Friends at aoir, For those of you on the literary or art end of things in re: the internet and the digital, the following might interest you. The distinguished board includes N. Katherine Hayles, Jay Bolter and Steve Jones, among others. -Thom --------------------- The Iowa Review Web: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/ <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/>   ----------------- THE IOWA REVIEW WEB IS BACK! Publishing electronic literature since 1999, The Iowa Review Web is well-known for its commitment to new writing. Starting in 2002, TIR Web is expanding. It will now include --along with electronic literature--other varieties of experimental writing and art. It will also feature interviews with innovative writers and New Media artists, as well as critical articles and essays. Each issue of TIR Web includes work from both The Iowa Review and 91° Meridian, soon to be published by the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. MASTHEAD: Thomas Swiss, Editor Ingrid Ankerson, Assistant Editor/Web Designer ADVISORY BOARD Jay David Bolter Robert Coover Johanna Drucker Caitlin Fisher Lisa Gitelman N. Katherine Hayles Shelley Jackson Steve Jones Brooks Landon Dee Morris Stuart Moulthrop Carrie Noland Marjorie Perloff Rita Raley CONTRIBUTING EDITORS David Hamilton Christopher Merrill ------------------------- The Iowa Review Web is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Iowa. ************************************   ISSUE #1 New work by: + YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Based in Seoul, South Korea, the award-winning New Media work of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES combines text with jazz. Writing in three different languages, Young-hae Chang and Marc Voge strip away interactivity, graphics, design, photos, illustrations, banners and colors to leave viewers with language and sound. ORIENT http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/younghae/young_hae_chang_heavy... <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/younghae/young_hae_chang_heavy_industries.html>   *************************************     + GISELLE BEIGUELMAN Giselle Beiguelman is a well-known multimedia writer and web-artist who lives in São Paulo, Brazil. Her new work  for TIR Web is one answer to the question: what might art and language look like when it is made to be experienced "in between" --that is, while doing other things? See the piece; read the interview. Poetrica http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/giselle/giselle.html <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/giselle/giselle.html> *************************************     + ANA MARIA URIBE Ana Maria Uribe has been working on visual poetry in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since the late 1960s. Her first works were Typoems or typographic poetry -- many years later, these poems served as the basis for the series of Web animations presented exclusively on TIR Web. Poems from "The Circus" and "A Busy Day" http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/uribe/uribe.html <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/uribe/uribe.html>   *************************************   + POEMS BY JOSH BELL AND MICHAEL YATES CROWLEY FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE IOWA REVIEW http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/bellcrowley/bellcrowley.html <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/bellcrowley/bellcrowley.html> *************************************       + A TALK ABOUT THE ART OF TRANSLATION BY ELIOT WEINBERGER FROM 91° MERIDIAN, A NEW JOURNAL FROM THE INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/weinberger/weinberger.html <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/weinberger/weinberger.html> ************************************* TIR Web adds new work every two months. Coming up: Interviews with Shelley Jackson, Katherine Hayles,  Jay David Bolter, William Poundstone, and others. New work by Talan Memmott,  Meikal And, Brian Kim Stefans, and others. --------------------- The Iowa Review Web: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/ <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/> -----------------