Librarian’s interactive exhibition receives high praise from local press
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January 6, 2025
New Haven’s “Daily Nutmeg” calls “Remembering ‘Amnesia’: Rebooting the First Computerized Novel,” curated by Software Preservation and Emulation Librarian Claire Fox, “an experience you won’t soon forget.”
The exhibition documents the creation and marketing of a groundbreaking work of interactive science fiction, the brainchild of Thomas M. Disch, published in 1986. On view are materials from the Thomas M. Disch Papers in Yale Library‘s collection: the author‘s notebooks, printouts, floppy disks, and even his first computer.
Visitors have the opportunity to play an approximation of the early game on three computers in the gallery, thanks to the efforts of the curator and her team in their work with the Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure program (EaaSI, pronounced “easy”).
“Remembering ‘Amnesia’” is on view in the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library through Sun., March 2.
Read the story “Novel Experience” by Dan Mims in the “Daily Nutmeg.”
Read more about the exhibition at Yale Library News.
View curator Claire Fox’s Mondays at Beinecke talk on YouTube.
