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Electronic Literature Organization

Archive-It Partner Since: Jul, 2007

Organization Type: NGOs

Organization URL: http://eliterature.org/   

Description:

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and to provide them with the infrastructure necessary to reach one another. Since 2006 the ELO has been housed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland.

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Title: Hegirascope

URL: http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/hgs/

Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works

Description: ‘What if the word will not be still?’ are the opening words of Stuart Moultrop’s dynamic, meta- or anti-theoretical ‘web fiction’ Hegirascope, first released in 1995. This entry is based on an extended, visually enhanced second version, which was launched in 1997. It incorporates 175 pages and more than 700 links, which are only partially visible and controllable. According to the author himself (1997), most pages 'carry instructions that cause the browser to refresh the active window with a new page after 30 seconds. You can circumvent this by following a hypertext link, though in most cases this will just start a new half-minute timer on a fresh page.' The best starting point is, as Moulthrop suggests, to either ‘dive in’ or navigate via an index page to the most significant sequences. (...) Read the entire elit work article by Astrid Ensslin at: http://directory.eliterature.org/node/498

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Subject:   cybertext postmodern time-based,  deconstruction ,  web fiction

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