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 […]
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 […]
An Afternoon with afternoon
ELL hosted noted e-lit authors and theorists Michael Joyce and Carolyn Guyer yesterday. Joyce read from his 1987 hypertext novel afternoon: a story, and both he and Carolyn talked about their involvement in the early development of the field. The papers, CDs, diskettes you see on the table come from my own archive as well as […]