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James
Karin
Chris
Christine

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Karin entered the course with a strong sense of visual art and design, but no previous experience with HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver, or Adobe Photoshop. In many respects, her final project represents just how far a novice can go in one semester. From the start of the term, her design ideas were both experimental and visually engaging. She spent half the term developing the software skills necessary to simply begin to execute her design ideas. For Karin, this discrepancy between ideas and web development skills was both a frustration and a motivation to learn.

Karin's project on representations of women in pop art was among the most experimental academic hypertexts produced in my course (screenshot 1).

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Unlike James' hypertext, almost nothing is as expected in Karin's project. Simply entering the hypertext requires an exploratory leap, and a willingness to physically engage with the images Karin includes. In this way it is far less transparent as a hypertext than James' hypertext. Karin's hypertext design evokes her research topic in being at least as visual as it is textual.

a logic of space | argument via images | instant thesis

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