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hypertext.rmitNoah Wardrip-FruinNoah Wardrip-Fruin is an artist and writer. He is also the lead editor of The New Media Reader (with Nick Montfort, 2003) and of First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (with Pat Harrigan, forthcoming), both from MIT Press. His best-known project is The Impermanence Agent, a web agent that tells a story of impermanence, for which a scalable method of customizing web content was developed. It has been presented at the Whitney Museum's Artport, the Guggenheim Museum's Works and Process series, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art's Z Media Lounge. It is discussed in reference works such as Information Arts from MIT Press and Digital Art from Thames and Hudson (World of Art series). His past work also includes Gray Matters, a collaborative fiction embedded in images of a human body. Its presentation at the Sandra Gering Gallery in 1996 was the first public presentation of a zooming user interface. His most recent collaborative work, an interactive text experience for VR Cave titled Screen, was presented as part of this year's Boston Cyberarts Festival. Noah was a visiting fellow in the School of Applied Communication during May and June, 2003. During this time Noah continued editing a forthcoming collection of essays, and participated in various meetings with staff to discuss research and issues in new media. |