Literal Art
John CayleyJohn Cayley dadas up the digital, revealing similarities of type across two normally separate, unequal categories: image and text. "Neither lines nor pixels but letters," finally, unite.
Unusual Positions
Camille UtterbackCamille Utterback exposits "embodied interaction with symbolic spaces" – the body and language of digital art.
Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics
Bill SeamanIn this series of "media-element field explorations," Bill Seaman suggests configurations for the shape of the virtual artist-author to come.
Past Futures, Future’s Past
Rob SwigartThe second in a series of two essays developing the parallels between Iraq and the Peloponnesian Wars, between classical Empire and postmodern Imperialism.
Hypertexts and Interactives
Noah Wardrip-FruinThe parallels (and oppositions) between hypertext and AI are brought out in section five.
Card Shark and Thespis
Mark BernsteinEastgate Systems alumns Diane Greco and Mark Bernstein explain two "exotic tools for hypertext narrative."
Moving Through Me as I Move
Stephanie StricklandTechno-poet Stephanie Strickland surveys the digital artistic practices of her peers and presents a "paradigm for interaction."
Douglas and Hargadon respond in turn
J. Yellowlees DouglasChoosing between James Joyce and Stephen King means choosing between engagement and immersion. Or does it?