In an effort to preserve works of electronic literature, ELO has developed the ELO Repository that collects and/or manages online journals, works of electronic literature, community archives, and other digital materials for other organizations and makes them available to the public. Partnering with us in this endeavor is Washington State University Vancouver’s Electronic Literature Lab and the university library.
BeeHive debuted on the World Wide Web in May of 1998. The intent of the Journal is to provide a venue for creative literary content that explores the potential of network-based creativity. Under the direction of Talan Memmott, BeeHive has endeavored to produce quality online literary content, publishing over 100 authors and artists to date.
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Founded by author Claire Dinsmore, Cauldron & Net features four volumes of 98 works of electronic literature, published from 1997-2002.
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The well-regarded American philosopher, David Kolb, is known in the field of electronic literature as the author of two major hypertext works, Socrates in the Labyrinth and Sprawling Places. The collection contains 23 works of electronic literature collected by Kolb over his long, distinguished career.
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This collection of one of the top pioneering artists of electronic literature includes personal papers, notebooks, drawings and sketches, plans for work, photos, and her personal collection of electronic literature.
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The Electronic Literature Collection 1 is an anthology of 60 works of electronic literature published both on CD-ROM and the web by the Electronic Literature Organization in 2006. It was edited by N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, and Stephanie Strickland.
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The Electronic Literature Collection 2 is an anthology of 61 works of electronic literature published both on flash drive and the web by the Electronic Literature Organization in 2011. It was edited by Laura Borràs, Talan Memmot, Rita Raley, and Brian Stefans.
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The Electronic Literature Collection 3 is an anthology of 110 works of electronic literature published both on flash drive and on the web by the Electronic Literature Organization in 2016. It was edited by Leonardo Flores, Anastasia Salter, Stephanie Boluk, and Jacob Garbe.
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The Electronic Literature Organization Archives is a collection of videos and audio tapes from performances/readings and conference presentations from the 1990s onward, recorded on VHS, cassettes, and mini-cassette by members of the Electronic Literature Organization. Also part of this collection are works of electronic literature produced on diskette and CD-ROM from two main sources: entries to the 2001 Electronic Literature Awards and works to show at the State of the Arts conference in 2002.
The Iowa Review Web (TIR-W) began publishing works of electronic literature in 1999, establishing a reputation for a “commitment to new writing, encouraging the investigation of text and hypertext in theory and practice at their deepest levels.” The collection contains the 128 works published in its nine volumes.
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The Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink Collection features versions of the author’s two major hypertext novels Califia and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day, as well as many other items from her personal collection.
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Founded by Regina Pinto (Brazil) in the late 1990s, this online museum showcased over 303 works by artists from across the globe.
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The N. Katherine Hayles Collection contains 38 works from her personal collection that she donated to the Electronic Literature Organization. Hayles, a world renown scholar that worked in many different areas of digital media theory, authored many of the seminal texts about electronic literature, including Electronic Literature: New Horizons Beyond the Literary, Writing Machines, and How We Think, to name a few, and has been a long supporter and patron of the Electronic Literature Organization.
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Pathfinders is an open source book created by Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop in 2015 that documents the experience of early electronic literature, specifically pre-web hypertext fiction and poetry, from 1986-1995.
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Poems That Go” (2000-2003) “explores the intersections between motion, sound, image, text, and code.” Edited by Megan Sapnar Ankerson and Ingrid Ankerson the journal featured kinetic poetry in each of its five issues and remains one of the premier journals of the period.
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Known for the hypertext novel, Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, published in 2001 by Eastgate Systems, Inc., Richard Holeton penned writing for both the print and electronic medium. The 23 items in the collection includes version of Figurski as well as copies of other works of electronic literature.
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A premier online journal founded by Jennifer Ley, Riding the Meridian published over 350 works of electronic literature and net art from 1999-2000.
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The Robert Kendall Collection contains works from his personal collection that he donated to the Electronic Literature Organization. Considered one of the early pioneers of electronic literature poetry, Kendall is also one of the most productive. He authored the book-length hypertext poem, A Life Set for Two (Eastgate Systems, 1996) and has published hypertext poetry in The Little Magazine, Version Box, Iowa Review Web, BBC Online, Eastgate Hypertext Reading Room, Cauldron & Net, and Cortland Review, among others He also is the founder and editor of the prominent online journal Word Circuits.
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The Sarah Smith Collection contains 17 works from her personal collection that she donated to the Electronic Literature Organization. Smith’s major work of electronic literature is King of Space, which she wrote after meeting the owner and publisher of Eastgate Systems, Inc., Mark Bernstein, at MacWorld, just after finishing her first novel. The work was published in 1991 and remains, along with John McDaid's Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse, one of a handful of e-lit that tackles the science fiction genre.
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The Stephanie Strickland Collection features copies of and materials associated with the artist’s hypertext poem, True North, as well as CD-ROMs, programs, and flyers from the Technopoetry Festival held in 2002 at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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The trAce Online Writing Centre was a pioneering community founded by Sue Thomas at Nottingham Trace University, UK. From 1995-2005 it hosted conferences, online forums, competition, exhibitions, and online courses and published journals, books, and catalogs. Currently available are the six issues of its journal, frAme, and the Ten-Year Celebration catalog.
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Begun in 1996 by Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington, Turbulence.org was one of the premiere sites that supported media art. Found in the ELO Repository are the 356 works commissioned and exhibited over the last decade.
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Described as the “watering hole” for electronic literature, Word Circuits was founded in 1997 by e-lit pioneer Robert Kendall, with an all-star editorial team that included Marjorie C. Luesebrink (M.D. Coverley), Rob Swigart, Deena Larsen, Jean Hughes-Réty, and Nancy Smith. It featured works by 85 works by 51 artists.
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The Alan Bigelow Collection features 15 Flash narratives, poems, and games published from 1999-2011 by the award-winning author. These works were originally published in online journals and anthologies, such as Drunken Boat and the Electronic Literature Collection 2, and shown in exhibitions like Mediartz, Visionary Landscapes, and Electrifying Literature.
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The Voyager Collection is an archive of 53 digitized versions of the publishing company’s output published on floppy disks and CD-ROMs from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Founded by Bob Stein, the company experimented with the book form for electronic contexts, making classic and contemporary titles from literature, art, history, philosophy, and music available in a new format.
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The Jody Zellen Collection consists of 17 of the artist’s Flash works created from 1997-2014 published in Turbulence.org and exhibitions such as “3 x 3.”
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