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 to the field when it is published. The essay from which the presentation comes has already been accepted for publication by Comparative Literature and Culture, a top tier journal. We are very proud to have Ula join us and will miss her when she leaves on the 15th of this month. The periodization of the…
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 Burrell, and Christopher Vandergrift. The show will take place in August 2015. I have also signed up for an intensive week-long curating course, entitled “Curating after New Media,” led by Beryl Graham at the University of Sunderland’s London Campus. The course runs February 22-28, 2015 and includes visits with curators from the Tate, Science Museum, the…
Great Acknowledgement of ELL’s Value
Here is the post by scholar James O’Sullivan, who visited WSUV and ELL last month.
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 our research website and see that it received over a 100 hits in an afternoon. But probably the most exciting moment comes when another scholar wants to visit your lab and experience your work. So, it was when James O’Sullivan visited ELL last week. He spent the first day reading Diane Greco’s Cyborg, a work that…
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 and is giving a talk on November 13 at 2 p.m. in ELL to faculty, students, and staff about her work with the CAVE environment at Brown University. A special thank you to the English Department in Pullman for funding James’ visit.
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 Perplexia on my G3 iMac running Netscape. With the event behind us, we will our attention back to finishing the multimedia book for Pathfinders.
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 lab, to clean them and service those that needed motherboards, switches, etc. He arrived today with all but two ready for the lab. Not a minute too soon. Next Saturday WSUV is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a celebration for about 3000 people. I am opening both ELL and the MOVE Lab for tours. I…
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 Polish Philology, she spent a year at the University of Warsaw. Her masters degree was in Journalism and Social Communication, also at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn. Her master’s thesis was entitled “Category of communication in Polish cyberpoetry.” She has published one book, Cyberpoetry. Contexts and Characterization, Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków 2012. Her most important…
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 my ELO colleagues Sandy Baldwin, Davin Heckman, and Margie Luesebrink with me. We had 25 faculty members and graduate students in our course from universities in Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, and Poland. Along with the course we all read at an event organized by James O’Sullivan with whom I am collaborating on a book…
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 artist and author of We Descend––one of the five works that Stuart Moulthrop and I worked to preserve in the Pathfinders project. Bill, who drove to WSUV from Pennsylvania by way of Seattle, was on his way to Denver to visit with Deena Larsen, another pioneering electronic artist. Both will end up in Milwaukee…
