Dene Grigar

E. Gordon Gee: ‘Universities Have Become Isolated and Arrogant’ The former university president on how the sector got into trouble.

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...

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

I tell them that we are keeping human expression accessible for years to come

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

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:)

The NEXT Visualizations Space | The NEXT The Visualization Space presents data visualizations, interactive 3D models, and 3D turnable videos of physical media and objects collected at The NEXT

We are making physical archives accessible as 3D models for interactive browser based experiences and for VR environments at The NEXT: dtc-wsuv.org/elo-reposito... #askanarchivist

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

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.

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

The Electronic Literature Lab in the BBC News www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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.

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...

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...

YouTube video by homestarrunnerdotcom Back to a Website

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?...

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

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.

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

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

Andrew Thompson whose done the VR programming on the project joined me on stage

I got to talk about the work the lab is doing to make the physical artifacts associated with e-lit interactive and immersive in The NEXT

I am so appreciative of you and your work!

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...

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

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

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

The NEXT is a labor of love for us in the Electronic Literature Lab

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…

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...

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

The people I’m working with are lovely

TEDxMarshallU announces speakers for 7th annual event, ‘Beyond Borders’ TEDxMarshallU is excited to announce the lineup of inspiring speakers for its 7th annual event, “Beyond Borders.” Eight speakers will take the stage to share their ideas at the Joan C. Edwards Perform...

www.marshall.edu/news/2025/02... Well, info about the TedXTalk I’m doing is out. I’ll be talking about the use of VR for museums and libraries!

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

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