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.

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!

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/...

The new issue of Leonardo Digital Review has been released: leonardo.info/reviews

@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.”

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.

The Electronic Literature Lab in the BBC News www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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

My students created an AR app for the Woodland Community Library. Here is a photo of one of my lab mates testing it at the site. dtc-wsuv.org/projects/pho...

My lab just received a box of chapbooks and other types of publications authored by Christy Sheffield Sanford. These will be part of her collection we are building at The NEXT

Leonardo Reviews has released a new issue, featuring a review of Jessica Brier's book Typophoto, reviewed by Jan Baetens: leonardo.info/reviews

The Electronic Literature Lab has added the Closed Captioning for Pathfinder's Interview with Judy Malloy, clips 7-10. More coming!

My lab has been adding Closed Captioning to the interviews and Traversals we did for the Pathfinders project (2013-2015). You can now watch Judy Malloy's Interviews 1-6 via CC now: vimeo.com/114754676?sh...

Chris Dregar and Amy Bennett at their interactive work exhibited at the Portland Winter Light Festival.

www.marshall.edu/news/2025/02... Well, info about the TedXTalk I’m doing is out. I’ll be talking about the use of VR for museums and libraries!

The new issue of Leonardo Reviews is available. Check out the review of Laurene Vaughan's The Impact of a PhD on Design: International Perspectives (Reviewed by Charles Forceville): leonardo.info/reviews

Looking forward to seeing my hypertext colleagues this April! kmi.open.ac.uk/seminars/

The new issue of the Nouspace Student Research Gallery is up! So many DTC Vancouver students and alums are featured in the many cool projects in this issue, curated by DTC's Will Luers. Check it out! www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/gallery/

Happy MLK Day! Check out this video featuring many of Martin Luther King’s speeches youtu.be/7Z7h-XJNhls?...

Like, we need him to own another social media outlet for his misinformation agenda. “Chinese officials reportedly discuss sale of TikTok in US to Elon Musk”

On Monday, January 20, at 8:30 a.m. PST, pioneering hypertext theorist Bob Horn will be talking at the Future of Text gathering via Zoom about Mapping Hypertext. Join us: futuretextlab.info/2024/12/16/b...

Thank you. www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/b...

Good news:"Washington State University was justified when it fired Nick Rolovich in 2021 because the head football coach refused to comply with state Covid-19 vaccine requirements, a federal judge ruled." (Associated Press)

On this day in 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone.

Reading The Midnight Library. I love this line: “Between life and death there is a library.” Excerpt From The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick Matt Haig books.apple.com/us/book/the-... This material may be protected by copyright.

Glad to see my DTC fall grads mentioned in the local newspaper for the AR mobile app they built for the Woodland Community Library. They also named the installation for the library. www.columbian.com/news/2024/de...

The new issue of “Leonardo Reviews” is out. Boyle’s “The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood” may be of interest to some of you. leonardo.info/reviews

I watched Nosferatu last night and was glad to see and hear it at a large screen venue with excellent sound. Still my favorite vampire movies are (in this order) 1) Bram Stoker's Dracula, 2) Only Lover's Left Alive, 3) Dracula (1979), 4) The Fearless Vampire Killers, and 5) Shadow of the Vampire

Going to see Nosferatu tonight. Any suggestions?

Just finished reading Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods. On now to Bob Horn’s classic Mapping Hypertext

The Future of Text Volume V contains articles by @mezbreeze.bsky.social, Eduardo Kac, Michael Witmore, Fabien Bénétou, Frode, and many others. It is available as an OER PDF.

Update #2: "The Future of Text Volume V," ed. by Frode Hegland is out! If you're interested in XR, AI, & other technologies impacting text, you'll find over 40 articles on these topics. Funded by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation futuretextpublishing.com/vol-5/

Hannah's right about the video captioning. At the time we did not have access to the tech we have today. Now, everything we do in the lab w/video is captioned. TY to Hannah & Reviews in DH for recognizing this work to preserve early digital lit & to @neh-odh.bsky.social for the funding for it.

I have a couple of updates to share. #1: Stuart Moulthrop's and my "Pathfinders" project, funded in 2013 by the @neh-odh.bsky.social has been reviewed in "Reviews in DH" by Hannah Ackermans. It was a labor of love for us and one that seems to have endured: reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/pathfind...