Great news, ELO and Turbulence were critical early on to the development of digital media art. More than that, they include the "other histories" that don't make it into the books and lists and (impossible) canons.
-- Paul On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is absolutely excellent; I'm associated with ELO, and they're > excellent with archiving, conferences, and so forth. My nephew's associated > with UVic digital media, and is probably involved in this. > Congratulations! > > - Alan > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, marc garrett wrote: > > Just saw this in myu inbox, which cheered me up... >> >> marc >> >> Dear Turbulence.org Community, >> >> We are thrilled to announce that Turbulence.org will stay online for the >> foreseeable future. >> >> Thanks to the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), the Turbulence.org >> Archive (http://turbulence.org and http://archive.turbulence.org) will be >> supported and hosted by the ELO (financial) and the Electronic Textual >> Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria, Canada (servers). >> >> The ELO was founded in 1999 to foster and promote the reading, writing, >> teaching, and understanding of literature (e-lit) as it develops and >> persists in a changing digital environment. A 501c(3) non-profit >> organization, the ELO includes writers, artists, teachers, scholars, and >> developers. Turbulence.org commissioned numerous e-lit works and >> co-organized many public events with ELO members. Both of us served as ELO >> board members for several years. http://eliterature.org/ >> >> The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) engages in cross-disciplinary >> study of the past, present, and future of textual communication, and is a >> hub for digital humanities activities across the University of Victoria >> campus and beyond. http://etcl.uvic.ca/ >> >> We want to thank the ELO?s Board, especially its President, Dene Grigar, >> whose >> swift action and unwavering support brought us to this new ?lifesaving? >> partnership. Dene 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. >> >> Future access to the Turbulence.org Archive will be limited, as we will no >> longer have direct access to the servers. If any of you would like to >> update >> your work, please contact us as soon as possible. >> >> Finally, we will no longer need the services of long-time Turbulence.org >> System Administrator Jesse Gilbert. We would not have survived to-date >> without Jesse?s skill and dedication. Please join us in thanking him. >> >> >> Warmly, >> >> Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green >> >> -- >> -- >> >> Marc Garrett >> Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield. >> >> Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network >> http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since >> 1996 >> >> Furtherfield Gallery & Commons, >> Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ >> T +44(0)208 802 1301/+44(0)208 802 2827 >> M +44(0)7533676047 >> www.furtherfield.org >> Academic Work for PhD At Birkbeck >> https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett >> >> >> > == > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 > music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/ui.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- http://paulhertz.net/
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