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  • Home
  • People
  • History
  • Research Output
  • Projects
    • ELO’s The NEXT
    • Restorations & Reconstructions
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 1
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 2
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 3
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 4
    • Live Stream Traversals
    • Podcasts
    • Published Games
  • Catalog
    • Beta Catalog
    • Expanded Catalog
  • CMDC Studios
  • Electronic Literature,  History,  Updates

    Memorial for Marjorie C. Luesebrink

    November 22, 2023 /

    On November 14, the lab led the Memorial event in honor of pioneering electronic literature artist, Marjorie C. Luesebrink, or “Margie,” who wrote under the pen name M. D. Coverley. The event took place at the Tuesday Salon, hosted by Deena Larsen on behalf of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). Sixty-seven people from all over the world came to the event and many participated by sharing their stories and memories about her. Besides being a practitioner of e-lit art, Margie also served as the ELO’s second president and as a Board Member until her death. She produced two great hypertext novels, Califia (Eastgate Systems, Inc. 2000) and Egypt: The Book…

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    The Ethics of Digital Preservation: Obligation to Future Generations

    September 6, 2021

    The Impact of Undergraduate Research on a Field

    December 31, 2018

    Visitors to ELL

    June 17, 2013
  • Electronic Literature,  History,  Updates

    Treasures from the Rubenstein

    October 15, 2022 /

    by Dene Grigar After Triangle SCI 2022 ended on Thursday, I stay an additional day in Durham so that I could visit the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University again. This was my third visit to the library to do archival research into the Stephanie Strickland, Rob Kendall, and Judy Malloy Papers that the library holds. No matter how many times, though, I visit, I discover new treasures that I somehow overlooked before.  Yesterday was no different. After researching information about Kendall’s hypertext poem, “Penetration,” which along with “Dispossession” is part of his The Seasons collection (and that we are adding to the Rob Kendall Collection at The…

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    Michael Joyce’s Traversal of Twilight, a Symphony

    January 20, 2021

    Week 3 Data Collection: The 1st Trial Run

    May 24, 2019

    Saving Flash Works: Report #1

    January 31, 2021
  • Electronic Literature,  Updates

    Victory Garden, Version 5.0

    April 2, 2022 /

    “Experiencing the Garden, Again” By Dene Grigar     Since January 2022 the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) has been busy doing many reconstruction projects aimed at preserving early interactive media. One of them is Stuart Moulthrop’s hypertext novel Victory Garden, published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 1991. Over its 30 year history the work has gone through numerous updates of its software and packaging, the last one in 2002––what I call “Version 4.0 CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows Computers.” Unfortunately, that version was rendered inaccessible to Macintosh computers in 2007 when Apple upgraded to MacOS x 10.5 (Leopard). And of course, today a CD-ROM drive is no longer a common…

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    Celebrating Richard Holeton’s Figurski

    May 16, 2021

    Why I Care about Early Interactive Media

    February 22, 2020

    Finding Stephanie Strickland’s True North

    March 21, 2019
  • Electronic Literature,  History,  Updates

    Woman E-Lit Event & Initiatives

    March 30, 2021 /

      Welcome to Woman E-Lit, a very special symposium that took place on March 30, 2021 during Women’s History Month celebrating women who have contributed to the field of electronic literature. It also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL). The two events intersect in that it was important to the ELL Team to celebrate the lab’s anniversary in a way that speaks to it mission––that is, to curate, document, preserve, and produce born digital literary works and other media. Hosting a symposium where women could come together to amplify achievements, provide a space of free and welcomed expression, and celebrate you, us, all of…

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    Introduction to Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities & Forthcoming Book Launch

    January 12, 2021

    Project Update

    June 15, 2019

    Deena Larsen Is Coming!

    October 28, 2018
  • Electronic Literature,  News,  Updates

    Traversal of Carolyn Guyer’s Quibbling

    November 7, 2020 /

    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 Carolyn Guyer. Following her performance there will be a Q&A that includes the author, hypertext scholar and ELL Research Affiliate, Mariusz Pisarski, and Dene Grigar. Safety precautions due to COVID-19 means we will be using a combination of Zoom, YouTube, and OBS software to allow Guyer from New York State to remotely guide Grigar in…

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    ELL Undergraduate Researchers Reconstitute Deena Larsen’s Kanji-Kus

    April 6, 2019

    Celebrating Richard Holeton’s Figurski

    May 16, 2021

    Coping with Bits Project Meeting

    December 20, 2018
  • Electronic Literature,  Updates

    Megan Heyward’s Traversal of “of day of night”

    October 30, 2019 /

    Friday, 11/8/19 12 p.m.-1:00 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in the MOVE Lab, VCLS 3 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzeZQ05p_1Tli0lDBeWMxOA/live Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=elitpathfinders Twitter: #ELitLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electronicliteraturelab/ Join us for artist Megan Heyward’s Live Stream Traversal of her interactive, multimedia work, of day of night. Produced with Macromedia Director in 2001 and exhibited widely until its publication on CD-ROM by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 2004, the work remains the last work the company published during the 1988-2004 period.  Heyward will be performing her work on an Apple G4 iMac (2002-2004), known affectionately as the “Lampshade Mac,” using the Mac OS X version. 

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    Live Stream Traversal of Kathryn Cramer’s In Small & Large Pieces

    October 23, 2018

    Live Stream Traversal of Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope

    April 22, 2018

    Upcoming Visitors to ELL

    July 26, 2013
  • Electronic Literature,  History,  Updates

    Expanding the David Kolb Collection

    August 31, 2019 /

    On Friday, August 23, David Kolb, philosopher and author of the hypertext essay, Socrates in the Labyrinth (1994) spent the day with Astrid Ensslin and me in the lab. In the early afternoon, we held a formal event entitled, “For What Is Thinking, If Not Linear?’ – A Conversation with David Kolb, Astrid Ensslin, and Dene Grigar about Socrates in the Labyrinth, Hypertext, and the Lore of Electronic Literature,” that was videotaped by Undergraduate Researcher Moneca Roath and will be made available on Vimeo in early September. Later that afternoon, though, the three of us got together and went through the digital materials––lectures, published and unpublished hypertexts, printed essays, etc.––that David had brought…

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    Project Update

    June 15, 2019

    Data Collection, Week 4

    May 31, 2019

    Conserving Community: The trAce Online Writing Centre

    April 6, 2020
  • Electronic Literature,  Updates

    Linking Literature & Games

    August 21, 2019 /

    “Linking Literature & Games: Exploring Hypertext, Digital Fiction, & the Language of Gaming” is an exhibit curated by Mariah Gwin, an Undergraduate Researcher in the Electronic Literature Lab. Below is her curatorial statement and the list of items included in the exhibit. The URL to the archival site is http://dtc-wsuv.org/mgwin17/ensslin-exhibit. “Linking Literature and Games: Exploring Hypertext, Digital Fiction, and the Language of Gaming” presents literary games, hypertext, and digital fiction focusing on the scholarship of Astrid Ensslin, a professor from the University of Alberta specializing in Electronic Literature and Games. This exhibit features literary works, games, and hardware that date back to the mid-1980s and into the late 2000s. With…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Bernstein and Sweeney’s Historical Hypertext, “The Election of 1912”

    October 13, 2020

    Data Collection, Final Results

    June 9, 2019

    Resetting the Table

    August 16, 2019
  • Electronic Literature

    Resetting the Table

    August 16, 2019 /

    This essay is a reprint of the Introduction to the forthcoming multimedia book, The Progressive Dinner Party Restored. The author Kathleen Zoller is an Undergraduate Researcher in ELL who received a WSU Undergraduate Summer Mini-Grant to restore “The Progressive Dinner Party,” a special  collection created by Jennifer Ley, Marjorie Luesebrink, and Carolyn Guertin and published in 1999 by Riding the Meridian. In the essay Zoller explains the project and the method by which she restored the collection. The book will be released on September 1, 2019. “The Progressive Dinner Party Restored” by Kathleen Zoller The Progressive Dinner Party is a collection of 39 works selected from Carolyn Guertin’s Assemblage, a showcase of new…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Mary-Kim Arnold’s “Lust”

    May 8, 2018

    Reconstruction of Sarah Smith’s “King of Space”

    May 21, 2022

    Live Stream Traversal of Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope

    April 22, 2018
  • Electronic Literature

    Electronic Literature Preservation

    July 13, 2013 /

    I began collecting Apple computers when it occurred to me that some of the electronic literary work that I liked so much would not be accessible one day without vintage computers.  This idea came to me, unfortunately, after I had given away my own LC II and Performa and did not make an attempt to ask for the CI a family member no longer wanted.  But once the awareness set in, I collected with a vengeance:  I now own 24 vintage Macs dating back to 1983.  Yes, I have to admit I am a fan of the design, particularly of the computers that Steve Jobs had a hand in developing…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Bernstein and Sweeney’s Historical Hypertext, “The Election of 1912”

    October 13, 2020

    Visit with Claus Atzenbeck

    July 18, 2018

    Conserving Community: The trAce Online Writing Centre

    April 6, 2020

People

Director: Dr. Dene Grigar, Professor, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Associate Director: Dr. Richard Snyder, Assistant Professor, Northwest College

Technical and Instructional Assistant: Greg Philbrook, B.A., The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Project Manager & Senior Designer: Holly Slocum, B.A., The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Affiliate Scholars: John Barber, PhD (US); Mariusz Pisarski, PhD (Poland); Erika Fulop, PhD, University of Toulouse (France); Agnieszka Przybyszewska, PhD, University of Łódź (Poland)

Post-Bacc Researchers: Ruth Woodcock, Andrew Thompson, Sierra O'Neal, Ahria Nicholas

PhD & 2022 PostDoc Fellow: Madison McCartha, UC Santa Cruz

2022 ELO Fellow: Alexandra Martin, QUAM (Canada)

This website was created by Katie Bowen, Mariah Gwin, Holly Slocum and Austin Fields. Madeleine Brookman produced the ELL logo. All custom icons were designed by Holly Slocum. It is managed by Dene Grigar

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