The Progressive Dinner Party Restored

The 39 Works

Below are the 39 works within The Progressive Dinner Party listed in alphabetical order by title. Each title is a link to the corresponding artist's plate within the website. Also included underneath each title are tags describing the work, which include summaries at the bottom of the page.

Tags
Frames, Tables, Interactive Imagery, Area Maps, GIFs, High Interactivity, JavaScript, Hypertext, Macro Hypertext, Micro Hypertext, Slideshows, Video, Audio, Page Refresh, Linear, Proprietary Software, Collaboration, Flash, Shockwave, Broken, Missing
 

Agatha Appears

Frames, High Interactivity, Interactive Imagery

Being Human

Macro Hypertext

Believe

Macro Hypertext, JavaScript

Blood Puppets: A Premillennium Manifesto

Tables, Slideshows

Bound and Gagged

Page Refresh, GIFs, Video, Audio

Brain Dress B

JavaScript, Tables, Interactive Imagery, Missing

Charmed Horizon

Tables, JavaScript, Interactive Imagery, Missing

Cutting Edges or A Web of Women

Hypertext

Dark Lethe

Macro Hypertext, Tables, Collaboration

Distance

Linear

Empty Velocity

Hypertext, Proprietary Software (Macromedia, QuickTime), Audio, JavaScript

Endless Suburbs

Hypertext, Frames, Java Applets

Girl/Birth/Water/Death

Hypertext

Glass Houses

Hypertext, Proprietary Software (Adobe PageMill)

Glide

Shockwave, Flash, Audio, Broken

holes-linings-threads

Hypertext, Shockwave, JavaScript, Tables

Illusions, Philosophical Toy World

Proprietary Software (Adobe GoLive 4), Frames

Kokura

Hypertext, Frames, Page Refresh, Collaboration

Light is Silent

Micro Hypertext, Frames, Tables

Light/Water

Hypertext, JavaScript

LiLy Pond: a poststructural gardening thriller

Micro Hypertext, Page Refresh, Video

Los Dias y Los Noches de las Muertas

Frames, Interactive Imagery, Audio

Mother Millennia

Hypertext, Collaboration

Mountain Rumbles

Micro Hypertext, Frames

my body: A Wunderkammer

Hypertext, Area Maps, Tables

Noon Quilt

Hypertext, Collaboration, Tables, JavaScript

Pronunciation: 'fut' or: A Tool and its Means

Flash, JavaScript, Area Maps

Rice

Hypertext, Shockwave, Tables

Salome went to Soho to See Her Poster in a Show

Tables, Interactive Imagery, Missing

Silicon Valley Journal

Micro Hypertext

skeleton sky: a millennium poem

Hypertext, Tables

The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

Hypertext, Frames

The Book after the Book

Hypertext, Tables, JavaScript, Page Refresh

The Electronic Chronicles

Hypertext

The Flight of A821: Dearchiving the Proceedings of a Birdsong.

Frames, Missing

The Intruder

Shockwave, Audio, High Interactivity

The Roar of Destiny Emanated from the Refrigerator. I got up to get a beer.

Hypertext, Page Refresh, Audio

*water always writes in *plural

Hypertext, Shockwave, Audio

Zones of Recognition

Flash, Missing

Tag Summaries

Frames
These are works that use frames as main components for separating menus, images, buttons, and more.

Tables
This tag is given to works that utilize tables in an important way, such as for images or overlaying content.

Interactive Imagery
Though many of the works featured in The Progressive Dinner Party involve interactive imagery, some do more so than others. This includes works that place a greater focus on the visual aesthetics to communicate a message.

Area Maps
Though rarer, area maps is included as a tag because of the unique functionality it introduces, allowing users to hover over various spots on an image to access different hyperlinks.

GIFs
GIFs are used by works to introduce animations with technology other than software such as Adobe Flash or Shockwave.

High Interactivity
On occasion, a work will demand greater participation on the users part than average to experience the work.

JavaScript
On top of using HTML and CSS, JavaScript was oftentimes used to add more interesting functionality to a work.

Hypertext
This tag specifies works that focus on hyperlinking text as a way of communicating messages.

Macro Hypertext
This includes hypertexts that are unusually large, usually as a result of collaboration from one or more artists.

Slideshows
Artists on the web have many different methods of presentation at their disposal, which includes featuring their work as a slideshow.

Video
This is for works that include video components.

Audio
This is for works that include auditory components.

Page Refresh
Refreshing the page to redirect users to another is a fairly common practice among these web artists.

Linear
For works that are presented in a linear fashion.

Proprietary Software
Many of the works relied on software produced by companies. Though Adobe Flash and Shockwave are considered proprietary, they were unique and used often enough to justify separate tags.

Collaboration
This tag is applied to works that were produced by multiple artists.

Flash
Works that used Adobe Flash to produce animations or sounds were given this tag. Unfortunately, all support for Adobe Flash in modern web browsers will be dropped in December 2020.

Shockwave
This tag is applied to works utilizing Adobe Shockwave. Though support for Shockwave was dropped in April 2019, Shockwave plugins are still available for certain browsers. 

Broken or Missing works
Unfortunately, not all of the works within The Progressive Dinner Party could be obtained. This was either because the work no longer functioned (such as Slattery’s Glide) or because contact could not be made with the author for missing files. When possible, an external link to the most complete version of the work was provided in the website.

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