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 […]
An Exhibit of Historical Archives of Electronic Literature
An Exhibit of Historical Archives of Electronic Literature 6-17 June 2016 McPherson Library, Special Collections & University Archives University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. From the Archives of Dene Grigar & Marjorie C. Luesebrink Curated by Faculty & Participants of DHSI 2016 Introduction to Electronic Literature Curatorial Statement It’s interesting to think about the process by which […]
Preparing for a Traversal with Michael Joyce
On May 3, Michael Joyce, author of important e-lit works like afternoon: a story and Twelve Blue as well as numerous books of media theory including Of Two Minds and Othermindedness, will conduct a practice Traversal and Interview of afternoon in preparing for Pathfinders, Volume 2. I will post here some of the video clips of the event. In January we held a Reader Traversal and […]
Welcome Ryan House
We are very excited to announce that Ryan House will be serving as Research Assistant in ELL during spring 2016. He holds a M.A. in English from WSU Pullman and is interested in video games, science fiction and electronic literature. His main duties will be to help inventory the software and manuals in the ELL […]
Algorithmic Criticism as an Approach to Electronic Literature
Yesterday’s talk by Dr. James O’Sullivan, entitled Algorithmic Criticism as an Approach to Electronic Literature, in celebration of the re-opening of ELL was attended by faculty and students in the CMDC program. His research outlined a novel approach to e-lit criticism, demonstrating how computer-assisted critical methods can be used to help determine the extent to which […]
Celebration of the Opening of the New ELL
On Thursday, January 14, from 5-6 p.m. we will host a celebration of the opening of the new ELL. Dr. James O’Sullivan (University of Sheffield, UK) will give a talk about his research into Electronic Literature, and we will unveil the newest vintage Mac––an Apple II. Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome. VMMC 211A […]
My newest addition–Rey
What a computer. A Christmas gift from my tech guru Greg Philbrook for ELL. An opaque white iBook G4 laptop, circa early 2004, comes with 1.0 GHz CPU speed and 640 MB of Memory. It runs System 10.4.11, the last OS for Tiger (the OS released in 2005) but the first one to work on […]
ELL is Moving to the Skybox
After three years across the quad in the Classroom building, ELL is moving. As a matter of fact, it is moving to the CMDC’s old office, the beautiful Skybox overlooking our computer classroom. Construction is underway, as you can see from this photo, but by spring we will be moved in and fully functional. We […]
ELL Gets a New Logo
We are very pleased to announce that ELL now sports a new logo. Created by Madeleine Brookman, a student in the CMDC Program and Research Assistant for the Pathfinders project, the logo captures the spirit of the collection.