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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We have made great progress with The NEXT's Viz Space, just in time to show at the Hypertext 26 conference. Here is Holeton's Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, able to be read and experienced in VR: vimeo.com/1224299028

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Video Loop of The NEXT's VASTE Space

In this video clip the Electronic Literature Lab's XR Developer is demonstrating the new Virtual Archival Storytelling Environment (VASTE) developed to bring hypertext literature together with their p...

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hypertext novelist Richard Holeton visited ELL today to video record him for The NEXT's Virtual Archival Story Telling Environment that we are presenting at Hypertext '26 in London in September.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The excitement over Nolan's film has seduced me to teach a 1-credit course on The Odyssey. Eons ago I wrote my dissertation & published my 1st article on the story, learning ancient Greek to do it. What fun it will be to revisit it after all these years w/people fresh from watching the film.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wordle 1,840 2/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 91/99 Luck 76/99 A good way to start the holiday weekend

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Wordle 1,819 2/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 60/99 Luck 77/99 The day is starting on a positive note

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The new issue of Drunken Boat is out. It was designed and programmed by 2 of ELL's Undergraduate Researchers, Marilyn Gable & Von Miller. We thank Ravi Shankar for the opportunity to develop this great addition for born-digital literature and for commissioning the lab to work on it. drunkenboat.com

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Graduate students: Join us in London for the ACM Hypertext and gain valuable experience in hypertext theory, methods, and practice. Funding is available

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Announcing Issue 44 of the Nouspace Student Research Gallery, curated by DTC Vancouver's Will Luers and featuring many projects DTC students did during the spring 2026 semester. www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/gallery/

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The Nouspace Student Research Gallery | Issue 44

The Nouspace Student Research Gallery is a showcase for exemplary work of CMDC students. Each issue highlights projects that demonstrate digital innovation at the levels of development (code and softw...

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Teaser Trailer, Documentary Video Episodes, and the Outtake for the vertical slice of the game, "Fireflies," that my spring grads made for Noctua Interactive are now available on Vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/122...

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Videos for the Vertical Slice of the Game, Fireflies

This showcase includes all of the videos produced by the Motion Graphics Team who worked on the vertical slice of the game, Fireflies, in spring 2026 for Noctua Interactive.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This semester I taught "Internet Revolutions." The final project required the students structure what they learned in an open source, multimedia environment called Tapestries, created by the Internet Archive. You can see it here at tapestries.media/u/futureofth...

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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!

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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).

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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/...

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

@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.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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...

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E. Gordon Gee: ‘Universities Have Become Isolated and Arrogant’

The former university president on how the sector got into trouble.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I’m doing a photo shoot in my lab this week and made this prop to accompany my tagline, “I grow and save things.”

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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:)

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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...

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Holeton's Figurski in The NEXT's Viz Space

This is "Holeton's Figurski in The NEXT's Viz Space" by Grigar Dene on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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...

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SciVite - WSU Vancouver Life SciencesHamburger menu button

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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?...

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Back to a Website

YouTube video by homestarrunnerdotcom

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Join us for the launch of the new exhibition at The NEXT, featuring the work of Christy Sheffield Sanford.

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Getting excited about seeing friends at Open University! Glad my collaborator Mariusz Pisarski is co-presenting: kmi.open.ac.uk/seminars/3945

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KMi Seminar - Electronic Literature: The challenges of born-digital fiction

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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...

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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

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| Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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...

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Judy Malloy Interview, Part 1

This interview of Judy Malloy, conducted by Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop, took place on Friday, September 6, 2013 at Princeton University as part of the Pathfinders…

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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

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Seminars | Knowledge Media Institute | The Open University

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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/

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The Nouspace Student Research Gallery | Issue 41

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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

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I Have A Dream | Re-Imagined Radio (S11EP8) #Radio #Audio #Listen

YouTube video by Re-Imagined Radio

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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”

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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...

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Bob Horn 20 Jan 2025 – Future Text Lab

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Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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)

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