Reading, Rereading, Recovering Electronic Literature
Please join us for a panel with Joanne Archer (University of Maryland Libraries), Jeremy Douglass (UC Santa Barbara), Dene Grigar (Washington State University Vancouver), Kari Kraus (University of Maryland), Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and Matthew Kirschenbaum (MITH/University of Maryland, moderator). And a reading from We Descend, by hypertext fiction by Bill Bly (to begin at 4:30pm). We Descend, “a story of our far future, unearthed by a scholar to whom it is the distant past,” was originally published on computer disk by Eastgate Systems in 1997. More information, as well as a continuation of the work, is available here. Free and open to the public.
Speakers
Dene Grigar, Professor and Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver (WSUV) who works in the area of electronic literature, emergent technology and cognition, and ephemera. She is the author of net art works, like “Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts,” and multimedia performances and installations, like When Ghosts Will Die (with Canadian multimedia artist Steve Gibson). She has co-authored, with Brett Oppegaard, “Fort Vancouver Mobile” and The Grand Emporium of the West,” projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is a recipient, with Stuart Moulthrop, of a 2013 NEH Start Up grant for a digital preservation project for early electronic literature, entitled Pathfinders. She has curated exhibits at the Library of Congress and for organizations, including the Electronic Literature Organization and Modern Language Association, and teaches curating at WSUV and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. She is President of the Electronic Literature Organization and Associate Editor of Leonardo Reviews.
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1957, he became an English major at George Washington University after reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon in 1975. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986. He taught at Yale from 1984--1990, and then at the University of Texas at Austin and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1994 he moved back to Baltimore to teach at the University of Baltimore. As a Professor of Information Arts and Technologies, he formerly taught in the Bachelor of Science in Simulation and Digital Entertainment. He is also involved in the Master's and Doctoral programs. [Source: Wikipedia]