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EVENTS AND NOTES
Check out the Announcements of Immediate Relevance! for a suggested plan of study in preparation for Tuesday's discussion, along with information on the upcoming student show at the McGuffey Arts Center and for a full listing of this week's events relevant to the lifestyle we
have come to know and love as collage
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hopefully, i'll see a bunch of you guys at the jefferson tonight, so i've gathered together some stats on our guy mr. marclay as kind of an introduction to the newbie's of his style:
a short bio on christian marclay
a cool interview with Perfect Sound Forever [cool things to note: performance artists like vito acconci turned him on to his one-of-a-kind style, he believes in the distinction between stage performance and cd recordings, HE'S NOT OUT TO CREATE COOL DANCE BEATS]
oh wait...he does tangible art too...
discography by christian marclay (not the most attractive site)
christian marclay as a visual artist
marclay on amazon.com
that probably just about does it for all anyone cares about. anyhow, see you guys tonight -k
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MAIN READINGS
Coover, Robert. "The End of Books." New York Times Book Review (1992 June 21): 1, 23-5.
[Plus Letters, in the Materials Section of Jim Cocola's MDST 322 Collage and New Media, Spring 2004]
Coover, Robert. "Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer." New York Times Book Review (1993 August 29): 1, 8-12.
[Plus Letters, in the Materials Section of Jim Cocola's MDST 322 Collage and New Media, Spring 2004]
Chapman, Wes. Turning In. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 1997.
[Missing, and thus not on reserve in Clemons]
Joyce, Michael. afternoon, a story. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 1999.
[On reserve in Clemons]
Holeton, Richard. Figurski at Findhorn on Acid. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 2001.
[On reserve in Clemons]
Moulthrop, Stuart. Victory Garden. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 1991.
[On reserve in Clemons]
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SELECTED TEXTS
Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print. Second Ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0. Rev. Ed. of Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.
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Peter Lunenfeld's The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, (Cambridge: MIT P, 1998): p. 150-171.]
Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.
McGann, Jerome. Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Moulthrop, Stuart. "You Say You Want A Revolution: Hypertext and the Laws of Media." Postmodern Culture 1.3 (May 1991).
Ziegfeld, Richard. "Interactive Fiction: A New Literary Genre?" New Literary History 20.2 (Winter 1989): 341-372.
[In the Materials Section of Jim Cocola's MDST 322 Collage and New Media, Spring 2004]
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EXEMPLARS IN PRINT
There are a number of important precedents and more recent works in print form that have helped to shape for the basic aesthetic assumptions at work in hypertext literature. The short list would include:
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LINKS
Read about the rise and fall of Intermedia here.
Wikipedia has a useful entry on interactive fiction.
ZORK, a product of the late 1970s, was one of the greatest of the original text adventure games. Download a version to see why.
If you were a kid in the early 1980s you may well have learned the English language by tearing through the Choose Your Own Adventure series. To get an idea of how these books worked, check out a trilogy of parodies here.
What to make of the fossilized portal to John Unsworth's ENSP 482: Theory and Practice of Hypertext, taught in the Spring of 1995? Is this an example of the peril or the power (or both) of hypertext initiatives? How has the world of hypertext changed in a decade?
The Electronic Labyrinth is a "study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions of linearity," authored by Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, and hosted by the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Does anyone know what to do with this goopoetry.cgi hack?
Visit The Text Mixing Desk.
The spam.poem machine is offline. Could someone fix this link when it returns?
Eastgate Systems, the major publisher of hypertext fiction, is located in Watertown, MA
Stuart Moulthrop's Homepage offers further perspectives on the impact of hypertext upon literature.
An anthology of original, interactive new media fiction that can be read in multiple directions and dimensions through captivating and atmospheric multimedia: Digital Fiction
Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media.
Locus Novus: an area for multi-layered readings
BeeHive: hypertext/hypermedia literary journal
The archives at poems that GO are especially interesting.
Nick Monfort has a thing or two to tell you about hypertext literature.
FanFiction.net is a huge compliation of submitted works of fan fiction on subjects ranging from Hey Arnold to Calvin and Hobbes. Are they any good? A few are. Does that really matter? Or is perhaps the process of writing and publishing more important?
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