3. Exquisite collages

Patchwork Girl (1995), Shelley Jackson
Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl was created in Storyspace, is distributed by Eastgate Systems, Inc., and ranks among the most widely read, discussed, and taught works of early hyperfiction. Patchwork Girl is rooted in an allusion to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or,

Patchwork Girl (1995), Shelley Jackson
Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl was created in Storyspace, is distributed by Eastgate Systems, Inc., and ranks among the most widely read, discussed, and taught works of early hyperfiction. Patchwork Girl is rooted in an allusion to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or,

Fitting the Pattern (2008), Christine Wilks
Cutting through memories, pinning down facts, stitching fabrications, unpicking the past – an interactive, animated memoir, created in Flash, exploring aspects of the author’s relationship with her mother, a dressmaker. Life’s mysteries are rarely uncovered by a logical, linear process

Fitting the Pattern (2008), Christine Wilks
Cutting through memories, pinning down facts, stitching fabrications, unpicking the past – an interactive, animated memoir, created in Flash, exploring aspects of the author’s relationship with her mother, a dressmaker. Life’s mysteries are rarely uncovered by a logical, linear process

Inside: a journal of dreams (2000), Andy Campbell & Judi Alston
Originally launched at the Sorbonne, Paris in 2000, this virtual diary of disturbing dreams merges text, video and interactivity to tell the story of an elderly man being slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide. Available in English and French. The first

Inside: a journal of dreams (2000), Andy Campbell & Judi Alston
Originally launched at the Sorbonne, Paris in 2000, this virtual diary of disturbing dreams merges text, video and interactivity to tell the story of an elderly man being slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide. Available in English and French. The first

Flight Paths (2007-), Kate Pullinger & Chris Joseph
Flight Paths seeks to explore what happens when lives collide – the airplane stowaway and the suburban Londoner. A supermarket car park lies directly beneath the flight path into Heathrow Airport. On at least five separate occasions the bodies of

Flight Paths (2007-), Kate Pullinger & Chris Joseph
Flight Paths seeks to explore what happens when lives collide – the airplane stowaway and the suburban Londoner. A supermarket car park lies directly beneath the flight path into Heathrow Airport. On at least five separate occasions the bodies of

In absentia (2008), J. R. Carpenter
In absentia is a site-specific web-based writing project which addresses issues of gentrification and its erasures in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal, where I lived for seventeen years. Faced with imminent eviction, I began to write as if I

In absentia (2008), J. R. Carpenter
In absentia is a site-specific web-based writing project which addresses issues of gentrification and its erasures in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal, where I lived for seventeen years. Faced with imminent eviction, I began to write as if I

AlletSator – Ópera Quântica (2007), Pedro Barbosa & Luís Carlos Petry
AlletSator is a hypermedia work that is best defined as a quantum opera, or perhaps in the final analysis a game – interactive, three-dimensional – where the present and the virtual intersect and mix. A hybrid hypermedia, therefore, in which

AlletSator – Ópera Quântica (2007), Pedro Barbosa & Luís Carlos Petry
AlletSator is a hypermedia work that is best defined as a quantum opera, or perhaps in the final analysis a game – interactive, three-dimensional – where the present and the virtual intersect and mix. A hybrid hypermedia, therefore, in which