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  1. Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature

    The intended audience of Born-Again Bits includes besides e-lit authors also the publishers, archivists, academics, programmers, and funding officers who will be necessary partners in an overall, renewable ecology of electronic literature. These other communities are already at work on digital preservation strategies. However, experimental e-lit has special qualities that make it an extreme case of the digital artifact. It is hoped that ELO's PAD initiative will contribute to other digital preservation strategies by ensuring that they accommodate e-lit and so, in the process, become more robust for all digital works.

    Scott Rettberg - 06.02.2012 - 15:04

  2. Digital Magic: Preservation for a New Era

    Kirschenbaum makes an "argument for the importance of digital preservation while describing how how he accessed SWALLOWS via an Apple // emulator and then provided Zelevanksy with the original .dsk file from which he then created a new version of SWALLOWS (with audio and video clips mixed in) called G R E A T . B L A N K N E S S" (Source: adapted from post at loriemerson.net).

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.04.2012 - 08:55

  3. Porting E-Poetry: The Case of First Screening

    This presentation seeks to examine issues around the practice of porting electronic literature,
    particularly E-poetry by examining the case of First Screening by bpNichol, a Canadian poet who
    programmed a suite of e-poems in Apple BASIC in 1984. This work was preserved, documented, ported, curated, and published in Vispo.com in 2007 by a collaborative group of poets and programmers: Jim Andrews, Geof Huth, Lionel Kearns, Marko Niemi, and Dan Waber. This publication consists of a curated collection of four different versions of First Screening which I will analyze in my presentation:

    1. The original DSK file of the 1984 edition, which can be opened with an Apple IIe emulator, along with the Apple BASIC source code as a text file, and scanned images of the printed matter
    published with the 51/4 inch floppy disks it was distributed in.

    2. A video captured documentation of the emulated version in Quicktime format.

    3. The 1993 HyperCard version, ported by J. B. Hohm, along with the printed matter of that
    published edition.

    4. A JavaScript version of First Screening ported by Marko Niemi and Jim Andrews.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.06.2012 - 12:27

  4. “Beyond Range of Air”: The Story Behind the 30-Year Deferred Publication of William H. Dickey’s HyperPoems

    William H. Dickey, who died of complications from HIV in 1994, was born in 1928 and brought up in the Pacific Northwest. He published fifteen books of poetry, including Of the Festivities, which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1959, More Under Saturn, which was awarded the California Silver Medal for Poetry in 1963, and The Rainbow Grocery, which won the Juniper Prize in 1978. In the Dreaming: Selected Poems was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1994, and The Education of Desire appeared posthumously from Wesleyan University Press in 1996.
     

    While a professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University in the 1980s, he became interested in the potential of early personal computers to expand the boundaries of poetry. The California Association of Teachers of English cited him as "Friend of the Machine."
     

    Milosz Waskiewicz - 27.05.2021 - 16:08