Richard Holeton

Richard Holeton is a fiction writer, education consultant, and former teacher and administrator at Stanford University.

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Half Moon Bay Review & Pacifica Tribune •

Coastside author re-releases unique online novel

As a writing professor at Stanford University in 1995, Richard Holeton wrote a 500-word short story about Theodore Streleski, the Stanford graduate student who bludgeoned his faculty advisor to death with a hammer in the 1970s. He developed the story into a hypertext novel, “Figurski at Findhorn on Acid,” which for the last 12 years has been unavailable to the public due to outdated software — until now.

Other exhibits & performances

FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID

  • Salon à la Maison Dora Maar, Menerbes, France. Hosted by Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2015.
  • Electronic Literature Organization and Digital Literature from Yesterday to Tomorrow. Labo BNF, Bibliotheque nationale de France, 2013.
  • Digital Stories of the 1990s: A Look at Works from the Storyspace School, curated by Dene Grigar and John Barber. Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, 2012.
  • Media Arts Show: Early Authors of Electronic Literature. Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference. Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, 2008.
  • State of the Arts Symposium on Electronic Literature, Electronic Literature Organization. UCLA, 2002.
  • eNarrative 3, San Francisco, CA, 2002.
  • The First Hypertextual Slam, Associated Writing Programs (AWP) WebFair. New Orleans, LA, 2002.
  • Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University, 2001.
  • The Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, The Association for Computing Machinery. University of Aarhus, Arhus, Denmark, 2001.

THIRTEEN WAYS OF KILLING A SCRUB-JAY

  • Performed and exhibited at the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 2015.

AFTERWORD(S): TAKE A BOOK/LEAVE A BOOK

  • Performed in artist's talk at ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) 2019 Annual Conference, University College Cork, Ireland, July, 2019.
  • Performed at &Now 2018, A Festival of Innovative Writing. University of Notre Dame, October, 2018.

POSTMODERN—An Anagrammatic Slideshow Fiction

  • Gallery Exhibit, Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) 2018 Annual Conference and Media Arts Festival, University of Quebec, Montreal, August, 2018.

CUSTOM ORTHOTICS CHANGED MY LIFE

  • After Hours: Creative Pursuits of Stanford University Libraries Staff, Stanford University, 2014.
  • Traversing Digital Boundaries, HASTAC III, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009.
  • Digital Art and Narratives Exhibit, Computers & Writing 2009 Conference. University of California, Davis, 2009.
  • Gallery of Digital Literature and Art, Digital Arts and Culture 2009 Conference. University of California, Irvine, 2009.