The Restoration Space
The Electronic Literature Lab has been able to expand into a new space where we can hold our computers, software, and manuals. Named the “Restoration Space,” it is located just a short step away from the MOVE, our Sound and Video Studio where we had been stowing all of this equipment for the last decade. […]
A Most Amazing Site
Websites in the early wildcatting days of dial up modems filled our monitors with zany repetitive tile pattens and delighted us with dancing hamsters and talking cows. We could program a parallel narrative in the status bar and emulate pages turning with Java Applets. A trail of ants could follow our cursor across the […]
Final Report for the SAA Catalyst Grant
Final Report: Making Shockwave Archives Accessible by Dene Grigar, PhD, Director, The Electronic Literature Lab, Washington State University Vancouver Tracking document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFS8soClkctSoFLeORqXnclTzps_KBUKfvibTaEmeto/edit?usp=sharing. This is the final report for “Making Shockwave Archives Accessible,” a project undertaken by the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. The Society of American Archivists awarded the lab the […]
Layne Wright and the PleXWriter 12/10/32A
Last week I received two boxes containing a PC replete with the much and long desired 5.25-inch floppy disk drive (PleXWriter 12/10/32A), a legacy Windows keyboard and mouse, and Viewsonic LED monitor––all in perfect working order from Layne Wright in Colorado. He had read the article in the BBC News that I was looking for […]
ELL’s Retro Computing Series
As we have often stressed in our blog posts, the Electronic Literature Lab needs hardware and software in order to access the born-digital art, literature, and games we are collecting and making accessible via documentation and exhibitions. We emulate works when needed, but we prefer to encounter them on their original platform so as to […]
Stephanie Strickland’s Traversal of “slippingglimpse”
Stephanie Strickland’s poem “slippingglimpse” was produced with Flash. The lab attempted to preserve it with Conifer, but the results were not satisfactory. We opted to include it in our Traversals this summer and were glad to have Stephanie perform it for us herself. Here is the recording of that event, which took place on Thursday, […]
Columbian Story about the Naming of the Lab’s Reading Room
Photos from the Naming of the Reading Room
Yesterday we held the naming of the lab’s Reading Room for Margie Luesebrink. It is now called The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Reading Room. The event included a formal Traversal of Margie’s second interactive novel, Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day, performed by her close collaborator and friend Stephanie Strickland. Joining us online were […]
Dedicating ELL’s Reading Room to Marjorie C. Luesebrink
All of us in the Electronic Literature Lab are very excited to be dedicating our Reading Room to Marjorie C. Luesebrink next Wednesday (July 23, 2025). The event starts at 1 p.m. PDT and will be recorded so that it can be accessed on the lab’s Vimeo account. We are flying her frequent collaborator and […]
Love Letters Continued
Love Letters: A Showcase of Ephemera of the Electronic Literature Organization 11-13 July 2025 Scott Library, 2nd Floor Atrium, York University Showcase Website: https://dtc-wsuv.org/projects/love-letters/ Because we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), the theme of ELO’s Conference and Media Arts Festival is “Love Letters to […]