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About the Electronic Arts

Whatever It Takes: The New Media Editor (Rob Swigart and Nick Montfort, coauthors)
Discussion by three new media editors of the nontraditional roles they must take on in preparing new media literature for publication (Proceedings of 5th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Melbourne, 2003)
Charting the Frontier: The Electronic Literature Directory (Nick Traenkner, coauthor)
How the Electronic Literature Directory is meeting the unique bibliographic and typological challenges presented by electronic literature (fineArt forum, 2003; also in Proceedings of 5th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Melbourne, 2003)
Toward an Organic Hypertext (Jean-Hugues Réty, coauthor)
Discussion of Connection Muse, an adaptive hypertext system for poetry and fiction (Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, San Antonio, Texas, 2000)
Tales from the Hard Disk
Reflections on the appeal of electronic literature and the inherent relationships between poetry and computer code (The Cortland Review, Sept. 1999)
Minding the Frontier: Teaching Hypertext Poetry and Fiction Online
A look back at three years of teaching hypertext for the New School, along with samples of student work (Kairos, Fall 1998)
The World Wide Web: Publishing's Awakening Giant
What does the Web mean for the future of creative writing? (Poets & Writers Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1998)
Whither Leads the Poem of Forking Paths?
Discussion of some important issues concerning the present and future of hypertext poetics (Electronic Book Review, Spring 1997)
The Mind as Poem: A Life Set for Two
How hypertext can capture thought processes (Leonardo, June 1997)
Words and Mirrors: Confessions of an Electronic Poet
This introduction to my hypertext poem A Life Set for Two explores the motivations for writing interactive poetry (The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall 1996)
Hypertextual Dynamics in A Life Set for Two
Detailed discussion of how dynamic hypertext can emulate some of the workings of the mind (Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext, Washington, DC, 1996)
Writing for the New Millennium: The Birth of Electronic Literature
A look at hypertext and multimedia literature and its significance for the future of writing (Poets & Writers Magazine, Nov./Dec. 1995)
Digital Vision, Digital Voice
The exhibition guide for an exhibit of digital art that I curated (The Painted Bride Art Center, 1995)
The Electronic Word
Discussion of my work with multimedia poetry (The Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts: Program and Proceedings, 1993)

HTLit Column

This column on hypertext literature appears regularly in print in the SIGWEB Newsletter (formerly SIGLINK Newsletter) and online at Word Circuits.

Hypertext: Foe to Print?
Hypertext and print prove to be more compatible with one another than you might expect.
Stalking the Wild Hypertext: The Electronic Literature Directory
An ambitious new project defines a new approach to keeping tabs on hypertext literature.
Time: The Final Frontier
How can we get a grip on the temporality of hypertext structure? 
But I Know What I Like
What are the elements of good hypertext?
Parsing the Cold: McLaughlin's Notes Toward Absolute Zero
Thematic transformation is the driving force behind this hypertext novella.
The Hypertexts of Yesteryear
Hypertext writers must cope with the dangers of software obsolescence.
Testing, Testing
What can poets and fiction writers learn from the testing lab?
Truth, Beauty, and Hypertext
What can literature do for computer science?
Introducing the HTLit Column

About Literature

The Quarterly Review of Literature at Fifty
For half a century, Theodore and Renée Weiss have presided over the evolution of one of the country's most influential journals (Poets & Writers Magazine, Mar./Apr. 1993)
Getting Poetry off the Page: The Third Dodge Poetry Festival
A look at the PBS-featured biennial marathon that inspires hope for the future of poetry in America (Poets & Writers Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1991)
A Reader's Guide to the Nonenjoyment of Illiterature
An essay about . . . well, read it and see (Black Swan Review, No. 3, 1990)

Interviews

In New Interactive Art Works, Artists Explore Interdisciplinary Collaboration; Expand Viewer Experience
This article concludes with my response to a question about interactivity (NYFA Current, April 15, 2003)
E-poets on the State of Their Electronic Art: Robert Kendall
One of several interviews of e-poets (Currents in Electronic Literacy, Fall 2001)
Perihelion Verbatim
An interview by C.K. Tower and Jennifer Ley, accompanied by a review of A Life Set for Two (Perihelion, Fall 1998)
A Conversation with Robert Kendall
An on-line interview by Judy Malloy and others (The Interactive Art Conference on Arts Wire, April 1997)
 
         

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