A READING OF COMPUTER LITERATURE
8pm, Friday 27 April, 2001
Main Lounge at the Saunders Inn, Vartan Gregorian Quad
This set of electronic literary readings is arranged, as short films
are, on a festival reel. Each of the works briefly presented in this "reel-time"
event is new - written since DAC 2000. The authors reading come from diverse
backgrounds, having begun their electronic writing endeavors in StorySpace
(Jackson, Moulthrop, Strickland), on the Web (Coverley, Gillespie, Memmott,
Rettberg), in cybertext poetry using HyperCard (Cayley), in commercial
gaming (Swigart), and in interactive fiction forms (Montfort).
The title of this reading conflates the title of one of Robert Coover's
books, A Night at the Movies, or, You Must Remember This,
with that of Espen Aarseth's Cybertext. The reading will
play with some of the ideas of Robert Coover's DAC '99 address - you must
remember that - exploring whether visually stunning post-hypertext electronic
literature is necessarily superficial, as Hollywood films often are. The
works presented may also reveal that a great deal of "Golden Age" crafting
of literary forms and conventions remains to be done. In the vein of Cybertext,
the works presented include many that think beyond the link and are not
easily categorized as hypertext.
John Cayley
Instrumental
M.D. Coverley
Default Lives
William Gillespie
Letter to Lamont
Talan Memmott
Delimited Meshings: a white paper
Nick Montfort
Villadom
Stuart Moulthrop
Marginal Effects
Scott Rettberg
The Meddlesome Passenger
Stephanie Strickland
Cloudberries
Rob Swigart
About Time
With a welcome & introduction from
Deena Larsen
nickm@nickm.com
· February 2001
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