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Marjorie Luesebrink

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink (August 4, 1943 – October 4, 2023) was an American writer, scholar, and teacher. Writing hypermedia fiction under the pen name M.D. Coverley, she is best known for her epic hypertext novels Califia (2000) and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (2006). A pioneer born-digital writer, she is part of the first generation of electronic literature authors that arose in the 1987–1997 period.[1] She was a founding board member and past president of the Electronic Literature Organization[2] and the first winner of the Electronic Literature Organization Career Achievement Award, which was named in her honor.[3] Lusebrink was professor emeritus, School of Humanities and Languages at Irvine Valley College (IVC).

Marjorie Luesebrink
BornMarjorie Coverley Luesebrink
August 4, 1943
California, United States
DiedOctober 4, 2023(2023-10-04) (aged 80)
Pen nameM.D. Coverley
NationalityAmerican
Website
califia.us

Early life and education edit

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink (born August 4, 1943) was the daughter of Jack Coverley and Alice Wilcox.[4] Her father was an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft in Southern California; her mother was active in several educational and charity organizations. A fourth-generation Californian, Coverley spent much of her youth exploring Southern California history and landscapes. The family spent summers in Balboa, where she raced sailboats and surfed. In winter, they went on trips (to buy "worthless land") in the deserts. She started writing poetry and short stories at age eight.

She received her B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965 and her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of California, Irvine, in 1975.

Career edit

After graduating from UC Berkeley, Marjorie married Richard Wayne Luesebrink. They settled in Newport Beach. He practiced law, and they began a family with the birth of Eric in 1967 and Marc in 1969. Coverley began writing articles for local magazines such as Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine. She started her first book-length fiction, Love and the Dragonfly – a multivoiced, mixed-text work - in 1973. In the early 1970s, she returned to school in the UC Irvine Writing Program.

After graduating from the UC Irvine M.F.A. program, Coverley began teaching, first at Orange Coast College and then at the new IVC in Irvine.[2] She bought her first computer in 1981 and began experimenting with narratives that used the affordances of electronic digital media.

Teacher edit

In 1979, Luesebrink began teaching full-time at IVC. She was one of the original 13 faculty members. At IVC, she started exploring the intersections between computers and writing – experimenting with computer-generated poetry and initiating a program in CompuEnglish. Later, she developed the first online courses in literature and writing for the college. These courses appeared both online and on television. She taught in the UC Irvine writing program, UC Irvine Extension, and Orange Coast College and was professor emeritus, School of Humanities and Languages, IVC.

Author edit

Her works incorporate text, image, animation, sound, and structure to create spatial, visual story worlds. Her career includes novels and short stories, scholarship, curating, editing, teaching, and publishing. The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection[5] in The NEXT Museum has revived and maintained 27 of her works.[6]

Coverley has published two multimedia hypertext novels, Califia (Eastgate Systems, 2000) and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (Artist’s Book, Horizon Insight, 2006), a collection of short stories, Fingerprints on Digital Glass (2002), as well as other short fiction, poetry, interviews, and articles on electronic literature and born-digital writing.

Califia is a multimedia, interactive, hypertext fiction for CD-ROM. Califia allows the reader to wander and play in the landscape of historic/magic California. It is a computer-only creation of interactive stories, photos, graphics, maps, music, and movement. It has Three Narrating Characters, Four Directions of the Compass, Star Charts, Map Case, Archives Files, 500 Megabytes, 800 Screens, 2400 Images, 30 Songs, and 500 Words.[7]

One scholar has written of Califia that it is designed to lead the reader "to discover the lost cache of California through her wanderings within the story space".[8] Another writer calls it "a metaphysical quest rather than a conventional mystery", noting that the central question of the treasure remains unresolved.[7] It has been termed a classic of hypermedia,[9] and literary critic and hypertext scholar Katherine Hayles has cited it as one of the establishing texts for electronic literature.[10]

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day is an artist’s book published by Horizon Insight. The "first edition" consists of 100 individualized copies – each one bearing a named "spell" for the owner. Thereafter, "reader" versions have been available on flash drives. Egypt is a story of death and rebirth set in both contemporary and ancient Egypt. It explores the ways in which narrative can be distributed between both text and other media, including images, music, animations, and the navigational structure and interface. Katherine Hayles writes of Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (2006) that its layers "are instrumental in creating a visual/verbal/sonic narrative in which the deep past and the present, modern skepticism and ancient rituals, hieroglyphs and electronic writing merge and blend with one another.[11]

Fingerprints on Digital Glass is a collection of short web pieces published between 1999 and 2002. It includes Afterimage, Default Lives, Tide-Land, Universal Resource Locator, Eclipse Louisiana, Endless Suburbs, Life in the Chocolate Mountains, and Fibonacci's Daughter.

Fibonacci's Daughter is a complexly plotted hypertext centered on protagonist Annabelle Thompson, who runs a business called Bet Your Life out of a California mall. The daughter of gamblers, Thompson sells insurance policies that allow people to bet on their own future prospects. Bet Your Life is both successful and controversial, leading Thompson to be accused of witchcraft (among other things), especially after two teenage clients disappear and are later found dead. The narrative of Fibonacci's Daughter is told through a number of different voices, including excerpts from news stories. Coverley originally created Fibonacci's Daughter with the trAce Archive of online writing at Nottingham Trent University in the U.K. Jane Yellowlees Douglas has suggested that Fibonacci's Daughter owes a debt to Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Rappaccini's Daughter" in that both are meditations on all the ways that attempting to make the world more orderly can go wrong.[12]

Afterimage is a non-linear hypertext told in the first person as the narrator finds that her biological father is actually his brother, Trevor, who was her mother's real love. As Hazel Smith describes this, the piece's many contrasting elements and a central letter from her real father to her mother that may or may not exist plays with imagination and memory. The title Afterimage alludes to the fallibility of memory. The images in this piece of typewriters and changing lights in photographs compound the ambiguity.[13]

Endless Suburbs is a satire based on consumerism and loss. The NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space has a reconstruction, termed "emulation" of this work [14]

Coverley’s later work includes Pacific Surfliner: San Juan Capistrano (2017), Hours of the Night. (with Stephanie Strickland, 2016), The 2015 Fukushima Pinup Calendar (2014).

Editor edit

Luesebrink worked as an editor for several publications, including The Blue Moon Review, Inflect, Riding the Meridian, and Word Circuits.

Luesebrink also directed collaborative writing projects, such as M is for Nottingham at the trAce 2002 Incubation 2 Conference in Nottingham.[15]

Publications and works edit

Collected works and papers edit

  • The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection The NEXT: Museum, Library, and Preservation Space, Washington State University.[16]

Fiction and creative edit

Electronic works published through physical media edit

  • Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day Horizon Insight (2006). A media-rich and complex narrative set in contemporary Egypt that draws upon ancient mythology, it was produced with Director and published on CD-COM by the author. Access to the work involved a personal “spell” the author sent to specific readers (e.g., Deena Larsen and David Kolb) via a flash drive. 100 of these were distributed; some of these are preserved in The NEXT.[17] Luesebrink summarizes the creation and story of this work in Narrabase.[18]
  • Califia Eastgate Systems (CD, 2000). A multivocal story that spans five generations of Californians and the quest for gold, it was produced with Toolbook and published on CD-ROM by Eastgate Systems, Inc.

Electronic works published on the web edit

  • Pacific Surfliner: San Juan Capistrano (2017)
  • Tin Towns and Other Excel Fictions (2011–20??, in progress). Discussed in Narrabase.[19]
  • Hours of the Night. With Stephanie Strickland (2016)
  • "The 2015 Fukushima Pinup Calendar" (2014)
  • "Califia Reimagined" (2013)
  • Tarim Tapestry (2013)
  • "Pyxis Byzantium" (2008)
  • M is for Nottingham? (2002)
  • "ii -- in the white darkness: about [the fragility of] memory]" (with Reiner Strasser, 2004)
  • "Accounts of the Glass Sky". Artifacts (2002)
  • Fingerprints on Digital Glass (2002)
  • "Bush Towel" Bunk Magazine (2001)
  • "The Errand Upon Which We Came". Cauldron and Net 3.1 (with Stephanie Strickland, 2001)
  • "A L G O". PoemsThatGo (2001)
  • "Tumblers, or Mother is an Irregular Verb" Riding the Meridian (2001)
  • "RainFrames" Aileron (2000)
  • "Negative Confessions" Poems by Nari (with Ted Warnell, 2000)
  • "To Be Here as Stone Is". True North (with Stephanie Strickland, 1999)
  • "Pao-Lien and the Cave Dragon, Wu". trAce MY MILLENNIUM project, Nottingham Trent University, U.K. (1999)
  • "Elys, The Lacemaker" The Book of Hours of Madame de Lafayette (1997)
  • "The Probability of Earthquake" excerpt from Califia, Blast 5 Project (1996)
  • "Love and the Dragonfly" The Moon Instar (1992)

Readings edit

  • "Fukushima Pinup Calendar"
    • Doheney Library, USC (2014)
    • Digital Humanities Summer Institute (2014)
    • Chicago School of Arts (2014)
  • Califia
    • Hammer Museum (2007)
  • "Fibonacci's Daughter"
    • Society for Literature and Science, Atlanta (2000)
  • Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day
    • Library of Congress (2013)
    • Dartmouth Symposium (2011)
    • Kennesaw State University, Georgia (2002)
    • Beyond Hypertext at Beyond Baroque: New Electronic Poetry and Fiction (October 19, 2002)
    • Digital Arts and Culture, Brown University (2001)
  • "Tin Towns"
    • Hugo House, Seattle (2012)
  • "The Beauty of Loulan"
    • &Now Festival, San Diego (2011)
    • Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (2011)

Exhibitions edit

  • Recovery Hub of American Women Writers[20] Project showcase: Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection at Electronic Literature Organization's The NEXT Museum
  • Horizon Insight: A Retrospective of the Art of M. D. Coverley, The NEXT[21]
  • Endless Suburbs, Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy, September 5–8, 2023, curated by Dene Grigar
  • Electronic Literature exhibition, 2012 Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, Hugo House, January 5–7, 2012, curated by Dene Grigar, Kathi Inman Berens, and Lori Emerson[22]
  • Library of Congress, April 3–5, 2013, curated by Dene Grigar and Kathi Inman Berens
  • Downtown Campus Library, Morgantown, WV, 20–23 June 2012[23]
  • ELO Visionary Landscapes, May 29-June 1, 2008, Washington State University at Vancouver[24]
  • Hammer Museum
  • Guggenheim Museum (New York)
  • The Digital Arts Center at UCLA
  • Brown University
  • Museum of Post-Digital Cultures (Switzerland)
  • Chicago School of the Arts
  • trAce
  • Downtown Campus Library University of West Virginia
  • Boston Lite Show (Boston Cyberarts Festival)
  • Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
  • Future For Word Multimedia Exhibition (Seattle Poetry Festival)

Documentation of works edit

  • Califia traversal, interview, and images of the work[25]

Nonfiction and critical edit

Print edit

  • "Women’s Contributions to Electronic Literature 1990-2010". Women/Tech/Lit. Maria Mencia, editor.[26]
  • "The Making and Unmaking of Califia". Women/Tech/Lit. Maria Mencia, Charles Baldwin, eds. West Virginia Press (forthcoming).
  • "The History of the Electronic Literature Organization". The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Benjamin J. Robertson and Marie-Laure Ryan, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press (2014).
  • "Creativity and Writing in Digital Media". (with Stephanie Strickland). Creativity and Writing Pedagogy: Linking Creative Writers, Researchers and Teachers. Harriet Levin Millan and Martha C. Pennington, eds. Equinox Press (2014).
  • "Code Egyptian Blue: Crossover Platforms in Hypertext Fiction". Proceedings of the CyberMountain Colloquium—Denver, Colorado. Larsen, D. and Nürnberg, P.J., eds. (1999).
  • "The Grateful Dead Legendstock". Perspectives on the Grateful Dead. Robert Weiner, ed. Greenwood Press, Fall (1999).
  • "The Moment in Hypertext: A Brief Lexicon of Time". Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, SIGLINK. (1998).
  • "Walk Four Ways". Co-authored with Carolyn Guyer, Peg Syverson, and Michael Joyce. Pre Text, University of Texas Austin (1997).
  • "Upward, Beyond the Constant Flow, There was Moondling: Writers, Rhetoric, and Technology in Hypertext Fiction". The Elephant Ear, Spring (1996).

Web edit

  • "One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature". Electronic book review (2014)
  • "Futures of Electronic Literature" (with Stephanie Strickland). Electronic book review (2014).
  • "Multi-Modal Coding: Jason Nelson, Donna Leishman, and Electronic Writing". (Guest edited edition with Stephanie Strickland). The Iowa Review Web 9.1 (2007).
  • "The nEARness/t of [IrOny] U’s: An Interview with Talan Memmott on the Occasion of the Publication of Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]". The Iowa Review Web (2003).
  • "The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls – Web martyrs and other issues of the electronic creative environments". Currents in Electronic Literacy (November 2001).
  • "The White Wall: Re-Framing the Mirror – making the web-sccessible version of MIrro". Currents in Electronic Literature (November 2001).
  • "The Personalization of Complexity – Our relationship to the complex mind of the computer". frAme 5. (February 2001).
  • "An Interview with Reiner Strasser – Marjorie Luesebrink interviews the noted German artist". frAme 5. (February 2001).
  • "Egyptian E-Mail – Letters to Christy Sheffield Sanford". Enterzone, episode 14. (Spring 1998)
  • "The NeverEnding Fairy Tale – The Disney fantasy"—first published online in Orange Coast Magazine (1996)
  • "The $500 Rolls-Royce – California urban legends"—first published online in Orange Coast Magazine (1995).
  • "When the Going Gets Tough – Cybershopping – Web shopping in the beginning". First published online in Orange Coast Magazine (1995).
  • "The Virtual Mausoleum – why have a plaque in the grass when you can have a mausoleum on the WWW? (archives being reconstructed)". First published online in Orange Coast Magazine (1995)

Presentations edit

  • “The Boston T1 Party: Califia” Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston (2001)
  • “A Night at the Cybertexts: Default Lives” Digital Arts and Culture, Brown University (2001)
  • Literature in Transition, NEH Workshop, UCLA (2001)
  • Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (2001)
  • Writers at Work, Irvine Valley College (2000)
  • Hypertext 00 (SIGLINK, ACM), San Antonio (2000)
  • Digital Center for the Arts, Evening New Media Series, UCLA (2000)
  • The Transcriptions Project, USCB (2000)
  • 2000 Cultural Studies Symposium, Manhattan, KS (2000)
  • Electronic Literature Association, Seattle (2000)
  • SW/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque (2000)
  • University of New Mexico, Socorro, NM (2000)
  • The U.C. Irvine Writer’s Conference (1999)
  • The Cybermountain Colloquium, Denver (1999)
  • Platforms for 21st Century Literature, Brown University (1999)
  • Modern Language Association, San Francisco (1998)
  • The U.C. Irvine Writer’s Conference (1998)
  • The Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference (1998)
  • Redlands University (1998)
  • Women Connect Seminar, Newport Beach (1998)
  • NEH Seminar in New Technologies in Literature, UCLA (1998)
  • Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (1998)
  • The Newport Beach Library’s Manuscript Series (1998)
  • Hypertext 98 (SIGLINK, ACM), Pittsburgh, PA (1998)

Curated collections edit

  • "Intersections: Explore". The Blue Moon Review. November 2001. Ten women working in Web literature.
  • "Jumpin’ at the Diner (with Jennifer Ley)". Riding the Meridian 2.2 (2000). Forty men in hypermedia Web literature.[27]
  • "The Progressive Dinner Party" – Thirty-nine women writers in e-literature with Carolyn Guertin. Riding the Meridian (Spring 2000).[28]

References edit

  1. ^ Clement, Tanya, and Gretchen Gueguen. "Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources." A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2013): 577-596.
  2. ^ a b Luesebrink, Marjorie. "Vita" 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Marjorie Luesebrink website.
  3. ^ "ELO Annual Awards – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  4. ^ Luesebrink, Marjorie. "Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink: A Virtual, Vertical Bio". Marjorie Luesebrink website.
  5. ^ "The Marjorie Luesebrink Collection". The NEXT. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  6. ^ Lillvis, Kristen; White, Melinda (2023-08-28). "Review: Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection at ELO's The NEXT". Reviews in Digital Humanities. IV (8). doi:10.21428/3e88f64f.fb0bd342. ISSN 2766-9297.
  7. ^ a b Koskimaa, Raine. "In Search of Califia". In Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature, Jan van Looy and Jan Baetens, eds. Leuven University Press, 2003, pp. 53-67.
  8. ^ Bakioglu, Burcu S. "Construction of Spatial Narratives in M.D. Coverley’s Califia". MIT Papers, 2005.
  9. ^ Ensslin, Astrid. Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions. Bloomsbury Academic, 2007.
  10. ^ Raley, Rita. "Writing Machines (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 50.2 (2004): 528-529.
  11. ^ Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. 2005.
  12. ^ Douglas, Jane Yellowlees (2000). "Playing the Numbers:M.D. Coverley's 'Fibonacci's Daughter'".
  13. ^ Smith, Hazel (2009). "Affect, emotion and sensation in new media writing: the work of John Cayley, M.D. Coverley, Jason Nelson and Simon Biggs"". Literature and Sensation. Cambridge Scholars. pp. 300–312. ISBN 9781443801164.
  14. ^ Grigar, Dene; Pisarski, Mariusz (March 21, 2024). The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, & Emulations. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009181488. ISBN 978-1-009-50737-0. ISSN 2633-4399.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  15. ^ Hayles, N. Katharine (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. University of Notre Dame. ISBN 978-0-268-03084-1.
  16. ^ "The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection".
  17. ^ Coverly, M.D. (2006). "Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day". The NEXT.
  18. ^ Coverley, M.D. (November 21, 2022). "How new media writers create their work: Egypt: Going Forth by Day".
  19. ^ Coverley, M.D. (November 21, 2022). "The process of creating new media: Tin Towns and other Excel Fictions". Narrabase. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  20. ^ Project, Recovery. "Project Showcase: Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection at ELO's The NEXT". Recovery Hub for American Women Writers. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  21. ^ Grigar, Dene (cur.). "Horizon Insight: A Retrospective of the Art of M. D. Coverley, 1 November 2021-31 March 2022".
  22. ^ Grigar, Dene; Inman Berens, Kathi; Emerson, Lori (curs.). "Electronic Literature exhibition, 2012 Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, Hugo House, January 5-7, 2012".
  23. ^ "Downtown Campus Library, Morgantown, WV, 20-23 June 2012".
  24. ^ "ELO Visionary Landscapes, May 29-June 1, 2008, Washington State University at Vancouver".
  25. ^ Grigar, Dene, ed. (2020). "Chapter 3 in Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 3". Electronic Literature Lab, Nouspace Publications.
  26. ^ Mencía, María (2017). "#WomenTechLit". Computing Literature. 8.
  27. ^ "Jumpin' at the Diner (with Jennifer Ley)". Riding the Meridian 2.2, The NEXT. 2000.
  28. ^ "The Progressive Dinner Party". Riding the Meridian, The NEXT. 2000.

Further reading edit

  • Barrett, James. The Ergodic revisited: spatiality as a governing principle of digital literature. Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3257-7328 (2015).
  • Douglas, Jane Yellowlees. Playing the Numbers - Fibonacci’s Daughter. Word Circuits (2000). Reprint, SIGWEB, Vol. 9, No. 3, Oct. 2000.
  • Eskelinen, Markku and Koskimaa, Raine. New Wave of Hypertext Fiction and Temporality of Cybertext. dichtung-digital.de (2001/05/30).
  • Grigar, Dene. The Present [Future] of Electronic Literature: Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen. Volume - Communications in Computer and Information Science pp 127–142 (2008).
  • Guertin, Carolyn. Three-Dimensional Dementia: M.D. Coverley's Califia and the Aesthetics of Forgetting. University of Alberta (1999).
  • Hayles, Katherine.
    • My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2005).
    • Writing Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press (2002).
    • "Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media", Memory Bytes:
    • History, Technology, and Digital Culture, edited by Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil (Duke University Press 2004), 257-282.
    • "Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments", in Semiotic Flesh - Information and the Human Body, edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell (Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2002), pp. 52–68.
    • "Print is Flat, Code is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis", Poetics Today 25.1 (Spring 2004): 67-90.
    • "Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality", Yale Journal of Criticism, vol. 6, no. 3 (2003): 263-290.
    • "The Materiality of the Medium: Hypertext Narrative in Print and New Media", Narrative 9.1 (January 2001): 21-39.
    • "Visualizing the Posthuman", Art Journal 59, no. 3 ( Fall 2000): 50-54.
  • Heise, Ursula K. Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism. Cambridge University Press (1997).
  • Kilgore, Christopher David. Ambiguous Recognition: Recursion, Cognitive Blending, and the Problem of Interpretation in Twenty-First-Century Fiction. (2010).
  • Kendall, Robert. The World Wide Web: Publishing's Awakening Giant. Poets & Writers (1998).
  • Koskimaa, Raine. Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond. University of Jyvaskyla (2000).
  • Madej, Krystina. Collaborative Authoring in Social Media. Springer Press (forthcoming).
  • Odin, Jaishree. Hypertext and the Female Imaginary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010).
  • Orihuala, José Luis. El narrador en ficción interactiva. El jardinero y el laberinto (Crítica de Califia, de M.D.Coverley, publicado por Eastgate Systems), An interview with Califia´s author, Marjorie Luesebrink. Hypertulia.Critica (University of Madrid) English Version in Dichtung Digital. (2002).
  • Punday, Daniel.
    • Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction (Ohio State, 2011)
    • Writing at the Media Limit: Searching for the Vocation of the Novel in the Contemporary Media Ecology (Nebraska, 2012).
  • Raley, Rita. Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance. Postmodern Culture (2001).
  • Ryan, Marie-Laure. Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2000).
  • Schreibman, Susan and Siemens, Ray, ed. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell (2008).
  • Smith, Hazel. The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing, Allen and Unwin (2005).
  • Tomasula, Steve. “Code and New-Media Literature” in The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. New York: Routledge (2012). pp. 483–496.
  • Williams, Nerys. "Content-specific Electronic Writing: John Cayley, Jenny Weight, Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar, Reiner Strasser and M.D. Coverley". In Contemporary Poetry, Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
  • Zuern, John. Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (2013).

External links edit

  • Personal website
  • Memorial retrospective of life and readings[1]
  1. ^ "Marjorie C. Luesebrink Memorial Readings". The NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space. November 23, 2023.

marjorie, luesebrink, marjorie, coverley, luesebrink, august, 1943, october, 2023, american, writer, scholar, teacher, writing, hypermedia, fiction, under, name, coverley, best, known, epic, hypertext, novels, califia, 2000, egypt, book, going, forth, 2006, pi. Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink August 4 1943 October 4 2023 was an American writer scholar and teacher Writing hypermedia fiction under the pen name M D Coverley she is best known for her epic hypertext novels Califia 2000 and Egypt The Book of Going Forth by Day 2006 A pioneer born digital writer she is part of the first generation of electronic literature authors that arose in the 1987 1997 period 1 She was a founding board member and past president of the Electronic Literature Organization 2 and the first winner of the Electronic Literature Organization Career Achievement Award which was named in her honor 3 Lusebrink was professor emeritus School of Humanities and Languages at Irvine Valley College IVC Marjorie LuesebrinkBornMarjorie Coverley LuesebrinkAugust 4 1943California United StatesDiedOctober 4 2023 2023 10 04 aged 80 Pen nameM D CoverleyNationalityAmericanWebsitecalifia wbr us Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Teacher 2 2 Author 3 Editor 4 Publications and works 4 1 Collected works and papers 4 2 Fiction and creative 4 2 1 Electronic works published through physical media 4 2 2 Electronic works published on the web 4 2 3 Readings 4 2 4 Exhibitions 4 2 5 Documentation of works 4 3 Nonfiction and critical 4 3 1 Print 4 3 2 Web 4 3 3 Presentations 4 4 Curated collections 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksEarly life and education editMarjorie Coverley Luesebrink born August 4 1943 was the daughter of Jack Coverley and Alice Wilcox 4 Her father was an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft in Southern California her mother was active in several educational and charity organizations A fourth generation Californian Coverley spent much of her youth exploring Southern California history and landscapes The family spent summers in Balboa where she raced sailboats and surfed In winter they went on trips to buy worthless land in the deserts She started writing poetry and short stories at age eight She received her B A in English from the University of California Berkeley in 1965 and her M F A in fiction from the University of California Irvine in 1975 Career editAfter graduating from UC Berkeley Marjorie married Richard Wayne Luesebrink They settled in Newport Beach He practiced law and they began a family with the birth of Eric in 1967 and Marc in 1969 Coverley began writing articles for local magazines such as Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine She started her first book length fiction Love and the Dragonfly a multivoiced mixed text work in 1973 In the early 1970s she returned to school in the UC Irvine Writing Program After graduating from the UC Irvine M F A program Coverley began teaching first at Orange Coast College and then at the new IVC in Irvine 2 She bought her first computer in 1981 and began experimenting with narratives that used the affordances of electronic digital media Teacher edit In 1979 Luesebrink began teaching full time at IVC She was one of the original 13 faculty members At IVC she started exploring the intersections between computers and writing experimenting with computer generated poetry and initiating a program in CompuEnglish Later she developed the first online courses in literature and writing for the college These courses appeared both online and on television She taught in the UC Irvine writing program UC Irvine Extension and Orange Coast College and was professor emeritus School of Humanities and Languages IVC Author edit Her works incorporate text image animation sound and structure to create spatial visual story worlds Her career includes novels and short stories scholarship curating editing teaching and publishing The Marjorie C Luesebrink Collection 5 in The NEXT Museum has revived and maintained 27 of her works 6 Coverley has published two multimedia hypertext novels Califia Eastgate Systems 2000 and Egypt The Book of Going Forth by Day Artist s Book Horizon Insight 2006 a collection of short stories Fingerprints on Digital Glass 2002 as well as other short fiction poetry interviews and articles on electronic literature and born digital writing Califia is a multimedia interactive hypertext fiction for CD ROM Califia allows the reader to wander and play in the landscape of historic magic California It is a computer only creation of interactive stories photos graphics maps music and movement It has Three Narrating Characters Four Directions of the Compass Star Charts Map Case Archives Files 500 Megabytes 800 Screens 2400 Images 30 Songs and 500 Words 7 One scholar has written of Califia that it is designed to lead the reader to discover the lost cache of California through her wanderings within the story space 8 Another writer calls it a metaphysical quest rather than a conventional mystery noting that the central question of the treasure remains unresolved 7 It has been termed a classic of hypermedia 9 and literary critic and hypertext scholar Katherine Hayles has cited it as one of the establishing texts for electronic literature 10 Egypt The Book of Going Forth by Day is an artist s book published by Horizon Insight The first edition consists of 100 individualized copies each one bearing a named spell for the owner Thereafter reader versions have been available on flash drives Egypt is a story of death and rebirth set in both contemporary and ancient Egypt It explores the ways in which narrative can be distributed between both text and other media including images music animations and the navigational structure and interface Katherine Hayles writes of Egypt The Book of Going Forth by Day 2006 that its layers are instrumental in creating a visual verbal sonic narrative in which the deep past and the present modern skepticism and ancient rituals hieroglyphs and electronic writing merge and blend with one another 11 Fingerprints on Digital Glass is a collection of short web pieces published between 1999 and 2002 It includes Afterimage Default Lives Tide Land Universal Resource Locator Eclipse Louisiana Endless Suburbs Life in the Chocolate Mountains and Fibonacci s Daughter Fibonacci s Daughter is a complexly plotted hypertext centered on protagonist Annabelle Thompson who runs a business called Bet Your Life out of a California mall The daughter of gamblers Thompson sells insurance policies that allow people to bet on their own future prospects Bet Your Life is both successful and controversial leading Thompson to be accused of witchcraft among other things especially after two teenage clients disappear and are later found dead The narrative of Fibonacci s Daughter is told through a number of different voices including excerpts from news stories Coverley originally created Fibonacci s Daughter with the trAce Archive of online writing at Nottingham Trent University in the U K Jane Yellowlees Douglas has suggested that Fibonacci s Daughter owes a debt to Nathaniel Hawthorne s story Rappaccini s Daughter in that both are meditations on all the ways that attempting to make the world more orderly can go wrong 12 Afterimage is a non linear hypertext told in the first person as the narrator finds that her biological father is actually his brother Trevor who was her mother s real love As Hazel Smith describes this the piece s many contrasting elements and a central letter from her real father to her mother that may or may not exist plays with imagination and memory The title Afterimage alludes to the fallibility of memory The images in this piece of typewriters and changing lights in photographs compound the ambiguity 13 Endless Suburbs is a satire based on consumerism and loss The NEXT Museum Library and Preservation Space has a reconstruction termed emulation of this work 14 Coverley s later work includes Pacific Surfliner San Juan Capistrano 2017 Hours of the Night with Stephanie Strickland 2016 The 2015 Fukushima Pinup Calendar 2014 Editor editLuesebrink worked as an editor for several publications including The Blue Moon Review Inflect Riding the Meridian and Word Circuits Luesebrink also directed collaborative writing projects such as M is for Nottingham at the trAce 2002 Incubation 2 Conference in Nottingham 15 Publications and works editCollected works and papers edit The Marjorie C Luesebrink Collection The NEXT Museum Library and Preservation Space Washington State University 16 Fiction and creative edit Electronic works published through physical media edit Egypt The Book of Going Forth by Day Horizon Insight 2006 A media rich and complex narrative set in contemporary Egypt that draws upon ancient mythology it was produced with Director and published on CD COM by the author Access to the work involved a personal spell the author sent to specific readers e g Deena Larsen and David Kolb via a flash drive 100 of these were distributed some of these are preserved in The NEXT 17 Luesebrink summarizes the creation and story of this work in Narrabase 18 Califia Eastgate Systems CD 2000 A multivocal story that spans five generations of Californians and the quest for gold it was produced with Toolbook and published on CD ROM by Eastgate Systems Inc Electronic works published on the web edit Pacific Surfliner San Juan Capistrano 2017 Tin Towns and Other Excel Fictions 2011 20 in progress Discussed in Narrabase 19 Hours of the Night With Stephanie Strickland 2016 The 2015 Fukushima Pinup Calendar 2014 Califia Reimagined 2013 Tarim Tapestry 2013 Pyxis Byzantium 2008 M is for Nottingham 2002 ii in the white darkness about the fragility of memory with Reiner Strasser 2004 Accounts of the Glass Sky Artifacts 2002 Fingerprints on Digital Glass 2002 Bush Towel Bunk Magazine 2001 The Errand Upon Which We Came Cauldron and Net 3 1 with Stephanie Strickland 2001 A L G O PoemsThatGo 2001 Tumblers or Mother is an Irregular Verb Riding the Meridian 2001 RainFrames Aileron 2000 Negative Confessions Poems by Nari with Ted Warnell 2000 To Be Here as Stone Is True North with Stephanie Strickland 1999 Pao Lien and the Cave Dragon Wu trAce MY MILLENNIUM project Nottingham Trent University U K 1999 Elys The Lacemaker The Book of Hours of Madame de Lafayette 1997 The Probability of Earthquake excerpt from Califia Blast 5 Project 1996 Love and the Dragonfly The Moon Instar 1992 Readings edit Fukushima Pinup Calendar Doheney Library USC 2014 Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2014 Chicago School of Arts 2014 Califia Hammer Museum 2007 Fibonacci s Daughter Society for Literature and Science Atlanta 2000 Egypt The Book of Going Forth by Day Library of Congress 2013 Dartmouth Symposium 2011 Kennesaw State University Georgia 2002 Beyond Hypertext at Beyond Baroque New Electronic Poetry and Fiction October 19 2002 Digital Arts and Culture Brown University 2001 Tin Towns Hugo House Seattle 2012 The Beauty of Loulan amp Now Festival San Diego 2011 Society for Literature Science and the Arts 2011 Exhibitions edit Recovery Hub of American Women Writers 20 Project showcase Marjorie C Luesebrink Collection at Electronic Literature Organization s The NEXT Museum Horizon Insight A Retrospective of the Art of M D Coverley The NEXT 21 Endless Suburbs Hypertext amp Art A Retrospective of Forms Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome Italy September 5 8 2023 curated by Dene Grigar Electronic Literature exhibition 2012 Modern Language Association Annual Conference Seattle WA Hugo House January 5 7 2012 curated by Dene Grigar Kathi Inman Berens and Lori Emerson 22 Library of Congress April 3 5 2013 curated by Dene Grigar and Kathi Inman Berens Downtown Campus Library Morgantown WV 20 23 June 2012 23 ELO Visionary Landscapes May 29 June 1 2008 Washington State University at Vancouver 24 Hammer Museum Guggenheim Museum New York The Digital Arts Center at UCLA Brown University Museum of Post Digital Cultures Switzerland Chicago School of the Arts trAce Downtown Campus Library University of West Virginia Boston Lite Show Boston Cyberarts Festival Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Future For Word Multimedia Exhibition Seattle Poetry Festival Documentation of works edit Califia traversal interview and images of the work 25 Nonfiction and critical edit Print edit Women s Contributions to Electronic Literature 1990 2010 Women Tech Lit Maria Mencia editor 26 The Making and Unmaking of Califia Women Tech Lit Maria Mencia Charles Baldwin eds West Virginia Press forthcoming The History of the Electronic Literature Organization The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media Benjamin J Robertson and Marie Laure Ryan eds Johns Hopkins University Press 2014 Creativity and Writing in Digital Media with Stephanie Strickland Creativity and Writing Pedagogy Linking Creative Writers Researchers and Teachers Harriet Levin Millan and Martha C Pennington eds Equinox Press 2014 Code Egyptian Blue Crossover Platforms in Hypertext Fiction Proceedings of the CyberMountain Colloquium Denver Colorado Larsen D and Nurnberg P J eds 1999 The Grateful Dead Legendstock Perspectives on the Grateful Dead Robert Weiner ed Greenwood Press Fall 1999 The Moment in Hypertext A Brief Lexicon of Time Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia SIGLINK 1998 Walk Four Ways Co authored with Carolyn Guyer Peg Syverson and Michael Joyce Pre Text University of Texas Austin 1997 Upward Beyond the Constant Flow There was Moondling Writers Rhetoric and Technology in Hypertext Fiction The Elephant Ear Spring 1996 Web edit One One Zero Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature Electronic book review 2014 Futures of Electronic Literature with Stephanie Strickland Electronic book review 2014 Multi Modal Coding Jason Nelson Donna Leishman and Electronic Writing Guest edited edition with Stephanie Strickland The Iowa Review Web 9 1 2007 The nEARness t of IrOny U s An Interview with Talan Memmott on the Occasion of the Publication of Self Portrait s as Other s The Iowa Review Web 2003 The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls Web martyrs and other issues of the electronic creative environments Currents in Electronic Literacy November 2001 The White Wall Re Framing the Mirror making the web sccessible version of MIrro Currents in Electronic Literature November 2001 The Personalization of Complexity Our relationship to the complex mind of the computer frAme 5 February 2001 An Interview with Reiner Strasser Marjorie Luesebrink interviews the noted German artist frAme 5 February 2001 Egyptian E Mail Letters to Christy Sheffield Sanford Enterzone episode 14 Spring 1998 The NeverEnding Fairy Tale The Disney fantasy first published online in Orange Coast Magazine 1996 The 500 Rolls Royce California urban legends first published online in Orange Coast Magazine 1995 When the Going Gets Tough Cybershopping Web shopping in the beginning First published online in Orange Coast Magazine 1995 The Virtual Mausoleum why have a plaque in the grass when you can have a mausoleum on the WWW archives being reconstructed First published online in Orange Coast Magazine 1995 Presentations edit The Boston T1 Party Califia Boston Cyberarts Festival Boston 2001 A Night at the Cybertexts Default Lives Digital Arts and Culture Brown University 2001 Literature in Transition NEH Workshop UCLA 2001 Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles 2001 Writers at Work Irvine Valley College 2000 Hypertext 00 SIGLINK ACM San Antonio 2000 Digital Center for the Arts Evening New Media Series UCLA 2000 The Transcriptions Project USCB 2000 2000 Cultural Studies Symposium Manhattan KS 2000 Electronic Literature Association Seattle 2000 SW Texas Popular Culture Association Albuquerque 2000 University of New Mexico Socorro NM 2000 The U C Irvine Writer s Conference 1999 The Cybermountain Colloquium Denver 1999 Platforms for 21st Century Literature Brown University 1999 Modern Language Association San Francisco 1998 The U C Irvine Writer s Conference 1998 The Squaw Valley Writer s Conference 1998 Redlands University 1998 Women Connect Seminar Newport Beach 1998 NEH Seminar in New Technologies in Literature UCLA 1998 Orange Coast College Costa Mesa CA 1998 The Newport Beach Library s Manuscript Series 1998 Hypertext 98 SIGLINK ACM Pittsburgh PA 1998 Curated collections edit Intersections Explore The Blue Moon Review November 2001 Ten women working in Web literature Jumpin at the Diner with Jennifer Ley Riding the Meridian 2 2 2000 Forty men in hypermedia Web literature 27 The Progressive Dinner Party Thirty nine women writers in e literature with Carolyn Guertin Riding the Meridian Spring 2000 28 References edit Clement Tanya and Gretchen Gueguen Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources A Companion to Digital Literary Studies 2013 577 596 a b Luesebrink Marjorie Vita Archived 2016 03 04 at the Wayback Machine Marjorie Luesebrink website ELO Annual Awards Electronic Literature Organization Retrieved 2024 02 26 Luesebrink Marjorie Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink A Virtual Vertical Bio Marjorie Luesebrink website The Marjorie Luesebrink Collection The NEXT Retrieved 2024 02 26 Lillvis Kristen White Melinda 2023 08 28 Review Marjorie C Luesebrink Collection at ELO s The NEXT Reviews in Digital Humanities IV 8 doi 10 21428 3e88f64f fb0bd342 ISSN 2766 9297 a b Koskimaa Raine In Search of Califia In Close Reading New Media Analyzing Electronic Literature Jan van Looy and Jan Baetens eds Leuven University Press 2003 pp 53 67 Bakioglu Burcu S Construction of Spatial Narratives in M D Coverley s Califia MIT Papers 2005 Ensslin Astrid Canonizing Hypertext Explorations and Constructions Bloomsbury Academic 2007 Raley Rita Writing Machines review MFS Modern Fiction Studies 50 2 2004 528 529 Hayles N Katherine My Mother Was a Computer Digital Subjects and Literary Texts 2005 Douglas Jane Yellowlees 2000 Playing the Numbers M D Coverley s Fibonacci s Daughter Smith Hazel 2009 Affect emotion and sensation in new media writing the work of John Cayley M D Coverley Jason Nelson and Simon Biggs Literature and Sensation Cambridge Scholars pp 300 312 ISBN 9781443801164 Grigar Dene Pisarski Mariusz March 21 2024 The Challenges of Born Digital Fiction Editions Translations amp Emulations Cambridge University Press doi 10 1017 9781009181488 ISBN 978 1 009 50737 0 ISSN 2633 4399 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint date and year link Hayles N Katharine 2008 Electronic Literature New Horizons for the Literary University of Notre Dame ISBN 978 0 268 03084 1 The Marjorie C Luesebrink Collection Coverly M D 2006 Egypt The Book of Going Forth by Day The NEXT Coverley M D November 21 2022 How new media writers create their work Egypt Going Forth by Day Coverley M D November 21 2022 The process of creating new media Tin Towns and other Excel Fictions Narrabase Retrieved November 21 2022 Project Recovery Project Showcase Marjorie C Luesebrink Collection at ELO s The NEXT Recovery Hub for American Women Writers Retrieved 4 September 2022 Grigar Dene cur Horizon Insight A Retrospective of the Art of M D Coverley 1 November 2021 31 March 2022 Grigar Dene Inman Berens Kathi Emerson Lori curs Electronic Literature exhibition 2012 Modern Language Association Annual Conference Seattle WA Hugo House January 5 7 2012 Downtown Campus Library Morgantown WV 20 23 June 2012 ELO Visionary Landscapes May 29 June 1 2008 Washington State University at Vancouver Grigar Dene ed 2020 Chapter 3 in Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3 Electronic Literature Lab Nouspace Publications Mencia Maria 2017 WomenTechLit Computing Literature 8 Jumpin at the Diner with Jennifer Ley Riding the Meridian 2 2 The NEXT 2000 The Progressive Dinner Party Riding the Meridian The NEXT 2000 Further reading editBarrett James The Ergodic revisited spatiality as a governing principle of digital literature Umea University Faculty of Arts Department of language studies ORCID iD 0000 0002 3257 7328 2015 Douglas Jane Yellowlees Playing the Numbers Fibonacci s Daughter Word Circuits 2000 Reprint SIGWEB Vol 9 No 3 Oct 2000 Eskelinen Markku and Koskimaa Raine New Wave of Hypertext Fiction and Temporality of Cybertext dichtung digital de 2001 05 30 Grigar Dene The Present Future of Electronic Literature Transdisciplinary Digital Art Sound Vision and the New Screen Volume Communications in Computer and Information Science pp 127 142 2008 Guertin Carolyn Three Dimensional Dementia M D Coverley s Califia and the Aesthetics of Forgetting University of Alberta 1999 Hayles Katherine My Mother Was a Computer Digital Subjects and Literary Texts Chicago University of Chicago Press 2005 Writing Machines Cambridge MIT Press 2002 Bodies of Texts Bodies of Subjects Metaphoric Networks in New Media Memory Bytes History Technology and Digital Culture edited by Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil Duke University Press 2004 257 282 Flesh and Metal Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments in Semiotic Flesh Information and the Human Body edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities University of Washington 2002 pp 52 68 Print is Flat Code is Deep The Importance of Media Specific Analysis Poetics Today 25 1 Spring 2004 67 90 Translating Media Why We Should Rethink Textuality Yale Journal of Criticism vol 6 no 3 2003 263 290 The Materiality of the Medium Hypertext Narrative in Print and New Media Narrative 9 1 January 2001 21 39 Visualizing the Posthuman Art Journal 59 no 3 Fall 2000 50 54 Heise Ursula K Chronoschisms Time Narrative and Postmodernism Cambridge University Press 1997 Kilgore Christopher David Ambiguous Recognition Recursion Cognitive Blending and the Problem of Interpretation in Twenty First Century Fiction 2010 Kendall Robert The World Wide Web Publishing s Awakening Giant Poets amp Writers 1998 Koskimaa Raine Digital Literature From Text to Hypertext and Beyond University of Jyvaskyla 2000 Madej Krystina Collaborative Authoring in Social Media Springer Press forthcoming Odin Jaishree Hypertext and the Female Imaginary Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2010 Orihuala Jose Luis El narrador en ficcion interactiva El jardinero y el laberinto Critica de Califia de M D Coverley publicado por Eastgate Systems An interview with Califia s author Marjorie Luesebrink Hypertulia Critica University of Madrid English Version in Dichtung Digital 2002 Punday Daniel Five Strands of Fictionality The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction Ohio State 2011 Writing at the Media Limit Searching for the Vocation of the Novel in the Contemporary Media Ecology Nebraska 2012 Raley Rita Reveal Codes Hypertext and Performance Postmodern Culture 2001 Ryan Marie Laure Cyberspace Textuality Computer Technology and Literary Theory Bloomington Indiana University Press 2000 Schreibman Susan and Siemens Ray ed A Companion to Digital Literary Studies Oxford Blackwell 2008 Smith Hazel The Writing Experiment strategies for innovative creative writing Allen and Unwin 2005 Tomasula Steve Code and New Media Literature in The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature New York Routledge 2012 pp 483 496 Williams Nerys Content specific Electronic Writing John Cayley Jenny Weight Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar Reiner Strasser and M D Coverley In Contemporary Poetry Edinburgh University Press 2011 Zuern John Comparative Textual Media Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era 2013 External links editPersonal website Memorial retrospective of life and readings 1 Marjorie C Luesebrink Memorial Readings The NEXT Museum Library and Preservation Space November 23 2023 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Marjorie Luesebrink amp oldid 1217870192, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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