March 14, 2006 @ 3:00pm in Room 301

The Computer Science Department in conjunction with Holman Learning
Center presents: “Evolution of Hypermedia and Interactive Narrative”.
Dr. Jeff Parker of EMU's English Language & Literature Department will
give this interesting talk on Tuesday March 14th at 3 pm in room 301
Pray-Harrold.

Pizza will be provided for the event courtesy of the Computer Science
Department.

DESCRIPTION: In this talk he will discuss and show examples of
Hypermedia and Interactive Narrative, from the first generation of
web-based hypertexts circa 1994 to contemporary CAVE-based stories and
poems.

BIO: Jeff Parker, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at EMU,
teaches courses in the development of Hypermedia Narrative and Fiction.
He has worked on many projects with multimedia artists and designers.
His theoretical and artistic work in hypermedia, for which he received a
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001, has been
published in The Iowa Review Web, Beehive, the Electronic Book Review,
and many other publications.