Academia & Press

Academic writing that discusses my work

Anne Holm, Deixis in Digital Poetry: Momentariness as Orientation in Ian Hatcher’s Attentions. Chapter in Literature as an Art Form - Evolving Intermedial Literary Landscape; Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, ed. (IntechOpen, 2025)

micha cárdenas, Trans Ecologies in Digital Games and Contemporary Art. Chapter in Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis; Laura Beke, Joost Raessens, Stefan Werning, and Gerald Farca, eds. (Amsterdam University Press, 2024)

Davin Heckman, A Portrait of the Artist as an Emergent Technology. Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens (special issue "Digital Narratives - Theories, Criticism(s), Achievements"); Rui Torres, Jill Walker Rettberg, Scott Rettberg, and Joseph Tabbi, eds. (2023)

Kyle Booten, Making Writing Harder: Computer-Mediated Authorship and the Problem of Care, Electronic Book Review (2021)

Álvaro Seiça, Kinetic Poetry. Chapter in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices; Dene Grigar and James O’Sullivan, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Álvaro Seiça, A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher’s “⌰ (Total Runout)”. Poetics Today (2020)

Scott Rettberg, Electronic Literature. (Polity, 2019)

John F. Barber, (Remixed) Test Pattern for Listening: Sound Poetry as Electronic Literature. Hyperrhiz (2019)

Leonardo Flores, Third Generation Electronic Literature. Electronic Book Review (2019)

Serge Bouchardon, Mind the Gap! 10 Gaps for Digital Literature. Electronic Book Review (2019)

Monika Górska-Olesińska, Language Art in the Age of Panophonia. MATLIT / Materialities of Literature (2018)

Matti Kangaskoski, New reading strategies in print and on digital platforms: Stephanie Strickland’s V. Chapter in Reading Today; Heta Pyrhönen and Janna Kantola, eds. (2018)

Robert P. Fletcher, Digital Ekphrasis and the Uncanny: Toward a Poetics of Augmented Reality Electronic Book Review (2017)

Álvaro Seiça, setInterval(): Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry [doctoral thesis]. (University of Bergen, 2017)

Matti Kangaskoski. Reading Digital Poetry – Interface, Interaction, and Interpretation [doctoral thesis]. (University of Helsinki, 2017)

Andrew Klobucar, Programming's Turn: Computation and Poetics. Humanities (special issue "The Poetics of Computation") (2017)

Burt Kimmelman, Code and Substrate: Reconceiving the Actual in Digital Art and Poetry. Humanities (special issue "The Poetics of Computation") (2017)

Daniela Côrtes Maduro, Choice and Disbelief: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity. Chapter in Digital Media and Textuality: From Creation to Archiving, Daniela Côrtes Maduro, ed. (Transcript Verlag, 2017)

David Jhave Johnston, Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications. (MIT Press, 2016)

General interviews

Steven Wingate, Multiplicity: An Interview with Ian Hatcher, Rain Taxi

Mary Sippo, Tietokoneet eivät ole runouden tulevaisuus (interview in Finnish), Nuori Voima

Interview with Mlady Pes ahead of a talk at Krakatoa talk club in Bratislava

Interview in European Poetry Forum, a project of Martin Solotruk and Zuzana Husárová

Video interview by David Jhave Johnston

For articles and other press about particular projects, please see those project pages.