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Bibliography

Abbreviations & Institutional Links		URL (if any)
BDR	Brown University Digital Repository	https://repository.library.brown.edu
Eastgate	Eastgate Systems, Inc.	https://eastgate.com
	entry in EKB	https://elmcip.net/node/235
EBR	The Electronic Book Review	https://electronicbookreview.com/
EKB	ELMCIP Knowledgebase	https://elmcip.net/knowledgebase
ELMCIP	Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice	https://elmcip.net
ELO	Electronic Literature Organization	https://eliterature.org
IA	The Internet Archive	https://archive.org

Primary Sources

If no other attribution is provided then the work in question should be associated with John Cayley.

Published versions

as intended by the artist(s) for publication.
URLs in an entry’s notes usually point to documentation of the work rather than to the work itself.

Amerika, Mark. Grammatron. Alt-X, 1997.

EKB: https://elmcip.net/node/581.

Arellano, Robert [under the name: Bobby Rabyd]. Sunshine ’69. Artist-issued, 1996. https://bobbyrabyd.github.io/sunshine69/.

EKB: https://elmcip.net/node/370.

Arnold, Mary-Kim. Lust. In The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1993) 1.2.

Arnold, Mary-Kim and Matt Derby. Kokura. Watertown: Eastgate Systems, 1999.

EKB: https://elmcip.net/node/8038.

Cayley, John. Book Unbound: Indra’s Net VI. London: Wellsweep, 1995a. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available through Internet Archive but is listed separately as a documentary version for reasons explained in the text.

^. Book Unbound. in Engaged, 1995b, on CD-ROM. https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/153/.

Engaged was a radically multimedia serial publication in London with issues published, for example, on a t-shirt, in the form of a poster, packed inside a soup tin, and, in this case, a CD-ROM that allowed Macintosh users to download and experience Book Unbound as intended.

^. Book Unbound. Postmodern Culture 7, no. 3, Hypertext special issue (February, 1997). https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.1997.a603711. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/603711.

^. Book Unbound. in Dietsche Warande & Beaufort [Dwb], 4, on Electronic (Visual) Literature, edited by Eric Vos and Jan Baetens, On CD-ROM, 1999.

^. Book Unbound. in The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, On CD-ROM. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

^. Collocations: Indra’s Net II. London: Wellsweep, 1993. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_collocations-indras-net-ii.

^. An Essay on the Golden Lion: Hanshan in Indra’s Net: Indra’s Net IV. London: Wellsweep, 1994. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_an-essay-on-the-golden-lion-han-shan-in-indras-net-indras-net-iv.

^. Indra’s Net 1.2. London: Wellsweep, 1991. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_indras-net-12.

^. Leaving the City: Indra’s Net V. London: Wellsweep, 1995. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_leaving-the-city-indras-net-v.

^. Moods & Conjunctions: Indra’s Net III. London: Wellsweep, 1994. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_moods--conjunctions-indras-net-iii.

^. Pressing the <Reveal Code> Key: Indra’s Net VIII. London: Wellsweep, 1996. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_pressing-the-reveal-code-key-indras-net-viii.

^. The Speaking Clock: Indra’s Net VII. London: Wellsweep, 1995. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_the-speaking-clock-indras-net-vii.

^. wine flying. London: Wellsweep, 1988. Issued for Macintosh computers on 3.5" floppy disk.

This version of the work is available, emulated, on the web at the IA, https://archive.org/details/hypercard_wine-flying.

^. wine flying. London: Wellsweep Press, 1989. Artist’s book.

This little book was not designed as such but can almost be manipulated as a ‘flip book’ to actualize certain of the animations. Chinese for the author and title of the quatrain: 錢起 。 題崔逸人山亭. Qian Qi, ‘Written in the Mountain Pavilion of Cui, the recluse.’

^. windsound. London: artist-issued, 1999-2001. Hypercard and Quicktime. Published in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1, https://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/cayley__windsound.html.

EKB: https://elmcip.net/node/790.

Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl. Watertown: Eastgate Systems, 1995.

EKB: https://elmcip.net/node/239.

Joyce, Michael. afternoon, a story. Watertown: Eastgate Systems, 1990.

EKB: https://elmcip.net/node/236

Reengineered versions

Documentary versions

Book Unbound: Indra’s Net VI. London: Wellsweep, 1995.

IA: https://archive.org/details/hypercard_book-unbound-indras-net-vi
Readable via a web-based emulator, but without any persistence of changed state, session-to-session. Thus, separately listed as a documentary version only.

Monoclonal Microphone: the movie. Digital video, designed to loop, duration 10’ 31", custom software. 2015.

BDR: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:572989/
This is a high-quality, 1080p version. An exploration of the generative poetic world of ‘Monoclonal Microphone’ that also reveals certain processes from the early days (2011) of its still open-ended manufacture/generation. An introductory section shows screen capture of the underlying program running and generating verses while searching for lines and enjambments that have specified relative frequencies using internet search. The latter part of the the video zooms in and out of a large field of generated poems.

Overboard — excerpt. Five-minute video screen capture taken from the QuickTime version. 2003.

BDR: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:785095/

Translation — excerpt. Video showing the opening of one performance of ‘Translation5’, from the full German text to a point at which passage two is in French. 2018.

BDR: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:766947/

Windsound. Digital video. 2006. (Original work, 2001.)

Highest resolution documentary version, BDR: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:766941/

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Secondary Sources

Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Barnet, Belinda. ‘Crafting the User-Centered Document Interface: The Hypertext Editing System (HES) and the File Retrieval and Editing System (FRESS)’. Digital Humanities Quarterly 4, no. 1 (2010). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000081/000081.html.

Barthes, Roland. ‘The Death of the Author.’ In Image Music Text, 142-48. Translated by Stephen Heath. London: Fontana Press, 1977.

^. The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980. Translated by Linda Coverdale. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. Editions du Seuil, 1981.

^. S/Z. Translated by Richard Miller. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1973.

^. ‘On S/Z and Empire of Signs.’ Translated by Linda Coverdale. In The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980, 68-87. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.

Block, Friedrich W., Christiane Heibach, and Karin Wenz, eds. p0es1s: Ästhetik Digitaler Poesie = the Aesthetics of Digital Poetry. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004.

Block, Friedrich W. POESIS: Sprachkunst | Language Art. Kassel: Kunsttempel, 2019.

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1991.

Cayley, John. ‘Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext.’ Visible Language 30, no. 2 (1996): 164-83.

^. ‘Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext.’ in Media Poetry: An International Anthology, edited by Eduardo Kac, 105-25. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007.

^. ‘The Code Is Not the Text (Unless It Is the Text).’ Electronic Book Review (September 10, 2002). https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-code-is-not-the-text-unless-it-is-the-text/.

^. ‘deferred lest meaning hoard solidity.’ In POESIS: Sprachkunst | Language Art, edited by Friedrich W. Block, n.p. (two-page catalog opening). Kassel: Kunsttempel, 2019.

^. Grammalepsy: Essays on Digital Language Art. Electronic Literature. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. doi: 10.5040/9781501335792.

→ Open Access version in Bloomsbury Collections.

^. ‘Hypertext/Cybertext/Poetext.’ in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, edited by Romana Huk, 310-26. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.

^. ‘Of Programmatology: Interview with John Cayley.’ Interview by John Welch. Fourth Door Review, no. 5. (2001). 13-17.

^. ‘Paraphones.’ In Bandwidths: Reading across Media with Garrett Stewart, edited by David LaRocca. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

^. ‘Screen Writing: A Practice-Based, EuroRelative Introduction to Electronic Literature and Poetics.’ Third Text: Writing Europe Special Issue 21, no. 5 (88) (September 2007): 603-609.

Coover, Robert. ‘The End of Books.’ The New York Times (New York), June 21, 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/coover-end.html.

^. ‘The First Half-Century of Electronic Literature at Brown.’ A Half-Century of Hypertext at Brown: A Symposium, Brown University, May 23 2019. Preserved in the EKB: https://elmcip.net/node/14399.

Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenowitz. Religion and Postmodernism. Edited by Mark C. Taylor. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Eskelinen, Markku. Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory. International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics. New York: Continuum, 2012.

Howe, Daniel C. ‘Exploring N-Grams.’ Website, 2024. https://observablehq.com/@dhowe/ngram-generation-deep-dive.

Knuth, Donald Ervin. Literate Programming. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992.

Landow, George P. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

^. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

^. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Parallax. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Moulthrop, Stuart. ‘Editor’s Introduction. Decorating the Corpse: Hypertext after the Web.’ Postmodern Culture 7, no. 3, Hypertext special issue (February, 1997). https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.1997.0021. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/27620.

Rettberg, Scott. Electronic Literature. Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2019.

Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Revised ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. 1976.

Zhuangzi, and Burton Watson. Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings. Translated by Burton Watson. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Chinese Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

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Online Resources

These citations point to miscellaneous online resources – for example relating to Hypercard and Hypertalk – which I have used to write and especially to compose the live code notebooks relating to earlier work in programmable media in particular.

The HyperCard Center. https://www.hypercard.center/

HyperCardPreview. The GitHub repository for Pierre Lorenzi’s modern macOS app that renders HyperCard stacks. https://github.com/PierreLorenzi/HyperCardPreview

HyperCard Script Language Guide: The HyperTalk Language. Cupertino: Apple Computer, Inc., 1996. Available, as of May 2024 at https://cancel.fm/stuff/share/HyperCard_Script_Language_Guide_1.pdf

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