Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl >>
Shelley Jackson
Shelley Jackson, book illustrator, author and creator of the hypertext
narrative Patchwork Girl, takes on the personae of the
"Frankensteinbeck" monster of her parable to deliver this presentation
on the importance of hypertext for experiencing stories. What appears
here are the shuffled notes of the absent author, insistent on swaying
assumptions (raised by the Net world) of identity, fiction, and space. With
thickly slick writing, she cohesively lets her thoughts dance through the
amorphous associative hypercontent that has spilled out from the
confines of book covers onto the tilting plane of Net space.
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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] I adore the book, but I don't fit into it very well, as a writer
or a reader. There's always some of me hanging untidily outside, looking
like a mess, an excrescence, something the editor should have lopped off
and for which I feel a bit apologetic. To make something orderly and
consecutive out of the divergent fragments that come naturally feels like
forcing myself through a Klein bottle. My hypertext novel Patchwork Girl
grew in clumps and strands like everything I write, but unlike everything
else it had permission to stay that way, to grow denser and more
articulated but not to reshape itself.
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