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1. Introduction to Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3

   This essay introduces Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3 that documents born-digital literary works published on floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and other media formats held among the 300 in Dene Grigar's personal collection in the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver.

   Dene Grigar - 30.08.2020 - 22:29

2. The Effect of Migration on Michael Joyce’s "afternoon, a story"

   This essay is a study of six of the 13 editions of Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story that shows a significant number of structural changes relating to work’s hyperlinking strategy and choices over paths to follow that affect the reader’s experience.
    

   Dene Grigar - 30.08.2020 - 22:31

3. The Real Treasure of Califia in M. D. Coverley’s Novel "Califia"

   M. D. Coverley’s Califia is an interactive, hypertext novel that experiments with multi-vocal storytelling. The first of two major novels by the artist, it was produced in 2000 on the Toolbook 2.0 platform and published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. for the Windows operating system on CD-ROM. It tells the story of three people whose lives, intertwined by various family connections and location, search for the fabled Treasure of Califia. A major theme driving the narrative is The American Dream, or rather the stuff such dreams the three main characters––Augusta Summerville, Kaye Beveridge, and Cal (Calvino) Lugo–think it should be made of rather than what it really ends up to be.

   Dene Grigar - 30.08.2020 - 23:21

4. The Persistence of Genius: The Case for Stuart Moulthrop's "Victory Garden"

   In his essay, “The American Hypertext Novel, and Whatever Became of It?,” Scott Rettberg discusses the impact of hypertext fiction before the mainstreaming of the World Wide Web, arguing that the "link and node hypertext" approach represented by early stand alone software like Storyspace was “eclipsed . . . by a range of other digital narrative forms” (Rettberg, “The American Hypertext Novel”). His essay goes on to reference important examples of hypertext fiction––Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story (featured in Chapter 1 of this book) as well as Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden. Of these, both Joyce’s and Jackson’s novels are still accessible to the reading public; Moulthrop’s is not. As a digital preservationist of interactive media whose mission it is to maintain public access to our literary and cultural heritage, the question this essay asks is, “Has the lack of accessibility to Moulthrop’s novel affected research about it?”

   Dene Grigar - 30.08.2020 - 23:30

5. Megan Heyward's "of day, of night": A Story of Wanderings

   In of day, of night Megan Heyward’s voice fuses disparate scenes into a coherent story about a woman's wanderings, a search to regain her sense of self. For what are our dreams if not a series of journey through our past, present, and potential?

   Dene Grigar - 30.08.2020 - 23:38

6. Mark Bernstein's "Those Trojan Girls": Classical Storyspace Channels a Classic Story

   Bernstein's revisioning of Storyspace in its 3rd version functions as a bridge between the previous hypertexts that Eastgate Systems, Inc. published and experimental interactive works readers encounter today on storytelling platforms like Twine or as apps on their phones. The result is that Those Trojan Girls remains constant in his approach to publishing “serious hypertext” embraced in the 1990s while at the same time contemporizes its aesthetic and functionality for readers today.

   Dene Grigar - 30.08.2020 - 23:45

7. Comparing methods of generating 3.5 inch floppy disk forensic images

   I propose comparing methods of generating forensic images of 3.5 inch floppy disks in order to evaluate methodologies for use in media archeology labs. Many key works of electronic literature (including the bulk of Eastgate Systems, Inc. early publications) were released on 3.5 inch floppy media. I will use both Kyroflux and Superdrive floppy disk controller units to generate forensic images and also generate images using BitCurator suite of forensic software and using legacy computing hardware and software.

   Gathering data on the quality of images created by these disparate methods and also on the workflows involved and the ease and practicality of employing them will produce useful information for other media archeology labs examining how the field of floppy disk forensics has advanced.

   The results of these tests should show useful comparison data between the quality of the images created from identical media, the range of image types that can be created using each technique, and the usefulness for online access and emulation each forensic methodology and platform provides.

   (Source: Author's own abstract)

   Lene Tøftestuen - 24.05.2021 - 19:16