Proceedings of the hypertext 2008 workshop on Creating out of the machine: hypertext, hypermedia, and web artists explore the craft

I'd like to welcome you to Creating out of the Machine, a workshop for ACM SIGWEB's Hypertext 2008 conference. This workshop explores the process behind the creation of complex and interesting works of digital narratives. How do writers manage the link? What's underneath the cortex of a realized hypertext or hypermedia work? This workshop is about how hypertext and hypermedia artists create, what decisions they make, how ideas are realized, and how problems are solved. I'd like to thank the artists and developers who submitted proposals for this workshop: Alan Bigelow, Charles Deemer, Chris Crawford, Susan Gibb, Dene Grigar, Juan Gutierrez, and Mark Marino. I'd also like to thank David Millard and Mark Bernstein for their assistance with organization and for their advice. The presenters for this workshop come from a vast range of contexts. They work with hypertext systems, vector graphics technology, mathematics, drama and programming. In many ways this workshop aims at a basic infinitive: to make. A series of difficult questions follow: make what and make how?