Dene Grigar

Dene Grigar is an award-winning 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]

Dene Grigar speaking during the Colloquium at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 2014.

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]

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gollark: You can even bodge √ plus an overbar or whatever it is into an actual square-root-looking thing.(or just use TeX)
gollark: There's a perfectly good square root character.
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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.
  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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