Artifacts is an archival selection of older projects and photographs.

Narrative

As an undergrad in college, I created two extensive hypertext stories, both collaborative projects aimed at constructing a nonlinear 'space' where a story exists, with multiple paths and depths, where the reader would be able to explore an environment rather than taking a single path through the narrative space.

In Fractured Fairy Tale, I set out to create a totally collaborative story - I wrote the first fragment of it, which hinted at elements the whole story might contain, and sent that fragment to a number of people (some I knew, some I found over the internet). People then sent me their own fragments of varying length. From all of these, I created a story space that you navigate with six directions (rather than the usual two, 'forward' and 'back', of a linear narrative). Each piece of the story links to six others, using icons. You can follow a particular set of related icons (for example, keep following the green icon, or the one that's a an Inuktitut character, or the one that's a comic book symbol) to read fragments by the same author, or you can choose a different symbol to go to a section that's thematically or lyrically related. In this way, navigating through the story is similar to navigating through a physical space, where roads branch off from the one you're on, and eventually you might hit a familiar road again.

A Search of Three Questions is another collaborative story (this one created with one other person). In it, we wrote a simple, linear story that can be read normally; however, every word or phrase in the story is a hypertext link. The links have differing depths - some bring you to whole other stories, some to images or sounds, and some to simple definitions of a word. This way, the story is easy to read, but there is a kind of space behind the words.

Each project will open in its own window.

• Open Fractured Fairy Tale (1999)
• Open A Search of Three Questions (2000)

Theatre

My first foray into the design world was through theatrical set and lighting design. In high school, college, and in several professional/community ventures, I worked as a lighting, set, and costume designer - sometimes all three for a single production. Photos of the last theatrical work I did (in 2003), with the Greenville Shakespeare Company, are available at their website, GreenvilleShakes.org. Photos of other shows are available here:

• Much Ado About Nothing
  A show by the Certain Players, a group working with local teenagers in Randolph, VT to produce Shakespeare plays (summer 2000)
  Set, Lighting, Costume design


• The Tempest
  Also by the Certain Players (summer 2000)
  Set, Lighting, Costume design


• Quills
  a senior thesis show at Oberlin College (Feb. 2000)
  Lighting Design


• Lone Star
  Oberlin College (Sept. 1999)
  Set Design