured in Pathfinders, like Victory Garden and Uncle Roger, as well as other others we thought the public would enjoy. Among the favorites were Talan Memmott’s Lexia to […]
My Macs are Back in Time for WSUV’s 25th Anniversary Celebration
You may remember that Bill Bly, electronic literature artist and author of We Descend, gave me a car full of Macs last summer when he visited me on the way to Milwaukee, MI to the ELO 2014 conference. I asked Jeff, my former student and resident Mac hardware guru who fixes the Macs in my […]
Fulbright Scholar from Poland Researching in ELL
Urszula Pawlicka, a doctoral candidate from the University of Warmia and Mazury, located in Olsztyn, Poland, has come to the CMDC program as a Fulbright scholar to study electronic literature and cyberculture with Dr. Dene Grigar, becoming the first ELL Visiting Scholar. “Ula,” as she is called, comes with extensive training. After completing the first stage of […]
Invited back to DHSI for 2015
I was very happy to receive the invitation, today, from Ray Siemens to return to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute next summer at the University of Victoria, to teach the course in electronic literature again. This will make the 4th year in a row that I have taught at the institute. This year I brought […]
More New Vintage Computers for ELL
The trunk to the black PF Cruiser popped open to reveal a pile of vintage computers, keyboards, boxes of software and other tech goodies destined for ELL. In the car’s backseat was another mound of vintage tech. The man who provided this “Christmas in June” experience was none other than Bill Bly, pioneering electronic literature […]
Heading to DHSI 2014
ELL was in a shambles today as we packed up computers and other gear we needed for DHSI 2014 where I am teaching a week-long course in Electronic Literature with Sandy Baldwin, Margie Luesebrink, and Davin Heckman. We are taking 10 Mac Minis, iMac, my Apple IIe, Classic, and G3 iMac (my Bondi Blue baby) […]
Photos from Moving Words
Moving Words: An Exploration of Kinetic Poetry and Prose, 1984-2014 is in its final days, but I wanted to post the images from the launch party that took place on Thursday, March 13. A special thank you to Jeneen Nagi, who invited me to curate this exhibit and who did so much to make it […]
ELL’s Online Catalog
For the past year members of ELL’s staff have been working to catalog all of the works of e-lit and computers available in the lab. Last summer Setareh Alizadeh meticulously organized the stacks and stacks of CDs, hypertext folios, floppies, and diskettes into a discernible collection of works dating back over two decades. Amalia Vacca […]
“The Art of Moving Words”
This post constitutes the curatorial statement for the exhibit built in ELL for the National University of Ireland Maynooth entitled Moving Words: Kinetic Poetry and Prose, 1984-2014. The exhibit opened on Thursday, March 14 at 5:30 at Illuminations Gallery. I was invited by electronic literature scholar and Director of Illuminations Jeneen Naji, PhD to create this […]