Organizing a Collection of Electronic Literature
One of the most satisfying experiences working in my lab is organizing a collection of electronic literature. Recently, for example, in preparation for writing an essay about Tim McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero, I went through the box of papers and disks he donated last March to the Electronic Literature Organization’s archives, which are housed […]
The World Is Not Done Yet, and Nor Are We
Yesterday Seattle artist Annie Grosshans visited the lab to talk to us about her “weblication,” The World Is Not Done Yet, a non-fiction work that ruminates about the shift from the world of print to the world of digital media. Created in 2013 with Adobe Muse, this insightful and moving work of electronic literature may […]
Getting Ready for MLA 2020
We spent the day getting ready for MLA 2020 which is taking place in Seattle, WA this year. Our session, #594 Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature, is included in the ELO’s special session and features the work we have been doing in the lab for the last year. The program describes the session as: […]
Focusing on the Feminine: Women, Literature, & Games
Curated by Mariah Gwin, Electronic Literature Lab Online version: http://dtc-wsuv.org/focusing-on-the-feminine/ “Focusing on the Feminine: Women, Literature, and Games” is an exhibit that presents women, literature, and games. It features literature, games, and hardware that date back to the mid-1980s to around 2014. Each item was inspired by prominent women and their works in relation to the […]
Literary Mobile Apps as the Next Frontier of Digital Preservation
As many of us lament the loss of Flash, an event looming in 2020, [1] yet another frontier of digital preservation awaits us: literary mobile apps. Or shall I say, has been looming ever since Evan Young’s The Carrier (2009), the first literary mobile app, [2] went dark a few years back? Or how about the […]
Megan Heyward’s Traversal of “of day of night”
Friday, 11/8/19 12 p.m.-1:00 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in the MOVE Lab, VCLS 3 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzeZQ05p_1Tli0lDBeWMxOA/live Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=elitpathfinders Twitter: #ELitLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electronicliteraturelab/ Join us for artist Megan Heyward’s Live Stream Traversal of her interactive, multimedia work, of day of night. Produced with Macromedia Director in 2001 and exhibited widely until its publication […]
How to Write about Inaccessible Born-Digital Literature
Having authored critical writing about born-digital literature with Stuart Moulthrop for both the multimedia book, Pathfinders (2015) and print-based book, Traversals (2017) and, then, publishing Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 1 (2018) with the ELL Team, I’ve had much time and practice writing about born-digital literature that is inaccessible to the public. With few exceptions, the focus […]
Traversal of Eric Steinhardt’s Fragment of the Dionysian Body
Performed by Dr. Anna Nacher, Fulbright-in-Residence, Winona State University Friday, 10/18/19 12 p.m.-1:00 p.m. PDT Live on YouTube and F2F in the MOVE Lab, VCLS 3 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGVGeei4_zw&feature=youtu.be Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=elitpathfinders Twitter: #ELitLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electronicliteraturelab/ Join us for a Live Stream Traversal of Eric Steinhardt’s Fragment of the Dionysian Body, a hypertext essay created in 1997 […]
Announcing Anna Nacher’s Visit to ELL
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Anna Nacher to the Electronic Literature Lab to perform in a Live Stream Traversal of Eric Steinhardt’s hypertext work, Fragments of the Dionysian Body, on Friday, October 18, from 12 noon-1 p.m. Dr. Nacher is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland and a […]
Consider It Down
On Friday afternoon––after a very successful week––we closed the Tear Down the Wall: Hypertext & Participatory Narratives exhibition that ran in conjunction with the 2019 ACM Hypertext Conference. As my previous blog post outlined, we featured nine works by eight artists dating from the mid-1990s to the present. Represented were a variety of platforms, including […]