Coping with Bits Kick Off
After our meeting in Victoria, B.C. with our partners in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab about the Samvera installation, Leo Flores, Abby Adams, Nicholas Schiller, and I returned to Vancouver to hold the final portion of our kick off for the Coping with Bits project in the Electronic Literature Lab. Abby and Nicholas led the […]
Welcome to ELL’s 2018-19 Undergraduate Researchers for the COPE Project
For the last five years, the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) has been able to fund undergraduate researchers to work in the lab, participating in faculty research projects and undertaking their own. In 2018-19 the ELL has hired six students, four of which are able to begin this summer to work on the “A Comprehensive Online […]
Announcing the Publication of Rebooting Electronic Literature!
The Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) at Washington State University Vancouver announces the publication of their open source, multimedia book, Rebooting Electronic Literature, on June 1, 2018. Written and produced by the ELL Team––Dene Grigar, PhD; Nicholas Schiller, MLIS; Vanessa Rhodes, B.A.; Mariah Gwin, Veronica Whitney, B.A.; and Katie Bowen––the book provides scholars with access to […]
Live Stream Traversal of Mary-Kim Arnold’s “Lust”
Friday, 5/18, 2018 1-2 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in Electronic Literature Lab, WSUV Campus, VMMC 211A #elitpathfinders Experience a performance––what Stuart Moulthrop and I call a “Traversal”––of Mary-Kim Arnold’s short hypertext narrative “Lust” (1994). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured in video in the Electronic Literature Lab. […]
On Memory, Muses, and its name was Penelope
This excerpt comes from the first section of the essay I am writing for Rebooting Electronic Literature about the Live Stream Traversal of Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope, which will be released on June 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the release of Pathfinders in 2015 by Stuart Moulthrop and me. “Of these events, Muse, […]
CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman
The Electronic Literature Lab will be hosting a two-day con-fab on May 18 & 19, 2018 in preparation of the CELL Project meeting in Montréal during the ELO conference in August. Participating in the meeting are Joe Tabbi (UIC) and Davin Heckman (Winona SU), the two leaders of CELL and Board Member of the […]
Live Stream Traversal of Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope
Friday, 4/27, 2018 12 Noon-2 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in Electronic Literature Lab, WSUV Campus, VMMC 211A #elitpathfinders Experience a performance––what Stuart Moulthrop and I call a “Traversal”––of an early book-length, hypertext poem: Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope (1989, 1990, 1993). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured […]
Love and Loss in Kendall’s A Life Set for Two
We’ve all been there––well, maybe most of us––in that relationship in which neither of you want to be but too cowardly to end. Each of you dish out insults to the other and consume the other’s in return in the hope that one day they will be fed up enough to leave and you get off guilt-free. […]
Provenance & Collecting E-Lit: A Case for Human-Centered Archiving
We all know that information comprising a digital object can be studied forensically and that doing so can verify the authenticity of that object. Matthew Kirchenbaum’s Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (2008) documents this feature of digital media well with William Gibson’s Agrippa along with other examples. That is not what this post is […]
Traversal of Rob Kendall’s A Life Set for Two
Friday, 3/30, 2018 12 Noon-2 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in Electronic Literature Lab, WSUV Campus, VMMC 211A #elitpathfinders Experience a performance––what Stuart Moulthrop and I call a “Traversal”––of an early book-length, hypertext poem: Robert Kendall’s A Life Set for Two (1996). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured […]