"One personal interest of mine is the idea of the duration of web projects.
Like no other medium it invites projects of all duration. I remember reading
a poetry book by Gary Snyder called Mountains and Rivers Without
End. This poem is a continual work in progress. In an interview
the author compares it to one of those Chinese landscape scrolls that
unroll and go on and on depicting all life. Of course by the time I'd
finished reading the book it was already out of date. No doubt the author
had written a new part of the poem that had yet to be published
The web invites this kind of epic quality. The idea that a web project
is never finished is not strange. If anything it is the norm. Not only
can projects online always be expanded they are also always open to revision.
A quality you don't often find in the print world." -- excerpt from What Makes Online Writing Unique?, frAme, Issue 3, 2000
"Simon
Mills is Senior Lecturer in New Media at De Montfort University. He is
programme leader for the Media and Communication BA (Hons) and teaches
new media theory and digital media practice. His main research area is
in the philosophy of technology with a focus on new media technology,
socio-cybernetics and the work of Gilbert Simondon.
Prior to joining DMU he worked for several professional web development agencies as well as the trAce Online Writing Centre, where he edited frAme: Journal of Culture & Technology from 1999-2004." -- from ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base
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