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new hypertext: a little show of hands
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 10th, 2008 in HCTI, poetry, hyperfic, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Criticism, Publications, Software.The latest version of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (Winter ‘07, 04) hit the webstands recently, and in it you’ll find “a little show of hands,” a short story adaptation excerpted from my adaptive hypertext novella “a show of hands.” The story continues focuses on a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles and the forces that […]
Writing that Gets in Your Facebook
6 Comments Published by Mark Marino October 4th, 2007 in poetry, hyperfic, CYOA, Poetics, Features, games, Text Art, Criticism, Software, Social, Multi-Modal.Facebook as a Genre
As students and, increasingly, faculty move into Facebook, the slew of applications catering to their needs have been slewing fast, sent forth by the release of the API back in May. While many of these merely add on a new infective meme to the wildly-popular social network, […]
Alexandra Grant & Michael Joyce: Wired Words
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino May 25th, 2007 in poetry, Features, Installation.When Michael Joyce made his now infamous retreat from electronic literature, he encountered an artist who had another system of wiring words together. Or rather, she encountered him through the cosmic machinations of a search bar. Her name is Alexandra Grant, and with her recent artist Focus series at the Museum of Contemporary […]
Beyond English Elit: International Electronic Literature
3 Comments Published by Mark Marino May 19th, 2007 in poetry, hyperfic, Researchers, Features, CCS, Criticism, Conferences.At the ELO’s “Future of Electronic Literature” conference at the University of Maryland, we held a panel on international (non-English) works. To facilitate that discussion, the members of that panel developed a wiki, which is now available here at WRT.
Wiki of International Electronic Literature
The wiki features scholars, works, and organizations from around the globe […]
A Valentine to PowerPoint
4 Comments Published by Mark Marino March 3rd, 2007 in poetry, Poetics, Features, Criticism, Software, Social.PowerPoint has been an artistic medium perhaps since David Byrne’s IEEE, but as more students grow up on PowerPoint, its place in our culture is becoming more and more dubious. Recently, several artists used PowerPoint to create PowerPoint Valentines, which parody the pervasive medium, by imagining lovers whispering sweet nothings with fly-on effects or delivering dear john letters on custom “bad news” templates. These stand-alone pieces raise the question: what is a slideshow without a presenter?