We are pleased to announce that Dr. Dene Grigar (Washington State U, Vancouver; Electronic Literature Organization) and Dr. John Barber (Washington State U, Vancouver) will visit UVictoria on Thursday January 22nd to present on “Paths to PAD: Saving the Legacy of Early Digital Literature” (Grigar) and “Practice-Based Digital Humanities: Three Case Studies” (Barber). These talks, and subsequent discussion, will occur in room 219 of the McPherson Library from 1.00-2.30pm. Faculty, staff, students, and the public are all invited to engage with these well-established scholars of digital media. This event will be of especial interest to those who are concerned with digital humanities, electronic literature, literary criticism, digital preservation and archiving, scholarly production, and other related activities. This initiative is proudly co-hosted by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), the UVic Libraries, and Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE).
For abstracts and bios please see below. We look forward to seeing you there!
Paths to PAD: Saving the Legacy of Early Digital Literature
Presented by: Dr. Dene Grigar
“What knowledge pertaining to literary criticism and history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is gained when we are able to examine early digital literary works in their intended context, through recorded encounters with the texts using original equipment?” This is the question underlying Pathfinders, a project that aims to preserve the legacy of early digital literature.
This presentation discusses the importance of collection as a method of preservation for early digital literature and argues that collection, along with emulation and migration, are all important paths to pursue for the preservation, archiving, and dissemination of early digital literary works.
Practice-Based Digital Humanities: Three Case Studies
Presented by: Dr. John Barber
This presentation will provide brief case studies for three storytelling projects. Each project investigates the migration of cultural materials into networked environments and how this might provide digital humanists with interesting challenges for research, practice, production, availability, value, and stewardship . . .
Bios
Dene Grigar is an Associate Professor and the Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. Her research focuses on Electronic Literature, Emergent Technologies and Cognition, and Ephemera, with particular interest in building multimedial environments and experiences for live performance, installations, and curated spaces; desktop computers; and mobile media devices. She has authored net art works, like “Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts,” multimedia performances and installations, like When Ghosts Will Die (with Canadian multimedia artist Steve Gibson) and “Curlew” (with Greg Philbrook), and mobile narrative, such as Fort Vancouver Mobile and The Grand Emporium of the West (with Brett Oppegaard, U of Hawaii). She is a recipient of three NEH grants––two for her mobile work with Oppegaard (2011, 2012) and a third with Stuart Moulthrop for a digital preservation project for early electronic literature, entitled Pathfinders (2013). She serves as President of the Electronic Literature Organization and Associate Editor of Literature Studies in the Digital Age (MLA Commons).
John Barber is a faculty member of the Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver. He teaches courses in usability and interface design, digital storytelling, and digital audio for performance and Internet radio. He created and maintains Brautigan Bibliography and Archive (www.brautigan.net), internationally acknowledged as the premier information resource for the life and works of American author Richard Brautigan. He created and maintains Radio Nouspace (www.radionouspace.net), a web-based radio station that archives and curates radio-audio drama, radio+sound art, and sound poetry in both streaming and on demand formats. Radio Nouspace experiments with new ways in which sound can augment narrative and transmedia storytelling. His most recent conference presentation was a keynote address at the International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2014, entitled “Archiving the Nouscreen: Preserving the Permeability of the Postscreen.” His most recent publication is “Walking-Talking: Soundscapes, Flaneurs, and the Creation of Mobile Media Narratives” in The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies (Jason Farman, ed. Routledge, 2014).
No registration necessary. Please send any questions regarding this event to Alyssa Arbuckle at alyssaarbuckle@gmail.com.