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Deena Larsen

January 01, 1970

Deena Larsen (born 1964) is an American new media and hypertext fiction author involved in the creative electronic writing community since the 1980s.[1] Her work has been published in online journals such as the Iowa Review Web, Cauldron and Net, frAme, inFLECT, and Blue Moon Review.[2] Since May 2007, the Deena Larsen Collection of early electronic literature has been housed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.[3]

Deena Larsen
Larsen in 1999
Born1964 (age 59–60)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Northern Colorado (BA)
University of Colorado (MA)
GenreElectronic literature
Years active1993–present
Website
www.deenalarsen.net

Education edit

In 1986, Larsen received her BA in English and Logic from the University of Northern Colorado.[4] Her undergraduate thesis, Nansense Ya Snorsted: A logical look at nonsense, received the university's 1986 Best Thesis Award.[5] In 1991, after spending time in San Francisco and Japan, she returned to Colorado and earned her MA in English from the University of Colorado where she wrote one of the first MA thesis on hypertext titled Hypertext and Hyperpossibilities.[4]

 
María Mencía and Deena Larsen teaching at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City in 2022

Career and influence edit

Larsen has been noted by the Electronic Literature Organization as "a pioneering influence in the electronic literature field."[2] She is described as a "new media visionary who has been active in the creative electronic writing community since its inception in the 1980s" by the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities, which hosts a collection of her papers and software.[6] Larsen's experimentation with literary possibilities in new digital media has led to her work being frequently analysed and cited by scholars and critics, with works like "Carving in Possibilities" (2001) being called "canonical".[7]

Larsen has led numerous writers workshops—either online, at conferences, or universities— on the subject of hypertext, and has played a vital role in organising the electronic literature community. She hosted Hypertext Writers' Workshops at ACM Hypertext conferences in the 1990s[8] and hosted the Electronic Literature Organization online chats on electronic literature from 2000 to 2005.[9] In 2012, Larsen wrote a free textbook called Fun da mentals which serves as an introduction to the field of electronic literature.[10] She currently works as a technical writer at the Bureau of Reclamation, where she was an investigator for research granted by the Science and Technology Program in the 2015 fiscal year.[5][11]

As of 2022, Larsen serves on the Literary Advisory Board for the Electronic Literature Organization.[12] She has also been a board member for trAce and is a past member of the board of directors for the ELO.[2]

Works edit

Deena Larsen's first work, Marble Springs (1993), Eastgate Systems Inc., was one of the first interactive hypertext poetry collections.[13] The work explores the lives of women in a Colorado mountain town in the 19th century.[14] Larsen's admiration for Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology inspired her to create her own world that followed connections similar to those experienced by readers of Master's book experienced.[10] Written in Hypercard, Marble Springs includes a collection of poems for the reader to explore and discover the identity of the author behind each poem.[14] Writing in Poetics Today, narratologist Marie-Laure Ryan describes Marble Springs as a "narrative of place", which is not constructed around an overarching plot or "grand narrative", but "in the 'little stories' that the user discovers in all the nooks and crannies of the fictional world."[15] This means that closure is built in, enabling "readers to pause in their reading or leave it completely".[16]

Her second work, Samplers, Eastgate Systems (1997),[2] is a series of short stories done in Storyspace and used the design of a quilt pattern to tell various stories.[17] Samplers explores allows the reader to explore different narratives and stories through hypertext. Eastgate Systems Inc. noted Larsen's work as "Finely written and intricately structured, Samplers breaks new ground for short hypertext fiction."[17]

Regarding Larsen's work, scholar Jessica Laccetti observed that, "In Larsen’s case, as in Caitlin Fisher’s These Waves of Girls, a default path is built into the narrative, suggesting both chronological sequence and plot development. While 'scholars and analysts' can travel more flexible paths through the stories, first time-readers are advised to follow thematic or character links."[18]

Selected works edit

This is a list of selected works by Larsen, a more comprehensive list can be seen on ELMCIP: Electronic Literature Knowledge Base.[9]
Work title Publisher Publication type Brief Description Year Ref.
Andromeda and Eliza N/A Installation Work of interactive fiction that uses Twine hypertext to encourage readers to consider choice and agency. This work's purpose is to allow the reader to "re-imagine the woman’s journey from victim to co-author of her own fate."[19] 2017 [19]
Playing with Rose: Exploring a New Conceptual Language N/A Exhibited at the ELO conference in 2016 The Rose Language is a work of hypertext that re-imagines the basic English language by giving each letter of a word a symbol that explains the context of which the word is used in. (See external links to visit the site.) Presented in 2016 [20]
Modern Moral Fairy Tales N/A Exhibited at the ELO conference 2012 Dedicated to Larsen's partner, MaJe, this work includes two main storylines. One including a fairy tale story and the other set in an internet cafe dealing with a suppression of information from the state. Presented in 2012 [21]
Firefly Poems That Go Published online in an online journal This work of hypertext allows readers to click each stanza to reveal a different aspect of the story. President of the Electronic Literature Organization, Leonardo Flores,[22] describes Larsen's Firefly as "a speaker going out into nature and having an aesthetic and philosophical experience."[23] 2002 [23][24]
Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts Eastgate Systems, inc. Published originally on disc, CD, or DVD Presented in the form of a quilt, this work of hypertext explores narratives and point of view's from various characters in the nine different storylines. 1997 [25][17]
Marble Springs 1.0 Eastgate Systems, inc. Published originally on disc, CD, or DVD Written in Hypercard, this work of hypertext explores the lives of women in the 19th century through poems meant for the reader to explore in an abandoned church in a ghost town. 1993 [14]

References edit

  1. ^ See the Deena Larsen Collection and Currents in Electronic Literacy 5 (Fall 2001) 2009-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d "Literary Advisory Board (LAB) – Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  3. ^ See the Deena Larsen Collection at MITH.
  4. ^ a b "Deena Larsen". www.eastgate.com. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  5. ^ a b "Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Deena Larsen's "Samplers"". Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  6. ^ "The Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities | About the Deena Larsen Collection". archive.mith.umd.edu.
  7. ^ Mathieson, Jolene (2018-06-01). "The Body and the Possible Soul in Digital Ekphrastic Poetry". Poetics Today. 39 (2): 359–382. doi:10.1215/03335372-4324505. ISSN 0333-5372.
  8. ^ Simanowski, Roberto (2000-11-05). "Living for Hypertext: Interview with Deena Larsen". Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien. 2 (7): 1–7. doi:10.25969/mediarep/17402.
  9. ^ a b "Deena Larsen | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  10. ^ a b "Deena Larsen's life, times, and works". deenalarsen.net. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  11. ^ "Research by Deena Larsen | Research and Development Office". www.usbr.gov. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  12. ^ "Literary Advisory Board (LAB) – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  13. ^ "Early Electronic Literature and The Deena Larsen Collection – Maryland Humanities". Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  14. ^ a b c "Marble Springs 1.0 | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  15. ^ Ryan, Marie-Laure (2002). "Beyond Myth and Metaphor: Narrative in Digital Media". Poetics Today. 23 (4): 598. doi:10.1215/03335372-23-4-581.
  16. ^ Douglas, J. Yellowlees; Hargadon, Andrew (2001-09-01). "The pleasures of immersion and engagement: schemas, scripts and the fifth business". Digital Creativity. 12 (3): 163. doi:10.1076/digc.12.3.153.3231. ISSN 1462-6268.
  17. ^ a b c "Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts". www.eastgate.com. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  18. ^ Laccetti, Jessica. “Where to Begin? Multiple Narrative Paths in Web Fiction.” Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices. Ed. Brian Richardson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 182.
  19. ^ a b "Andromeda and Eliza | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  20. ^ "Playing with Rose: Exploring a New Conceptual Language | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  21. ^ "Modern Moral Fairy Tales | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  22. ^ "Board of Directors – Electronic Literature Organization". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  23. ^ a b Flores, Leonardo (2012-09-02). ""Firefly" by Deena Larsen". I ❤️ E-Poetry. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  24. ^ "Firefly | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  25. ^ "Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2021-05-04.

Further reading edit

  • Bolter, Jay David. Writing space: computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print. New York: Routledge, 2001. ISBN 9780805829181.
  • Funkhouser, Chris. Prehistoric digital poetry: an archaeology of forms, 1959-1995. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. ISBN 9780817380878.
  • Müller-Zettelmann, Eva and Margarete Rubik, eds. Theory into poetry: new approaches to the lyric. Kenilworth, NY: Rodopi, 2005. ISBN 9789042019065.
  • Smith, Hazel. The writing experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2005. ISBN 9781741140156.

External links edit

  • Larsen's home page
  • Eastgate Systems author
  • Larsen's collection of early hypertext works and her own drafts at Maryland Institute of Technologies in the Humanities
  • The Rose Project
  • Marble Springs 3.0

January 01, 1970
deena, larsen, born, 1964, american, media, hypertext, fiction, author, involved, creative, electronic, writing, community, since, 1980s, work, been, published, online, journals, such, iowa, review, cauldron, frame, inflect, blue, moon, review, since, 2007, co. Deena Larsen born 1964 is an American new media and hypertext fiction author involved in the creative electronic writing community since the 1980s 1 Her work has been published in online journals such as the Iowa Review Web Cauldron and Net frAme inFLECT and Blue Moon Review 2 Since May 2007 the Deena Larsen Collection of early electronic literature has been housed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities 3 Deena LarsenLarsen in 1999Born1964 age 59 60 Denver Colorado U S OccupationAuthorCitizenshipUnited StatesEducationUniversity of Northern Colorado BA University of Colorado MA GenreElectronic literatureYears active1993 presentWebsitewww wbr deenalarsen wbr net Contents 1 Education 2 Career and influence 3 Works 3 1 Selected works 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksEducation editIn 1986 Larsen received her BA in English and Logic from the University of Northern Colorado 4 Her undergraduate thesis Nansense Ya Snorsted A logical look at nonsense received the university s 1986 Best Thesis Award 5 In 1991 after spending time in San Francisco and Japan she returned to Colorado and earned her MA in English from the University of Colorado where she wrote one of the first MA thesis on hypertext titled Hypertext and Hyperpossibilities 4 nbsp Maria Mencia and Deena Larsen teaching at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City in 2022Career and influence editLarsen has been noted by the Electronic Literature Organization as a pioneering influence in the electronic literature field 2 She is described as a new media visionary who has been active in the creative electronic writing community since its inception in the 1980s by the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities which hosts a collection of her papers and software 6 Larsen s experimentation with literary possibilities in new digital media has led to her work being frequently analysed and cited by scholars and critics with works like Carving in Possibilities 2001 being called canonical 7 Larsen has led numerous writers workshops either online at conferences or universities on the subject of hypertext and has played a vital role in organising the electronic literature community She hosted Hypertext Writers Workshops at ACM Hypertext conferences in the 1990s 8 and hosted the Electronic Literature Organization online chats on electronic literature from 2000 to 2005 9 In 2012 Larsen wrote a free textbook called Fun da mentals which serves as an introduction to the field of electronic literature 10 She currently works as a technical writer at the Bureau of Reclamation where she was an investigator for research granted by the Science and Technology Program in the 2015 fiscal year 5 11 As of 2022 Larsen serves on the Literary Advisory Board for the Electronic Literature Organization 12 She has also been a board member for trAce and is a past member of the board of directors for the ELO 2 Works editDeena Larsen s first work Marble Springs 1993 Eastgate Systems Inc was one of the first interactive hypertext poetry collections 13 The work explores the lives of women in a Colorado mountain town in the 19th century 14 Larsen s admiration for Edgar Lee Master s Spoon River Anthology inspired her to create her own world that followed connections similar to those experienced by readers of Master s book experienced 10 Written in Hypercard Marble Springs includes a collection of poems for the reader to explore and discover the identity of the author behind each poem 14 Writing in Poetics Today narratologist Marie Laure Ryan describes Marble Springs as a narrative of place which is not constructed around an overarching plot or grand narrative but in the little stories that the user discovers in all the nooks and crannies of the fictional world 15 This means that closure is built in enabling readers to pause in their reading or leave it completely 16 Her second work Samplers Eastgate Systems 1997 2 is a series of short stories done in Storyspace and used the design of a quilt pattern to tell various stories 17 Samplers explores allows the reader to explore different narratives and stories through hypertext Eastgate Systems Inc noted Larsen s work as Finely written and intricately structured Samplers breaks new ground for short hypertext fiction 17 Regarding Larsen s work scholar Jessica Laccetti observed that In Larsen s case as in Caitlin Fisher s These Waves of Girls a default path is built into the narrative suggesting both chronological sequence and plot development While scholars and analysts can travel more flexible paths through the stories first time readers are advised to follow thematic or character links 18 Selected works edit This is a list of selected works by Larsen a more comprehensive list can be seen on ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base 9 Work title Publisher Publication type Brief Description Year Ref Andromeda and Eliza N A Installation Work of interactive fiction that uses Twine hypertext to encourage readers to consider choice and agency This work s purpose is to allow the reader to re imagine the woman s journey from victim to co author of her own fate 19 2017 19 Playing with Rose Exploring a New Conceptual Language N A Exhibited at the ELO conference in 2016 The Rose Language is a work of hypertext that re imagines the basic English language by giving each letter of a word a symbol that explains the context of which the word is used in See external links to visit the site Presented in 2016 20 Modern Moral Fairy Tales N A Exhibited at the ELO conference 2012 Dedicated to Larsen s partner MaJe this work includes two main storylines One including a fairy tale story and the other set in an internet cafe dealing with a suppression of information from the state Presented in 2012 21 Firefly Poems That Go Published online in an online journal This work of hypertext allows readers to click each stanza to reveal a different aspect of the story President of the Electronic Literature Organization Leonardo Flores 22 describes Larsen s Firefly as a speaker going out into nature and having an aesthetic and philosophical experience 23 2002 23 24 Samplers Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts Eastgate Systems inc Published originally on disc CD or DVD Presented in the form of a quilt this work of hypertext explores narratives and point of view s from various characters in the nine different storylines 1997 25 17 Marble Springs 1 0 Eastgate Systems inc Published originally on disc CD or DVD Written in Hypercard this work of hypertext explores the lives of women in the 19th century through poems meant for the reader to explore in an abandoned church in a ghost town 1993 14 References edit See the Deena Larsen Collection and Currents in Electronic Literacy 5 Fall 2001 Archived 2009 07 24 at the Wayback Machine a b c d Literary Advisory Board LAB Electronic Literature Organization eliterature org Retrieved 2021 04 26 See the Deena Larsen Collection at MITH a b Deena Larsen www eastgate com Retrieved 2021 05 04 a b Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 2 Deena Larsen s Samplers Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 2 Documenting Pre Web Born Digital Media Retrieved 2021 05 04 The Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities About the Deena Larsen Collection archive mith umd edu Mathieson Jolene 2018 06 01 The Body and the Possible Soul in Digital Ekphrastic Poetry Poetics Today 39 2 359 382 doi 10 1215 03335372 4324505 ISSN 0333 5372 Simanowski Roberto 2000 11 05 Living for Hypertext Interview with Deena Larsen Dichtung Digital Journal fur Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien 2 7 1 7 doi 10 25969 mediarep 17402 a b Deena Larsen ELMCIP elmcip net Retrieved 2021 05 04 a b Deena Larsen s life times and works deenalarsen net Retrieved 2021 04 28 Research by Deena Larsen Research and Development Office www usbr gov Retrieved 2021 04 26 Literary Advisory Board LAB Electronic Literature Organization Retrieved 2022 09 03 Early Electronic Literature and The Deena Larsen Collection Maryland Humanities Retrieved 2021 04 28 a b c Marble Springs 1 0 ELMCIP elmcip net Retrieved 2021 05 04 Ryan Marie Laure 2002 Beyond Myth and Metaphor Narrative in Digital Media Poetics Today 23 4 598 doi 10 1215 03335372 23 4 581 Douglas J Yellowlees Hargadon Andrew 2001 09 01 The pleasures of immersion and engagement schemas scripts and the fifth business Digital Creativity 12 3 163 doi 10 1076 digc 12 3 153 3231 ISSN 1462 6268 a b c Samplers Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts www eastgate com Retrieved 2021 05 04 Laccetti Jessica Where to Begin Multiple Narrative Paths in Web Fiction Narrative Beginnings Theories and Practices Ed Brian Richardson Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2008 182 a b Andromeda and Eliza ELMCIP elmcip net Retrieved 2021 05 04 Playing with Rose Exploring a New Conceptual Language ELMCIP elmcip net Retrieved 2021 05 04 Modern Moral Fairy Tales ELMCIP elmcip net Retrieved 2021 05 04 Board of Directors Electronic Literature Organization eliterature org Retrieved 2021 05 04 a b Flores Leonardo 2012 09 02 Firefly by Deena Larsen I E Poetry Retrieved 2021 05 04 Firefly ELMCIP elmcip net Retrieved 2021 05 04 Samplers Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts ELMCIP elmcip net Retrieved 2021 05 04 Further reading editBolter Jay David Writing space computers hypertext and the remediation of print New York Routledge 2001 ISBN 9780805829181 Funkhouser Chris Prehistoric digital poetry an archaeology of forms 1959 1995 Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press 2007 ISBN 9780817380878 Muller Zettelmann Eva and Margarete Rubik eds Theory into poetry new approaches to the lyric Kenilworth NY Rodopi 2005 ISBN 9789042019065 Smith Hazel The writing experiment strategies for innovative creative writing Crows Nest Allen amp Unwin 2005 ISBN 9781741140156 External links edit nbsp Biography portal Larsen s home page Eastgate Systems author Larsen s collection of early hypertext works and her own drafts at Maryland Institute of Technologies in the Humanities The Rose Project Marble Springs 3 0 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Deena Larsen amp oldid 1217870209, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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