About Literatronic

Literatronic is an aesthetic project that looks for an appropriate form of expression of narrative through the Internet.

ABOUT THE BOOKS: 1610-2006

THE FIRST FLIGHT OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS (1997-2006) JUAN B. GUTIERREZ A SHOW OF HANDS (2006) MARK MARINO DON QUIXOTE (1610, 1615) MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA EXTREME CONDITIONS NOVEL (1998-2005) JUAN B. GUTIERREZ EXTREME CONDITIONS CHARACTERS (1998) JUAN B. GUTIERREZ, TAMARA PEÑA, GIOVANNI CASTRO & ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ EXTREME CONDITIONS COMIC (1998) GIOVANNI CASTRO & ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ

ABOUT THE SYSTEM: 2002-2006

DIRECTED BY JUAN B. GUTIÉRREZ SYSTEM TESTING MARK MARINO EDITORS EVELÍN RAMIREZ, MICHAEL CRANE, CHRISTIE LUCE TRANSLATION SPANISH-ENGLISH EVELÍN RAMIREZ, JUAN B. GUTIÉRREZ PROGRAMMING JUAN B. GUTIÉRREZ

The platform Literatronic was built as part of Juan B. Gutierrez's graduate research project in mathematical modeling of narrative spaces. Florida State University, August 2002 through August 2005. This project is supported since Nov 2007 by CAVIIAR Inc.

The books in Literatronic were financed by:

• National Grants of The Ministry of Culture of Colombia (COLCULTURA), 1996, Area: Literature, Topic: Novel. Project "El Primer Vuelo de los Hermanos Wright". Grant COLCULTURA-SECAB 014/1996. Bogota, Colombia. With contributions by Carlos E. Herrera P. (programmer).
• Repository of Artistic Projects of the Institute of Culture of Bogota. Project "Laboratorio Multimedial", Grant 514/1997. Bogota, Colombia.
• Repository of Artistic Projects of the Institute of Culture of Bogota. Protect "Contravía", Grant 410/1998. Bogota, Colombia.

Many people have directly or indirectly supported this project. I want to specially thank to Isaías Peña, my first mentor in the art of writing and literary accomplice. I also want to thank to Javier Meneses and the Zulia University (Maracaibo, Venezuela), Luz Amanda Salazar and the National University (Bogotá, Colombia), Steve Tomasula and University of Notre Dame (IN, USA), Tamara Peña, Marianne Ponsford, Susana Pajares, and last but no least the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University. To all others, thanks!

Juan B. Gutierrez, September, 2006
Tallahassee, Florida, USA