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Web Writers' Workshop
at the trAce Chat Meetings

Our first series of online chats with writers working at the frontiers of the Web.

The writers talked live on Sundays at 21:00 London [16:00 New York, 13:00 L.A., 06.00 (Mon) Sydney], at the trAce chatroom at the WebBoard. Writers' chat takes place every Sunday.

• What inspires their online work?
• What approach do they take to the creation of an online work, and is it different from their approach to a print work?
• What software, hardware and web technologies do they find inspiring, and how do they use them in the writing process?
• How do they document their work in the trAce Writers' Journals and elsewhere?

Participants are encouraged to send questions in advance of the workshops, either for particular artists, or for all. Please email questions in advance to helen.whitehead@ntu.ac.uk

This archive of information about current web practice complements the Writers' Journals.

Alan Sondheim, current trAce Virtual Writer-in-Residence talking about his parables and other work: To get the most from this workshop you are recommended to read through Alan's projects and diary beforehand. (6 Feb 2000)

Log of the chat with Alan Sondheim

Christy Sheffield Sanford, former trAce Virtual Writer-in-Residence and guest editor of frAme, on the Love and the Web issue of frAme, launched 14th February. (20 Feb 2000)

Log of chat with Christy Sheffield Sanford

Australian digital artist mez on her unique approach to language and art. "An electrostatix artist who gets labeled "net.artist" and "multimedia practitioner" with tendrillonic regularity, she holds degrees in Applied Social Science & Creative Arts, and bastardizes her arts practice via arts journalism in order to actualize her chrome hypaTeXtian visions & avatarian state[ment]s." Rhizome's Interview with mez (27 Feb 2000)

Log of trAce chat with mez

Jennifer Ley, artist, writer and editor, whose works include The Body Politic, Under the O, Two Thousand from trAce's My Millennium, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks and Riding the Meridian online literary journal (Editor) (12 March 2000)

Log of trAce chat with Jennifer Ley

Talan Memmott, artist, writer, web-designer and editor whose work is a feast of rich visuals, including LUX, in frAme4, NEXT:[N]ex(i)t [trAce's My Millennium], Lolli's Apartment [Riding the Meridian], Jilt; a romance [BeeHive], Hypersensual Textility and Poly-Vocal Narration [Riding the Meridian (progressive dinner party)], and REASONED METAGORIA in frAme#3, part of a larger project that involves DELIVERY MACHINE 01: Aphoristic Play on Hypermediation [Perihelion] and A MACHICOLATED BODY [Perforations]. Talan is also editor of BeeHive Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal. (26 March 2000)

Log of trAce chat with Talan Memmott

Melinda Rackham, Australian writer of Carrier, also in frAme4

Melinda Rackham is an artist and writer residing in east coast Australia, who has been working online since 1995 in her domain, constructing imaginal and hypertextual narrative sites carrier, line, a.land, and tunnel. Melinda's web practice draws on divergent sources and she is currently undertaking a PhD in Virtual Media at College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Rackham has published online and in print in Australia and Europe, and recent conferences include Polar Circuit in Finland, Contagion in Australia, and Invencao in Brazil. Her prize winning web works have been included in Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Gram, Arts_Edge, Perspecta99, Maid in Cyberspace, Transmediale2000, and Arts Entertainment Network. (9 April 2000)

This ends the first series of trAce Web Writers' Workshops at the trAce Chatroom.