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Electronic
Poetics by Bruce Andrews is a preview of "Ergodic
Poetry", edited by John Cayley and Loss Pequeño
Glazier, a special section of The
Cybertext Yearbook 2002 (Markku Eskelinen and Raine Koskimaa,
editors), Feb 2003. Published on UBU
Web
Analog
Echoes: A Poetics of Digital Audio Editing by Martin Spinelli
from Object
10 Winter 2002 on UBU
Web. In PDF Format, requires Acobat
Reader.
The
Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text) by John Cayley,
an argument against the collapse of categories by an author
who has, yes, perpetuated a few codeworks. Published on EBR,
Sep. 2002.
Interferences:
[Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework by Rita Raley
on the varieties of code/text, as discovered in the object-oriented
aesthetic of Mez, Ted Warnell, Talan Memmott, and Alan Sondheim.
Published on EBR,
Sep. 2002.
Digital
Code and Literary Text by Florian Cramer, published in
BeeHive,
Dec. 2001.
Reveal
Codes: Hypertext and Performance by Rita Raley, published
in Postmodern
Culture 12:1 (September 2001). Note: Access to most Muse journals
is available only through libraries, however there is also
a
free text only version available.
Reading
Time: For a Poetics of Hypermedia Writing by Bill Marsh.
An examination of the evolving time-based electronic literature,
from Currents
in Electronic Literacy Fall 2001.
Cybertext
Killed the Hypertext Star Nick Montford reviews Espen
Aarseth's Cybertext: Perspectives in Ergodic Literature, which
stakes out a post-hypertextual terrain for literary criticism
and practice. Interactive excerpts from some of the cybertexts
that Aarseth discusses are included. (From AltX's WebArts
11 issue, January, 2001)
Poetry
after the Great Divide review by Jan Baetens of Carrie
Noland's Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge
of Technology (published 1999), provides a way out of the
sterile opposition between literary and cultural studies.
(From AltX's
WebArts 11 issue, January, 2001)
Dalí
Clocks: Time Dimensions of Hypermedia by Stephanie Strickland,
investigates an epistemological shift in web-specific art
and literature, from an understanding that is less about structure
and more about resonance. (From AltX's
WebArts 11 issue, January, 2001)
Screening
a Digital Visual Poetics by Brian Lennon (December, 2000)
When
Literature Goes Multimedia (3 German Examples) by Robert
Simanowski, published on Beehive
Vol. 5, Issue No. 1, Summer 2002.
Multimedia:
From Wagner to Virtual Reality project presented in multimedia
format exploring the concepts and pioneers behind multimedia,
requires Flash 5 (launched June, 2000)
Words
in Flight English thesis by Shari Magolin exploring new
media poetry (Spring, 1999)
The
Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Response
to Benjamin's essay by Linda Pottle for a Literary Theory
class at the University of Pennsylvania. (last updated 4/28/99)
Towards
A New Media Aesthetic Drawing on both Frankfurt School
critical theory and on Paul Virilio's postmodern aesthetics,
author Tim Jackson strives to provide a foundation for the
production of "transformative" experiences through
new media. (Spring 1998)
The
World Wide Web: Publishing's Awakening Giant Robert Kendall's
article in Poets & Writers (c. 1998) about online publishing
including links to relevant Hypertext sources
Word
Circuits In this column, Robert Kendall ponders hypertext
literature, delivers reports from the field, and furnishes
reviews. Reviews are also provided by occasional guest authors.
Good source for readable comments, ideas, theory on Hypertext.
(1998, 99, 00)
Ways
of Seeing/Ways of Being by Steve Tomasula, published in
Alt X, Image and Narrative Edition (Winter 1997-98)
Machine
Visions: Towards a Poetics of Artificial Intelligence
by Matthew Kirschenbaum (Winter, 1997-98)
Truth,
Beauty, and the User Interface: Notes on the Aesthetics of
Information paper presented by Matthew Kirschenbaum at
Mixed Messages: Image, Text, Technology conference, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte (10/13/97)
Poetry
in the Electronic Environment by Stephanie Strickland,
on the translation of poetry from print to screen (April,
1997)
Key
Concepts of Holopoetry by Eduardo Kac (1997)
Dynamic
Poetry: Introductory Remarks to a Digital Media, thesis
by Jason A. Lewis submitted to the School of Design for Industry
for a Masters of Philosophy in Design at the Royal College
of Art (December, 1996)
Ut
Pictura Hyperpoesis: Spatial Form, Visuality, and the Digital
Word by John Tolva (June 1996)
Hypertext/Cybertext/Poetext
essay by John Cayley (1996)
Narrative
as Genealogy: Sound Sense in an Era of Hypertext by Larry
Wendt on text-sound compositions (last modified 6-16-96)
Interactive
Art on the Internet essay by Eduardo Kac (originally published
1995)
Master's
dissertation on Cyberpoetry by Komninos Konstantinos Zervos.
(1995)
A
Hierarchical Theory of Aesthetic Perception: Scales in the
Visual Arts by Pavel B. Ivanov (1994)
Sound
Poetry-- A Survey by Steve McCaffery on UBU Web chronicles
futurism, dada, de Stijl, Lettrisme and international work
from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
Concrete
Poetry: A World View by Mary Ellen Solt, on typography
and the visual poem around the world (Indiana University Press,
1968 on UBU Web)
The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter
Benjamin's famous 1935 work.
EBR
The Electronic Book Review promoting text/screen transformations
and weaving new modes of critical writing into the web
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