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documentating and discussing the problem making that is vogging with the tiresome quotidian of the desktop digital.
oh, i'm adrian miles, rmit melbourne and intermedia bergen.

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deena larsen

deena is probably coming to melbourne early in the new year, which will be rather good fun. she's already cooking up some collaborations. i think of deena as a sort of patron parent of hypertext fiction, which i'm sure will offend some people (and possibly deena!). but she's this centre of organisational energy that drives, coerces and bludgeons all the rest of us into participating, sharing, and making.

one of the best things i learnt at the 2000 hypertext conference was the 'deena index'. this was how many times you received an email announcement from deena about any of the activities she's instrumental in running, and the higher your deena index then the more important in the hypertext community you were :-) the source of this irreverance born of respect was unknown.

[Mon 8 Jul 2002]

wiremine

a blog written by brian tol seems to be very much about architecture, design, and information management (and perhaps emergence?). would be rather relevant to ander's work.

[Thu 27 Jun 2002]

history of blog

i got this url from an email from jill, though it's also linked from her blog (and numerous others, it's a popular citation).

[Fri 7 Jun 2002]

uva e imprint

the electronic imprint from the uni of virginia. major initiative from the place that people like john unsworth hang out.

[Tue 4 Jun 2002]

journal of digital information

uk based electronic journal that's mainly for the hypertext systems people but has a hypertext criticism bit edited by susana tosca and jill walker.

[Sat 1 Jun 2002]

wilard mccarty

wilard mccarty is a major figure and contributor within the humanities computing field. nice person, good work.

[Mon 20 May 2002]

what is

what is humanities computing? toward a definition of the field. this is by wilard mcarty, a good read.

[Mon 20 May 2002]

landow hypertext

landow's hypertext portal. he wrote it at brown (i think) then moved it to singapore when he started working there.

[Fri 17 May 2002]

jane douglas

jane yellowlees douglas is a hypertext theorist who has written the book (literally and figuratively) on hypertext and closure. a major contribution to the field, and she's been an active member of the hypertext community. she's also written and published hypertext fiction.

[Wed 15 May 2002]

perforations

an old issue of an online journal that has quite a few hypertext essays. including moulthrop, joyce, and douglas.

[Wed 15 May 2002]

hypertext writing

this has hypertext writing by 40 men. collected/edited by marjorie leusebrink and stephanie strickland. the previous year (i think) there was a collection of women's hypertext writing.

[Mon 6 May 2002]

poems that go

web site that is all about kinetic digital poetry, i guess. about combining design, words, music and motion, as the editors like to say.

[Tue 9 Apr 2002]

andrew pam

australian developer who was one of the partners in australia's first commercial web hosting service (glasswings) and mantains the australian xanadu site.

[Tue 9 Apr 2002]

ted nelson

homepage of hypertext pioneer, and charismatic thoughter, ted nelson. also check out the project xanadu site.

[Tue 9 Apr 2002]

xanadu oz

project xanadu is ted nelson's quixotic vision for a hypertextualised docuverse for the planet. a vision that can be easily ignored for its grandeur but ought to be admired and listened to for the same reason. xanadu has a substantial australian connection, largely through andrew pam.

[Tue 9 Apr 2002]

byron hawk

byron hawk, researcher who does some new media and pedagogy stuff, part of the united states computers and writing community. (kairos is one of their major journals/forums.) edits enculturation.

[Tue 9 Apr 2002]

readerlywriterly

web site that has essays on the readerly and the writerly (presumably with deliberate echoes of Barthes) and pedagogy. appears to contain two issues of a journal and the most recent is from 1995.

[Wed 27 Mar 2002]

enculturation

enculturation is an online journal all about rhetoric writing and culture. edited by byron hawk and each issue is themed. this has very good stuff.

[Wed 27 Mar 2002]

susana tosca

a fine friend and theorist. no more needs to be said.

[Sat 9 Mar 2002]

john unsworth

john is the director of iath and has been involved in computers and humanities stuff for ages. original editor of postmodern culture, the first electronic only journal (peer reviewed) in the humanities. has a passion for the role of technology in teaching and studying the humanities that has enabled uva to become an international leader.

[Tue 15 Jan 2002]

realtime

an australian newspaper come magazine that covers the performing and media arts. great content.

[Thu 3 Jan 2002]

adrienne eisen

adrienne eisen is a writer who does a lot of hypertext stuff, though most of it is more sort of screen chunks with very simple serial link structures. elegant sometimes charged work.

[Wed 2 Jan 2002]

fine art forum

australian based (and funded) fine art journal online. i think it's the oldest (firstest) fine art journal that was established out there in cyberland. has art, technology news.

[Tue 1 Jan 2002]

iowa web review

one of the best (and major) places for publishing online new media work.

[Mon 31 Dec 2001]

talan memmott

creative worker and theorist who crosses between almost trad. hypertext/writing and new media. high end web based work, high end in terms of technical skills and flair and ideas. edits beehive.

[Mon 31 Dec 2001]

beehive

talan memmott's journal of new media/hypertext theory and creative content.

[Mon 31 Dec 2001]

media writing

this is a new program out of a college in new jersey, excellent looking curriculum and rationale.

[Sat 29 Dec 2001]

anja rau

anja rau's a german friend of mine who's phd is on electronic literature. she works in some groovy new media job as a conceptioner (that's a job title i want!) and has strong, exciting and well aimed ideas.

[Wed 12 Dec 2001]

jep

journal of electronic publishing is, as the title suggests, dedicated to getting stuff out there on the ethernet....or wireless....or.... is largely orientated towards the publishing community.

[Tue 11 Dec 2001]

newriver

hypertext literature journal supported out of virginia tech. frequented by many in the u.s. hypertext community.

[Mon 10 Dec 2001]

digital creativity

refereed journal published by swets and zeitlinger and edited by colin beardon and lone malmborg. its about art and design in higher education and wants to embrace all existing and emerging design disciplines. wants to include visual and creative content.

[Wed 5 Dec 2001]

incubation

incubation is the conference that trace runs every couple of years. it's a hypertext lit. conference, though it probably concentrates more on the 'literary' than the 'electronic'.

[Wed 21 Nov 2001]

trace

english (nottingham) based hypertext lit. association. sort of cultural body that actively supports and encourages hypertext literature. programs for non techie writers to learn how to write html and the like. they've achieved a lot in the few years they've been around. sue thomas runs the shop. every couple of years they run a conference called incubation.

[Wed 21 Nov 2001]

elo

the electronic literature organisation (i mean organization) is a u.s. based lobby and development group for elect. lit. originally under scott rettberg and based in somewhere like chicago it's now moving (or moved) to california and is being provided for by ucla. in 2001 they hosted a big international competition for electronic lit. and poetry, and they also maintain a directory of writers and works.

[Tue 20 Nov 2001]

karenina.it

italian new media and hypertext site. resolutely ugly design (sorry, but those spinning new things, and the soundtrack, yikes duck!) but active hub of information, events and electronic poetry.

[Thu 8 Nov 2001]

anders fagerjord

anders is a phd researcher in the media department at the uni of oslo working on the rhetorics of new media and communication.

[Thu 25 Oct 2001]

diane greco

diane greco is a writer, theorist and editor of hypertext. employed by eastgate she wrote "hypertext with consequences" for the 1996 acm hypertext conference, a paper i've always enjoyed. in beehive she has a fiction piece, translated from storyspace that does really interesting things with window collage, sort of spatiality hijacked into temporality.

[Wed 24 Oct 2001]

nancy kaplan

nancy kaplan's homepage. this is where you can get into her E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print.E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print. an 'essay' that evolved over several years and for a while there was the nearest thing to a monumental project in and for hypertext out there. at least as a single docuverse (i guess ted nelson's xanadu is unequalled in terms of monumental hypertext projects). nancy and stuart moulthrop have built an impressive postgrad program at the uni. of baltimore and with a history in rhett-or-rick she's the brains behind it all. when not rebuilding their home. :-)

[Mon 22 Oct 2001]

stuart moulthrop

there are actually several front pages to stuart's stuff, sort of an archive of web design (including the ghastly ones). stuart is a leader in hypermedia theory and fiction with his work becoming, to my mind, increasingly visually orientated (of course i always treat this as just proof that hypertext writing is postcinematic and that we're not satisfied just with describing worlds in words...). i don't think he's ever realised it but he's a mentor of mine. he nancy kaplan have been setting up a postgraduate program in baltimore that is now beginning to attract excellent young staff and a curriculum to match.

[Mon 22 Oct 2001]

ebr

part of altx, the electronic book review brings together high end california design with critical writing on electronic writing. a must read.

[Mon 22 Oct 2001]

altx

home to mark amerika's grammatron, the electronic book review (ebr) and mr. amerika's various other networked projects. large, brooding, pop-punk.

[Mon 22 Oct 2001]

ach

association of computing humanities, venerable society that explores the intersection of computing and what i'd characterise as classical humanities. focus on text encoding, critical editions and xml, with some increasing interest in what might be characterised as new media studies. but on the whole 'suspicious' of what we might characterise as high theory, their stuff is more computational methods applied to traditional humanities scholarship. wonderful people with extraordinary projects.

[Fri 19 Oct 2001]

MA computing humanities

new m.a. in humanities computing (digital humanities) that the uni. of viriginia has set up. john unsworth and co. are involved and given the role of iath and the etext centre i'd expect this to be a significant program. not sure how they'll manage what could be a bit of a divide between new media studies (media studies in new clothes) and the much more 'conservative' interests of computing humanities. though an m.a. would seem to be a good way to go about it... and iath and virginia are very much ahead of the pack here.

[Mon 15 Oct 2001]

fray

writing site, of interest as it allows and emphasises 'personal stories' across three categories, real, could be, and not.

[Mon 8 Oct 2001]

history and new media

center for history and new media. more about using some computing stuff in history rather than new media and history (the emphasis is on traditional history and using computers to do what i'd characterise as traditional history). has lists of history courses around the world, etc. i think its an example of using new tech. to do the same thing faster, not a lot else.

[Tue 2 Oct 2001]

matrix

nah, not the film. they call themselves a centre (sorry, center) for humane arts, letters and social science. lots of projects, broad sort of cultural/sociological sort of stuff. of interest as an example of what sorts of projects can be done when you use dig. technologies for cultural construction and representation.

[Tue 2 Oct 2001]

heml

historical events markup language. one for historians and computing humanities sorts. its an xml dtd type thing (like the text encoding initiative) for history.

[Tue 2 Oct 2001]

iath

institute for advanced technology in the humanities, uni of virginia. wonderful campus in charlottesville (a personal favourite courtesy of ross mcelwee's doco "sherman's march") and an institute that is an international leader in applied computing in humanities. also where postmodern culture was born. hosts the spoon lists (some of the first academic email lists i joined, when spoons was a hotbed of fervent thought....)

lots of projects here, just browse. history, linguistics, fine art, literature, text encoding, etc etc etc.

[Tue 2 Oct 2001]

coch cosh

abstracts and schedule for a computing humanities conference, the abstracts have some minor interest. no idea what coch or cosh stands for....

[Tue 2 Oct 2001]

geoffrey rockwell

geoffrey rockwell is a computing humanities type of person who has set up an impressive b.a. in multimedia at mcmaster. he's very active in the association for computing humanities (ach).

[Tue 2 Oct 2001]

currents

Currents in Electronic Literacy, a hypertext and pedagogy journal published online via the Computers and Writing Research Lab in Texas. Usually publishes stuff from the U.S. computers and writing community but seems to be wanting to broaden its range and also to explore some alternative academic genres. Sticklers for grammar - my loose writing has been mauled by their editors for some time :-)

[Mon 1 Oct 2001]

hypertext kitchen

an eastgate sponsored site that provides news and information of relevance to those in the hypertext community. includes theory, fiction, nonfiction, and general electronic lit. and interactive narrative news.

[Thu 27 Sep 2001]

drunken boat

major literary site with lots of electronic writing, video, sound, commentary. i was going to write "sort of not quite bleeding edge new hypermedia" but i was thinking i think from a new media point of view. from the hypertext side of the fence this is bleeding edge.

[Wed 26 Sep 2001]

computers writing

byron hawk's course info for a computers and writing thing he's teaching. the links page (http://classweb.gmu.edu/bhawk/611-CW/links.html) is extensive. covers hypertext, conferences, moos, bibliographies, etc.

[Wed 26 Sep 2001]

excellence in writing

link page from joel weishaus' centre for excellence in writing site and course (portland oregon i think). good list of internet journals and resources.

[Wed 26 Sep 2001]

writing instructor

new journal out of purdue which is about networked writing. part of the largely us 'computers and writing' crowd, sort of rhetoric and advanced literacy teachers where such programs are more or less compulsory in us universities. victor vitanza leads off in their first issue (sept 2001) and he is a marvel to read, and hear.

[Wed 26 Sep 2001]

jill walker

my partner. norwwegian-australian blogger, and hypertext theorist of note. won a ted nelson award at one of the annual acm hypertext gigs for her paper on michael joyce's afternoon.

[Tue 25 Sep 2001]

enarrative

eastgate sponsored roundtables that bring together makers with thinkers with tinkerers to talk about online interactive narrative. has a strong emphasis on what might be characterised as the recent rise of the graphic interactive narrative.

[Tue 25 Sep 2001]

eastgate

usual haunt of mark bernstein. developers and publishers of storyspace, web squirrel and now tinderbox (nee ceres). a suite of hypertext writing tools that (unpaid advertisement) remain unrivalled for their simplicity and outcomes (/unpaid advertisement). they are also publishers of electronic literature, primarily work in their own formats (storyspace) but they also have some hypercard based works on their list. major supporters of electronic literature in the wilderness years, and this now includes such events as the enarrative roundtables.

[Tue 25 Sep 2001]

mark bernstein

mark is the chief scientist at eastgate systems, he is also the major programmer for ceres, what i'm now using for the vlog and most of my notetaking. oh, and marks blog has been a substantial design influence on this one which is either an honest admission of how design works or an acknowledgement that i'm bereft of ideas :-)

i was always under the impression that eastgate was a software house, but when i visited mark and co in 1999 i realised, belatedly, that they seem themselves primarily as a small press publishing house, with some software. not sure what the attitude in that top floor and suitably messy shipping room is these days.

[Tue 25 Sep 2001]

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