WriteSites
Kirsten Krauth
trAce (www.trace.ntu.ac.uk/ [expired]) has just changed its name to trAce online writing centre and its new-look site is easy to get around and full of great info. The annual trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Competition was won this year by Talan Memmott for Lexia to Perplexia (www.trace.ntu.ac.uk/newmedia/lexia/ index.htm/ [expired]). Memmott is an artist/writer from San Francisco who has been active in the web-based hypertext scene, serving as Creative Director/Editor for BeeHive Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal (beehive.temporalimage.com/index.html). He comes to writing via visual arts, having worked in video, installation art, painting, and performance art. You can chat with Talan at the trAce website, February 4 @ 9pm GMT.
Poets and Writers Magazine (www.pw.org/mag/index.htm) has a special section devoted to “Literature and Cyberspace” this issue with articles by Rob Wittig, Nick Montfort, William Gillespie, Stephanie Strickland, Justin Martin, and Eastgate’s editorial team Diane Greco and Charlie Bennett. Two articles are available online: Martin’s “Preserving the Word” and Wittig’s “Observations from Here”.
RealTime issue #41 Feb-March 2001 pg. 21
