Shelley Jackson

Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including important contributions to electronic literature and hypertext. Image File history File linksMetadata Shelleyjackson. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Shelleyjackson. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The term electronic literature refers to works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer. ... In computing, hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which, according to an early definition (Nelson 1970), branch or perform on request. ...

Born in the Philippines, Jackson grew up in Berkeley, California and graduated from Berkeley High School [1]. She received an AB in art from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. She is widely recognized for Patchwork Girl (hypertext), published by Eastgate Systems in 1995, a reworking of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and other hypertexts, including "My Body" and "The Doll Games,"[2] co-authored with her sister, Pamela Jackson. Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi  410,000 km² 250 miles  400 km 770 miles  1,240 km 4. ... Berkeley High School, a member of the Berkeley Unified School District, is the only public high school in Berkeley, California. ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco in an [1] of Santa Clara County. ... Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Patchwork Girl is an early form of hypertext fiction which is not linked to the internet. ... Book covers for Frankenstein have taken many forms over the years which emphasize different themes of the novel such as gothic horror, science fiction and romanticism. ...

Skin Project "Word"

In 2003 she launched the Skin Project, described as a "mortal work of art": a short fiction published exclusively in the form of tattoos on the skin of volunteers, one word at a time. Image File history File links Fur. ... Image File history File links Fur. ...

She is the author of the novel Half Life, forthcoming from Harper Collins and the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy published by Anchor in 2002, and has written and illustrated several children's books. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Grand Street, the Village Voice, Conjunctions, Fence, and the Mississippi Review. Shelley Jackson teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School University and is a writer-in-residence at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. The Paris Review is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ... Grand Street was an American magazine which appeared from 1981 to 2004. ... A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary. ... The European Graduate School (EGS) in Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies (EGIS). ... Saas-Fee is a Swiss village and tourism centre in the Saas-Valley in the Wallis mountains. ...

See also

• Jay David Bolter
• Robert Coover
• J.Yellowlees Douglas
• Electronic Literature Organization
• N. Katherine Hayles
• Michael Joyce
• George Landow
• Lev Manovich
• Stuart Moulthrop

Jay David Bolter is a professor of Language, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Institutes Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center. ... Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. ... J. Yellowlees Douglas is Director of the Center for Written and Oral Communication at the University of Florida as well as serving as serving as an Assistant Professor of English. ... The Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO) is a nonprofit organisation initiated in 1999 to promote the creation and enjoyment of electronic literature. ... N. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999 [1]. // Background Hayles received her B... Michael Joyce (b. ... George Landow is Professor of English and Art History at Brown University. ... Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. ... Stuart Moulthrop is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer. ...

External links

• Shelley Jackson's web page
• Shelley Jackson's faculty website at European Graduate School
• Written On (and Under) the Skin. An interview with Shelley Jackson by Rosita Nunes.
• MortalWorkOfArt Blog A LiveJournal community dedicated to participants in Shelley's Skin Project.