Author Details
Bill Marsh
Factory School and U. C. San Diego
Email: b-theater@factoryschool.org
Web site: http://www.factoryschool.org/btheater
Bill Marsh is co-director of Factory School, a Web-based multiple media art and education forum, and is currently in the graduate Communication program at U.C. San Diego.
Marsh's two nodes for this issue explore how criticism of hypertext and new media might differ from criticism of print literature. In New Criticism Necessary? he considers the question of 'newness' with regard to both current practice in new media and its related criticism and theory. In Points for Hypermedia Critics he proposes three 'axes' of analysis along which a formal study of new media might proceed, suggesting that hypertext/media is at once formative, performative and reformative in design and function.