News about the Wikipedia-A-Thon
It’s called “internet time”––that is, the experience you have when you hunker down in front of your computer to work on a project and hours just fall away like minutes. Internet time is precisely what happened yesterday at the first Wikipedia-A-Thon hosted in the Electronic Literature Lab. Seven ELL Affiliates sat down at 10:15 a.m. […]
WIKIPEDIA-A-THON
WIKIPEDIA-A-THON Born Digital Preservation Series Friday, October 20, 2017, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Electronic Literature Lab, VMMC 211A Documentation is a form of preservation involving the transference of a human experience into a memory system that enables that experience to endure over a period of time and be made accessible to others. It can be carried […]
Traversal of David Kolb’s Socrates in the Labyrinth
Friday, 10/27, 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: David Kolb’s Socrates in the Labyrinth (Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1994). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also […]
Submitted a Proposal to INKE
The ELL team submitted a proposal to the upcoming Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) conference, entitled Beyond Open: Implementing Social Scholarship, on the topic of the Live Stream Traversals that we are experimenting with this year. The project is part of the Born Digital Preservation Series and may serve as a way to provide immediate access […]
Traversal of Sarah Smith’s King of Space
Friday, 9/29, 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 the first science fiction hypertext narrative: Sarah Smith’s King of Space (Eastgate Systems, Inc., 1991). This is a live performance streamed on YouTube and also […]
Curatorial Statement for “Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 Years into the Future”
First, some background . . . This curatorial statement explains the conceptual framework that grounds the exhibit, “Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 Years into the Future” curated on September 15, 2017 at the British Computer Society, London, England. Sponsors include the Computer Arts Society, Electronic Literature Organization, British Computer Society, Ravensbourne College, UC Boulder, and Washington State University. […]
An Argument for Studying Past Platforms
I’m reading Barbara Tuchman’s Notes from China (Random House 2017) from her years studying in Asia in 1935 and again in 1972. In her introduction she makes a comment that strikes me as applicable to the work that many of us do in media archaeology labs. She says, “I like to suggest that if a historian […]
That Darn USB Format
I had a very simple problem to solve: How can works of e-lit published on USB sticks be stored with other works produced on floppies, diskettes, and CD-ROMs without the sticks getting lost on the shelf? ––I mean, I had already lost a copy of Jackson’s Patchwork Girl purchased when it was first released and […]
ELL History
ELL History The idea of developing a lab for scholars to experience electronic literature on computers for which works were originally produced was born out of my own collection of computers and works begun at my home in the mid-1990s. I expanded the idea with the exhibit, entitled “Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate […]
From the MoMA Library
In September 2016 I posted on the Pathfinders blog about my visit to the library at the Museum of Modern Art where works of Judy Malloy are archived. My research uncovered some interesting information about Uncle Roger 3.1, a version I had not yet had the opportunity to see firsthand. I also was able to see […]