Dene Grigar

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This image shows Dene Grigar speaking in an auditorium at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Dene Grigar speaking during the Colloquium at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 2014.

Dene Grigar is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. She is the current President of the Electronic Literature Organization.[1] In 2016, Grigar received the International Digital Media and Arts Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.[2]

Scholarship[]

Grigar is Professor and Director of the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver.[3] Her scholarship is largely focused on electronic literature, and has appeared in journals like Computers and Composition[4] and Technoculture.[5] She co-authored Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing (MIT Press 2017) with Stuart Moulthrop.[6] The book was a product of a 2013 NEH Startup Grant.[7] Grigar's scholarly interests can be traced back to the early 1990s, when she took a class with Nancy Kaplan.[8]

Grigar has done extensive work curating exhibitions of digital art and electronic literature, including for the Library of Congress[9] and Modern Language Association.[10]

Artistic career[]

Grigar has produced a number of multimodal artworks, including Curlew, which was featured at the 2014 OLE.1 festival in Naples,[11] and When Ghosts Will Die, a finalist in the 2006 Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards.[12] "Fallow Fields: A Story in Two Parts" was published in The Iowa Web Review,[13] while the NEH funded her Fort Vancouver Mobile project.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "People | Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  2. ^ "iDMAa Award Recipients". idmaa.org. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  3. ^ "Dene Grigar | English | Washington State University". english.wsu.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  4. ^ Grigar, Dene (2007). "What New Media Offers". Computers and Composition. 24 (2): 214–217. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2007.02.003.
  5. ^ "Documentation of Exhibit—The Intermedial Experience of Barcodes | Technoculture". tcjournal.org. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  6. ^ "Traversals". MIT Press. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  7. ^ "Pathfinders | Dene Grigar & Stuart Moulthrop, Co-Pis". Pathfinders. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  8. ^ "Interview with Dene Grigar". electronicliteraturereview. 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  9. ^ "Electronic Literature Showcase". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  10. ^ "E-lit Exhibit and Performance at MLA 2012". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  11. ^ "OLE.1" (PDF). International Festival of Electronic Literature, Naples. 2014.
  12. ^ "Drunken Boat 8". www.drunkenboat.com. 2006. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  13. ^ "Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts". Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP). Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  14. ^ "The Fort Vancouver Mobile Project". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
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