Richard Holeton

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Richard Holeton
Born (1952-12-28) December 28, 1952 (age 71)
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Website richardholeton.org

Richard Holeton (born December 28, 1952) is an American writer and higher-education administrator. Holeton's creative works are foundational in the hypertext and electronic literature genres. As a writer, his most notable work is the hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, which has been recognized as an important early work of electronic literature [1] and is included in the hypertext canon. [2]

Contents

A 20th Anniversary Edition of Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, in archival and contemporary versions, was released in 2021 by Washington State University Vancouver’s Electronic Literature Lab. [3] Holeton's work is collected in The NEXT Museum, a digital preservation space.

Holeton's short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies including ZYZZYVA , F(r)iction, Grain , OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, the Indiana Review , and the Mississippi Review .

Holeton also authored the textbooks Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age and Encountering Cultures: Reading and Writing in a Changing World.

Biography

Early life and education

Richard Holeton was born in Orange, New Jersey and was raised in Bellevue, Washington. [4] He earned a BA from Stanford and MA and MFA degrees from San Francisco State University. Currently, he lives near Half Moon Bay, California. [5]

Career

After receiving his MA in 1986, Holeton began working as a writing lecturer at San Francisco State University, Cañada College, and Stanford University. [6] He transitioned into working with technology and student computing. He worked to teach language and literature faculty methods of integrating computers into their classroom pedagogy [7] and became an administrator with Stanford University Libraries and residential computing. During this time he was a Director of the New Media Consortium and also worked with EDUCAUSE [8] to co-develop the Learning Space Rating System. [9] Following his retirement from teaching and holding administrative positions at Stanford, Holeton is Assistant Vice Provost for Learning Environments, Emeritus. [5]

In 2014, Holeton was awarded a fellowship from MacDowell, which he spent working in the Schelling studio. [10] He has also received fellowships from the Brown Foundation, California Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts; as well as the Transatlantic Review Award from the Henfield Foundation. [8] [11]

Selected works

Books

Short fiction and multimedia work

Poetry

Nonfiction and scholarship

Selected criticism of Holeton's work

See also

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<i>Figurski at Findhorn on Acid</i>

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References

  1. ↑ Grigar, Dene (2019-12-20). Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media. Nouspace Publications. p. 01.
  2. ↑ Ensslin, Astrid (2007-07-09). Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions. London: Continuum. p. 66. ISBN   9781472542281. OCLC   1073783752.
  3. 1 2 Holeton, Richard (2021). Figurski at Findhorn on Acid. Vancouver, WA: Electronic Literature Lab.
  4. ↑ "Richard Holeton". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  5. 1 2 Rasmussen, Eric Dean. "Richard Holeton". Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. ELMCIP. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  6. ↑ "Profile - Richard Holeton - The Authors Guild". go.authorsguild.org. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  7. ↑ Basu, Janet (30 March 1988). "Emerging from the Electronic Cave". Stanford Today. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  8. 1 2 EDUCUASE. "Entry for Richard Holeton at EDUCAUSE.org". EDUCAUSE Directory. Educause.org. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  9. ↑ Learning Space Rating System, educause.edu
  10. ↑ MacDowell Colony. "Richard Holeton, Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  11. ↑ "Richard Holeton". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  12. ↑ Holeton, Richard (2001). Figurski at Findhorn on Acid. Boston: Eastgate Systems, Inc. ISBN   1884511406. OCLC   635341029.
  13. ↑ Holeton, Richard (1998). Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. McGraw Hill. ISBN   0070295484. OCLC   37721266.
  14. ↑ Holeton, Richard (1992). Encountering Cultures: Reading and Writing in a Changing World. Prentice Hall. ISBN   9780131763791. OCLC   1027892632.
  15. ↑ Holeton, Richard (1995). Encountering Cultures: Reading and Writing in a Changing World. Prentice Hall. ISBN   0132998270. OCLC   1027892632.
  16. ↑ Holeton, Richard (Summer 2020). "WAIF OD". F(r)iction. 16.
  17. ↑ Holeton, Richard (April 2018). "March Madness, 1974". OPEN: A Journal of Arts and Letters.
  18. ↑ Holeton, Richard (2018). [hpy-of-steven-markow-issue-9ttps://www.cogzine.com/co "March Madness, 1974"]. COG. 11.
  19. ↑ Holeton, Richard (2010). "Custom Orthotics Changed My Life". Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 14 (2).
  20. ↑ Custom Orthotics by Richard Holeton (Kairos 14.2: Disputatio text) , retrieved 2021-05-04
  21. ↑ Holeton, Richard (June 2007). "Product Placement". Mississippi Review. 35.1 and 35.2.
  22. ↑ Holeton, Richard (Winter 2006). "Thanks for Covering Your Lane". Indiana Review. 28 (2).
  23. ↑ Holeton, Richard (2006). "Frequently Asked Questions about Hypertext". Electronic Literature Collection. 1.
  24. ↑ Holeton, Richard (Winter 2004). "Understanding Hypertext". Zyzzyva. 72.
  25. ↑ Holeton, Richard (1995). "Streleski at Findhorn on Acid". Grain. 23 (3).
  26. ↑ Holeton, Richard (Spring 2019). "Afterword(s): Take a Book/Leave a Book". Forklift, Ohio. 37.
  27. ↑ Holeton, Richard (January 2020). "Afterword(s): Take a Book/Leave a Book". Notre Dame Review. 48.
  28. ↑ Holeton, Richard (May 2018). "Sonnetizing the Singularity". Unlost: Journal of Found Poetry & Art. 13.
  29. ↑ Holeton, Richard (2021). "Someone, Somewhere, with Something: The Origins of Figurski". Figurski at Findhorn on Acid. Washington State University: Electronic Literature Lab.
  30. ↑ Brandt, Barbara; Brown, Malcolm; Dugdale, Shirley; Finkelstein, Adam; Holeton, Richard; Johnston, Julie; Ramsay, Crystal; Smith, Robert (2021). "Learning Space Rating System". EDUCAUSE.
  31. ↑ Holeton, Richard (28 February 2020). "Toward Inclusive Learning Spaces: Physiological, Cognitive, and Cultural Inclusion and the Learning Space Rating System". EDUCAUSE Review.
  32. ↑ Holeton, Richard (10 July 2019). "A Little Transmediation Can Be a Dangerous Thing, or What Happened When I Made a Multimedia Poem from an Artist's Book". ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival, Programme and Book of Abstracts: 80–81.
  33. ↑ Holeton, Richard (2010). "How Much is Too Much New Media for the Net Generation?". In Ball, Cheryl; Kalmbach, James (eds.). RAW: (Reading and Writing) New Media. New York: Hampton Press.
  34. ↑ Holeton, Richard; Long, Phil (20 March 2009). "Signposts of the Revolution? What We Talk about When We Talk about Learning Spaces". EDUCAUSE Review. 44 (2).
  35. ↑ Holeton, Richard (March 2009). "The Net Generation on Campus and Online". Talking Stick: The Magazine of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. 26 (4): 38–56.
  36. ↑ Holeton, Richard (2008). "New Students, Emerging Technologies, Virtual Communities, and the College Residential Experience". In Zeller, W.J. (ed.). Residence Life and the New Student Experience (PDF). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. pp. 31–51. ISBN   978-1-889-27165-1.
  37. ↑ Holeton, Richard (15 May 2005). "Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency". Resource Center or Cyberculture Studies.
  38. ↑ Holeton, Richard (18 June 1999). "Constructive "Noise in the Channel": Effects of Controversial Forwarded E-mail in a College Residential and Virtual Community". Ed Media.
  39. ↑ Holeton, Richard (30 September 1997). "The Semi-Virtual Composition Classroom: A Model for Techno-Amphibians". The Technology Source (Horizon Project).
  40. ↑ Holeton, Richard (14 January 1987). "Amadeus". Palo Alto Weekly.
  41. ↑ Holeton, Richard (12 November 1986). "Family Life in the 80s from a Gay Perspective". Palo Alto Weekly.
  42. ↑ Holeton, Richard (21 May 1986). "Stanford Waits for Godot: Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 80". Palo Alto Weekly.
  43. ↑ Holeton, Richard (6 November 1985). "An Unauthorized Peek Behind the Iron Curtain". Palo Alto Weekly.
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