Invited back to DHSI for 2015
I was very happy to receive the invitation, today, from Ray Siemens to return to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute next summer at the University of Victoria, to teach the course in electronic literature again. This will make the 4th year in a row that I have taught at the institute. This year I brought […]
More New Vintage Computers for ELL
The trunk to the black PF Cruiser popped open to reveal a pile of vintage computers, keyboards, boxes of software and other tech goodies destined for ELL. In the car’s backseat was another mound of vintage tech. The man who provided this “Christmas in June” experience was none other than Bill Bly, pioneering electronic literature […]
Heading to DHSI 2014
ELL was in a shambles today as we packed up computers and other gear we needed for DHSI 2014 where I am teaching a week-long course in Electronic Literature with Sandy Baldwin, Margie Luesebrink, and Davin Heckman. We are taking 10 Mac Minis, iMac, my Apple IIe, Classic, and G3 iMac (my Bondi Blue baby) […]
Photos from Moving Words
Moving Words: An Exploration of Kinetic Poetry and Prose, 1984-2014 is in its final days, but I wanted to post the images from the launch party that took place on Thursday, March 13. A special thank you to Jeneen Nagi, who invited me to curate this exhibit and who did so much to make it […]
ELL’s Online Catalog
For the past year members of ELL’s staff have been working to catalog all of the works of e-lit and computers available in the lab. Last summer Setareh Alizadeh meticulously organized the stacks and stacks of CDs, hypertext folios, floppies, and diskettes into a discernible collection of works dating back over two decades. Amalia Vacca […]
“The Art of Moving Words”
This post constitutes the curatorial statement for the exhibit built in ELL for the National University of Ireland Maynooth entitled Moving Words: Kinetic Poetry and Prose, 1984-2014. The exhibit opened on Thursday, March 14 at 5:30 at Illuminations Gallery. I was invited by electronic literature scholar and Director of Illuminations Jeneen Naji, PhD to create this […]
Cracked Macs, or a Cautionary Tale about Digital Preservation
Four of the vintage Macs from ELL were destroyed in shipment to the Pathfinders exhibit at the Modern Language Association convention in Chicago last week. The boxes were delivered in perfect shape; however, when I opened up the first one, the LC 575, I noticed a piece of the top was cracked. As I pulled […]
Adding to the Mac Family
I added five more computers to the lab today: Two G3 iMacs (Graphite), one Performa, one PowerPC, and another SE. Here are the specs for the first four: iMac #1 Mac OS X 10.4 640 MB RAM 400 MHz G3 13GB HDD DVD-ROM (slot load, works) iMac #2 Mac OS 9.1 128MB RAM 400MHz G3 […]
Article about ELL in Library of Congress Publication, The Signal
Preserving Vintage Electronic Literature November 13, 2013 by Mike Ashenfelder Dene (pronounced “Deenie”) Grigar’s mother was an artist who painted mainly with oils on canvas. But occasionally she painted on a different medium, such as wood or pottery. Once she experimented with painting on bamboo, a medium she was unfamiliar with. Read the rest of the article […]
Getting Ready for the Next Pathfinders Traversal
The Electronic Literature Lab is the site where the research for Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature is taking place. The project extends the notion of digital preservation by developing a method that captures not just the content of a work of electronic literature but also attempts to recreate the experience readers had […]