Polish Scholar to Speak about the European ZX Spectrum 8-Bit Personal Computer
Piotr Marecki, Ph.D., from Jagiellonian University and the UBU Lab in Kraków, Poland, will speak on the popular 8-bit computer released in 1982 in the UK, the ZX Spectrum. The title of his talk, “The ZX Spectrum Demoscene as Organized Anarchy,” argues that the ZX Spectrum platform is unique as compared to other 8-bit machines and can […]
2017-2018 Research Affiliates
We are pleased to announce ELL’s 2017-2018 Research Affiliates: John Barber, Associate Clinical Professor, Creative Media & Digital Culture, WSUV Philippe Brand, Assistant Professor of French, Lewis & Clark College Ted Fordyce, Adjunct Instructor, Creative Media & Digital Culture, WSUV Brenda Grell, Instructor, Creative Media & Digital Culture, WSUV Davin Heckman, Associate Professor of Mass Communication, Winona […]
Born Digital Preservation Series
We are pleased to announce events and activities planned for the Electronic Literature Lab in the 2017-2018 academic year: 1. Wikipedia-Edit-A-Thon Friday, October 20, 2017, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. A one-day event aimed at developing entries for e-lit authors and works in Wikipedia. 10 people limit. Lunch will be served. 2. Early E-Lit Traversals A monthly Reader […]
Introducing New Staff
Thanks to funding from the Louis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professorship and other outside support, I will be adding new staff positions to ELL starting this fall. Joining me will be Vanessa Rhodes and Mariah Gwinn, both students in the CMDC Program. Vanessa, who plans to pursue an advanced degree in library science, will be […]
Traversals Will Be Released on April 7!
Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing is set to be released on April 7, 2017. The book, published by The MIT Press, applies the pathfinders methodology and traversals process that Stuart Moulthrop and I developed in our Pathfinders project, to four works of electronic literature: Judy Malloy’s Uncle Roger, John McDaid’s Uncle Buddy’s […]
Treasures Added to the Collection
ELL is a preservation lab built on the idea that a working collection provides the opportunity to study a work in its original format and with the technology as close to that which the work had been typically experienced when it was first released. We do not reject emulation and migration, but rather see all three of […]
Grants Submitted, Now the Wait
This fall I submitted a LOI to the Lannan Foundation and a proposal to the Dreyfus Foundation for grants in support of our documentation and archival work in ELL. The Lannan Foundation grant would go toward the larger effort, the Electronic Literature Archives (ELA), where documentation figures as one of five funded activities. The others include 1) CELL Project (Consortium for […]
Keynote on Preserving Visceral Media
I gave the keynote at the International Digital Media Arts Association last week on the topic of preserving visceral media. Doing so has helped me think through the Pathfinders preservation methodology and the Traversal process. As Stuart and I have stated a Traversal involves audio and video recording of demonstrations performed on historically appropriate platforms. It is […]
Polish Scholar Researching Digital Poetry in the Electronic Literature Lab
Monika Górska-Olesínka, faculty in the Department of Theatre, Film, and New Media at the University of Opole and a specialist in cyberculture, digital textuality, and electronic literature, will be conducting archival research during September in the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. Her project focuses on the award-winning hypertext poem, True North, published […]
Welcoming New Post-Doc to ELL
We are very excited to announce that Monika Górska-Olesińska from the University of Opole will be coming to ELL, September 14-30, 2016, to work on her project, “The Poetry@Science in the Works of Stephanie Strickland.” Dr. Górska-Olesińska holds a PhD (2006) in Art and Humanities from Jagiellonian University in Krakow and serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film […]