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Joe Tabbi
ebr is both a serious literary and new media art journal as well as a research
and development platform that investigates new forms of critical writing as it
relates to electronic writing, interface design and distributed community
building. Pursuing its mission to radically reconfigure the ways in which
graphic design, writing, editing and reading converge in the web-based
interface, ebr offers readers a "dynamic interface" for the journal, i.e. one
that constantly changes. Built upon a self-organizing database, the interface
visibly transforms, ripples, reconfigures, and shifts in response to the
actions of the site's editors, writers, and users. The list of contributor's
is huge and includes some of the leading practitioners and theorists in
literature and new media including Gregory Ulmer, Katherine Hayles, Stephanie
Strickland, Charles Bernstein, Michael Berube and ebr editor Joe Tabbi.
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||| HIAFF 3.0 | university of colorado | department of art and art history | digital arts area | in conjunction with alt-x | atlas | blurr
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[Intro] "Like the webarts here under discussion, ebr approaches the
Internet, in the first instance, as a unique art medium. That is why, although
ebr remains a literary journal, the editors have always emphasized its visual
aspect. We do this not for purposes of illustration only; nor is it our
archival mission to scan images and texts that were never intended for digital
reproduction. Rather, we're interested in how the hand and the eye of a
reader, accustomed to the turning pages of a book, can be guided through a
well-designed web installation by the collaborative action of word and image."
Joe Tabbi, introduction to "web arts"
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