| Juan Bernardo Gutiérrez | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1973-03-17) March 17, 1973 (age 51) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Occupation | Novelist, Professor of Mathematics |
| Nationality | Colombian American |
| Period | 1996-Present |
| Notable works | Extreme Conditions |
| Website | |
| literatronica | |
Juan Bernardo Gutiérrez (born March 17, 1973) is an American mathematician and author of Colombian origin, known primarily for his theoretical and practical contributions in the field of electronic literature.
Biography
Gutiérrez was 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 United States in 2001. He graduated in 2009 with a Ph.D. in mathematical biology from Florida State University. Currently he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
In 1996, at age 23, he won the international literary prize 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.
Gutiérrez 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 Literatronica.com
- The First Flight of the Wright Brothers, Version 2, 2006. Digital novel published in Literatronica.com
He has also published in Spanish several short stories, a story book, the same two novels referenced, and scholarly articles.
References
- Ayala, Elaine (2021-09-24). "Ayala: Nation's most reliable predictor of COVID cases, deaths has another story to tell". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- Sasson-Henry, Perla (3 February 2017). "E-Lit in Spanish: Voices of Dissent in a Globalized World". Hyperrhiz. doi:10.20415/hyp/016.e02.
- Soldán, Edmundo Paz; Castillo, Debra A. (2001). Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Psychology Press. pp. 270–285. ISBN 978-0-8153-3894-9.
- Gutierrez, Juan B.; Marino, Mark C. (2008). "Literatronica". Proceedings of the hypertext 2008 workshop on Creating out of the machine: Hypertext, hypermedia, and web artists explore the craft. pp. 5–8. doi:10.1145/1379153.1379156. ISBN 978-1-60558-172-9. S2CID 15725912.
- Perez, Julio Alejandro (2015). Digital Storytelling in Spanish: Narrative Techniques and Approaches (Thesis). ProQuest 1679467897.
- Cleger, Osvaldo (2009). El Arte de Narrar en la Era de las Blogoficciones: Una Aproximacion Interdisciplinaria a la Literatura en los Blogs (Thesis). hdl:10150/195521.
- Klöpper-Mauermann, Sirkka (2015). Die spanischsprachige Hyperfiction und ihr Leser : narratologische Auslotungen einer schwierigen Beziehung (Thesis).
- Gainza, Carolina (4 February 2013). Escrituras Electrónicas en América Latina. Producción Literaria en el Capitalismo Informacional (Thesis).
- Acuna-Zumbado, Eduardo (21 July 2008). Hacia la construcción del sujeto y sus procesos de lectura en la hipertextualidad latinoamericana (Thesis). hdl:1808/4169. S2CID 190715278.