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"Netcessary" literature
   

Hypertexts, e-poetry, and netcessary* literature

compiled by Jessy Randall

Paper-based hypertexts:
BS Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969)
Choose Your Own Adventure books (1979)
more on CYOA

Milorad Pavic, The Dictionary of the Khazars (1984)

Wikipedia entry on digital poetry


PRETTY COOL POETRY THING is really all you need to see. It's so good.

Annie Abrahams: Wishes

Atomic Antelope and Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland iPad app

ARTE Experience: Type:Rider (inexpensive ios game)

Avoision: Desire Bot

Caroline Bergvall: Noþ[thorn]ing

Natalie Bookchin: The Intruder

Amaranth Borsuk: Abra (free ios app with Ian Hatcher), The Deletionist, Rainbot

Todd Boss and Angela Kassube: Motion Poems (short films of poems by Robert Bly, Jane Hirschfield, and others)

Aaron Cohick: Floating / Days

Liza Daly: Harmonia

William Gibson: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)

Peter Howard: Midwinter Fair (plain and simple hypertext)

Daniel C. Howe and Aya Karpinska: No Time Machine

Michael Joyce, afternoon: a story (information on the first hypertext novel)

Luers / Smith / Dean Novelling ("recombinant digital novel that employs text, video and sound")

Taylor Mali: Killing the Speech (text/film/rant/comedy)

Tim Minchin: Storm (animated film)

Nick Monfort, Taroko Gorge

Jason Nelson

Mendi + Keith Obadike

Juhani Paaso Story of the Lost Dot (free Alice in Wonderland game)

Claudia Rankine and John Lucas: Situations (one example, search YouTube for more)

Ricepirate: DotDotDot (animation of a voicetrack of a review of a game)

Geoff Ryman: 253: a novel for the internet in seven cars and a crash (1990s hypertext novel)

Brian Kim Stefans: The Dreamlife of Letters

Philipp Stollenmayer: Supertype (inexpensive ios game)

Stephanie Strickland and Ian Hatcher: House of Trust (generative poem)

Dan Waber: Strings

Nick Walton: AI Dungeon

Bryan Thao Worra, The Dream Highway of Ms. Mannivongsa, "experimental surreal choose-your-own-adventure" version "drawing on traditional Lao and Southeast Asian mythology and legends, pop culture, and more."

 

See also:
The Electronic Poetry Center
The Shape of a Box (literary magazine of poetry videos)
Twitter literary magazines: Baby Trotsky, Form.Reborn, Outshine

Perhaps related in some way to digital literature, perhaps not: altered books / book-related-art by various book artists, Thomas Allen, Ellie Brown, Brian Dettmer, Zach Gage, Guy Laramie, Lori Nix, Robert The, Miriam Schaer, and Tona Wilson. Books that destroy themselves: Zach Gage's Antagonistic Books: Curiosity; self-blackening book by Camille Leproust and Andres Ayerbe.

 

Databases and lists of online magazines

Poets and Writers lit mags database, http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines (free)
Duotrope's Digest, http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx (free trial, monthly fee)
Web Del Sol's top-fifty list, http://webdelsol.com/index-new-magazines2.htm


*Netcessary literature is literature for which the internet is necessary. It is related to, but distinct from, flarf. I, Jessy Randall, invented the term in 2001 (see left-hand column of this page). It has not entered the lexicon.

   
 
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