ELL is very pleased to welcome its 2021 ELO Fellow, Sean Braune. Sean, who will be working directly under Professor Will Luers on the publication, The Digital Review, is a scholar, writer, and filmmaker. He has authored the full-length poetry collection, Dendrite Balconies (University of Calgary Press, 2019) and the philosophy book Language Parasites: Of Phorontology (Punctum Books, 2017). He has recently completed post-production on his first feature-length film, Nuptials, which has been submitted to several international film festivals. After completing a PhD at York University, he held a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brock University. He has had theoretical work published in Postmodern Culture, Western American Literature,  Journal…

A Toast to the Flash Generation Thursday, December 31, 2020 10 a.m.-5 p.m. PST Zoom: bit.ly/ToastToFlash Hosted by Dene Grigar, Director, Electronic Literature Lab; Digital Preservationist, Electronic Literature Organization Join us on New Year’s Eve Day to celebrate the genius of the Flash Generation when over 20 artists of Flash narratives, poetry, and essays will read and perform their works throughout the day. You are invited to drop in anytime via Zoom, experience the works, and participate in the chat and the Q&A.  The term, “Flash Generation,” coined by theorist Lev Manovich in 2005, captured the zeitgeist of a new era of cultural production when artists and writers discovered they could express their…

  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, focused on human-centered 1) preservation and archiving, 2) curation, 3) documentation, and 4) production. It undertakes a lot of projects relating to those four areas, but the one we are quickly mentioning today is the development and maintenance the Electronic Literature Organization’s Electronic Literature Repository, 25 collections amounting to 2106 works of born-digital literature dating back to the…

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 Humanities, co-edited by James O’Sullivan and Dene Grigar and published as part of Bloomsbury Press’ “Electronic Literature” series, is a collection of 32 essays by international scholars and artists that argues electronic literature is central to the humanities, particularly one focusing on questions relating to digital culture and “the symbolic representation of language, the graphical expression of…