Photos from the Naming of the Reading Room

Yesterday we held the naming of the lab’s Reading Room for Margie Luesebrink. It is now called The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Reading Room.

The event included a formal Traversal of Margie’s second interactive novel, Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day, performed by her close collaborator and friend Stephanie Strickland. Joining us online were e-lit luminaries Nick Montfort, Lai-Tze Fan, Davin Heckman, John McDaid, as well as Margie’s son Eric and Andrew Thompson, the XR Programmer from the lab. In the room we were joined by Margie’s other son Marc, e-lit artist Will Luers, lab research affiliate John Barber, and members of the lab.

Here are photos from the event. A special thank you to the lab’s Holly Slocum and the university’s photographer Trevor Gjerswold for the photos.

Stephanie and Dene performing Margie’s Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day at the celebration to name ELL’s Reading Room for Margie.

Stephanie Strickland, Marc Luesebrink, and Dene standing in front of a photograph of Margie.

Stephanie and Dene with the photo of Margie

Grigar showing a photo of Stephanie and Margie that was taken at CyberMountain

Stephanie Strickland and Grigar performing Margie’s Egypt

Strickland and Grigar after the event in front of the photo of Margie

Grigar introducing the event to the audience

Margie’s son Marc speaking at the event