Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media

Social Media Content for Richard Holeton's "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid"

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Facebook
In order to foster a broad range of conversations through social media, we maintained three separate streams on Facebook : 1) the Pathfinders project site, entitled "elitpathfinders,"  with 245 followers, 2) the Electronic Literature Organization's page with over 1600 members, and 3) Grigar's own site. ELL Team members with a Facebook page also posted to their own sites. 

Pathfinders announces the live traversal of Richard Holeton's work "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid," and includes the traversal schedule for 2019.
Pathfinders reveals that the first iteration of "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" was called "Streleski at Findhorn on Acid," published in Grain Poetry and Prose, Winter 1996.
Pathfinders posts on Facebook that the number 3 is a common theme throughout Holeton's work: there are 3 characters, 3 locations, and 3 artifacts.
Pathfinders posts a picture on Facebook of Richard Holeton preparing to toss a beach ball covered in writing to the crowd. In this way, audience members could participate by choosing which paths to take next.
Pathfinders invites Facebook users to participate in the live Q/A sections. The post also states that Richard Holeton took about five years to complete "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid."

Twitter 
Similar to Facebook, we used three Twitter sites to stream our conversation: 1) Dene Grigar's own site that had over 2,800 followers, 2) Nicholas Schiller's site, with 2,200 followers and 3) ELL Team Member Veronica Whitney's site, with over 175 members. Whitney was in charge of posting and reposting on Twitter during the event. The hashtag we used was #elitpathfinders, as this hashtag has been used consistently through the project.

The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted that there are at least five versions of "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid", with the original one created in 1997 with Storyspace 1.3 for the macintosh.
This tweet shares that the story covers the period 1993 to December 2000, and that the work is structured in threes- 147 combinations within 3 groupings.
The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted that Richard Holeton tosses a beach ball to the crowd to determine which path to take through the work.
The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted that choosing random links in Holeton's hypertext can result in discovering unknown characters and places.
The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted an invitation for viewers to join the Q/A session of "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid".
The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted that if Holeton created his work in 2019, he would choose to make it in HTML rather than in Storyspace.
The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted Michael Joyce's phrase "the wave of returns", meaning that users hit the "return" key (rather than links) to navigate.


Instagram
The Electronic Literature Lab announces the live traversal of Richard Holeton's work "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" on Instagram.
This Instagram post announces the traversal going live, and provides a link to the YouTube video.
This Instagram post shares a link to Holeton's notes, history, and background about the author himself.
This Instagram post explains that there are at least five versions of Holeton's work, "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid".
This Instagram post is a photo of the various versions of "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid".
This Instagram post explains that the version of Figurski being shown in the traversal was published by Eastgate Systems in 2001.
This Instagram post highlights how Holeton's story is structured in threes: three characters, locations, and artifacts.
This Instagram post explains how Holeton throws a beach ball to his audience to determine the path of the story.
This Instagram post shares a quote by Michael Tratner regarding "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid".
This Instagram post explains how Streleski was the inspiration for Holeton's character Frank Figurski.
This Instagram post explains that the character Eugene Zanger (the cup flipper) was a real person with real talents.
This is an Instagram post describing Holeton's work "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" as a farcical and comedic narrative, which helped it stand out among Eastgate's "serious" hypertexts.
This Instagram post invites people to view the live traversal and provides a link to the YouTube chat.


YouTube Chat

The conversation over the YouTube during the live streamed Traversal was captured at this URL: 

Here is the link to the Figurski Traversal chat 


Storify
We found Storify useful as a tool for pulling together all of the Facebook and Twitter posts into one interface. While our story could have been exported as a .pdf or made into a screen capture, the output is not an accurate representation of the original format and presents other display issues. Instead, Nicholas opted to export the story to HTML, save the content locally, and then host it on our web server. Weeks into our project, the developers of Storify announced that the site would not be continued after May 2018, which means we will not have access to this tool in future stages of our project.

Link: https://framastory.org/story/nnschiller/live-traversal-of-thomas-m-disch-s-amnesia

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