Jay Bolter

Jay David Bolter is Wesley Chair of New Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-director of the Augmented Environments Lab. He is the author of Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age (1984); Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, (1991; second edition 2001); Remediation (1999), with Richard Grusin; and Windows and Mirrors (2003), with Diane Gromala. In addition to writing about new media, Bolter collaborates in the construction of new digital media forms. With Michael Joyce, he created Storyspace, a hypertext authoring system. With Blair MacIntyre, Maria Engberg, and other collaborators in the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, he is exploring use of the Argon browser to stage experiences for art, entertainment, and cultural heritage.