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From
Spatial Hypertext to Temporally Cybertext
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From
Spatial Hypertext to Temporally Cybertext
Interview with
Markku
Eskelinen and
Raine
Koskimaa
Markku
Eskelinen and Raine Koskimaa are the editors of
Cybertext
Yearbook 2000,
published by the Research Center for Contemporary
Culture, University of Jyväskylä.
Eskelinen is an independent scholar and
experimental writer of ergodic literature,
interactive drama, critical essays and cybertext
fiction (his cybertext fiction Interface 3 will be
published in October 2001: Provosoft, Helsinki).
Koskimaa is a member of the Literary Advisory Board
for the Electronic Literature Organization and
works as an assistant professor at the IT
University of Copenhagen in the field of digital
textuality (his doctoral thesis "Digital
Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond" is
available 
online).
Roberto Simanowski talked with Markku and Raine
about the yearbook, the "new wave of hypertext
fiction", the distinctions between narratives and
games and the misunderstandings in the early
hypertext theory.