Espen Aarseth (Ph.D).
Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanistic Informatics, Univ. of Bergen, research on Aesthetics of Cybermedia, Ergodic Literature, Hypertext, MUDs, Computer Culture Studies, and History of media thechnology, Dissertation: "Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature"
Hypertext, Cybertext, Digital Literature, Medium: Interview

Daniel Ammann (Dr. phil.)
Dozent für Medienbildung und Mitarbeiter des Schreibzentrums an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zürich. Medienpädagoge und freier Autor/Übersetzer (Magoria).
Professor for Media Education at the Zurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland.
Eintauchen in die Anderswelt. Immersion und Virtualität

Mark Amerika
Founding Director of the Alt-X Online Network, several net art project (GRAMMATRON, PHON:E:ME), professor in the Fine Arts Faculty at University of Colorado
network (h)activity: Interview / Reconfiguring education with flexible teachers: Interview

Jim Andrews
Web artist of kinetic-concrete and audio-visual poetry, freelance programmer and technical writer
Becoming full-time web artist - Interview

Inke Arns
freie Kuratorin und Doktorandin am Institut für Slawistik an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Studium: Osteuropastudien, Slawistik, Politikwissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte an Freien Universität Berlin und an der Universiteit van Amsterdam.
independent media art curator and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Slavistics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, study: Eastern European cultural studies, Political Science, Archeology of the Near East and Art History at the Free University Berlin and The Universityof Amsterdam
Metonymical Mov(i)es: Lev Manovich's "The Language of New Media"

Johannes Auer
Künstler in Stuttgart, [kollaborative] literarische und künstlerische Netzprojekte z.T. mit Reinhard Döhl und Martina Kieninger, Texte zur Netzliteratur
Artist in Stuttgart, collaborative netprojects, partly together with Reinhard Döhl and Martina Kieninger, articles on netliterature
7 Thesen zur Netzliteratur / Frieder Rusmann: Fabrikverkauf / Interview / Screaming Screen and Binary Idealism

Christian Bachmann (lic. phil.)
Arbeitet seit 1997 am Thema Hyperfiction und analysiert dabei die moderneren sozio-philosophische Lese- und Rezeptionsansätze.
Christian Bachmann is working on hyperfictions since 1997, analyzing modern philosophical aspects of reading theories.
Die Erfahrbarkeiten hyperfiktionaler Lektüren. Rezeptionsästhetische Aspekte narrativer Online-Texte / Digitales Drachentöten: Rezension zum Sammelband «Liter@tur. Computer – Literatur – Internet»

Noel Baker
Canadian writer ("Hard Core Roadshow: A Screenwriter's Diary"), who served as a consultant in seminars on interactive fiction
Interview

Jean-Pierre Balpe
Université Paris 8
Littérature numérique, contraintes et ouvertures de l’écran / Principles and Processes of Generative Literature

Elvira Barriga
Studium der Kommunikationsgestaltung, lebt und arbeitet als Grafikerin in Berlin
Degree in communicationdesign, lives and works as a graphic designer in Berlin
Interaktion als Aspekt moderner Ästhetik

Elisabeth Bauer
Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Computerphilologin, Mitarbeit am Multimedia-Projekt EMILE (Elektronische Medien in der Literaturwissenschaftlichen Einführung) der Uni Regensburg, Dissertationsprojekt zur französischsprachigen digitalen Literatur.
Scholar in literature and humanities computing; project manager of EMILE, a multimedia-assisted introduction to Studies of French Literature at German Universities; PhD candidate, dissertation on "Francophonic Digital Literature".
Zwischen den Seiten gelesen: Roberto Simanowskis "Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im Netz"

René Bauer, Joachim Maier
entwickler des kollaborativen schreibtools nic-las
die beiden identitäten arbeiten als ·|rgan|c (www.irganic.com) und entwickeln code / gam|ng / graph|cs / fac|l|tat|on / pop-culture-based-|ntervent|ons v|rtual_game-coding_ java games / _mac_os games, _university-coding _ zürich: grundkursliteratur, _utrecht_ hgkz: designculture
konstrukt1on & gegenstandl0sigkeit. läuffähig auf der spielekonsole mensch / erfahrungen mit dem kollaborativen schreibtool nic-las und seinen ausweitungen

Tilman Baumgärtel
Journalist in Berlin, Autor verschiedener Texte zur Netzkunst, Herausgeber zweier Interviewbände zur Netzkunst
journalist, author of several articles on netart, two volumens of interviews on netart
Netzkunst zwischen Blüte und Isolation: Interview

BEIGE
a loose knit crew of 4 members, Joe Beuckman, Cory Arcangel, Joseph Bonn, and Paul B. Davis formed in 1997, who have pioneered the practice of hacking obsolete 8bit computers and video game systems they find in the trash to make art. Their The 8bit Construction Set (on BEIGE records) is one of the current best selling DJ battle records, their DVD Low level All Stars (Electronic Arts Intermix) is a research project about early computer video grafitti.
21c - GAME MODS

Giselle Beiguelman
Professor at the Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics Department of PUC -São Paulo. Multimedia essayist and web-artist. Her projects, like The Book after the Book, <Content = No Cache> and Wopart, on: desvirtual.com.
WYGIWYS or WYGIWYS Notes on the Loss of Inscription

Michael Beißwenger
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur der Universität Dortmund. Beschäftigt sich seit 1998 mit internetbasierter Kommunikation. Verschiedene Veröffentlichungen zum Thema
Scholar in literature, University of Dortmund, since 1998 research on Internet based communication
Inszenierungspotenziale in schriftbasierter Chat-Kommunikation

Hanjo Beressem (Prof. Dr.)
Professor für amerikanische Literatur und Kultur an der Universität Köln; Bücher zu Thomas Pynchon und zu Witold Gombrowicz, Artikel zur amerikanischen Literatur, zum Poststrukturalismus, Media Studies und ‘Literatur und Naturwissenschaft’
Professor for American literature and culture at the University of Cologne; books on Thomas Pynchon and on Witold Gombrowicz; publications around the fields of American literature, poststructuralism, media studies and ‘literature and science.’
poetopology. folded space, traversal machines and the poetics of ‘emergent text.’

Susanne Berkenheger
Autorin und Journalistin. Lebt in München. Hyperfiction: CD-ROM Hilfe!, www.wargla.de, www.schwimmmeisterin.de
Author and journalist. Lives in Munich. Hyperfiction: CD-ROM Hilfe! www.wargla.de, www.schwimmmeisterin.de
Interview / Erläuterungen zur Schwimmmeisterin / Dramatisches Protokoll aus dem Überraum

Mark Bernstein (Ph.D)
Founder of the Hyperfiction-Publisher Eastgate Systems, author on hypertext, conference organisator and hypertextkitchen-editor
Creating, selling, and evaluating Hyperfiction: Interview

Nika Bertram
Autorin des Romans "Der Kahuna Modus" (2001), Mitglied des Chaos Computer Club.
author of "Der Kahuna Modus" (2001), member of the Chaos Computer Club
Liebesspiele im kahunaMUD

Simon Biggs
Professor of Digital Arts at the Art and Design Research Centre, School of Cultural Studies, at Sheffield Hallam, Artist Fellow of Cambridge University, UK; New Media Artist: "The Great Wall of China", "Mozaic", "Babel"
Interview

Friedrich W. Block (Dr. phil.)
Kurator der Literaturstiftung Brückner-Kühner in Kassel, Künstler, arbeitet zu experimenteller Dichtung
Literature foundation Brückner-Kühner, Kassel, artist, works on experimental poetry
Literatur in der Informationsgesellschaft / Innovation oder Trivialität? / Eight Digits of Digital Poetics [Acht Finger digitaler Poetik] / Beyond pages. Von der visuellen zur digitalen Poesie in Japan

Adi Blum
arbeitet für zusammenstoss – kulturelle Produktionen, organisiert die Salongespräche "Pilgern&Surfen" im L&Arc, Romainmôtier, Barfood Poetry und das LiOS, Literaturfestival Luzern; zusammen mit Beat Mazenauer: www.literatur-tipp.ch und www.worldbrain.net
Studies in media science, policy, and criminology, works for zusammenstoss – kulturelle Produktionen, organises salon talks "Pilgern&Surfen" at L&Arc, Romainmôtier, Barfood Poetry and LiOS, Literaturfestival Luzern; together with Beat Mazenauer: www.literatur-tipp.ch and www.worldbrain.net.
surf > sample > love

Marc Böhlen
artist and investigator of robotic technologies, currently on faculty in the department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo
#DEFINE

Christine Böhler
Journalistin (Wien) , Projektleiter Lichtzeile.at, Publikationen zur Literatur im Netz (Buch 2001)
Journalist (Vienna), organizer Lichtzeile.at, publications on literature in the net (book 2001)
The World of Digital Literature

Michael Böhler
Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Zürich. Stiftungsratspräsident des Schweizer Instituts für Kinder- und Jugendmedien. Buchpublikation zu digitalen Medien: "Hyperfictions. Hyperliterarisches Lesebuch: Internet und Literatur", Editorial Board dichtung-digital.
Professor for German Literature at University of Zurich. President, Board of Trustees of the Swiss Institute for Children and Youth Media, books on digital media: "Hyperfictions. Hyperliterarisches Lesebuch: Internet und Literatur", editorial board dichtung-digital
Spielbegriff zwischen Texthermeneutik, Hyperfiction und Computerspiel

Philippe Bootz
The Problematic Of Form. Transitoire Observable. A Laboratory For Emergent Programmed Art

Traudl Bünger
Arbeitstelle für Leseforschung und Kinder- und Jugendmedien (ALEKI) der Universität Köln, Dissertation über Computerspieladaptionen von Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Publikationen im Bereich der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturkritik
Genettes Modus der Ordnung. Zentrales Strukturproblem kinderliterarischer Szenarien auf CD-ROM?

Patrick-Henri Burgaud
e-poet, French language, member of webartery
French e-poetry. A short/long story

Joan Campàs
Professor for Estudis d'Humanitats i Filologia
The Frontiers between Digital Literature and Net.art

Rejane Cantoni
Künstliches Leben. Frankensteins Nachkommen

Laura Borràs Castanyer (Ph.D.)
Lecturer at the Humanities and Philology Department (Universtitat Oberta de Catalunya). She also teaches Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Romance Philology Department (Universitat de Barcelona). She is the director of the Hermeneia: Literary Studies and Digital Technologies research group.
Digital Literatur and Theoretical Approaches / E-Learning and Literary Studies

John Cayley
London-based poet and literal artist in networked and programmable media, known internationally both for his practice and his theoretical and critical contributions. With Loss Pequeño Glazier Cayley has edited a special section of the Cybertext Yearbook 2002 on Ergodic Poetry.
Inner Workings / Overboard / Writing on Complex Surfaces

David Ciccoricco
Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). Author of Reading Network Fiction.
"Play, Memory": Shadow of the Colossus and Cognitive Workouts

Detlef Clas
Baden-Baden, interaktive Multimedia Projekte am SWR
Baden-Baden, interactive multimedia projects at South West Radio
Das Larissa-Projekt

Robert Coover
author of several novels, short storis and plays, teaches courses in electronic writing and mixed media at Brown University; essays and interviews on digital literature; conducts projects on literature in three dimensional digital environments; editorial board dichtung-digital
Literarischer Hypertext. Abschied vom Goldenen Zeitalter

Florian Cramer
Freie Universität Berlin / Publikationen zu Netzliteraturen und -kulturen, Website zur kombinatorischen Dichtung
University of Berlin (FU) / articles on netliterature and netculture, Website on combinatorical poetry
Kombinatorische Dichtung und Computernetzliteratur / Digital Code and Literary Text

Jürgen Daiber (Dr. phil. habil)
Universität Trier, Publikationen zu Botho Strauß und Novalis, Preiträger des Internet-Literaturwettbewerbs Pegasus 98 mit "Der Trost der Bilder", Advisory Board dichtung-digital
University of Trier, articles on Botho Strauß and Novalis, prizewinner of Netliterature Competition Pegasus 98
Kreative Bild-Wort-Koexistenzen: Interview / IASL-dd-Forum / „Ut pictura poesis” – oder: Ars poetica für Hyperfiction

Gilbert Dietrich
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophie und Literatur, Magisterarbeit und Web-Projekt: "Digitaltext. Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft"
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, studies on Philosophy und German Literature, thesis and web-projekt: "Digitaltext. Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft
Esther Hunzikers "NORD"

Reinhard Döhl (Dr. phil. habil)
Literatur- und Medienwissenschaftler und Künstler, Literarische Veröffentlichungen und Ausstellungen, Netzprojekte zus. mit Johannes Auer und Martina Kieninger
Scholar in literature and media studies, artist, exhibitions, publications in literature, netprojects together with Johannes Auer and Martina Kieninger
TanGo & Co. - Bericht über einige Stuttgarter InternetProjekte / Interview

Lisa Dorin
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she organizes focus, a series of one-person exhibitions by international contemporary artists, and is currently producing a catalogue of the museum's timebased media collection.
Camille Utterback's Series External Measures

Bernhard Dotzler (Dr. phil.)
Zentrum für Literaturforschung Berlin, Forschungskolleg "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation" der Universität zu Köln, Buchpublikationen u.a. zu Thomas Mann; Communication & Control in Literatur und Technik
Centre of literature research Berlin, research colleague "Media and cultural communication" University of Cologne, publications on Thomas Mann, Communication & Control in Literature and Technique
Virtual Textuality

J. Yellowlees Douglas (Ph.D)
Director of the William and Grace Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, articles on social construction of digital technologies and on hypertext narratology "The End of Books or Books without End" (2000)
Extended Abstract of "End of Books..." / reading and thinking hypertext: Interview

Thomas Dreher (Dr. phil.)
Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und klassischen Archäologie, Diss. zur konzeptuellen Kunst in Amerika und England zwischen 1963 und 1976
art history, philosophy and archeology, dissertation on conceptual art in America and England between 1963 and 1976
Talan Memmotts "Lexia to Perplexia" / Talan Memmott's "Lexia to Perplexia"

Maria Engberg
Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and the English Dept. at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on digital poetic practices. Teaches digital poetry and American literature at BTH.
Stepping Into the River: Experiencing John Cayley's RiverIsland

Astrid Ensslin (Dr. phil)
Lecturer in New Media at Bangor University, UK; author of Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (London: Continuum, 2007).
Hypermedia and the Question of Canonicity

Markku Eskelinen
independent scholar and experimental writer of ergodic literature, interactive drama, critical essays and cybertext fiction; coeditor of Cybertext Yearbook 2000, Advisory Board dichtung-digital
Discourse Timer Towards Temporally Dynamic Texts / Interview / The challenge of cybertext theory and ludology to literary theory

Raymond Federman
was a Distinguished Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at The State University of New York at Buffalo, has published several books of criticism on the work of Samuel Beckett as well as contemporary literature, numerous essays and articles, four volumes of poems and ten novels
From Surfiction to Hypertext: Interview

Anders Fagerjord (Ph.D.)
researcher at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo; research interestes includes the rhetoric of mulitmedia, convergence, and the Web. Outside of academia, he has worked as a radio host and Web designer
Four Axes of Rhetorical Convergence

Chris Funkhouser (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor in Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 (Alabama, 2007); O surgimento da tecnopoesia/Technopoetry Rising: Essays and Works 1993-2006 (São Paulo, Musa Editora, 2008)
The Scope for a Reader / Encapsulating E-Poetry 2009. Some views on contemporary digital poetry

Frank Furtwängler
Re-Animation anthropologischer Perspektiven in den game studies

Alexander R. Galloway (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor of Media Ecology at New York University. His first book, "PROTOCOL: How Control Exists After Decentralization," will appear in 2004 from The MIT Press.
Conflicting Organizational Designs

Oliver Gassner
Moderator der Mailingliste Netzliteratur.de, Organisator des Ettlinger Wettbewerbs für Internetliteratur 1999, Editor der Linkseite zu Literatur im Netz OLLi
Moderates mailinglist netzliteratur.de, organized Ettlinger Competition for Net-Literature 1999, edits the portal to literature in the Internet OLLi
Interview / Werbeangriff auf "Assoziationsblaster"

Peter Gendolla (Prof. Dr.)
Universität - Gesamthochschule Siegen, Lehrstuhl für Literatur, Kunst, neue Medien und Technologien, Editorial Board dichtung-digital
University of Siegen, Department of Literature, Art, New Media and Technology, editorial board dichtung-digital
Über Literatur aus dem Rechner / Auf Spurensuche. Literatur im Netz, Netzliteratur und ihre Vorgeschichte(n) / Vernetzte Zeichenspiele. Umbrüche in der literarischen Kommunikation / the art of poetry machines

Jörn Glasenapp (Dr. phil)
Universität Lüneburg (Institut für Angewandte Medienforschung), Arbeitsschwerpunkt: Digitalität in visuellen Medien
University of Lüneburg (department of media studies), research on digitality in visual media
Remediation: Understanding New Media von Jay David Bolter und Richard Grusin / Interview with Pedro Meyer / Dispositive digitaler Medien. Vorläufige Theorien

Loss Pequeño Glazier (Ph.D.)
Poet Loss Pequeño Glazier is a professor of Media Study, Poetics Program Core Faculty Member, and Director of the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo. The author of Digital Poetics: the Making of E-Poetries, he has performed and exhibited his digital works widely (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier). Advisory Board dichtung-digital
Digital Poetics. Language as Transmission / Hypertext/Hyperpoesis/Hyperpoetics / Poetics of Dynamic Text

Guido Graf (Dr. phil.)
Jarlingen, Radio und Texte für Zeitung
Jarlingen, radio and articles in newspaper
Schall und Wahn

Randi Gunzenhäuser (PD Dr.)
unterrichtet US-amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft sowie Medienwissenschaft an der TU Chemnitz. Laufende Projekte: die Buchedition “Computerspiele: Multiperspektivität, Immersion, Interaktion" (mit Evelyne Keitel, Angela Hahn und Gunter Süß) und die Monographie “Automaten - Roboter - Cyborgs: Körperkonzepte im Wandel".
teaches American Literature, Cultural Studies, and the theory and history of media at Chemnitz University of Technology. She is currently working on two books, one on commercial computer games, the other one on concepts of the body in books, films, and computer games.
Raum, Zeit und Körper in Actionspielen: Max Payne / Interfaces. Bodies and Technologies in Multiplayer Role-Playing Games

Florian Hartling (Dr. phil)
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Department Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften und Hallesche Europäische Journalistenschule. Dissertation zur Autorschaft im Dispositiv Internet.
Research associate, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Media and Communication Studies and Halle European Journalism School. Doctoral thesis on authorship in the dispositiv internet.
Dissoziierte Autoren. Netzliterarische Autorschaft zwischen Tradition und Experiment

Bernd Hartmann
Studium der Germanistik in Bamberg. MA in Kanada. Abschlussarbeit über Umsetzungen in Computerspiele.
Studies in german literature in Bamberg. MA in Canada with a thesis on transformations into games.
Nika Bertrams Der Kahuna Modus als Roman und Computerspiel

N. Katherine Hayles
Hillis Professor of Literature and Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Design/Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles; Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (U. of Notre Dame Press 2008).
Distributed Cognition at/in Work

Davin Heckman
Associate Professor and Chair of English at Siena Heights University. Supervising Editor of the Electronic Literature Directory
Inside Out of the Box: Default Settings and Electronic Poetics

Christiane Heibach (Dr. phil.)
Universität Erfurt, Dissertation zur kooperativen Ästhetik der Literatur im Internet
University of Erfurt, dissertation on cooperative aesthetics of netliterature
Der Cyborg und das BEAST. Bemerkungen zu Jacques Servins dämonischem Netz-Werk / PHON:E:ME: Mark Amerikas Theorie-Komposition / Literatur im Internet - Theorie und Praxis einer kooperativen Ästhetik / Texttransformation – Lesertransformation / Die unsichtbare Geschichte. Thesen zur Netzliteratur / Ich surfe, also bin ich. Das Netz-Buch "Mein Pixel-Ich"

Ursula Hentschläger (Dr. phil)
Autorin mehrerer Romans, Künslerin und Theoretikerin im Bereich Neue Medien, lebt in Wien
new media artist, published writings on new media and novels, lives in Vienna
Interview

Heiko Idensen
Hyperliterat und Netzwerker seit 1988. Diverse Forschungsprojekte und Arbeiten zu Hypertext und Textproduktion im digitalen Diskurs. Heiko Idensen is hypermedia producer, writer and "net-worker" since 1988. Numerous research projects and essays on hypertext and hypermedia.
Interview / Kollaborative Text- und Theorieproduktion in digitalen Diskursen / Stephan Porombkas "Hypertext. Zur Kritik eines digitalen Mythos" / Lev Manovichs "The Language of New Media"

Teemu Ikonen (Ph.D.)
researcher, University of Helsinki
Moving text in avant-garde poetry. Towards a poetics of textual motion

Jonas Ingvarsson (Ph. D.)
Gothenburg, Sweden
Enter the Cut-up Matrix. Some notes on Man and machines in the (Swedish) 1960’s

Fotis Jannidis (PD Dr.)
Dozent am Institut für deutsche Philologie in München, Mithg. des "Jahrbuchs für Computerphilologie", Untersuchungen zum Handlungsaufbau in interaktiven Computerspielen
Departement of German Literature at University of Munich, Coeditor "Yearbook for Computer Philology," research on plot settings in interactive computer games
Beziehungskisten und Hochzeiten in Online-Spielen / Event-Sequences, Plots and Narration in Computer Games / On genre theory and popular arts

Aki Järvinen
Game Researcher & Designer, Veikkaus The Finnish National Lottery; MA, Postgraduate student, Media Culture, University of Tampere, Finland
The Elements of Simulation in Digital Games

Dennis G. Jerz (Ph. D.)
Associate Professor of English - New Media Journalism at Seton Hill University, teaches technical writing, electronic text, and literature. Since May, 1999 he has maintained the Literacy Weblog (http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog); author of American Drama 1920-1950: Soul and Society in the Age of the Machine (2003), guest editor for TEXT Technology 11.2 (special issue: interactive fiction).
Weblogs and the Google Galaxy

Lisa Jevbratt (Ph.D.)
Swedish systems/network artist working primarily with the Internet. Her work has been exhibited and presented nationally and internationally; in venues such as The New Museum in New York, SFMOMA, The Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica in Linz, Transmediale in Berlin, and the 2002 Whitney Biennial. She is an assistant professor at UCSB.
Coding the Infome

Matthew S. S. Johnson (Ph.D)
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Researches writing pedagogy, computers and composition, digital literacies, and the intersections of writing and computer gaming.
Combat to Conversation: Towards a Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Games

Richard Karpen
Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington in Seattle
Convergences in creating and understanding digital art

Adam Kenney
Graduating from Brown University in 2004 with a degree in Computer Science, his interests include collaborative narratives, technological aesthetics, and building imaginary worlds.
"A Tale in the Desert" (Review)

Lisbeth Klastrup (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Digital Aesthetics & Communication and Center for Computer Games Research Copenhagen, Research interests: persistent online worlds, adventure games, interactive story production and various forms of digital entertainment and writing cultures
Paradigms of interaction: conceptions and misconceptions of the field today

Mela Kocher (lic. phil.)
Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien, Dissertation über Ästhetik und Narrativität von Computerspielen.
Mela Kocher is currently working at the media section of the Johanna Spyri Foundation on a thesis about aesthetic and narrative structures of computer games
Erzählstrukturen von Bildschirmspielen. Riven und Pokemon / Spielewelten: Pixel-Bücher machen Geschichte(n) / Spielbegriff zwischen Texthermeneutik, Hyperfiction und Computerspiel / Autonome Avatare. Hybris virtueller Zeichen-Körper? / Analyse und Kategorisierung von Cybertexten

Raine Koskimaa (Ph. D)
Dissertation "Digital Literature. From Text to Hypertext and Beyond", coeditor of annual publication "Cybertext"
Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond (Abstract) / Reading Victory Garden / Discourse Timer Towards Temporally Dynamic Texts / Interview / Is There a Place for Digital Literature in the Information Society / These waves of memories

Markus Krajewski
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Kulturwissenschaftler, hypertextuelle Literaturdatenbank-Software
Humboldt Univerity Berlin, cultural studies, hypertextual database-software
(Un)Tiefen elektronischer Textarchive

Julian Kücklich
Studium der Amerikanistik und Germanistik in München, Magisterarbeit zum Thema Computerspiele und Literaturwissenschaften, z.Z. (2004) Promotion an der Ulster University, Coleraine.http://www.playability.de.
PhD student at the Centre for Media Research at Ulster University, Coleraine, author of an MA thesis on narrative theory and computer games
Roberto Simanowskis "Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im Netz" / Noah Wardrip-Fruin's and Pat Herrigan's:
"First Person. New Media as Story, Performance, and Game" / Konfigurative Praktiken in Computer- und Videospielen

Ulrike Landfester (Prof. Dr.)
Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Departement of German Literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Von der Liebe zum Medium. Konsens-Halluzinationen zwischen empfindsamem Briefroman und Cyberpunk

George Landow (Prof.)
Professor of English and Art History at Brown University. Scholar on Ruskin and Victorian literature and culture as well as hypertext and digital culture
Is this hypertext any good?

Shuen-shing Lee (Ph. D)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Webmaster of The Garden of Forking Path, the first Chinese hypertext literature website. Currently a columnist of United News' "E-Generation Literature" (Chinese)
Explorations of Ergodic Literature / Reading Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope 2

George Legrady
Artist and Professor of Interactive Media UC Santa Barbara.
The Art of Mapping Statistics. Interview with George Legrady

Matthew LeMay
An undergraduate student in the Modern Culture and Media department at Brown University. He has written record reviews for pitchforkmedia.com and the MIami Herald, and is lead singer/guitarist for the rock group Get Him Eat Him
Reconsidering Database Form: Input, Structure, Mapping

Nele Lenze
Ph.D.- stipendiat, Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway
Aspects of Arabic Online Literature in the Gulf

Jan Van Looy
Assistent Professor at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium), preparing a Phd. in interactive media studies. He has worked on multimedia productions like Galatea, Terranova and CD-roms like Rockox and Mercator. His main fields of interest are hypertext poetics, poststructuralist theory (review at altx) and cyberculture.
23 reasons not to read We Descend

Philipp Löser (Dr. phil.)
Universität Göttingen, Arbeiten zu Internationalität nationaler Kulturen und Mediensimulation
Universitiy of Göttingen, research on interational aspect of national cultures and on media simulations
Kritische Ergänzungen zur Diskussion um das Genre literarischer Hypertexte

Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SMARTlab, the University of East London
Illusory Agency in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines

Lev Manovich (Prof.)
author of The Langauge of New Media and an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego where he teaches courses in new media art and theory
Media, Software, and Meta-media

Michael Mateas (Ph.D.)
Assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he holds a joint position in the School of Literature, Communication & Culture and the College of Computing. He explores the intersection of artificial intelligence research and art practice, building AI-based artwork in which technical research and conceptual exploration mutually inform each other.
Semiotic Considerations in an Artificial Intelligence-Based Art Practice

Judith Mathez (lic. phil.)
Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien, arbeitet seit 1997 zu Hyperfiction.
Research on hyperfiction and children's literature. Collaborator at the media section of the Johanna Spyri Foundation in Zurich.
Hier bitte selber weiterschreiben! Konkreativität als Kategorie digitaler Literatur / Interaktive Kinder- und Jugendmedien als Forschungsschwerpunkt / Von Mensch zu Mensch. Ein Essay über virtuelle Körper realer Personen im Netz

Beat Mazenauer
Luzern, Kulturmanager und freier Autor
Luzern, culture management, freelance author
Weltwissen Wissenswelt. Das globale Netz von Text und Bild

Jonathan Minton
lives and teaches in Helena, Montana. He is the editor of Word For/Word, an online journal of poetry and poetics.
Word For Word. Encoding, Networking, and Intention

Torill Elvira Mortensen (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor, Department of Media studies, Volda University College
The Geography of a Non-place

Stuart Moulthrop (Prof.)
(author ("Victory Garden", "Hegirascope") and theorist of hyperfiction, editor emeritus of Postmodern Culture, Director of Electronic Literature Organization, he teaches at University of Baltimore
Operations of writing: Interviews

Elke Müller
Shattered embodiment. Cyberspace as Cartesian project

Gisela Müller
München, Mediengestaltung, Initiatorin der theatermaschine.net
Munich, media design, organizer theatermaschine.net
SMS Services / Das ganze Web eine Bühne!?

Sadhana Naithani (Dr. phil)
Assistant Professor for language, literature and folklore at Centre of German Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Research in the fields of marxist literary theory, german folksongs and folklore theory, colonial folklore scholarship
Literatur im Zeitalter des virtuellen Daseins

Eduardo Navas
Artist/Media Researcher/Curator. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Ph.D. Art and Media History, Theory and Criticism, University of California, San Diego
Electronic Literature and the Mashup of Analog and Digital Code

Andrea Nemedi
Comparative Literature, English, and German at University of Szeged, since 2001 Ph.D. thesis in Comparative Literature, visiting student at University of Cologne and University of Kansas
Die Leiden des jungen Werther: Das Buch in den Digitalmedien per E-Mail, im Internet und auf CD-ROM

Michael Nitsche (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, director of the Digital World and Image Group, research on forms and function of game spaces, games and the moving image, and video game players (cognition and games). Book: Video Game Spaces (MIT Press TBP)
Claiming Its Space: Machinima

Justin Parsler
Researcher and a teacher of game design at Brunel University
Illusory Agency in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines

Martina Pfeiler
Post-Doc in the American Studies program at the TU Dortmund, Germany. Author of Poetry Goes Intermedia
(Re-)Reading Moving Letters: Love Notes, Codes and Digital Curtains: A Review

Claus Pias (Prof.)
Wissenschaftlischer Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl "Geschichte und Theorie Künstlicher Welten" der Fakultät Medien an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Forschung zu Entstehung und Eigenschaften von Computerspielen, Technikgeschichte, Bildwissenschaft. Dissertation: "Computer Spiel Welten" (2000); "Cybernetics/Kybernetik. Die Macy-Konferenzen 1946-1953", Weimar 2002
Institute for History and Theory of Virtual Reality, Bauhaus-University Weimar, research on computer games, doctoral thesis on Computer Game World (2000)
Interview / Adventures als Ereignis und Zählung

Thea Pitman
Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds, co-editor of the anthology Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature (University of Liverpool Press, 2007; with Claire Taylor)
Hypertext in Context: Space and Time in Latin American Hypertext and Hypermedia Fictions

Søren Pold (Dr. phil)
Institut for Litteraturhistorie Aarhus Universitet , arbeitet zu Medienästhetik und Ästhetik digitaler Literatur, Dissertation zu Literature in Media Urbanity
Institute for Literary History, Aarhus University, works on media aesthetics and the aesthetics of digital literature, doctoral thesis on Literature in Media Urbanity
Literature in Media Urbanity (Abstract) / Writing With the Code - a Digital Poetics

James Pope (Dr. phil)
Senior lecturer, teaching English Literature, narrative theory, and creative writing in the Media School at Bournemouth University UK. His current research interests revolve around interactive fiction, its forms and media, and its relationship with its readers. He is currently developing a software platform for writing interactive narratives, aimed at 'non-technical' creative writers.
The significance of navigation and interactivity design for readers’ responses to interactive narrative

Stephan Porombka (Dr. phil)
Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Institut für deutsche Literatur der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Organisator der Softmoderne, Dissertation über Hypertext
Assistant at German Department of Humboldt University in Berlin, organised Softmoderne, doctoral thesis on Hypertext
"Das Mädchen mit dem Flammenwerfer"

Jessica Pressman (Ph.D.)
Lecturer in the English Department at University of California, Los Angeles. Teaches and researches on electronic literature, modernism, and contemporary print narrative.
Reading the Code Between the Words: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Nippon and the Aesthetic of Compilation

Peter Purg
Universität Erfurt, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Medien; Dissertation über "Körper in interaktiven elektronischen Räumen" im Entstehen; Veranstaltung von kreativen Multimedia-Workshops wie etwa in:
University of Erfurt, Comparative Literature / Media; preparing a PhD on "Bodies in Interactive Electronic Spaces"; organising creative multimedia-workshops as e. g. in:
Texten nebeneinander im Netz. Konkreativität zwischen lokalem und globalem Computernetzwerk

Rita Raley (Ph.D.)
researcher in the digital humanities at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writings on tactical media, new media art, electronic literature, machine translation and other topics, author of "Tactical Media" (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
Code.surface || Code.depth / List(en)ing Post

Anja Rau (Dr. phil.)
Blue Mars Interactive, Frankfurt, Dissertation über die Stellung von Autoren und Lesern in interaktiver digitaler Literatur
Blue Mars Interactive, Frankfurt, doctoral thesis on authorship in interactive literature
Nina Hautzingers "Vom Buch zum Internet" / Computer Games and Digital Textuality (Konferenzbericht) / Digital Art and Culture 2001 (Konferenzbericht) / Hypertext 00 (Konferenzbericht) / Bug-Report on These Waves of Girls von Caitlin Fisher / Time and Space in Interactive Media for Children (workshop report) / Website-Review Game-Culture / Boxing digital art: Roberto Simanowski's "Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im Netz"

Christoph Rauwald
Journalist, Magisterarbeit "Hypertext. Geschichte und Versuch einer Typologie"
University of Bonn, Master thesis on Hypertext
Lage der Forschungsliteratur

Scott Rettberg
Associate Professor of digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Project Leader of the HERA-funded collaborative research project ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice Co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization and author of electronic literature
Performative Reading: Attending The Last Performance [dot org]

Francisco J. Ricardo
Research associate in new media and visual arts, UNiversity Professors, Boston University
Reading the Discursive Spaces of Text Rain / Framing Locative Consciousness

Richard Rinehart
New media artist and Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
Digital Art as Social Sculpture and Musical Score

Alexander Roesler (Dr. phil)
Studium der Philosophie, Germanistik, Musikwissenschaft und Semiotik, Wissenschaftslektor beim Suhrkamp Verlag
Studies in philosophy, German literature, music, and semiotik, editor at Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main
160 Zeichen Liebe. Zur Kommunikation eines Gefühls im SMS-Format

David Rokeby
Canadian artist who has been creating active and interactive media installations for 20 years, programmer of Very Nervous System. His work has been widely exhibited internationally
Interview / The Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy

Raphael Rogenmoser
Studium der Medienwissenschaften, Politik und Kriminologie in Zürich. Seit Januar 2000 angestellt beim Migros Kulturprozent Abteilung Media & Experiments.
Studies in media science, policy, and criminology, since 2000 on the stuff of Migros Kulturprozent section Media & Experiments
Schneller Baggern

Hermann Rotermund (Dr. phil.)
Autor, Übersetzer und Herausgeber von Sachbüchern; Mitorganisator und Juryvorsitzender des Internet-Literaturpreises Pegasus 1997 und 1998; seit 1997 Projektleiter des ARD-Online-Kanals
author, translater, editor; co-organiser and head of the jury of the netliterature competition Pegasus 1997 and 1998, since 1997 project leader of ARD-Online-Chanel
Interview / Das Internet baut die Künste um

Marie-Laure Ryan
independent scholar working in the areas of narrative theory and electronic textuality; Narrative as Virtual Reality (2001)
Immersion and Interactivity in Hypertext / Interview / Cyberspace, Cybertexts, Cybermaps / Narrative and the Split Condition of Digital Textuality / Computer Games as Narrative. The Ludology versus Narrativism Controversy

Alexandra Saemmer (Dr. phil)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, University Paris 8; research on semiotics and aesthetics of digital media. Her book Matières textuelles sur support numérique appeared in 2007. E-poetic creations: www.mandelbrot.fr, www.revuebleuorange.org/oeuvre/tramway
Maître de conférences im Bereich Informations- und Kommunikationswissenschaften an der Universität Paris 8. Forschung zur Ästhetik und Semiotik digitaler Medien. Buch zum Thema Matières textuelles sur support numérique (2007). Elektronische Lyrik: www.mandelbrot.fr, www.revuebleuorange.org/oeuvre/tramway
Ephemeral passages—La Série des U and Passage by Philippe Bootz

Mike Sandbothe (Dr. phil. habil)
Privatdozent am Institut für Philosophie der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Habilitation zu Medienphilosophie, Texte zu Medienpädagogik und Medienethik
assistant professor on the department of philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Habilitation on Media philosophy, writings on media pedagogy and media ethics
Die Pragmatisierung unseres Mediengebrauchs im Internet / Pragmatische Medienphilsophie

Maria Teresa Santoro
Künstliches Leben. Frankensteins Nachkommen

Jörgen Schäfer (Dr. phil)
Universität Siegen, Studium Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft, Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft, Publikationen zu Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Pop und Dada
University of Siegen, studied literatur, history, and political sience, publications on Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Pop and Dada
Auf Spurensuche. Literatur im Netz, Netzliteratur und ihre Vorgeschichte(n) / Vernetzte Zeichenspiele. Umbrüche in der literarischen Kommunikation / Looking Behind the Façade: Playing and Performing an Interactive Drama. A Précis

Gesine Lenore Schiewer (Dr. phil.)
Universität Bern, Hauptarbeitsschwerpunkte: Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Germanistische Linguistik/Angewandte Linguistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft in Lehre und Forschung
University of Bern, research on literature theory, linguistics and communication studies
Interaktivität als kritische Kategorie der Netzliteratur

Annette Schindler
vormals Leiterin des Kunsthauses Glarus und Direktorin des Swiss Institute New York, seit September 2000 Leiterin des Baseler Forum für Neue Medien [plug in]
was head of art house Glarus and of Swiss Institute New York, since September 2000 head of the forum for New Media [plug in] in Basel
Netzkunst plugged: Interview

Peter Schlobinski (Prof. Dr.)
Professor für Germanistische Linguistik an der Universität Hannover, Arbeiten: "Chatten im Cyberspace", "Sprache und Kommunikation im Internet", Deutschunterricht-Themenhefte Das Internet - Sprache, Literatur und Kommunikation (1/00) und Hypertext - Hyperfiction (2/01)
Professor for German Linguistik University of Hannover, editor of books on language and Communikation in the Internet,  Language Literature and Communikation and Hypertext - Hyperfiction
Internet und Schule: Interview

Hilmar Schmundt
Organisator der Softmoderne-Symposien, Redakteur beim Spiegel, Ressort Wissenschaft, Autor von "Hightechmärchen" (www.hightechmaerchen.de)
has organised the Softmoderne-Conferences, editor at Spiegel, section Science, author of "Hightechmärchen" (www.hightechmaerchen.de)
Schauer-Märchen vom bösen Genie hinter dem apokalyptischen Computervirus

Phoebe Sengers (Ph.D.)
Assistant professor in Information Science and Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University
The "Embedded World" of Artificial Intelligence

Roberto Simanowski (Prof.)
Assistant Professor, Brown University, Herausgeber dichtung-digital, Buchpublikationen zu: Massenkultur um 1800, Nationalismus, literarischer Salon, digitale Literatur und Ästhetik;
professor for media studies at University of Basel, editor of dichtung-digital, books on mass culture in 18th century, nationalism, literary salon, digital literature and aesthetics
search in index of contributions

Scott Snibbe
Snibbe creates electronic media installations that directly engage the body of the viewer in a reactive system such as Deep Walls, Boundary Functions or Chien
Useless Programs, Useful Programmers, and the production of Social Interactive Artworks. Interview with Scott Snibbe

Braxton Soderman
Assistant Professor in the Communications Department and Armstrong Interactive Media Studies Program at Miami University, Ohio.
Every Game the Same Dream? Politics, Representation, and the Interpretation of Video Games

Robin Stoate
Doctoral candidate in the School of English at Newcastle University, researching technocultures and wider issues relating to cultural and critical theory in literature and film. His thesis is entitled "Reading Cyberspace: Fictions and Ecologies of (dis)Embodiment".
Internet Detectives: Performativity and Policing Authenticity on the Internet

Gerfried Stocker
Medienkünstler und Musiker, seit 1995 Geschäftsführer des AEC-Ars Electronica Center und künstlerischer Leiter des Ars Electronica Festivals. Gründer von x-space
media artist and musician, since 1995 managing director of the Ars Electronica Center and artistic director of the Ars Electronica Festival. Founder of x-space
Interview

Reinhard Storz
Kunstwissenschaftler und Netzkurator, Editor von www.xcult.org. Dozent für Kunst- und Medientheorie an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel.
Art historian and Editor of www.xcult.org - Net Forum for Culture.Teaches Art and Media History at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung und Kunst Basel.
Texte, Scripts und Codes. Ein Exkurs zur Grenzfigur des Programmierer-Künstlers

Janez Strehovec (Dr.phil)
Dozent für Neue Medien, Ljubljana
new media studies, Ljubljana
Loss Pequeño Glazier's "Digital Poetics. The Making of E-Poetries"

Beat Suter (Dr. phil.)
Universität Zürich, Dissertation "Hyperfiction und interaktive Narration" (1999), Mhg. von "Hyperfiction. Hyperliterarisches Lesebuch" (1999), Herausgeber der edition cyberfiction und des update verlag, Advisory Board dichtung-digital
University of Zurich, doctoral thesis on hyperfiction and interactive narration (1999), coeditor of "Hyperfiction. Hyperliterarisches Lesebuch", publisher (update Verlag)
Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Hyperfiction / Hyperfiction Narrationspfade / Ein neues Literaturmilieu / Interview / Sabrina Ortmanns "Netz Literatur Projekt" / Dougles' "The End of Books - or Books without End" / "Unreality": Raum als Subtraktion von Welt. Spiele zwischen Realität und Möglichkeit / Der Hyperlink in der Lektüre. Pause, Leerstelle oder Flucht?

Georg Christoph Tholen (Prof. Dr.)
Universität Basel, Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Medientheorie und Ästhetik, Raum und Zeit, Metapsychologie und Dekonstruktion, Editorial Board dichtung-digital
University of Basel, research on media theory and aesthetics, space and time, metapsychology and deconstruction, editorial board dichtung-digital
Metaphorologie der Medien / Interview / Formen interaktiver Medienkunst

Bronwen Thomas (Ph.D)
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Literature, the Media School, University of Bournemouth.
Canons and Fanons: Literary Fanfiction Online

Kai Thomsen
Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Informatik an der Universität Siegen. Arbeit zu narrativen Elementen interaktiver Medien. Edutainment-Designer.
Studies in English and American literature, and Computer Sciences at the University of Siegen. Thesis on "Narrative Elements of Interactive Media". Designs educational software.
Spielwelten. Das Verhältnis von Raum und Zeit in Computerspielen

Patricia Tomaszek
Ph.D.-stipendiat in the department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Research areas include electronic literature, narrative databases, and information visualization.
http://dichtung-digital.mewi.unibas.ch/editorial/2010.htm

Susana Pajares Tosca (dr.phil)
Dept. of Digital Aesthetics & Communication at IT University of Copenhagen, Dissertation on Hypertext, editor of the Spanish hypertext-journal Hypertulia, Advisory Board dichtung-digital
Interview / Michael Joyce: "Twilight, a Symphony" / Blade Runner as Paradigm of the Electronic Adventure Game / Selbstreferentialität in Computer-Spielen / Hypertext 00 Reading Room

Ragnhild Tronstad
works as assistant professor at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
Defining a Tubmud Ludology

John M. Vincler
Rare Book Research Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; contributing editor to the Electronic Literature Directory
The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print: Material Strategies for Innovative Fiction in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in Flatland

Bo Kampmann Walther (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor, Centre for Interactive Media, University of Southern Denmark
Questioning Digital Aesthetics

Klaus Walter (Dr. phil)
Tätigkeit in der Verlagsbranche, Referent beim Deutschen Multimedia Verband, seit 2002 strategische Marktforschung bei T-Systems Nova
Various jobs in the publishing industry (books, new media) and within printing industry; four years expert at the German Multimedia and Internet Association e.g. on the internet/multimedia production; since 2002 expert at T-Systems on the field of strategical market research
Spiel- und Erzählstrukturen in graphischen Adventure Games / Cinematography and Ludology:
In Search of a Lucidography

Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Traveling Scholar at Brown University, editor of The New Media Reader (with Nick Montfort; MIT Press 2003) and First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (with Pat Harrigan; MIT Press 2004), author of Gray Matters (together with Chris Spain, Kirstin Allio, and Michael Crumpton), The Impermanence Agent (together with Adam Chapman, Brion Moss, and Duane Whitehurst), Talking Cure and Screen
Digital Literature / Playable Media and Textual Instruments

Mirjam Weder (lic. phil)
Germanistik & Anglistik, Universität Zürich. Interessenschwerpunkte: Medien- & Kommunikationstheorien, v.a. computer-mediated communication, virtuelle Gemeinschaften und transmediale Interferenzen.
German & English Literatur and Linguistics, University of Zurich. Focus of interest: media & communication theories, esp. computer-mediated communication, virtual communities and transmedia interferences.
Objekt-orientiertes Spielen

Karin Wenz (Dr. phil.)
Universität Kassel, arbeitet zur Semiotik und zu Rezeptionsaspekten von Hypertext sowie zu Computerspielen
University of Kassel, research on semiotics and navigation of hypertext and on computer games
Amerika's "Grammatron" / Cybertextspace / Narrativität in Computerspielen / Zeit und Raum in interaktiven Kinder- und Jugendmedien (Workshopbericht) / Tranzmedialisation: An Interart Transfer / Wiggles - ein Strategie-Adventure-Spiel / Der Avatar als Schnittstelle / Klaus Walters "Grenzen spielerischen Erzählens. Spiel-und Erzählstrukturen in graphischen Adventure Games"

Zelko Wiener
Künstler und Theoretiker im Bereich Neue Medien, lehrt an der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, mit Ursula Hentschläger Mitglied des Zeitgenossen-Duo
media artist, lectures at Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien on Internet and digital images together with Ursula Hentschläger member of Zeitgenossen
Interview

Bernd Wingert
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS), Forschungsprojekte zu elektronischem Publizieren und zur Rezeption von Hyperfiction, Advisory Board dichtung-digital
research center Karlsruhe GmbH, research on electronic publishing and reading of hyperfiction
Carolyn Gyers "Quibbling" / Hypertext 99 Conference / Hypertext 00 Conference

Uwe Wirth (Dr. phil.)
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Advisory Board dichtung-digital
Assistant-Professor at the Departement of German Literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Scroll-Back InterSzene-Symposium / Chatten und Clicken / Link und Performanz

Henning Ziegler
arbeitet an seiner Abschlussarbeit "Cultures of Electronic Resistance" im Fach Nordamerikastudien am John F. Kennedy-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin.
Graduate student of North American cultural studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin, Germany. Henning is currently working on his graduate thesis entitled "Cultures of Electronic Resistance."
When Hypertext became uncool. Notes on Power, Politics, and the Interface

John Zuern (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His interests include the history and theory of digital literature.
Matter of Time: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web Animation / Figures in the Interface. Comparative Methods in the Study of Digital Literature