Code Movie 1
Giselle Beiguelman & Helga Stein
2004
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On December 31, 2020 Adobe dropped support of Flash software, a premier platform for net art popular in the late 20th century to first decade of the 21st. Within weeks, born-digital literature created with the software was no longer accessible to the public––including the 447 the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) had collected for its repository. By the end of January 2021 the Electronic Literature Lab’s efforts to restore ELO’s Flash archives began in earnest with a variety of methods: Ruffle.rs, Conifer, Webrecorder, and video recordings attained with the Pale Moon browser and the Wayback Machine.
This exhibition, featuring 49 works the lab selected from the online journals and anthologies held in the ELO’s archives, lays bare both the importance of Flash as a platform for conveying highly experimental and compelling literary art and the challenges artists and preservationists face in keeping the art produced with it accessible to the public.
_Clo[h!]neing God N Ange-Ls_
Mez Breeze
2000
Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs
Maria Mencia
2001
Soundpoems I & II
Joerg Piringer
2002
The Dreamlife of Letters
Brian Kim Stefans
2000
Amor de Clarice
Rui Torres
2005
From Anipoemas
Anna Maria Uribe
1997
Strings
Dan Waber
1999
The Dazzle as Question
Claire Allan Dinsmore
2000
Xylo
Peter Howard
2001
Faith
Rob Kendall
2002
John Kusch
Red Lily
2000
Firefly
Deena Larsen
2002
ii -- in the white darkness: about [the fragility of] memory
Reiner Strasser & M. D. Coverley
2004
Tao
Reiner Strasser & Alan Sondheim
2004
slippingglimpse
Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo & Paul Ryan
2007
Shy Boy
Thom Swiss
2002
Ask Me for the Moon
John Zuern
2005
Cruising
Ingrid Ankerson & Megan Sapnar Ankerson
2001
Public Secrets
Sharon Daniel & Erik Loyer
2007
These Waves of Girls
Caitlin Fisher
2001
Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw
Donna Leishman
2004
Nine
Jason Edward Lewis
2003
Stravinsky's Muse
Mark Marino
2002
The Jew's Daughter
Judd Morrissey & Lori Talley
2000
Three Proposals for Bottle Imps
William Poundstone
2003
Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China
Kate Pullinger & babel
2005
Flight Paths
Kate Pullinger & Chris Joseph
2007
Meditation on a Bar Stool
Natalie Zeriff
2000
Séparation/Separation
Annie Abrahams
2003
Blinding Lights
Adriana de Barros
2001
Brainstrips
Alan Bigelow
2008
Toucher
Serge Bouchardon, Kevin Carpentier, & Stéphanie Spenlé
2009
The Mandrake Vehicles
Oni Buchanan
2006
88 Constellations for Wittengenstein (to be Played with the Left Hand)
David Clark
2009
Pieces of Herself
Juliet Davis
2005
Pinzas de metal
Tina Escaja
2003
Alice in the "Wonderbalcony"
Muriel Frega
2004
Portal
Yael Kanaraek, Evann Siebens, Meeyoung Kim, Yoav Gal
2001
mar puro
Aya Karpinska
2006
Thoughts Go
David Knoebel
2001
Under Language
Stuart Moulthrop
2007
i made this. you play this. we are enemies.
Jason Nelson
2008
The Dancing Rhinoceri of Bangladesh
Millie Niss
2002
Bacterias Argentinas
Santiago Ortiz
2004
Café de Pao
Regina Pinto
2008
Fitting the Pattern
Christine Wilks
2008
Disembodied Voices
Jody Zellen
2004