-- TIR-W Volume 9 no. 2 July 2008 Instruments and Playable Text: Stuart Moulthrop
    Under Language: Stuart Moulthrop
    Concerto for Narrative Data: Judy Malloy
    activeReader: Elizabeth Knipe
    So Random, PiTP: Shawn Rider
    riverIslandQT: John Cayley
    The Purpling: Nick Montfort

-- TIR-W Volume 9 no. 1 August 2007
    Multi-Modal Coding: Jason Nelson, Donna Leishman, and Electronic Writing
    Interviews: Jason Nelson, Donna Leishman
      Biographical Background
      Reception | Role of the Reader
      Interface
      Work Process
      Electronic Literature Community
      Future Work
      Secrets
      Space | State
      Connect Digital | Material Games
      Potentials of the Field
    Essays:
      The Artists on Each Other's Work
      Talan Memmott's Commentary on Each Artist
    Artworks:
      Deviant
      Leishman Site
      Pandemic Rooms
      Nelson Index

-- TIR-W, Volume 8 no. 3, September 2006
    Interview with Dan Waber; Rita Raley
    five by five; Dan Waber bio and Jason Pimble
    TLT vs. LL; Ted Warnell
    Interview with David Knoebel; Rita Raley
    Heart Pole; David Knoebe
    Interview with Aya Karpinska; Rita Raley
    mar puro; Aya Karpinska
    The Nihilanth: Immersivity in a First-Person Gaming Mod; Sandy Baldwin
    New Word Order (Video);Sandy Baldwin
    Word Museum;William Gillespie
    Interview with John Cayley; Sandy Rita Raley
    Torus (Video); John Cayley

-- TIR-W, Volume 8, no. 2, June/July 2006
    Editor's Introduction: Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing;     Scott Rettberg
    Workspace is Mediaspace is Cityscape: An Interview with Nick Montfort on Book and Volume; Jeremy Douglass
    Written on the Body: An Interview with Shelley Jackson; Scott Rettberg
    Behind Fa ade: An Interview with Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas; Brenda Bakker Harger
    Avant-Gaming: An Interview with Jane McGonigal; Scott Rettberg
    Book and Volume; Nick Montfort
    Fa ade; Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern

-- TIR-W, Volume 8, no. 1, February/March 2006
    Editor's Introduction; Ben Basan
    Sound Art, Art, Music; Douglas Kahn
    Speaking Volumes; Brandon Labelle
    Firebirds | Firebirds Berlin | Tongues of Fire; Paul DeMarinis
    A Brief Lecture on Author/ity; Alexis Bhagat
    Harvester; Ed Osborn
    Honi | Tacotsubo; ADACHI Tomomi

-- TIR-W, Volume 7, no. 2, November 2005
    10:01; Lance Olsen & Tim Guthrie
    Pieces of Herself; Juliet Davis
    The Bomar Gene; Jason Nelson
    News from Erewhon; Millie Niss & Martha Deed

-- TIR-W, Volume 7, no. 1, August 2005
    Ask me for the moon; John Zuern
    CONSCIOUSNESS, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE FICTION; Kathleen Ann Goonan
    Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape; Mike Chasar
    An interview with Diana Slattery; Dene Grigar

-- TIR-W, Volume 6, 2004
    New Work; Niss, Deed & Daniels
    Two Reviews; Tevis Thompson and Mike Chasar
    Remembering Donald Justice; Steven Cramer
    An interview & new work; David Silver, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala
    An interview with Amy Sara Carroll; Heidi Bean

-- TIR-W, Volume 5, 2003
    Afterwards; Judy Malloy
    Digital Nature: the Case Collection version 2.0; Tal Halpern, Patrick F. Walter
    Hacktivism? I didn't know the term existed before I did it; An Interview with Brian Kim Stefans; Giselle Beiguelman
    Pax & An Interview; Stuart Moulthrop and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
    An Interview with Margaret Stratton; Leslie Roberts
    New Work & Reviews; Heidi Bean, Seth Thompson, Deena Larsen, geniwate, Pamela Gay
    An Interview with John Cayley; Brian Kim Stefans
    3 Proposals for Bottle Imps; William Poundstone
    Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)] & an Interview; Talan Memmott and M.D. Coverley
    New work and an interview; Joseph Tabbi and Anthony Enns
    Judd Morrissey & Lori Talley: An Interview & Essay; Jessica Pressman

-- TIR-W, Volume 4, 2002
    Selected new poems; Ana Marie Uribe
    ORIENT; YOUNG HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
    Dervish Flowers; Nicolas Clausse and Brian Kim Stefans
    New Digital Emblems; William Poundstone and Brian Kim Stefans
    "Of Dolls and Monsters" An interview with Shelley Jackson; Rita Raley
    Electronic Literature; Ravi Shankar, N. Kathrine Hayles, and Lisa Gitelman
    Excerps from Mark Amerika's Oz Blog; Mark Amerika
    Inflat-o-space; Jessica Irish
    New Media Writing; Marc C. Marino, William Gillespie, and Dirk Stratton
    Remembering My Life In/Of Words; Richard Kostelanetz
    An Interview, an Essay, a New Media Project; Stephanie Strickland and Jaishree Odin
    Our day with Jerry Springer; David Schneidermann
    A loss is less and death is not so easy
    Experiemental Literature was really the first kick: An interview with Scanner; Rebekah Farrugia
    Crowds and Power; Jody Zellen and Thom Swiss
    "Red, Black, White and Gray:" An Interview with Motomichi Nakamura;
      YOUNG HAE CHANG HEaVY INDUSTRIES Bcc, Motomichi Makamura

-- TIR-W, Volume 3, 2001
    Reach; Michael Joyce
    Training Missions; Joe Amato
    Everything after That; Martha Conway
    Winter Break; Adrienne Eisen
    -][select][test: co][deP][1][oetry]_; mez
    The Impermanence Agent; Noah Wardrip-Fruin, a.c.chapman, Brion Moss, Duane Whitehurst
    A Long Wild Smile; Jeff Parker

-- TIR-W, Volume 1, 1999 & Volume 2, 2000
    Book of Job; Ted Warnell
    The Universal Resource Locator; M.D. Coverly
    Lexia to Perplexia; Talan Memmott
    The Birth of Detachment; Jennifer Ley
    The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project; Brad Brace
    City of Bits; Thomas Swiss
    Divine Mind Fragment Theater; Jim Andrews
    Pronunciation: 'fut, or: A Tool and it's Means; c. allan dinsmore
    Simple Harmonic Motion Or, Josephine Baker in the Time Capsule; Diane Greco
    Reality Dreams, Scroll One; Joel Weishaus
    Broken; Alan Sondheim and Barry Smylie
    Mitosis; Kevin Fanning
    The dear mr thomas letters; Kevin Fanning
    A Fable of Words; Jeffery M. Bochman

Elizabeth Knipe

Contents:

activeReader

activeReader turned out to be a joke on myself. I started the project shortly after reading Bruce Andrew's CyberText Yearbook (2003) article, "Electronic Poetics." At the time, I was frustrated by his suggestion that the role of the Digital Poet is to make interfaces in which the reader becomes the writer. I didn't want to be a programmer, I wanted to write poems. I thought, "Well, I'll show them" and set about creating such an environment, sure that no one would want to engage with it more than once.

If the readers were going to write, they would need words. Since I didn't want any undue influence on their texts, I randomly picked words from Andrew's essay, over 250 of them. I chose a quote that would serve well as an epigraph. I made some reading and writing animations. And then I programmed it all to be interactive.

I expected my readers to get bored with it, for the piece to fail. I had not invented anything new (the magnets on my fridge proved that), I had not highlighted any particular aspect of the human condition, I didn't have any content. I was sure that activeReader was a one-liner.

Now, I think I was wrong. A single generation of new words on the screen may not hold attention for long, but the opportunity to begin again with a blank slate and new juxtapositions constantly beckons. The challenge is endless; activeReader never fails to amuse me.

Bio

Elizabeth Knipe is a digital writer and experimental video artist who has a tendency to convert simple ideas into interactive electronic installations and web-based media. Though she has a non-poetic day job, she finds that a certain poetic justice is involved. Elizabeth has screened her videos nationwide and read at E-Poetry events in London, New York, West Virginia, and Buffalo. She received her MFA from the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. See a selection of her work online at dreamdilation.com

Featured Authors

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Nick Montfort

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Elizabeth Knipe

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