Early Authors of E-Literature, Platforms of the Past

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A detailed discussion of the exhibit “Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions” (now installed at the University of Washington). Grigar looks specifically at the major technological shifts in affordances and constraints provided by early computer interfaces and the ways in which e-literature writers from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s worked with and against these interfaces. For example, she discusses the command-line interface of the Apple IIe – which was released in 1983 – as an example of an interface that exemplifies an ideology wholly different from the now dominant Graphic User Interface. Thus, the command-line interface also makes possible entirely different texts and entirely different modes of thinking/creating such as that exemplified by bp Nichols' “First Screening” from 1984.

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Titlesort descending Date Location
Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions 29.05.2008
Washington State University Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue
98686 Vancouver , WA
United States
Washington US
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Eric Dean Rasmussen