General E-Lit Sites
*English Matters* is an electronic journal produced at GMU
Electronic Labyrinth (includes Timeline and Bibliography)
Poetry
The Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY-BuffaloElectronic Poetry at the EPC
Academy of American Poets [poets.org] (despite the name, not entirely limited to American poets)
Wr-Eye-Tings Scratchpad (visual poetry works in progress)
UbuWeb: Visual and Sound poetry
Dean Taciuch | <multimedia poetry> (works in progress)
Jim Andrews' Vispo.com
Hypertext and Electronic Art
Eastgate Systems: Serious hypertext includes web-adapted samples, such as Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden and Deena Larsen's Marble Springs
Description of IF at the Electronic Labyrinth
Whitney Museum Codedoc exhibit (java, perl and other script-based art projects--all with source)
Stuart Moulthrop's Hypertexts and Essays
John Cayley's Shadoof: Cybertexts, hypertexts (and translations of Chinese poetry)
Essays about hypertext
I wrote a short article for inventio, an online journal from DoIIIT, about English 201 and the plugin. I wrote this article as an example of hypertext writing; that is, the links are part of the structure, not simply added in later. It was difficult, but it is something I want you all to try with your final projects.
I also wrote an essay for *English Matters* about teaching hypertext (this was for an English 202 course in Spring 1999).
In Spring 2004, I presented a lecture on "Hypertext and Literary Form" as one of the English 325 lectures.
Other Resources
Leslie Smith's Hypertext and hypermedia bibliography is useful for its links and Leslie Smith's commentary.
Burt
Kimmelman teaches at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has
a page of Humanities
Computing Links.
Chris
Funkhouser is also at NJIT. His CyberText
Literature Proto-page is very useful.
Hypermedia (and analogues) in earlier texts
Futurism
Marinetti sound poemsDada and Surrealism
The Approximate Web, a dada archive of sorts.
Marcel Duchamp art site which includes a link to Tout-Fait: The Marcel DuChamp Online Studies Journal. Check out the article by Gould on DuChamp and the fourth dimension.
Situationist International
For a movement which believed in leaving no traces (anti-spectacle), there sure are a lot of web sites devoted to them (the movement is still active, though, so these are not museums, but active discussion sites). The S.I. Archives has plenty of translated S.I. documents.
Fluxus
The Fluxus Portal is a good place to start for information on this performance-based group.The Fluxus Homepage is also a good site.
Many of the artists/performaers on these pages can also be found at Ubuweb, which has section on FluxusJackson Mac Low
In 1997, I was trying to present a similar class with the works of Cage and Mac Low, and I was discussing this on the UB Poetics Discussion List. Nick Piombino, a poet and critic, responded to my question, then Mac Low responded to the discussion by writing a concise history of his career which ditiguishes his work for the work of his close friend and associate John Cage. Here's Mac Low's response, with Nick Piombino's and my initial post.
The EPC's Mac Low page is, of course, a wonderful source of info on Mac Low.
Two sources for some of the text-manipulation programs Mac Low uses/used for his "algorithmic" writings: Textworx Toolshed and kulturezone. Mac Low used programs called DIASTEX and TRAVESTY; versions of both can be found at these sites, for various computer platforms. They are generally freeware. Have fun.
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