collective hypertext

In Jilly Dreadful's hypertext work The Spectral Dollhouse, the death scenes are staged; the blood is (presumably) fake; and the owner of the house is, or was, a doll; and yet it looked like we'd seen ghosts after ouiji-ing our way through this work, which in the author's words, investigates "the literary oppression that women face in regards to the procreation of their stories and bodies" as well as the question of whether (and/or how) photography is representational of reality. In a way, though, we had seen ghosts, as Dreadful admits, "fiction haunts nonfiction," resulting in a piece that balances sure-footedly on the line where truth and artifice abut one another, with Dreadful taking handfuls of each to make one replete with the other.

Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/13Fall/editor.html

The Dispersed Digital Poetry Project is a year-long endeavour to create a series of short one poem/screen/page interactive digital poems, with each of those digital poems hosted on a different website or portal. And then the entire series of interactive works inter-linked together, forming a larger collection, existing across the net. 

For example: I will create a mouse-follower digital poem to be hosted by gallery’s website in Vancouver. And that work will link to 3D textual work hosted by a literary journal in Singapore. Add 24 others! In essence, the works will have dozens of different entry points and doorways, with the whole of the work forming a grid across the websites of places, institutions, people, publications and organizations around the world. 

What is the overarching theme of this collection of works from the Dispersed Digital Poetry Project? 

The goal is for each of the works to use a different type/method of interface and/or interactivity. And as such each work will be an invention, a small machine for reading/writing. Reflecting the technical aspects of these work’s literary inventions will be a poetic thematic exploring the notion of failed creations, experiments and inventions that reach for wondrous heights and yet fail under the weight of their own divergence from the world. 

Memoires of Akademik-Deputy (Воспоминания Академика-Депутата) is a collective hypertext, nominated for Teneta 1996 in "Litarary Hypertexts"

A poetry-generating machine that was developed for Roskilde Library. Up to three readers can interact with the machine using leather-bound books turned into controllers that affect the nature of the lines of poetry added to the poem.