Richard Holeton

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Richard Holeton
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Born (1952-12-28) December 28, 1952 (age 72)
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Website richardholeton.org

Richard Holeton (born December 28, 1952) is an American writer and higher-education administrator. His 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]

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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 . He also wrote 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. [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

See also

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.