Update on the progress of our Flash preservation work: We've completed preserving 178 works with Ruffle. Left are 502 more. We'll finish all but the 200 works held in “The Museum of the Essential and Beyond That Collection” in time for Wednesday’s celebration.
We have backups of it, but its breaking in the middle of the project slowed us down
Tell me about it . . . our G4 Tower that we use for accessing digital works created with Director died in the middle of a Traversal.
Just a reminder that next week my lab is hosting its 15th anniversary celebration. You can join us via Zoom (or in-person if you live in the Portland area). Here is the invitation with the registration information. Please join us!
I love "weird Web stuff." That is more because we in ELL are just plain weird. So, weird with us at our anniversary, which I am now calling "15 years of Weird":)
The Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver is celebrating its 15th Anniversary on Wednesday, April 15 from 10 am-noon PDT, live and via Zoom. Please join us. (P.S.: We have also released our new website).
A blog post about the amazing website for John Barber's Re-imagined Radio, created by Holly Slocum and programmed by Greg Philbrook from the Electronic Literature Lab: dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2025/...
@hegland.bsky.social gave me this alarm clock that looks like one of my legacy Mac’s in my lab. It comes on when I slip the floppy disk in the drive. Makes a cool Mac sound.
On Tuesday we are launching the new website for John Barber's Re-imagined Radio's, designed by Holly Slocum and programmed by Greg Philbrook and Holly. You are welcome to join us via Zoom or in-person if you live in the area.
Lecturing the rest of us about "arrogance" after receiving $2 Million last year when his faculty saw budget cuts seems a bit out of place to me. www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
I’m doing a photo shoot in my lab this week and made this prop to accompany my tagline, “I grow and save things.”
I tell them that we are keeping human expression accessible for years to come
Here is a gif of the Beach Ball that Richard Holeton used in his performances of the hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (2001). We have both of them (and the CD-ROM of the novel) at The NEXT
Ask me about the method we are using for making the 3d models of our physical archives accessible for the browser and the virtual environment:)
We are making physical archives accessible as 3D models for interactive browser based experiences and for VR environments at The NEXT: dtc-wsuv.org/elo-reposito... #askanarchivist
Best lab mates ever. We just finished hosting our celebration for naming ELL’s Reading Room for Marjorie C. Luesebrink. We are all still buzzing about it
The Electronic Literature Lab has been awarded a Society of American Archivist's Catalyst grant to make The NEXT's 78 born-digital works of literature and art created originally in Shockwave accessible as video playthroughs. We start work early summer.
Hypertext Lovers! Here is the VR environment my lab created to showcase one of the artifacts in The NEXT's Viz space for Richard Holeton's Figurski at Findhorn on Acid : vimeo.com/1082345970?s...
Here's the Website the spring 2025 DTC Vancouver graduates created for their Capstone Project containing the 3D interactive video, 3D model, interactive timeline & videos promoting WSU Vancouver's Life Sciences Blg., science degree programs, & faculty/student research: dtc-wsuv.org/projects/sci...
It is so hard to believe that Home Star Runner and my personal favorite Strongbad are 25 years old. Here is the link to the celebratory video "Back to the Website," for those of you who miss Web 1.0 sites: youtu.be/2z7kVH9xePM?...
It was a busy day in ELL yesterday with Andrew showing the VR implementation in The NEXT to Holly's son, folks working on The Christy Sheffield Sanford Collection, and DTC Vancouver students getting help on their projects and Holly's daughter checking out the legacy Macs on the shelf
Join us at the launch for the new exhibition at The NEXT, "Cowrie Shells and Other Treasures," featuring print works by pioneering artist Christy Sheffield Sanford. Friday, April 11 at 11 PDT via Zoom. Email me for the Zoom link.
Join us for the launch of the new exhibition at The NEXT, featuring the work of Christy Sheffield Sanford.
Getting excited about seeing friends at Open University! Glad my collaborator Mariusz Pisarski is co-presenting: kmi.open.ac.uk/seminars/3945
Andrew Thompson whose done the VR programming on the project joined me on stage
I got to talk about the work the lab is doing to make the physical artifacts associated with e-lit interactive and immersive in The NEXT
I am so appreciative of you and your work!
