2001
Jan Baetens argues that Chris Ware's print-based comic book, Jimmy Corrigan, has already produced the revolution longed for by Scott McCloud - a revolution, however, that will not be digitized.
Cary Wolfe reviews Allison Hunter's installation at Europas Parkas in Lithuania. In her work, interspersed as it is among that of other artists, Hunter focuses our attention on signification in the crevices of the so-called public sphere.
Chicago art critic John Brunetti reviews The Truth on Tape, a survey of Daniel Wenk's art, and Black Mountain College's Dossier Ray Johnson.
Allison Hunter shows how an artist can be fully contemporary without digitizing, streaming, or projecting imagery. Presenting jacquard looms and punch card technologies from the 1950s, difference engines and magnetic core memory stacks, silicon chips in wood housing and digital code on 18th-century woven fabric, Eve Laramee manipulates history like a medium.
In spite of the millennial call for an end to issues in Winter y2k, ebr11 - a new issue - went online at the turn of the year 2000/2001. There would be yet another issue a year later ("Music/Sound/Noise") before the transition to the new interface could be completed.
2000
Nick Montfort reviews Espen J. Aarseth's Cybertext, which stakes out a post-hypertextual terrain for literary criticism and practice. Interactive excerpts from some of the cybertexts that Aarseth discusses are included.
Tom LeClair surveys six gargantuan texts—both hyper- and print—and finds that size is not all that matters.
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young takes the outside perspective on German media studies.
hypertext? cybertext? hypermedia? webart? while new media critics debate the terms, Talan Memmott has produced the thing itself, a creative use of applied technology.
Every crank has an idea. Every American is a crank. Philip Wohlstetter is an American, therefore - well, you get the idea.
Perusing websites pertaining to literary matters, Eye magazine cites HTML's "gaptoothed rawness" as a hindance to readability in ebr (prior to the journal's redesign).
William O'Rourke on the beat of the Clinton beat. Includes reviews of Andrew Morton's Monica's Story (1999); George Stephanopoulos's All Too Human: A Political Education (1999), Michael Isikoff's Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story (1999); Bob Woodward's Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (1999); and Christopher Hitchens' No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (1999).
Paul Harris examines the theoretical aspects of constrained thinking in the age of electronic textuality (in 2000 words, natch!)
Jan Baetens reviews the Raymond Federman Recyclopedia, a book whose humour - and evident bad taste - raise it above its own formidable constraints.
Alain Vuillemin comprehends the compendium - a summing up of four decades of Oulipian activity. A review of Harry Mathews & Alastaire Brotchie's Oulipo Compendium (1998, London: Atlas Press). Translation by James Stevens.
Tony D'Souza reviews Alex Shakar's City in Love: The New York Metamorphoses (1996).
Cynthia Davidson reviews Sex for the Millennium by Harold Jaffe