ELL’s James Lesperance Wins Three Awards!
James Lesperance, ELL’s programmer and a recent graduate of the DTC Vancouver department, has won three awards this spring. The first was 2nd place in the Student Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA) competition in the category of Art and Design, held on the WSU Pullman campus on March 24, 2025. His project, “Programming a […]
TedXTalk about the VR Integration in The NEXT
On March 8, Dene Grigar participated in the TedxTalk at Marshall University. The talk, entitled “Making the Virtual Real and the Real Virtual,” focused on the Virtual Reality implementation in the Viz space at The NEXT, a project partially funded by a 2024 WSU Vancouver Research Mini-Grant. Joining her on stage was Andrew Thompson, the […]
The Future of Text in XR Symposium
On Saturday, November 23, 2024, Dene Grigar and Frode Hegland (University of Southampton) co-hosted The Future of Text in XR Symposium (https://thefutureoftext.org/symposium/) at the Murdock Building in downtown Vancouver, WA. Joining us were 46 in-person and 14 online participants from the U.S., UK, Belgium, Demark, and Italy. The event was funded by the Alfred P. […]
The Future of Text in XR Symposium
On Saturday, November 23, 2024, Electronic Literature Lab’s Dene Grigar co-hosts (with Frode Hegland) The Future of Text in XR Symposium. The event, which takes place at The Murdock located at the Vancouver Waterfront, 655 W. Columbia Way, Suite 700, is associated with The Future of Text in XR project, and funded by the Alfred P. […]
Dene Grigar Received ELO’s Luesebrink Award
The Electronic Literature Lab’s founder and Director Dene Grigar, was given The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award by the International arts organization, Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). This award honors “a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field” (“ELO […]
Reconstructing & Restoring Christy Sheffield Sanford’s Red Mona
The lab finished the work to reconstruct Christy Sheffield Sanford’s work of net art, Red Mona, and restore the original website that presented it. This activity marks the first time we have done both activities to a single work of digital art to preserve it. Red Mona is a narrative based on Guy de Maupassant’s short […]
Restoring Sanford’s “Red Mona”
The Electronic Literature Lab is restoring Christy Sheffield Sanford’s “Red Mona,” a work of net art that unfolds over the course of 42 “flash-cards” containing text, images, and sound. Based on Guy de Maupassant’s story, Petit Soldat, it was exhibited in 1997 at the “Maid in Cyberspace XX” exhibition held in Montreal. Much information can be […]
Book Launch for The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction
Join us for the launch of Dene Grigar and Mariusz Pisarski’s The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations on March 22, 2024 at 8 a.m. PDT via Zoom. Particpants include editor Gabriel Hankins and artists Michael Joyce, Judy Malloy, and Stuart Moulthrop. Published by Cambridge University Press in its Element Series, the book addresses […]
Experiments with the Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro
“The Future of Text in XR” project is underway, just a month after our kick off, with the arrival of our headsets. While our project is not limited to one specific VR product, we are interested in the Apple Vision Pro as a harbinger of what is to come with the other headsets in an […]
Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh!
by Dene Grigar, Director, Electronic Literature Lab What? An exhibition of Apple products from 1984-present in celebration of Macintosh’s 40th anniversary Where? Washington State University Vancouver, second floor of the VMMC next to room 211A Who? The Electronic Literature Lab More info? Contact Dene Grigar, dgrigar@wsu.edu On January 24, 1984 the Apple Corporation released the […]