Before reading this chapter I really had no idea what electronic literature consisted of. I assumed it was blogs or online newspapers but it really is so much more. The chapter explained how it is more than just a blog but instead it is an art created through technological advances and the will to create art. One quote that I found particularly fascinating was, "A key advantage of the term “electronic literature” is its generality, and thus its ability to include those emerging genres that did not exist in the 1990s" (page 30). It is a constantly evolving genre that will keep changing until it becomes unrecognizable, and then change some more.

    

I wanted to look more into Judd Morrissey’s The Last Performance [dot org] (2007). When I typed it into Google it brought me to a bright red old-looking website so naturally I followed some links and found one dead link, one video downloaded onto my laptop, and photos from the installation in Berlin. The photos were on a self-moving carousel of 13 photos. All blurry old digital camera photos of the art or of random people using the installation. The installation consisted of a writing station in the middle for people to use and a large dot matrix printer mounted to the wall. On the floor writing is scattered in six directions away from the central point representing the project's writing constraints extend in six directions away from this central point. The video I downloaded was a full video on a shaky camera of the actual performance. It was wild and cool and on point a man wears a horse mask. How cool it must have been to be in that room.