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    • 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
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  • News

    Richard Holeton’s Writings & Art about the 1970s Counterculture, Drugs, and Pigs

    January 11, 2019 /

    “Well, pigs, I guess.” –Richard Holeton This is the first line of Richard Holeton’s list of 11 “things I want to write about,” found among his papers, dated from 1993-1998, for his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree at San Francisco State University. The list is a collection of topics that includes the counterculture of the early 1970s; relationships between brothers as well as between fathers and sons; Star Trek (“both original and Next Generation plots”); and the murder by Theodore Streleski of his dissertation director––all of which end up in Holeton’s epic hypertext novel, Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, published in 2001 by Eastgate Systems, Inc. The work…

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    Organizing a Collection of Electronic Literature

    December 25, 2019

    A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020

    January 12, 2020

    Michael Joyce’s Traversal of Twilight, a Symphony

    January 20, 2021
  • News,  Updates

    Welcoming New Post-Doc to ELL

    July 18, 2016 /

    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.

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    Rhizome’s Linked Open Data/Wikibase Summit

    September 23, 2018

    Michael Joyce’s Traversal of Twilight, a Symphony

    January 20, 2021

    Panel Accepted for the AWP

    August 16, 2022
  • News

    An Afternoon with afternoon

    May 4, 2016 /

    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…

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    Ruffle Preservation Report #3

    February 20, 2021

    CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman

    May 6, 2018

    Week 3 Data Collection: The 1st Trial Run

    May 24, 2019
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    Dr. Daniela Côrtes Maduro Coming to ELL

    March 1, 2016 /

    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.

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    Chapter 1 of Rebooting Electronic Literature is Released

    January 28, 2018

    Richard Holeton’s Writings & Art about the 1970s Counterculture, Drugs, and Pigs

    January 11, 2019

    Organizing a Collection of Electronic Literature

    December 25, 2019
  • News

    Preparing for Visitors of the 25th Anniversary Celebration

    September 8, 2014 /

    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.

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    Visit with Claus Atzenbeck

    July 18, 2018

    ELL Undergraduate Researchers Reconstitute Deena Larsen’s Kanji-Kus

    April 6, 2019

    Saving Flash Works: Report #1

    January 31, 2021
  • News

    My Macs are Back in Time for WSUV’s 25th Anniversary Celebration

    August 31, 2014 /

    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…

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    Data Collection, Week 4

    May 31, 2019

    Live Playthrough/Traversal/Performance of Robert DiChiara’s “A Sucker in Spades”

    September 3, 2020

    Upcoming Visitors to ELL

    July 26, 2013
  • News

    Fulbright Scholar from Poland Researching in ELL

    August 17, 2014 /

    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…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

    February 16, 2019

    Celebrating Richard Holeton’s Figurski

    May 16, 2021

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

    October 23, 2018
  • News

    Invited back to DHSI for 2015

    June 14, 2014 /

    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…

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    ELL Undergraduate Researchers Reconstitute Deena Larsen’s Kanji-Kus

    April 6, 2019

    ELL Is Referenced in Holeton’s Article

    February 25, 2023

    Completed the Development of the Metadata for Turbulence.org

    July 4, 2018
  • News

    More New Vintage Computers for ELL

    June 14, 2014 /

    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…

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    Prof. Élika Ortega Speaks in ELL on March 9

    March 4, 2018

    Happy Hour Featuring Alan Bigelow

    May 17, 2020

    MIX 2023

    June 3, 2023
  • News

    Heading to DHSI 2014

    May 30, 2014 /

    ELL was in a shambles today as we packed up computers and other gear we needed for DHSI 2014 where I am teaching a week-long course in Electronic Literature with Sandy Baldwin, Margie Luesebrink, and Davin Heckman. We are taking 10 Mac Minis, iMac, my Apple IIe, Classic, and G3 iMac (my Bondi Blue baby) and setting up a lab for our participants.  Twenty-six people have signed up to attend, so it will be a busy week.  The course materials have been planned for quite a while and have been put online.  Stuart and I got rough drafts of the Pathfinders videos uploaded to our YouTube channel so that I…

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    Special Live Stream Traversal of Mark Bernstein’s Those Trojan Girls

    March 13, 2019

    Researching E-Lit and Its Printed Materials

    March 14, 2018

    Consider It Down

    September 22, 2019
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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: Kathleen Zoller, Ruth Woodcock, Andrew Thompson, Ariel Wallace, 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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