The objective of this presentation is to illustrate how design techniques and content distribution are enhanced by using computers and networks particularly through the online structuring of information. Christopher Funkhouser will highlight the process of incorporating language and visual aspects of computerized text—of combining graphics, sound, animation, text, and video into compelling content. This process depends on understanding and applying the human principles of patience and logic to the design aspects of language, image, linking, and layering.

Digital technology is changing the whole nature of document publication in our society. This means that writers and editors from all disciplines need to be prepared to produce and publish work in new ways via the computer. Funkhouser will outline, and then describe in technical detail, a successful methodology established in publishing Newark Review, a web-based literary periodical widely acclaimed as one of the best of today’s electronic journals.

About Christopher Funkhouser

Christopher Funkhouser is widely considered to be one of the most significant of younger cyber- scholars and poets. His critical commentary has appeared in SIGWEB, Text Technology, Electronic Book Review, International Anthology of Digital Poetry (CD-ROM), Of(f) the W.W.W. (CD-ROM, European Media Arts Festival 1996), Callaloo, Hambone, Talisman, Exquisite Corpse, North American Ideophonics Annual, and other publications. Funkhouser’s artistic work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, journals, and magazines. As well, he edited, The Little Magazine Volume 21 (CD-ROM, 1995), Poetry Webs 1996 (includes A Proto- Anthology of Hypermedia Poetry), Descriptions of an Imaginary Universe, and Passages (WWW). He also has served as Poetry Editor of Terra Nova and Assistant Editor of EJournal, and The Little Magazine (WWW). Presently, he is Editor of Newark Review, and We Press. Funkhouser holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany where he wrote, as his dissertation, Cybertext Poetry:  Effects of Digital Media on the Creation of Poetic Literature. He is a Special Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NJIT.