Early hypertext works

When I first discovered how to put a website together back in the late 90s I made a few creative hypertext and flash works. The flash works didn't survive but the HTML based works are still viewable.

A thread

Don't pull that... A short hypertext work about consequences.

A short hypertext creative about what starts when you pick a thread off a stranger's coat. This won The Country Road Hypertext writing prize in 2001.

The Casino Project

An extended and exploratory hypertext piece about the then new Melbourne Casino.

This one really pushed the envelope on what you could do with HTML at the time. Being a piece from the late 90s there are plenty of animated gifs and frames in use (one section uses 17 frame elements). It incorporates branching, random poetry concrete and roll-over interactivity. There have been some minor degredations over the years - the roll-overs in the 'Shopping' part no longer work but the peice is otherwise intact and viewable.

The Casino Project won the Swinburne University Coursework Award across all depts for 1998.

S.I.N. - Self Intra Network

Theories of self identity in the age of the Network; a hyper essay - 1997

Fair to say that the tutor wasn't expecting a 10,000 word hyper essay when I handed this one in!

I had never seen a hyper essay like this, so I made the form up as I went along - it went hand in hand with the topic, which mixes a bit of Deleuzism with some frame theory to make a point about liquidity of identity. At the time my identity was itself somewhat liquid, I was reinventing myself after being an actor, the orginal profession of the 'person without edges'.