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Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics

In this series of "media-element field explorations," Bill Seaman suggests configurations for the shape of the virtual artist-author to come.

Jill Walker’s response

Jill Walker questions who (or what) sets the rules for interaction.

Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia

Reading subjectivity into the software interface, N. Katherine Hayles offers a compelling case for computational authorship.

Bill Seaman’s response

Bill Seaman hyphenates the "hybrid-languages" of Lexia to Perplexia.

Ian Bogost’s response to Critical Simulation

Ian Bogost, the co-designer of The Howard Dean for Iowa Game (along with First Person contributor Gonzalo Frasca), deconstructs section three.

Resistance Through Hypertext: ACTing UP in the Electronic Classroom
The Fan’s Desire and Technopower
From Work to Play

Stuart Moulthrop (re)mediates the interpretation (narrativists) vs. configuration (ludologists) debate by going macropolitical.

Moving Through Me as I Move

Techno-poet Stephanie Strickland surveys the digital artistic practices of her peers and presents a "paradigm for interaction."