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>X-EPUB-ID: 0 7 b348e7b126368bf57cf75c766cec56b1 >Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 17:29:00 -0600 >To: golam <[log in to unmask]> >From: [log in to unmask] (Grammatron - Mark Amerika) >Subject: GRAMMATRON World Tour > > >May 17, 1997 > >Press Release > >http://www.grammatron.com > > > They said the Internet would change the way we read and write >fiction... > > They said that hypertext was the genre of the future... > > They said that contemporary culture was becoming a simulation of >the real... > > And they were right... > > > >Announcing the much-anticipated Internet release of novelist and electronic >publisher Mark Amerika's web-based hypermedia project GRAMMATRON! > >>From the introduction: > >The GRAMMATRON project is a "public domain narrative environment" developed >by virtual artist Mark Amerika in conjunction with the Alt-X Online >Publishing Network [http://www.altx.com], the Brown University Graduate >Creative Writing Program and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) >Graphics and Visualization Center as well as with the support of many >individuals without whom none of this would be possible. > >The project consists of over 1000 text spaces, 1700 links, 40+ minutes of >original soundtrack delivered via Real Audio 3.0, unique hyperlink >structures by way of specially-coded Javascripts, a virtual gallery >featuring scores of animated and still life images, and more storyworld >development than any other narrative created exclusively for the Web. Future >versions will integrate state-of-the-art Virtual Reality languages for a >more immersive, collaborative experience... > >The GRAMMATRON site, which was featured in the M.I.T. Media Lab's "Portraits >In Cyberspace" juried exhibition as part of their 10-year anniversary, also >includes a companion theory-guide called Hypertextual Consciousness 1.0 and >soon there will be available a downloadable text called *Work-In-Progress: >The Making of GRAMMATRON*, an elaborate critifiction of 135 pages with 70 >footnotes, many of which are narrative digressions detailing Amerika's >involvement with the Black Ice Books series, the Alt-X Online Publishing >Network, the Brown University Graduate Creative Writing Program, and the >National Science Foundation's Graphics and Visualization Center located at >the Brown University Computer Science Graphics Laboratory. > >The GRAMMATRON World Tour has already taken Amerika to various conferences, >festivals and universities including the Brown University Freedom To Write >conference, the Softmodern(e) Festival in Berlin, The Word Bombs Conference >in London, the Duke University "Assault: Radicalism In Aesthetics and >Politics" Conference, the Northwestern >University Center for Writing Arts Lecture Series on "Electronic Publishing" >and Rutgers University. > >Starting May 19th, Amerika will be taking the Alt-X/GRAMMATRON tour to >Europe with stops at the German Association for American Studies conference >on "Technology and American Culture" in Frieburg, The University of Kassel, >the inauguration of the New Media Library in Cologne, The University of >Dortmund, The Free University in Berlin, the Cafe Le Bit in Leipzig, the >Rhine region's New Media Industry Forum in Cologne, as well as stops in >Munich, Vienna, Budapest, and Novi Sad (Serbia). > >Upcoming presentations in the summer and fall of 1997 will take place >throughout North America, Australia and Europe. > >For more information or to contact the artist, send inquiries to: > >The GRAMMATRON Project >POB 241 >Boulder, CO 80306-0241 >USA > >vox/fax: 303-499-2507 > >email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%