My Name is Captain, Captain. is the anticipated new work from Eastgate. Robert Coover says: “Using verbal and visual metaphors from the early days of flight in the hypermedia skies of these early days of electronic literature, My Name Is Captain, Captain. is already, even at the moment it is being published, a classic in its form. […] At times playful, at times somber, My Name Is Captain, Captain. is, at all points of the compass, a compelling and intriguing read.”
[Links updated April 2005]
The Alternative Museum
The Alternative Museum has launched Volume II of TAM Monitor, which features experimental radio, interviews, performative art, audio art, conceptual design pieces, and alternative web interfaces.
[Link updated April 2005]
Winter Break and Other Stories
Author Adrienne Eisen has released an online collection of erotic hypertexts. Mark Amerika, who calls Eisen the hypertext world’s Kathy Acker, says that “Adrienne Eisen’s avant-pop hypertexts are subversive narrative journeys into the mind of a contemporary twentysomething woman whose erotic encounters are charged with a post-feminist satirical edge that cuts deep into the American psyche.” (“Winter Break”)
[Links updated April 2005]
Poems that Go #2
Poems That Go, the recently launched destination for kinetic poetry on the Internet, has released its second collection of Flash and Quicktime poetry, including “Red Lily” by John Kusch, “For the Moon” by Erin Elizabeth, a Flash presentation of Sir Walter Raleigh’s “On the Life of Man,” and “Car Wash” by Megan Sapnar.