edited by
Jan VAN LOOY and Jan BAETENS
Leuven
University Press, 2003
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Mark Amerika is the author of two avant-pop novels, The Kafka Chronicles (now in third printing) and Sexual Blood, both published by FC2/Black Ice Books. In 1993, he started the Alt-X Network <www.altx.com>, one of the premiere digital art and literature sites on the Web. His multidisciplinary work of Internet Art, Grammatron <www.grammatron.com>, has been exhibited in many international art shows including Siggraph, Ars Electronica, and the Telstra Adelaide Arts Festival. Grammatron was one of the first works of Internet Art to be featured in the prestigious Whitney Biennial 2000. He was recently appointed a Professor of Digital Art at the University of Colorado.
René Audet is research professor in literary studies at Université du Québec à Montréal; his project is based on the dynamics between fictionality and narrativity in French contemporary literature and hyperfiction. His Ph.D. has considered literary collection (“recueil”) in its generic dimensions. He is the author of Des textes à l’oeuvre. La lecture du recueil de nouvelles (Nota bene, 1998) and the coeditor of Frontières de la fiction (Nota bene and Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2002).
Jan Baetens teaches visual culture at the Institute for Cultural Studies <www.culturelestudies.be> at the K.U.Leuven. He is particularly interested in the visual narrative of fixed images (comics, photonovellas, photography, etc.) and in the theory of constrained writing (in literature and elsewhere). He has recently published several volumes of ekphrastic poetry, among which Made in the USA (Paris-Bruxelles, Les Impressions Nouvelles).
Paul A. Harris teaches at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of essays on twentieth-century writers including Calvino, Perec, Faulkner, and DeLillo. He is completing an interdisciplinary study of time and narrative in twentieth-century literature and science. He is also a regular contributor to electronic book review <www.electronicbookreview.com>. Elisabeth Joyce teaches English literature and Women’s Studies at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Her book Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-Garde was published by Bucknell University Press in 1999. She is currently working on a book-length study of Susan Howe’s poetry.
Raine Koskimaa works as a professor of digital culture at the University of Turku, Finland. He has published five books and several articles dealing with digital literature, hypertextuality and media. His doctoral dissertation Digital Literature. From Text to Hypertext and Beyond is available at <http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~koskimaa/thesis/> He is the co-editor of the Cybertext Yearbook series, a member of the Literary Advisory Board for the Electronic Literature Organization (UCLA), and a member of the Board of Reviewers for Game Studies <www.gamestudies.org>.
Jack Post is assistant professor in The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University Maastricht where he is teaching semiotics of visual culture and new media. His current research interests include semiotic analysis of multimedia, digital games and the interactive spectator. From 1985 to 1993 he was a lecturer at the University of Nijmegen (department of Film and Theatre) and at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht (department of Art, Media & Technology). He is the author of a book on “Optical effects in film” (Optische effecten in de film. Aanzetten tot een semiotische analyse, Leuven: Peeters 1998).
Sara Roegiers works as a designer and researcher at the Maerlant Center <www.maerlant.be>, K.U.Leuven. She graduated in Modern History with a thesis on the theoretical problems and usability issues concerning historical representation in electronic publications and one year later she took her Webmaster degree. Her research interests are new media art and design, and 19th century cultural history. She is currently working on a feasibility study for academic image databases in Europe.
Richard Saint-Gelais is Professor in the Département des Littératures at Université Laval, Québec. He has published Châteaux de pages: la fiction au risque de sa lecture (1994), L’empire du pseudo: modernités de la sciencefiction (1999) and several articles on the theory of fiction, the theory of reading and the detective novel. He is currently working on the relationship between trompe-l’œil and literature.
Joseph Tabbi is professor in the English Department at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Fiction from Mailer to Cyberpunk, Reading Matters: Narratives in the New Media Ecology (both from Cornell University Press) and Cognitive Fictions (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). He is also editor of electronic book review <www.electronicbookreview.com>.
Jan Van Looy is teaching assistant at the Institute for Cultural Studies, K.U.Leuven (Belgium), where he is preparing a Ph.D. on the semiotics of interactivity. His main areas of interest are digital culture, electronic literature and software studies. He is member of the reviewing board for the electronic journals Game Studies <www.gamestudies.org> and Image & Narrative <www.imageandnarrative.be> where he is also one of the guest editors of an issue on medium studies.