The Progressive Dinner Party Restored

Introduction

The Progressive Dinner Party by Carolyn Guertin and M. D. Coverley is a website celebrating 39 born-digital works created by female artists. Inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, the website aims to highlight various pioneering works of electronic literature from across the globe. The Electronic Literature Lab has partnered with Rhizome to preserve the website and the 39 works within it. By using Rhizome’s online Webrecorder, it was made possible to record The Progressive Dinner Party in a way that captured its functionality. The Progressive Dinner Party Restored was funded by Washington State University’s “College of Arts and Sciences Summer Mini-Grant”.

The The Progressive Dinner Party was based off of Judy Chicago’s exhibition The Dinner Party. As of 2019, Chicago’s work is being displayed at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The piece itself is a series of three tables positioned in a large triangle, which contain a total of 39 place settings for each historical female figure she chose to highlight. Chicago’s goal was to preserve the memory of these impactful women and prevent them from being lost to history. Similarly, Carolyn Guertin and M. D. Coverley created The Progressive Dinner Party to honor and preserve works of early electronic literature created by female artists.

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