Tracks will run simultaneously. A hypertext writing exercise to explore ways to write hypertext and demonstrate the concepts and thought techniques involved. This writing exercise will explore collaborative writing and linkning to provied a glimpse into how writers think and create in hypertext. Discussions will focus on writing techniques and ways to use the media. Hypertext writing provides a multidimensional space.
Hypertexts take on meaning and structure from the programs they are created in.
This session will explore ways to discuss hypertext literature using literary theory's tools. After ten years of hypertext conferences, it is time to review our assumptions and think about the theoretical status of our discipline. This session is aimed at all those working in Humanities, specially Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy and Cultural Studies, but other approaches are also welcome. Writers and systems developers will be asked to provide a short introduction to their work. Writers should provide an excerpt from a work in progress for the other workshop participants to read before the workshop.