Dene Grigar
@dgrigar.bsky.social
A lover of born-digital art, literature, and games spending an inordinate amount of time in her lab keeping it all accessible to the public.
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...
E. Gordon Gee: ‘Universities Have Become Isolated and Arrogant’
The former university president on how the sector got into trouble.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m doing a photo shoot in my lab this week and made this prop to accompany my tagline, “I grow and save things.”
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
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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:)
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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:)
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
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
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October 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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
July 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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.
June 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
The Electronic Literature Lab in the BBC News www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The Electronic Literature Lab in the BBC News www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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...
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.
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May 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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...
SciVite - WSU Vancouver Life SciencesHamburger menu button
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May 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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...
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?...
Back to a Website
YouTube video by homestarrunnerdotcom
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April 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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
April 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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.
April 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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.
April 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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
KMi Seminar - Electronic Literature: The challenges of born-digital fiction
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March 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Getting excited about seeing friends at Open University! Glad my collaborator Mariusz Pisarski is co-presenting: kmi.open.ac.uk/seminars/3945
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...
March 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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
March 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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
| Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University
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March 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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!
February 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Electronic Literature Lab has added the Closed Captioning for Pathfinder's Interview with Judy Malloy, clips 7-10. More coming!
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...
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…
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February 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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.
February 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Chris Dregar and Amy Bennett at their interactive work exhibited at the Portland Winter Light Festival.
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!
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...
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February 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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
| Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University
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February 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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/
Seminars | Knowledge Media Institute | The Open University
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February 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Looking forward to seeing my hypertext colleagues this April! kmi.open.ac.uk/seminars/
The new issue of the Nouspace Student Research Gallery is up! So many DTC Vancouver students and alums are featured in the many cool projects in this issue, curated by DTC's Will Luers. Check it out! www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/gallery/
The Nouspace Student Research Gallery | Issue 41
The Nouspace Student Research Gallery is a showcase for exemplary work of CMDC students. Each issue highlights projects that demonstrate digital innovation at the levels of development (code and softw...
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January 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The new issue of the Nouspace Student Research Gallery is up! So many DTC Vancouver students and alums are featured in the many cool projects in this issue, curated by DTC's Will Luers. Check it out! www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/gallery/