Updates to This and Related Web Sites


AUGUST, 2001

Named Program Co-Chair for the 2002 ACM Hypertext Conference, to be held in College Park, Maryland in the second week of June.


APRIL, 2001

"The World Without Cybertext:" Closing keynote from the Digital Arts and Culture Conference in Providence, Rhode Island.


APRIL, 2001

"Marginal Effects:" A Disorder of Attention. Small cybertextual project produced for Nick Montfort's Night at the Cybertexts show at DAC 2001.


SPRING, 2001 CLASSES


JANUARY, 2001

"The Practice of Digital Culture," a talk given at the University of Central Florida.


NOVEMBER, 2000

A test file or proof-of-concept for a new hypermedia fiction, currently called "Dance Around the Planet." You can read a description of the project or, if you have the Shockwave Director plug-in and a fast Internet connection, you can view the test file itself.


SEPTEMBER, 2000

My keynote at the Learning 2000 Conference at Virginia Tech. The talk was called "Napster on the Holodeck, or, Scott McCloud's Problem, and Ours." Here are the slides.


AUGUST, 2000

Roundtable at Xerox PARC. Nancy Kaplan and I appeared as part of an event called "New Media, New Literacies." Here's my bit.


JUNE, 2000

Two additions to the Raven "guests" directory:

  • Melissa Allen's VikingGurl, the groundbreaking Webshow that took top individual honors in this year's Final Seminar competition. Coming soon to teen girls everywhere.

  • Zahra Safavian's Murmur of Interstices. This was Zahra's final project in my Interactive Multimedia course, but it goes far beyond the limits of an academic exercise. Check out this stunning piece of cybertextual poetry.


MAY, 2000

Final Seminar 2000. View the abstracts for projects presented in the 2000 edition of the Seminar in Publication Design's annual competition.


APRIL, 2000

"After the Gold Rush: Sustainable Information Cultures." A paper-in-progress delivered at the universities of Tampere and Jyvaskyla in Finland. A later version will be presented at the third Digital Arts and Culture Conference in Bergen, Norway.


SPRING, 2000

Interactive Multimedia. Complete course materials and a sampling of student work from the inaugural version of this graduate class.


JANUARY, 2000

Electronic Literature Organization. Visit the Web site for this non-profit organization working to promote serious creative work in new media.


DECEMBER, 1999

"Computing, Humanism, and the Coming Age of Print." Paper presented to the Seminar: Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipine? at the University of Virginia.


OCTOBER, 1999

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about work in hypermedia in the School of Communications Design.


SEPTEMBER, 1999


AUGUST, 1999

Major revision of the Communications Design Web Site.


JULY, 1999

Some local utility projects:


JUNE, 1999

CyberMountain Conference Keynote: "Gamely Interstitial: Narrative, Excess, and Artifactual Interstanding."


JUNE, 1999

Postmodern Culture 9.3,: my final issue as co-editor. Jim English takes over beginning with Volume 10.


MAY, 1999

The Book in the Mirror: Reading Chapter V of Watchmen. With Jessica Furé. A reading and visual exploration of one of the most interesting parts of Moore and Gibbons' epic, including an interpretive essay by Jessica and a page browser that displays the curious structural relationships of the chapter.


APRIL, 1999

Home Six, sixth major revision of my personal Web site, this time as an explorable 3-D environment delivered with simple graphics and DHTML -- no plugins required (though you must be running MSIE 4, Netscape 5, or later).


MARCH, 1999

Major update to Watching the Detectives, the digital companion to Moore and Gibbons' Watchmen.


JANUARY, 1999

Presentations given at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland:


DECEMBER, 1998

"Reagan Library," A new hypertext fiction, forthcoming in The Little Magazine CD-ROM edition. Requires Netscape/MSIE 4.0 or later and the Quicktime Plugin 2.0 or later (Quicktime 3 installation).


NOVEMBER, 1998

Virtual Worlds, A new course offering for Fall, 1999.


SEPTEMBER, 1998

Web site for my graduate class, Hypermedia Production, Fall '98.


AUGUST, 1998

A very subjective Chronology of events directly or tangentially related to creative work in cybertext and hypermedia.


JUNE, 1998

ACM Hypertext '98 Conference Closing Keynote.


JUNE, 1998

Semi-annual update of "Watching the Detectives" (Watchmen site).


JANUARY, 1998

Revision of Communications Design Web site.


OCTOBER, 1997

Hegirascope 2.


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