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  • News,  Updates

    Collection Selected for the Recovery Hub of American Women Writers

    May 11, 2022 /

    The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection that the lab developed and curated for ELO’s The NEXT was selected for inclusion in the July 2022 showcase of the “Recovery Hub of American Women Writers.” The Collection––consisting of 66 works the artists donated to The NEXT, 32 of which were created by the artist and preserved in various methods by the lab––was peer-reviewed in a process that involved “private, actionable feedback, and a public-facing showcase” (“Email,” 2 May 2022). It is an honor for Margie’s collection to be showcased by The Hub, an organization that “supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with…

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    Resetting the Table

    August 16, 2019

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

    May 8, 2018

    Conserving Community: The trAce Online Writing Centre

    April 6, 2020
  • Updates

    Welcome Erika Fulop to ELL!

    April 30, 2022 /

    Erika Fulop, a Senior Lecturer in French at Lancaster University (UK), is a Hungarian scholar whose research focuses on “the impact of digitization and the internet on culture . . . and the modern and contemporary novel, especially metafiction and self-reflexive phenomena.” She is also a specialist in French e-lit and is working in the lab for three weeks to develop a range of projects, including a potential “The Alire Collection” at The NEXT. This journal, whose subtitle is A Relentless Literary Investigation, was begun in 1989 by Philippe Bootz, Frédéric Develay, Jean-Marie Dutey, Claude Maillard, and Tibor Papp of the Parisian group, L.A.I.R.E. (Lecture, Art, Innovation, Recherche, Écriture). As Bootz reminds…

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    Love and Loss in Kendall’s A Life Set for Two

    April 5, 2018

    Article about ELL in Library of Congress Publication, The Signal

    November 13, 2013

    The Ethics of Digital Preservation: Obligation to Future Generations

    September 6, 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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    Traversal of Rob Kendall’s A Life Set for Two

    March 18, 2018

    Why a Lab Like ELL Is Needed for Digital Preservation and Archival Research

    November 12, 2018

    Visitors to ELL

    June 17, 2013
  • Updates

    PowerBook 520 Drive Transfer

    February 24, 2022 /

    Greg Philbrook is the Technical and Instructional Specialist for the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program. Fortunately for ELL, he also serves as our Tech Guru. In that role, he designed of database for and programmed The NEXT, which has been one of our major outputs this year, one that keeps all of us (especially him) very busy. But he also helps out colleagues at the university when they are in need. Below is a blog post Greg has written that explains the most recent task he undertook for a colleague in Environment Science. It suggests why having a media archaeology lab on the WSUV campus is useful. ——————————————————————- Transferring…

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    Resetting the Table

    August 16, 2019

    Coping with Bits Kick Off

    June 21, 2018

    ELL Undergraduate Researchers Reconstitute Deena Larsen’s Kanji-Kus

    April 6, 2019
  • Updates

    Guiding Principles for The NEXT

    February 10, 2022 /

    The Guiding Principles for The NEXT by Dene Grigar One of the lab’s main activities has been creating and managing the Electronic Literature Organization’s The NEXT. Two of the The NEXT’s founders are ELL staff members, and all of the production has been done by the lab’s  faculty, staff, and students.  The evolution of The NEXT from a simple repository for born-digital literature to what is now a very complex virtual museum/library/preservation space for born-digital art and expressive writing occurred over a four-year period, 2018-2022. Most of the “Aha moments” took place during many sleepless nights of the pandemic when I found myself locked down and unable to travel (and…

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

    September 3, 2020

    Celebrating Endangered Data Week with Tim McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero

    February 23, 2019

    Moving Forward in 2020

    January 18, 2020
  • Updates

    ELL Wins the 2022 Open Scholarship Award

    January 26, 2022 /

    The lab received the 2022 Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) for its work on ELO’s The NEXT (See https://the-next.eliterature.org). The award is given to projects that address “open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy.” In doing so, it “acknowledge and celebrate exemplary open scholarship, nominated via an open process.” Those projects given the award “demonstrate exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives.”   Here are the list of 2022 winners: Open Scholarship Awards (2022), for open scholarship carried out by…

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

    April 22, 2018

    Literary Mobile Apps as the Next Frontier of Digital Preservation

    November 10, 2019

    Why a Lab Like ELL Is Needed for Digital Preservation and Archival Research

    November 12, 2018
  • Updates

    Follow the Pathfinders

    January 18, 2022 /

    We were excited to see Hannah Ackermans’s essay published in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures  (Volume 24, 2021, doi:10.20415/hyp/024.e01). Below is the abstract of her essay. One of the most fascinating aspects about it is that she uses the Pathfinders methodology in its presentation, down to the exact publishing platform, Scalar, that Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop used for their project, Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature (2015). Pathfinders has shaped the way the lab has been documenting works, including the production of the video playthroughs of Flash works we cannot preserve with Ruffle or Conifer and other forms of interactive media that involve functionality no longer accessible today, like…

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    The Art and Science of Hypertext

    August 8, 2018

    Traversal of Carolyn Guyer’s Quibbling

    November 7, 2020

    ELL’s Undergraduates Win Award

    April 12, 2019
  • Updates

    Welcome 2022 ELO Fellows!

    November 6, 2021 /

    The Electronic Literature Lab is so happy to welcome the two scholars from the Electronic Literature Organization’s Fellows program. They will be working remotely with the ELL Team on various projects aimed at enhancing ELO’s The NEXT and intersect with their own research agendas.  Alexandra L Martin (she/her) is a researcher and doctoral student specializing in digital literary arts, living and working in the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke. Since 2019 she has worked at the Laboratoire NT2 at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she also collaborates as a curator, notably on the exhibition S’éclipser | Phases of Resilience (2020) for the HTMlles Festival as well as Trans[creation] (2021). Her research centers on digital…

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    Linking Literature & Games

    August 21, 2019

    For the Love of the (Video) Game

    October 16, 2018

    Article about ELL in Library of Congress Publication, The Signal

    November 13, 2013
  • Updates

    Resurrecting Flash Workshop Report

    October 30, 2021 /

      On 27-28 October 2021 thirty-one artists and scholars from around the globe came together to learn about various methods for preserving Flash electronic literature and net art at the Resurrecting Flash Art workshop held by the lab via Zoom. The main methods we discussed were the ones the lab primarily uses for saving the Flash art for The NEXT:  Ruffle and Conifer. We also invited prominent net artist Alan Bigelow to talk about the work he has done to migrate his early Flash art to open web languages and briefly discussed video documentation and Pale Moon browser as alternative methods for making the work available to the public and…

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    Data Collection, Final Results

    June 9, 2019

    Celebrating Women in E-Lit

    February 29, 2020

    Deena Larsen’s Donation to ELO

    December 1, 2018
  • Updates

    Horizon Insight: A Retrospective of the Art of M. D. Coverley

    October 21, 2021 /

    On Friday, November 5, 2021 we are launching the exhibition, Horizon Insight: A Retrospective of the Art of M. D. Coverley. Below is the schedule of the event and the curatorial statement that explains the works selected for the exhibition. To register, contact dgrigar@wsu.edu. Schedule 8:00-8:10 a.m. PST: Welcome, by Dene Grigar, Exhibition Curator 8:10-8:15 a.m. PST: Remarks of Appreciation, by N. Katherine Hayles 8:15-9:00 PST: Reading of Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day, by M. D. Coverley 9:00-9:15 PST: Curating this Retrospective: Comments about Design, Layout, and Restoration, by The Electronic Literature Lab Team 9:15-9:30 PST: Collection Highlights, by M. D. Coverley, Dene Grigar, & Richard Snyder…

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    Saving Flash Works: Report #1

    January 31, 2021

    Curatorial Statement for “Tear Down the Wall” Exhibition at ACM Hypertext ’19

    August 11, 2019

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

    April 22, 2018
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Director: Dr. Dene Grigar, PhD, Professor, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Associate Director: Richard Snyder, PhD Instructor, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

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

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

Post-Bac Researchers: Kathleen Zoller, Joel Clapp, Ruth Woodcock

Post-Bacc Researchers: Andrew Thompson, Arlo Ptolemy, Ariel Wallace, Sierra O'Neal

ELO Fellows: Alexandra Martin, QUAM Research Affiliates: Mariusz Pisarski (Poland); Erika Fulop

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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