Researching E-Lit and Its Printed Materials
Think back. It’s 1991, and you’ve just bought yourself a home computer. It’s one of those cute, little Macintosh Classics that smile at you as it boots up. Never in your life have you ever used a computer, but now you plan to learn. You had a friend set it up for you and show […]
Prof. Élika Ortega Speaks in ELL on March 9
Professor Élika Ortega from the Department of Cultures Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University will be giving a talk on Friday, March 9, 2018, in the Electronic Literature Lab (VMMC 211A) Washington State University, Vancouver, 1-2 p.m. The title of her talk is “Binding Media: Print-Digital Literatures from Latin America.” Here is the abstract of her […]
Hacking Electronic Literature Workshop
Hacking Electronic Literature, team-taught by Riham Hosny, John Barber, and me, was a full-day, hands-on workshop on the tools used in creating electronic literature (e-lit). Hosted at RIT Dubai and sponsored by the ELO, it was the first workshop of its kind ever offered in the Arab World specifically aimed at teaching digital tools used […]
Live Stream Traversal of Red Planet by Helen Burgess
Tuesday, 2/13, 2018 1:30 p.m.-3:00 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 interactive environment, Red Planet: Scientific & Cultural Experiences with Mars (2001) by Robert Markley, Harrison Higgs, Michelle Kendrick, and Helen Burgess. This is […]
Chapter 1 of Rebooting Electronic Literature is Released
We are pleased to announce that the introduction and first chapter––featuring Sarah Smith’s hypertext novel King of Space––of Rebooting Electronic Literature is ready to access. The book, co-authored by Dene Grigar, Nicholas Schiller, Vanessa Rhodes, Veronica Whitney, Mariah Gwin, and Katie Bowen and created on the Scalar platform, will eventually contain all seven live stream Traversals […]
Traversal of Thomas M. Disch’s AMNESIA
Friday, 1/26, 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 creative hypertext essay: Thomas M. Disch’s AMNESIA (Electronic Arts, 1986) This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured in […]
Rebooting Electronic Literature
What do you call it when you make a work that has not be readily available to the public for over a decade accessible and promote that work via social media networks and open access publishing efforts? The phrase we came up with is “rebooting,” as in restarting. Makes perfect sense since the media we […]
Saying Something about I Have Said Nothing
Yesterday we live streamed J Yellowlees Douglas’ hypertext narrative I Have Said Nothing (IHSN). Influenced by two real-life car crashes involving girlfriends of her brother Mark, Douglas’s story appears, along with Michael Joyce’s afternoon: a story [1], in W. W. Norton & Co.’s Postmodern American Fiction (1997), the only works of electronic literature ever published in one […]
Live Stream Traversal of Douglas’ “I Have Said Nothing”
Friday, 12/1, 2017 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 creative hypertext essay: Jane Yellowlees Douglas’ I Have Said Nothing (1993). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also captured […]
Notes & Observations on Rob Kendall’s “Faith”
Rob Kendall’s “Faith: An Expanding Multi-Verse in Five Movements,” created in 2001 (& published in Cauldron & Net in 2002, and ELC1 in 2006), is a philosophical poem about coming to grips with existential darkness. I had long been fascinated with Kendall’s use of movement, a strategy that both helps to underscore the poem’s theme […]