Electronic Literature Lab (ELL)

Founded and directed by Dr. Dene Grigar, The Electronic Literature Lab (ELL) contains 61 vintage Macintosh & PC computers, dating back from 1977, vintage software, peripherals, and a library of over 300 works of electronic literature and other media. One of a handful of media archaeology labs in the U.S., it is used for the advanced inquiry into the curation, documentation, preservation, and production of born digital literary works and other media.

Follow for Live Traversals, a kind of play through or walk through on the original hardware, of early born digital literary works from the 1980's to early 2000's, including hypertext, Hypercard, Hypergate, Storyspace, Macromedia and Adobe Flash, and more.  

For more information about the lab or for help with preserving or recovering born digital work, contact Dr. Dene Grigar at dgrigar[at]wsu[dot]edu.