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 […]
Exhibition at the Scott Library in Toronto
Amidst the 78 Traversals we are doing this summer are the also the two exhibitions we are mounting. The first exhibition is the Jean-Pierre Balpe exhibition in Paris that we worked with our Affiliate Scholar Erika Fulop (University of Toulouse) to create. The second is called “Love Letters: A Showcase of Ephemera of the […]
Kicking Off Work on Preserving Shockwave Works
Today we are kicking off the project funded by a Society of American Archivists (SAA) Catalyst grant to preserve 78 works of media art, literature, and games held at The Next that were created with Shockwave from 1997 to 2011. The preservation method will be video playthroughs, what Stuart Moulthrop and I call “Traversals,” which […]
The Jean-Pierre Balpe Exhibition Opens in Paris
For the last several months the lab has been working with Erika Fülöp, from the University of Toulouse and an Affiliate Faculty member of ELL, to build an exhibition to honor the art of French pioneer, Jean-Pierre Balpe. The exhibition opened yesterday simultaneously at the University of Paris 8 and The NEXT. You can access […]