Hi, I am Deena. I'm a hypertext / electronic literature / new media / electronic expression addict.

Nonrequired WARNING about this page

There is probably no hope for me, but you can avoid the temptations if you run now and run fast and run FAR FAR AWAY. If you read further, you will be reading into the danger area. These electronic literature pieces have been known to cause sleepless nights, longing for tools that do not exist yet, and dangerous transmissions of ideas. Do not stray any further into the realms of the incredible possibilities offered by combining sound, images, motion, navigation, and structure into a symbiociation of meaning. Do not imagine telling a story from more than one character's viewpoint, showing paths between nodes that continue a theme, and weaving many connections of meaning.

Where to go?

Hmmmm... you are still around.Well, I can offer you a place to crash for a bit, a few links to explore. This website is not a real hypertext, it only provides links to look for hypertexts. This page is a long scrolling list of links about the wonderful online community, and a list of my works and links.

You can also take a peek at my webshelf to find something to read and play with and get some instructions for your own writing exercises and forays into this arena. You can also view my cv if you need to.

Don't expect fast updates, daily blogs, or great insights here.There are many great places to look, and I am keeping this list more for my own aid to memory than for any one else's aid to instruction. This isn't the best place to get your daily fix of stuff, but there is no shortage of places to explore.

You can email me at deenalarsen at yahoo dot com and get the news much faster than I will update this site. (I have updated the links as of May 2007.)

Our supportive community

Visit trAce and Electronic Literature Organization for the latest information about electronic lit happenings and news and stuff.

Electronic Literature community sites Electronic Book Review is the place to go for new reviews on electronic literature, research, and more. Electronic Poetry Center at SUNYis dedicated to digital poetry The Electronic Writing Research Ensemble is an Australian ensemble of hypertext writers and writing. e-poets is a weblist and resource for multimedia and slam poets Ubuweb is a resource for visual, concrete, and sound poetry Word Circuits is a resource for electronic writing and poetry. Sites that inventory Just go to the Electronic Literature Organization's Directory to find the most comprehensive and updated list of electronic literature. Other static or sometimes updated archives include: Carolyn Guertin's Assemblage is a great list of new media works Marjorie Luesebrink has collated some of the best works on the Web in the The Progressive Dinner Party (April 2000) and Jumpin' at the Diner (February 2001), which originally appeared in Riding the Meridian. Nick Monfort and Noah Wardrip Fruin have compiled the New Media Reader (MIT Press)--a curated list of works before the net--1994 Alan Lui's Voice of the Shuttle is now a large database encompassing much more than electronic literature. List of sites for Portland State University's Center of Excellence in Writing

Web Journals In the last few years, wonderful literary journals have taken root on the Web, and many showcase the best in new media poetry. Alt-X Network Aileron Beehive BlazeVOX2k3 Born Magazine brings poets and artists together to create electronic works Cortland Review Doc(k)s (French) Drunken Boat Eastgate Systems has a reading room and an electronic literature magazine, Tekka Iowa Review Web Inflect frAme New Media Gallery--Australia New River nwhq Ouilipo (French) PoemsThatGo Riding the Meridian Salt Hill Turbulence: New Works for the Web Word Circuits Gallery Valentine Files at EPC Vispo

My electronic literary forays: (listed in chronological order on my cv). The Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Culture has graciously offered to host this and other web -art and literature sites to promote new media literature and art. These mirror links are in the (VT) beside the names. I am an independant writer, and sometimes my website goes down because my ISP forgets to pay the light bill.

Articles

• DAC--the Idea Oddessay, trAce, 2003
• Language Dancing in a Maze: Ternary Logic, Language, and Mind-States in Glide, Digital Arts and Culture May 19, 2003
• Opening doors: Using new media techniques to aid students withdevelopmental disabilities Fine Arts Forum, 2003
• Hypertext Criticism/Writing about Hypertextwith geniwate, Adrian Miles, mez, Rich Higgason, and Julianne Chatelian, ed by Susana Tosca and Jill Walker, JODI, Volume 3 Issue 3, 2003
• A Quick Buzz Around the Universe of Digital Poetry, Survey responses,What You See is not What I See in Currents. for Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall 2001
• Close Encounters of the Technical Kind, Riding the Meridian
• Living for Hypertext. Interview, Dichtung Digital, 2000
• Electronic publishing and hypertext, Just Views
• Trials and tribulations of an electronic thesis, About Electronic Theses and Dissertations
• A short discussion of Stone Moons (forthcoming work) Rob Kendall's Electronic courses

• Olga Lledó Oliver analyzed Ferris Wheels in a very thorough and insightful way. Thank you!
• Cristina Fdez de Gorostiza analyzed Children's time
• Ana Isabel Bordas del Prado analyzed Estudio del aspecto temporal en la obra Stained Word Window
• Erin Levins did a nice webliography at Webliography
• See the papers from CyberMountain 99
• Susana Tosca reviewed Samplers
• (NSW, Australia stuff on Samplers:)
  • NSW Board of Education syllabus (pdf file)
  • A fun retort on Samplers in the NSW Board of Education, 2001 (Sydney Morning Herald 30/04/2001)
  • Charles Sturt University Introduction to Module B: Critical Study of Texts (Samplers)

• Eng 789: Technopoetry: Electronic Literature and New Media (Johnston, W) at Emory University, Graduate Program, Spring 2003 using Sea Whispers and Language of the Void
• textual media [nclc375/engl360] syllabus, (Leslie Smith and Dean Taciuch)at New Century College & the Department of English George Mason University, Fall 2002, using Firefly
• RDG 530 (John E. McEneaney) Fall, 2002 using Stained Word Window
• EL170C Introduction to Creative Writing Poetry, at Middlebury College, Vermont, Spring 2002
• English 278 Literature in a Wired World, at University of Maryland (Jason Rhody) using Samplers
• LC3204 (Stephanie Stickland), at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002, using What You See is not What I See in Currents.
• English 698 Hypertext Design Studio at New Jersey Institute of Technology,(Chris Funkhouser)2000 and 2002, and using Ferris Wheels
• Visualizing Narrative:Writing Spatially in the New Media Writing #6257 Fall 2001, (Carolyn Guertin) at Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Canada
• Tinity College, Dublin 2001 Powerpoint Course Syllabus using Sampers
• Literature in Transition, NEH, (Kate Hayles) 2001, using Disappearing Rain
• College Writing 108 Fall 2001, version 3.0, University of California, Berkeley using Father Figures
• English 165 Hyperliterature, English 236, andHyperliterature 328 at UC Santa Barbara Department of English (Alan Lui) using Bubbles
• English 115 at Vanderbuilt University using Samplers (2001) using Bubbles
• English 652: writing hypertext, Virginia Commonwealth University, (Elizabeth Cooper) Fall 2000
• Hills State University, South Dakota, Fall 2000 using Samplers

Please e-mail me (deenalarsen AT yahoo DOT com) to find out the precise URLs for works in progress.

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