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This book is reviewed by Adrian Shaughnessy in eye Vol.13 no.50, 2003. Its aim was to show that graphic design and fine art blend as one. In the review, Shaugnessy points out that in the 21st century, the disciplines are growing apart due to commercial art galleries that need to distinguish the two to maintain business. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The Sackner Archive lent Houedard typewriter poems for reproduction in this book.AMAZON.COM: "Lori Emerson examines how interfaces"”from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes"”mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative space. Reading Writing Interfaces begins with digital literature's defiance of the alleged invisibility of ubiquitous computing and multitouch in the early twenty-first century and then looks back at the ideology of the user-friendly graphical user...