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Articles, Essays, Interviews

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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