Dene Grigar

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Residency: 
Vancouver , WA
United States
Washington US
Nationality: 
United States
US
Born: 
1954
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Dene Grigar
Short biography: 

Dene Grigar is Professor and Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver whose research focuses on the creation, curation, preservation, and criticism of Electronic Literature, specifically building multimedial environments and experiences for live performance, installations, and curated spaces; desktop computers; and mobile media devices. She has authored 14 media works such as “Curlew” (2014), “A Villager’s Tale” (2011), the “24-Hour Micro E-Lit Project” (2009), “When Ghosts Will Die” (2008), and “Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts" (2005), as well as 54 scholarly articles adn three books. She also curates exhibits of electronic literature and media art, mounting shows at the British Computer Society and the Library of Congress and for the Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA), among other venues. With Stuart Moulthrop (U of Wisconsin Milwaukee) she developed the methodology for documenting born digital media, a project that culminated in an open-source, multimedia book, entitled Pathfinders (2015), and book of media art criticism, entitled Traversals (2017), for The MIT Press. She is President of the Electronic Literature Organization, Associate Editor of Leonardo Reviews and Literary Studies in the Digital Age (LSDA), and a series editor for Electronic Literature, with Bloomsbury Press. In 2017 She was awarded the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professorship by her university. She also directs the Electronic Literature Lab at WSUV.

(Source: HASTAC profile)

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort ascending Publication Type Publisher Year
Responses to "On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature: Preliminary Reflections" Weblog On the Human 2009
Repetition in Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust" Article or chapter in a book Nouspace Publications 2018
Reconsidering the Electronic Literary Artifact: E-Books, Twitterature, and Digitalized Richard Brautigan Conference panel or roundtable 2010
Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media Volume 2 Book (collection) Nouspace Publications 2019
Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media Volume 1 Book (collection) Nouspace Publications 2018
Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3 Book (collection) Nouspace Publications 2020
Preserving Literature through Documenting Readers’ Experience: The Pathfinders Project Conference paper or presentation
Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature Other 2015
On the “Effect(s) of Living Backwards”: A Platform-critical, Collaborative Analysis of Kathryn Cramer’s In Small and Large Pieces Conference panel or roundtable 2021
On the Art of Producing a Phenomenally Short Fiction Collection over the Net Using Twitter: ‘The 24-Hr. Micro-Elit Project Weblog 2010
On Memory, the Muse, and Judy Malloy's its name was Penelope Article (other medium) 2018
Off the Printed Page: Background and Theory about Electronic Literature Other 2004
Navigating the Borders—Edges and Interfaces Article or chapter in a book Electronic Literature Organization 2001
Narrative in Social Media Conference paper or presentation 2011
Mutability, Medium and Character Article in a print journal Computers and the Humanities 2002
Migration as Translation: Moving Figurski to the Web Article (other medium) Electronic Literature Lab (ELL)
Migration as Translation: Moving Figurski to the Web Article (other medium) 2021
Megan Heyward's "of day, of night": A Story of Wanderings Article or chapter in a book Nouspace Publications 2020
Mark Bernstein's "Those Trojan Girls": Classical Storyspace Channels a Classic Story Article or chapter in a book Nouspace Publications 2020
Making PIE: Closing the gap between story and experience Conference panel or roundtable 2018

Events arranged:

Eventsort ascending City Date Event type Link to edit content
A Toast to the Flash Generation 31.12.2020 Performance
2021 Woman E-Lit Symposium 30.03.2021 Event Series

Curator of:

Titlesort ascending City Country Date
You/I: Interfaces & Reader Experiences September 22, 2016 to October 14, 2016
Visionary Landscapes Vancouver United States May 29, 2008 to June 1, 2008
Pathfinders: 25 Years of Experimental Literary Art Chicago United States January 9, 2014 to January 11, 2014
Moving Words: An Exploration of Kinetic Poetry and Prose, 1984-2014 Maynooth Ireland March 13, 2014 to March 31, 2014
mediartz: Art as Experiential, Art as Participatory, Art as Electronic Vancouver United States October 2, 2009 to October 31, 2009
Horizon Insight: A Retrospective of the Art of M. D. Coverley November 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022
Exploring the Electronic Literary Landscape of the Pacific Northwest Victoria Canada June 6, 2013
Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Morgantown United States June 20, 2012 to June 23, 2012
Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Morgantown United States June 20, 2012 to June 23, 2012
Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Morgantown United States June 20, 2012 to June 23, 2012
Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Morgantown United States June 20, 2012 to June 23, 2012
Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Media Art Show: Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints Morgantown United States June 20, 2012 to June 23, 2012
Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Media Arts Show: Visionary Landscapes Vancouver United States May 29, 2008 to June 1, 2008
Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference & Media Arts Festival Vancouver United States May 29, 2008 to June 1, 2008
Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms Washington D.C. United States April 3, 2013 to April 5, 2013
Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms Washington, DC United States April 3, 2013 to April 5, 2013
Electronic Literature Seattle United States January 5, 2012 to January 7, 2012
Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints: The ELO 2012 Media Arts Show Morgantown United States June 20, 2012 to June 23, 2012
Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions Vancouver United States May 29, 2008 to June 1, 2008
Avenues of Access: An Exhibit & Online Archive of New 'Born Digital' Literature at the MLA 2013 Convention Boston United States January 3, 2013 to January 5, 2013
Avenues of Access: An Exhibit & Online Archive of New 'Born Digital' Literature Boston United States January 3, 2013 to January 5, 2013
An Afternoon with afternoon July 15, 2020
afterflash: Showcasing Flash Fiction, Poetry, and Essays from The NEXT May 24, 2021 to August 1, 2021
A Toast to the Flash Generation December 31, 2020
3+3 Vancouver United States October 5, 2012 to October 28, 2012
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