Planet Electronic Literature
Since attending the first official Electronic Literature Organization conference held at UCLA in April 2002, called “Electronic Literature State of the Arts,” I have watched the field grow, not just in number but in reach. Founded in 1999 in the U.S. (during the rise of the World Wide Web) by Scott Rettberg, Jeff Ballowe, and […]
The Future is Yesterday
On the side of a lonely stretch of highway in a bleak part of Kansas, a man is pasting a sign on a billboard. The activity frames this episode of Season 4 of Fargo, with the phrase, “THE FUTURE is,” lingering through the storyline until it is finally punctuated at the end of the episode with […]
Traversal of Carolyn Guyer’s Quibbling
Thursday, 11/12, 2020 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. PST Live on YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/electronicliteraturelab #ELitLab Join us for a live YouTube event: A playthrough of Carolyn Guyer’s hypertext narrative Quibbling (1992, 1996). For the playthrough we’ll be using the 3.5-inch floppy disk version on a Macintosh Classic II, running System Software 7.1. Performing the work is the author […]
Expanding Metadata for Better Accessibility: Lab Tour for 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
Electronic Literature Lab Tour at the 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities by Dene Grigar and Holly Slocum, Electronic Literature Lab, Washington State University Vancouver “Humans have contours; so should their data.”–The ELL Team, October 2020 The Electronic Literature Lab is a media archaeology lab with a mission, since its founding in 2012, […]
Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Forthcoming Book!
The Electronic Literature Lab is happy to announce the forthcoming book in the Electronic Literature Series published by Bloomsbury Press, co-edited by Dene Grigar, ELL Director, and James O’Sullivan, University Cork College. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices Coming January 21, 2021 from Bloomsbury Press! ISBN-13: 978-1501363504 Electronic Literature as Digital […]
Live Stream Traversal of Bernstein and Sweeney’s Historical Hypertext, “The Election of 1912”
Thursday, 10/15, 2020 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. PDT Live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzeZQ05p_1Tli0lDBeWMxOA/live #ELitLab Join us for a live YouTube event: A playthrough of Mark Bernstein and Erin Sweeney’s historical hypertext, The Election of 1912 (1988). For the playthrough we’ll be using the 3.5-inch floppy disk on which the work was originally published and a Macintosh SE […]
Honoring Indigenous Day
On Indigenous Day the Electronic Literature Lab honors the work of media artist Jackson 2bears, a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia installation/ performance artist and cultural theorist from Six Nations, who is currently based in Lethbridge Alberta, Canada—Treaty 7, Blackfoot Territory. In spring 2012 Jackson served as Artist in Residence with the Creative Media & Digital Culture […]
Working on The Alan Sondheim Collection
Over a year ago, Alan Sondheim sent the lab five boxes of his personal papers, digital files, and other items to establish The Alan Sondheim Collection. We invited him to spend a week with us last March to go through the boxes and help with describing the material for the archives. He and his wife, […]
Traversal of Bernstein and Sweeney’s The Election of 1912
Join us for the second of nine Traversals this year, The Election of 1912, performed by authors, Mark Bernstein and Erin Sweeney. Because The Election of 1912 is the first of 48 born-digital works published by Eastgate Systems, Inc., this event should be of interest of scholars of hypertext studies, electronic literature, early digital culture, […]
Announcing ELL Affiliates, 2020-2021
Below is the press release from Washington State University Vancouver dated 8 September 2020 about our new ELL Affiliates: https://bit.ly/2Zvv9Rl WSU Vancouver’s Electronic Literature Lab hosts two international scholars Two internationally renowned scholars will spend the 2020/21 academic year at WSU Vancouver as research affiliates in the Electronic Literature Lab. They are Astrid Ensslin, professor in […]