MLA 2020 #594 Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature
Join us at session, #594 Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature, the ELO’s special session at MLA 2020. The program describes the session as: This session features interactive demonstrations about the creation, preservation, and curation of digital literary works that take advantage of the specific affordances of digital environments; participants discuss tools and strategies for making […]
List of Hypertext Literature Published by Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1988-2016
Those of you who have been following the activities taking place in the Electronic Literature Lab over the years may be aware that I have collected copies of 47 of the 48 works that Eastgate Systems, Inc. published since 1988 and validated publication dates for 20 of them. Dating works is not an easy task, […]
Organizing a Collection of Electronic Literature
One of the most satisfying experiences working in my lab is organizing a collection of electronic literature. Recently, for example, in preparation for writing an essay about Tim McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero, I went through the box of papers and disks he donated last March to the Electronic Literature Organization’s archives, which are housed […]
Getting Ready for MLA 2020
We spent the day getting ready for MLA 2020 which is taking place in Seattle, WA this year. Our session, #594 Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature, is included in the ELO’s special session and features the work we have been doing in the lab for the last year. The program describes the session as: […]
Focusing on the Feminine: Women, Literature, & Games
Curated by Mariah Gwin, Electronic Literature Lab Online version: http://dtc-wsuv.org/focusing-on-the-feminine/ “Focusing on the Feminine: Women, Literature, and Games” is an exhibit that presents women, literature, and games. It features literature, games, and hardware that date back to the mid-1980s to around 2014. Each item was inspired by prominent women and their works in relation to the […]
Literary Mobile Apps as the Next Frontier of Digital Preservation
As many of us lament the loss of Flash, an event looming in 2020, [1] yet another frontier of digital preservation awaits us: literary mobile apps. Or shall I say, has been looming ever since Evan Young’s The Carrier (2009), the first literary mobile app, [2] went dark a few years back? Or how about the […]
Megan Heyward’s Traversal of “of day of night”
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 […]
How to Write about Inaccessible Born-Digital Literature
Having authored critical writing about born-digital literature with Stuart Moulthrop for both the multimedia book, Pathfinders (2015) and print-based book, Traversals (2017) and, then, publishing Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 1 (2018) with the ELL Team, I’ve had much time and practice writing about born-digital literature that is inaccessible to the public. With few exceptions, the focus […]
Traversal of Eric Steinhardt’s Fragment of the Dionysian Body
Performed by Dr. Anna Nacher, Fulbright-in-Residence, Winona State University Friday, 10/18/19 12 p.m.-1:00 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in the MOVE Lab, VCLS 3 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGVGeei4_zw&feature=youtu.be Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=elitpathfinders Twitter: #ELitLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electronicliteraturelab/ Join us for a Live Stream Traversal of Eric Steinhardt’s Fragment of the Dionysian Body, a hypertext essay created in 1997 […]
Announcing Anna Nacher’s Visit to ELL
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Anna Nacher to the Electronic Literature Lab to perform in a Live Stream Traversal of Eric Steinhardt’s hypertext work, Fragments of the Dionysian Body, on Friday, October 18, from 12 noon-1 p.m. Dr. Nacher is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland and a […]