Here is the link to the video recordings of the live traversal of “of day, of night” undertaken with Professor Dene Grigar at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. This was the culmination of a visiting scholarship I undertook in October/ November 2019 to the Electronic Literature Lab at WSUV. “of day, of night” is an electronic literature/ interactive narrative project developed in Australia, first exhibited in 2002 and published by US- based hypertext publishing house Eastgate Systems in 2005. This work is no longer viewable on current Mac’s or PC’s due to changes in hardware, software & operating systems. It has been widely exhibited internationally. The livestream traversal organised by Pof Grigar and the ELL team represent an aspect of the important preservation and archiving of digital cultural content and early electronic literature work that Prof Grigar and her team have been working tirelessly to enable. I am honoured to have been included in this and in the Pathfinders project spearheaded by Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop. As the importance and relevance of early experiments in digital cultural production are now being increasingly recognised at local, national and international levels, I am thrilled to have been included in this process.
There are 5 videos in the full live stream traversal, accessible here:- https://vimeo.com/channels/rebooting. Three of the videos are included below. Thank you Deene, John & the ELL team!
Megan Heyward’s Traversal of “of day, of night,” Part 1 from Dene Grigar on Vimeo.
Megan Heyward’s Traversal of “of day, of night,” Part 2 from Dene Grigar on Vimeo.
Megan Heyward’s Traversal of “of day, of night,” Q&A, Part 1 from Dene Grigar on Vimeo.