Welcoming New Post-Doc to ELL
We are very excited to announce that Monika Górska-Olesińska from the University of Opole will be coming to ELL, September 14-30, 2016, to work on her project, “The Poetry@Science in the Works of Stephanie Strickland.” Dr. Górska-Olesińska holds a PhD (2006) in Art and Humanities from Jagiellonian University in Krakow and serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and New Media at the Institute of Polish Language and Culture Studies. Her research interests include cyberculture, new media art, media theory, digital textuality, electronic literature, history of technology, the intersection of art and science. She is the author of three books and over 15 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
An Exhibit of Historical Archives of Electronic Literature
An Exhibit of Historical Archives of Electronic Literature 6-17 June 2016 McPherson Library, Special Collections & University Archives University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. From the Archives of Dene Grigar & Marjorie C. Luesebrink Curated by Faculty & Participants of DHSI 2016 Introduction to Electronic Literature Curatorial Statement It’s interesting to think about the process by which a field develops, the fertile combination of ideas, technologies, resources, and people that give birth to and sustain a different intellectual approach from what had already existed. Situated during the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the annual conference of the Electronic Literature Organization, this exhibit of historical archives from the collections of Dene Grigar and…
An Afternoon with afternoon
ELL hosted noted e-lit authors and theorists Michael Joyce and Carolyn Guyer yesterday. Joyce read from his 1987 hypertext novel afternoon: a story, and both he and Carolyn talked about their involvement in the early development of the field. The papers, CDs, diskettes you see on the table come from my own archive as well as the one sent to me by Marjorie Luesebrink in preparation for the exhibit of e-lit history at the University of Victoria. Joyce and Guyer walked the audience through each item and provided background and context on the works and events they represent. We documented over two hours of conversation and plan to include it in the…
Preparing for a Traversal with Michael Joyce
On May 3, Michael Joyce, author of important e-lit works like afternoon: a story and Twelve Blue as well as numerous books of media theory including Of Two Minds and Othermindedness, will conduct a practice Traversal and Interview of afternoon in preparing for Pathfinders, Volume 2. I will post here some of the video clips of the event. In January we held a Reader Traversal and Interview of afternoon with media scholar James O’Sullivan. The video, prepared by CMDC student, Shane Staub, was featured in the Paraules Pixelates exhibit curated by Laura Borràs and Giovanna Di Rosario, in Barcelona, Spain from 1/28-4/10/2016. Pathfinders, Volume 2 will feature, along with Joyce, M. D. Coverley and Stuart Moulthrop.
Dr. Daniela Côrtes Maduro Coming to ELL
Portuguese scholar, Dr. Daniela Côrtes Maduro, will be conducting research in ELL from May 9-June 5. Maduro earned a PhD in 2014 in Materialities of Literature from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Bremen in Germany and a Marie Curie COFUND Fellow working on the project, “Shapeshifting texts: keeping track of electronic literature.” She comes to ELL to study in our archives. She will be with us until June 5 and travel then to the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2016 conference.
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 Collection as well as assist with documenting early works of electronic literature.
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 electronic literature has evolved. His work seeks to to produce quantitative evidence to support critical interpretations on the evolution of electronic literature, develop an understanding of the electronic literary movement, while breaking new ground in the application of specific computational methods to born-digital artistry. James O’Sullivan has spent the last three years at Penn State assisting…
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 (the Skybox)
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 the Apple-Intel architecture. It’s the last one of the System Xs compatible with Mac OS 9. It is because it can run both operating systems that the computer is an important addition to the lab. In keeping with the naming convention of the computers in ELL (which, if you did not check out ELL’s catalog, follows the names of…
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 have given up our old space to the College of Business who needed the space for its MAP program. We thank everyone for their help with this move and the work it has taken.
