Jay David Bolter
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Jay David Bolter is a professor of Language, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Some of his main points of study include the evolution of media, the usage of technology in education, and the role of computers in the writing process.
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[edit] Biography
Jay David Bolter was born in 1951. Bolter received his B.A. in Greek from Trinity College, The University of Toronto, in 1973. In 1977 and 1978 he received his Ph.D in Classics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of North Carolina.
Bolter received a number of prominent fellowships throughout his studies. They included a fellowship at Yale, Cornell, Universitat Gottingen, and a fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies.
From 1979 until 1991, Jay David Bolter held a number of different professor positions at the University of North Carolina. In 1991 he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he remains to the present day.
Bolter is a co-designer and programmer for Storyspace, hypertext writing software. He created the software with John B. Smith and Michael Joyce. Bolter refers to writing spaces as nodes. He has also offered a view of the world wide web as an arena for the interdependence and convergence of new technologies. His interview with frontwheeldrive.com in 2001 offers insight into his ideas of how technology has influenced the writing process.
Source: http://www.eastgate.com/people/Bolter.html
For more information visit Bolter's Homepage
[edit] StorySpace
StorySpace is a software, created by Bolter, John B. Smith and Michael Joyce for creating, editing, and displaying hypertext fiction. It was developed to support hypertext fiction in particular, although it can also be used for organizing and writing fiction and non-fiction intended for print.
Some of the notable hypertext fictions created in Storyspace include: Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story, Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl.
Bolter has used Storyspace to revise several of his own books. More importantly, Storyspace provides facilities for writing and editing, which includes a map of the structure of the links, making it accessible for new users. Storyspace is being developed by Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems.
[edit] Opinion on Bolter's Work
[edit] Windows and Mirrors
Richard Holeton reviewed the "Windows and Mirrors" text and summarized what the reader would take away from the piece. Holeton states that "the authors contend that interaction design has focused too much on transparency, while digital art is opening our eyes to reflectivity, and the book takes the form of a series of lessons that designers should learn from digital artists".
[edit] Remediation
The piece that Bolter and Grusin wrote together received a great deal of acclaim for its insight into remediation. Many are impressed by the argument put forth by both men, which on Amazon.com is summarized, "They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television".
[edit] Writing Space
There has been a great deal of praise given to Bolter's work, especially his work entitled, "Writing Space". Donna LeCourt in her review of "Writing Space" said that, "This book provides a well-documented, insightful history of how technology of writing has the inevitable effect of organizing the reader's and author's relationship to text and the acts they can perform on and with it". George Landow, in his review of "Writing Space" summarized the piece by saying Writing Space "is quite simply the finest book about hypertext available".
[edit] Select works
- Bolter, Jay David and Gromala, Diane. Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency. Cambridge:MIT Press, 2003.
- Bolter, Jay David, Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, Second Edition. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
- MacIntyre, Blair, Bolter, Jay David, Moreno, Emmanuel, and Hannigan, Brendan. "Augmented Reality as a New Media Experience," In International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR 2001), New York, NY, October 29-30, 2001.
- Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
- Bolter, Jay David, "Virtual Reality and the Redefinition of Self" in Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment, edited by Stephanie Gibson et al. (Hampton Press, 1996).
