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Twelve Blue
Published in 1996, “Twelve Blue” is a work by Michael Joyce that has been considered the first hyperlink story of its kind. The story is devised in 8 different bars, and all relate in some way to the color blue. He sets us with minor and major characters and keeps us going through the bars. You are able to click through different links and some of them leads you to pictures, while the rest lead you through more and more of the story. Each story focuses on an object of some kind or some character. The backdrop and text is a dark and a light blue and there is a side bar with a picture of different color bars that look more like stars.The language in “Twelve Blue” is very concise and to the point. It is simple and is placed with a unique purpose. Even however simple the language may be, it tells a thrilling story of lust, memory, and consequences within its contents. Keeping it laid out like a map, the language and story tells of a drowning, a friendship, a boy and a girl, etc. and keeps resurfacing through a web of memories and pictures through the years or days of our lives. Each character is connected in some way and the story keeps you engaged until the end.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:44
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Shelley Jackson
Born in the Philippines in 1963, Jackson grew up in Berkeley, California. She earned a B.A. in art from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. She established her reputation as a literary author by writing the early hypertext fiction A Patchwork Girl (1993) and has continued to work in multiple media. Her story SKIN, for example, was tattooed on volunteers' skin (2003). She has also published a print novel, Half-Life, and short story collection, The Melancholy of Anatomy. Jackson teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School in New York City and the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee Switzerland, where she is a writer-in-residence.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:56
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Patchwork Girl
Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents
Publisher's blurb:
What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true?
What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein?
And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?
This is their story.
(Source: Eastgate website)
A retelling of the Frankenstein story where a female monster is completed by Mary Shelley herself.
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Electronic Literature Directory entry:
Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents
Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl was created in Storyspace, is distributed by Eastgate Systems, Inc., and ranks among the most widely read, discussed, and taught works of early hyperfiction.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:59
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Christopher Werby
Christopher Werby is a programmer, photographer, and filmmaker. He has a Juris Doctor degree from Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, Californi
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 13:26
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Olga Werby
Olga Werby, Ed.D. is an interface design expert with a doctorate from U.C. Berkeley on Internet-based learning. She has taught interaction design at the American University in Paris, the University of California Berkeley Extension Program, San Francisco State’s Multimedia Studies Program, the Bay Area Video Coalition, and Apple Computers.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 13:27
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The Company Therapist
An early web-based collaborative fiction writing project, where contributors played the role of employees at a large computer company who all see the same therapist. Ran from 1996-1999, and was billed as a collaborative hyperdrama. Produced by Christopher and Olga Werby, but many more authors contributed.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 13:30
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Joseph Tabbi
Joseph Tabbi is the author of Cognitive Fictions (Minnesota 2002) and Postmodern Sublime (Cornell 1995), books that examine the effects of new technologies on contemporary American fiction. He is the founding editor of electronic book review (ebr), and has edited and introduced William Gaddis’s last fiction and collected non-fiction (Viking/Penguin). His essay on Mark Amerika appeared at the Walker Art Center’s phon:e:me site, a 2000 Webby Award nominee. Also online (the Iowa Review Web) is an essay-narrative, titled “Overwriting,” an interview, and a review of his recent work. Tabbi has served as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He is currently a Principal Investigator at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.01.2011 - 12:56
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Electronic Literature as World Literature; or, The Universality of Writing under Constraint
Electronic literature is not just a “thing” or a “medium” or even a body of “works” in various “genres.” It is not poetry, fiction, hypertext, gaming, codework, or some new admixture of all these practices. E-literature is, arguably, an emerging cultural form, as much a collective creation of terms, keywords, genres, structures, and institutions as it is the production of new literary objects. The ideas of cybervisionaries Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Ted Nelson, foundational to the electronic storage, recovery, and processing of texts, go beyond practical insights and can be seen to participate in a long-standing ambition to construct a world literature in the sense put forward by David Damrosch (2003: 5): “not an infinite ungraspable canon of works but rather a mode of circulation and of reading...
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.01.2011 - 12:57
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Poetics Today
Poetics Today brings together scholars from throughout the world who are concerned with developing systematic approaches to the study of literature (e.g., semiotics and narratology) and with applying such approaches to the interpretation of literary works. Poetics Today presents a remarkable diversity of methodologies and examines a wide range of literary and critical topics. Several thematic review sections or special issues are published in each volume, and each issue contains a book review section, with article-length review essays.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.01.2011 - 13:24
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Jim Rosenberg
was born in 1947 in Denver, Colorado, USA, and received my undergraduate education at Pomona College and my graduate education at the University of California at Berkeley -- both degrees being in mathematics. My poetry has appeared in several small magazines, including This, Tyuonyi, Interstate, Open Reading, Toothpick, Vort, and BUTTONS. I have performed my poetry at The San Francisco Poetry Center; Intersection, San Francisco; Cody's, Berkeley; St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Harvard University sponsored by The Grolier Poetry Bookstore; and numerous conferences. My works for simultaneous voices have been performed by radio stations KPFA Berkeley, WBAI New York, and VPRO Amsterdam; and by the Stanford New Music Ensemble. "Intermittence", a poem for four simultaneous voices and conductor, has been anthologized in Scores: An Anthology of New Music, ed. Roger Johnson, Shirmer Books, 1981. I have constructed the word environments Temporary Poetry 10/73, Les Salons Vides, San Francisco, and Permanent & Temporary Poetry 5/75, The Kitchen, New York.
Patricia Tomaszek - 11.01.2011 - 12:41
