water always writes in *plural

"'Water always writes in *plural' is a collaborative hypertext created by Linda Carroli and Josephine Wilson. They worked for eight weeks on the project alongside ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) and the Electronic Writing Research Ensemble. The goal was to produce a cross-disciplinary work that addressed electronic language and writing as invention. In this way, the writers could explore the specific medium of the internet community by engaging in the design and identity of that medium.

Throughout this project, the writers strived to maintain their own distinctive voices and styles. As with the internet, Linda Carroli stated that “collaboration doesn't necessarily have to result in homogenisation, but rather that there is space for different voices, for partiality.” (ANAT) By maintaining their unique writing styles, it was possible to analyze a topic from a variety of angles. Specifically, this topic explored women's thoughts about romantic and/or sexual relationships.As aforementioned, the work is a hypertext collection of narratives that form a cohesive whole. When entering the piece, the user is presented with four different paths from the get-go. Together, these links read as “a woman stands on a street corner waiting for a stranger.” As the user continues to explore, they find that each page treats differently content, presentation, and functionality. While some pages only contain text, some might also include an image, or present multiple hyperlinks to the user, or arrange the content in some unique way, and so on. Despite the lack of uniformity within the work, the theme is strong enough to create a sense of cohesion to the user. After fully exploring the piece, the reader will have been shown many different viewpoints regarding a single topic and gain a better understanding of it. Again, this process mirrors the nature of the internet: a user types in a search query and are presented with many pages to choose from with varying answers."--From Kathleen Zoller, The Progressive Dinner Party Restored