VANCOUVER, Wash. – Polish scholar Monika Górska-Olesínka will give a lecture on will be about a collaborative artwork created by a poet and a physicist that featured a room “inlaid” with nearly 280,000 dice. Free and open to the public, the talk will take place at 2:10 p.m. in Washington State University Vancouver’s Multimedia Classroom Building, Room 111.
Górska-Olesínka, a specialist in cyberculture, digital textuality and electronic literature who teaches at the University of Opole, will discuss the installation “Alea iacta est,” a collaboration between poet Stanisław Dróżdż and scientist Bogdan Cichocki from Warsaw University. The 280,000 dice were arranged in a sequence of 46,656 of all the combinations of possible outcomes of a traditional game in which six dice are thrown. The work was featured at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.
The author of several books and articles on electronic literature, Górska-Olesínka is in residence in September to conduct archival research at 91ԹϺ’s Electronic Literature Lab. Her project focuses on the award-winning hypertext poem “True North,” published on diskette by digital poet Stephanie Strickland.
The Electronic Literature Lab, directed by Dene Grigar, professor of digital technology and culture, is one of a handful of media archaeology labs in North America. It specializes in cataloging and documenting digital, expressive writing––a form of art referred to as electronic literature––and holds a collection of 200 works dating back to 1984 and 47 vintage computers, beginning with the 1977 Apple II, on which to access them. The lab is the site of the cataloging and documentation effort for the archives managed by the Electronic Literature Organization.
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