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1. Forward Anywhere

   Originally written under the auspices of the Xerox PARC Artist in Residence Program, and published in 1996  by Eastgate Systems, Forward Anywhere is a hypertextual narrative written by new media poet Judy Malloy and then Xerox PARC hypertext researcher Cathy Marshall. Created when Malloy was an artist in residence at PARC, beginning in 1993, the collaborative narrative -- an exchange of the details of the lives of two women who work with hypertext -- unfolded via email over a year or so and then was somewhat fictionalizd and recontextualized into Forward Anywhere.  "...each emerges from a particular history and sensibility, Malloy's from the postwar suburbs of Boston, Marshall's from California and the sixties. To pass from one of these moments to the other is to recognize the almost-repetition of emergent or autopoetic pattern, an experience that touches something very deep in the instinctual repertoire, perhaps demonstrating that software does speak to human identity after all," Stuart Moulthrop wrote in "Where to?", Convergence 3:3, Fall, 1997: 132-38.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:04

2. Hegirascope

   Early web hypertext that combines links with text that automatically refreshes, sometimes faster than the reader can follow it.

   Note: The New River published Hegirascope Version 2 in October 1997.

   Author's description, from The New River:

   WHAT IF THE WORD STILL WON'T BE STILL?

   This is an extensive revision of a Web fiction originally released in 1995. The current text consists of about 175 pages traversed by more than 700 links. Most of these pages carry instructions that cause the browser to refresh the active window with a new page after 30 seconds. You can circumvent this by following a hypertext link, though in most cases this will just start a new half-minute timer on a fresh page.

   The best way to encounter this work is simply to dive in, though some may prefer a more stable reference point. For these readers, there is an index to particularly interesting places in the text. You may want to go to that page and bookmark it.

   The original "Hegirascope" was designed for Netscape Navigator 1.1 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0. This version adds no new technical features and requires no plug-ins, Java, or JavaScript.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:22

3. Notes Toward Absolute Zero

   Notes Toward Absolute Zero interweaves historical documents of the ill-fated Franklin expedition with the personal reminiscences of a woman in search of her hypnotist uncle and of the the man who, in turn, searches for her. Follow Jericho, Magel, and Winter as their lives intersect and diverge across an eerie landscape dotted with relics, forgotten lists, train wrecks, scraps from journals, ghost ships, poetry, postage stamps, Mesmer's propositions, and -- of course -- The Six Failures of Love.

   (Source: Publisher's description from Eastgate Catalog)

   Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2011 - 00:01

4. Rehearsal of Memory

   The aim of this piece was to work with a group of people from Ashworth a high Security Mental Hospital to produce an interactive programme embodying the life experience of those involved. This is manifested in the form of an anonymous computer personality made up of the collective experience of the group. Ashworth Hospital is located in the north of England near Liverpool and is home and prison to people who are a danger to themselves or to people outside the hospital.

   The group of patients I worked with ranged from serial killers to rapists, potential suicides and casualties of the excesses of society. The staff I am worked with included psychiatric nurses of twenty years experience and orderlies.

   This artwork is about the recording of the life experiences of the client group that are a mirror to ourselves ("normal society") and our amnesia when confronted with the excesses of our society. This forgetting is a dark shadow cast by plenty, a nightmare for some that constructs misinformation and fear about insanity, violence and victims.

   (Source: Project description)

   Scott Rettberg - 18.10.2011 - 14:57

5. Negative Space: A Computerized Video Novel (CD-ROM edition)

   The CD-ROM edition of a "computerized video novel" first published in 1990. See entry for original publication for details.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 06.12.2011 - 14:02

6. Leaving the City: Indra's Net V

   A HyperCard stack consisting of an interactive literary piece.  "Leaving the City" takes two works - a lecture on poetry, and a poem - and blends them via collocational algorithms.  The algorithm takes a word chosen and, based on the x-coordinates of the cursor, will randomly choose which text to move into.  By creating a branching work - the two texts flow in and out of each other based on the underlying scripts - these "collocational jumps" generate a unique text.

   Alexander Duryee - 27.07.2012 - 22:54

7. An Essay on the Golden Lion: Indra's Net IV

   "Golden Lion" is an internal-acrostic (mesostic) hologogram between the texts "Han-Shan in Indra's Net" (Fanzang) and "An Essay on the Golden Lion" (Cayley).  The algorithm at work takes each letter from "Han-Shan", finds a word from "Golden Lion" containing that letter, and displays that word.  The algorithm prefers collocation within "Golden Lion" - if possible, it will maintain series of words from "Golden Lion".

   Alexander Duryee - 03.08.2012 - 04:55

8. IO: analysis

   The poem “IO” (1995) was my first experiment with interactivity; in essence it is constructed and animated with Strata StudioPro software and integrated with Macromedia Director. The reader sets the poem off by making the spherical object move at choice in one of four directions – up, down, left, right. At a given moment a transformation takes place: there the object’s texture changes, from opaque to transparent, to show the cylindrical penetration within the sphere. This is accompanied by a sound background: the vocalization of “o” and “i”, inference to the opaque and transparent worlds respectively, and the vocalization of the diphthongs “io” and “oi” at the change from one texture to another.

   Luciana Gattass - 26.11.2012 - 22:00

9. ROMAN

   ROMAN - first collaborative hypertext in Russian. Teneta 1995 winner, nomination: "Literary Hypertext", also nominated in "Creative Environments"

   Natalia Fedorova - 27.01.2013 - 01:05

10. The Adventures of i

    This narrative “cyberpoem” started in 1995 with the goal of developing into a lengthy “soapie” about the life of i. The project obviously didn’t go on for a long time, though the 18 webisodes plus two alternate guest webisodes collected here are a testament to an ingenious exploration of the narrative potential of animated Concrete Poetry. Each piece is an ingenious animated GIF that illustrates and comments upon a moment in the early life of a character named i. The personification of the typographical character i and the transformation of other words into objects that i explores and interacts with truly exemplifies the Noigandres group’s description of Concrete Poetry as “tension of things-words in space-time.” (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

    Hannelen Leirvåg - 01.02.2013 - 17:41

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