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EVENTS AND NOTES

On Tuesday 02.17, multimedia artist Christian Marclay will give an artist's talk at 3.30 pm, location TBA.

That same evening at 8 pm, Marclay will be on the turntables for a live music and video performance with Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara at the Jefferson Theater.

To get an idea of what Marclay is up to, check WIRED's recent perspective on Marclay's Video Quartet.

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MAIN READINGS

Moulthrop, Stuart. Victory Garden. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 1991.

Chapman, Wes. Turning In. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 1997.

Joyce, Michael. afternoon, a story. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 1999.

Holeton, Richard. Figurski at Findhorn on Acid. Watertown, MA: Eastgate, 2001.

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SELECTED TEXTS

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print. Second Ed.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Coover, Robert. "The End of Books." New York Times Book Review (1992 June 21): 1, 23-5.

Coover, Robert. "Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer." New York Times Book Review (1993 August 29): 1, 8-12.

Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0. Rev. Ed. of Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary
    Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.
   [TK in the Materials Section of Jim Cocola's MDST 322 Collage and New Media, Spring 2004]

Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

McGann, Jerome. Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Moulthrop, Stuart. "You Say You Want A Revolution: Hypertext and the Laws of Media." Postmodern Culture 1.3 (May 1991).

Ziegfeld, Richard. "Interactive Fiction: A New Literary Genre?" New Literary History 20.2
    (Winter 1989): 341-372.
   [In the Materials Section of Jim Cocola's MDST 322 Collage and New Media, Spring 2004]

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EXEMPLARS IN PRINT

There are a number of important precedents and more recent works in print form that have helped to shape for the basic aesthetic assumptions at work in hypertext literature. Here is a short list-- please contribute titles as you see fit:

Julio Cortázar's Rayuela (1963)

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America (1965)

William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984)

Eds. Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (1984)

Sven Lindqvist's A History of Bombing (2001)

William T. Vollmann's The Atlas (1997) and Rising Up and Rising Down (2003)

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LINKS

The Electronic Labyrinth is "study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions of linearity," authored by Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, and hosted by the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

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Visit The Text Mixing Desk.

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Eastgate Systems, the major publisher of hypertext fiction, is located in Watertown, MA

Stuart Moulthrop's Homepage offers further perspectives on the impact of hypertext upon literature.

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