Juan B. Gutierrez

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name = Juan B Gutierrez


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caption = Juan B Gutierrez (June 2006)
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1973|3|17|mf=y
birthplace = Bogotá, Colombia
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occupation = Novelist, Systems architect
nationality = Colombia
period = 1996-Present
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notableworks = [http://www.literatronica.com/src/Nuntius.aspx?lng=BRITANNIA&nuntius=OPUS_ABOUT_1&opus=1 Extreme Conditions]
influences = Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, J.R.R. Tolkien, Miguel de Cervantes, Plato
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website = http://www.literatronica.com
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Juan B Gutierrez (born March 17, 1973) is a Colombian author who resides in the US, known primarily for his theoretical and practical contributions in the field of hypertext fiction.

Biography

Born in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated in 1996 with a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the National University of Colombia. He moved to the US in 2001. He graduated in 2005 with a M.Sc. in mathematical biology from Florida State University. He is currently enrolled at FSU as a Ph.D student in [http://www.math.fsu.edu/~quine/biomed.html biomedical mathematics] .

In 1996, at age 23, he won the international literary prize [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castro_Saavedra Carlos Castro Saavedra] in Medellín, Colombia. That same year, he was awarded a National Grant in Literature by the Colombian Ministry of Culture to write the digital novel "El Primer Vuelo de los Hermanos Wright" (The First Flight of the Wright Brothers). In 1997 and 1998 he received two national grants from the Bogotan Institute of Culture to write the digital novel "Condiciones Extremas" (Extreme Conditions). These two novels are regarded as the first hypertextual novels in the Spanish language (Sasson-Henry, 2006; Pajares, 2001). Both of them have been critiqued in Europe and the US (Sasson-Henry, 2006; Mecke, 2004; Pajares, 2001).

Juan B Gutierrez developed the literary hypertext authoring system known as Literatronica, which uses an AI engine to adapt the narrative pieces to readers based upon their interaction with the system.

Bibliography in English

* "Extreme Conditions", Version 3, 2005. Digital novel published in [http://www.literatronica.com Literatronica.com]

* "The First Flight of the Wright Brothers", Version 2, 2006. Digital novel published in [http://www.literatronica.com Literatronica.com]
* "The influence of artificial intelligence in hyperfiction: Towards the digital author." in Proceedings of the Congress [http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/seminario/index-eng.htm Literatures: From Text to Hypertext] Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 2006.

* "Literatronic: The use of Hamiltonian cycles to produce adaptivity in literary hypertext." Proceedings of [http://www.lkl.ac.uk/bridges/ The Bridges Conference 2006: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science] London, UK.

He has also published several short stories, a story book, the same two novels referenced, and scholarly articles in Spanish.

References

* Perla Sasson-Henry (US Naval Academy). "From Hypertexts To Blogs: "El Primer Vuelo De Los Hermanos Wright" And "Más Respeto Que Soy Tu Madre" in Proceedings of the Congress [http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/seminario/index-eng.htm Literatures: From Text to Hypertext] , Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 2006.

* Susana Pajares Tosca (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark). "Condiciones Extremas. Digital Science Fiction from Colombia." [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0815338945/ Latin American Literature and Mass Media] . Garland. Hispanic Issues Series. New York, 2001.

* Jochen Mecke (Universität Regensburg, Germany). [http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft2/b2t08.htm "Ästhetische Differenz in Print- und Hypertext (fiktion)"] (Aesthetic difference in print and Hypertext fiction). PhiN-Beiheft 2/2004: 141. Philologie im Netz (in German). Journal of Philology of the University of Berlin.

External links

* [http://www.literatronica.com Literatronica: Adaptive Digital Narrative]
* [http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/05/22/literatronica Literatronica: The next generation of hypertext authoring]
* [http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/08/29/literatronica-an-interview-with-creator-juan-b-gutierrez Literatronica: an interview with creator Juan B. Gutierrez]
* [http://www.math.fsu.edu/~jgutierr/ Juan B Gutierrez personal web page]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Novelist
DATE OF BIRTH=March 17, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH=Bogota, Colombia
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