Hypertext Contour, Interactive Cinema, Virtual Reality, and the Interstitial Arts of Jeffrey Shaw and Grahame Weinbren This elusive, slippery essay theorizes experience by ultimately equating it to what Joyce calls contours. It seems that hypertext not only calls into question aspects of the printed page and social structures that support it, but also asks questions on a broader scale about living, experiencing, or "what happens as we go?" It is easy for me to equate what Joyce is saying about contours in this essay to a landscape metaphor--again, moving the lived experiences of time to the easily recallable confines of spaces. But I feel I have missed something in making such a convenient link. "Contours are the sensual whole that we move over: transitory, evocable, multiple, and generative structures that make up our experience of interactive arts.... Contours are the shape of what we think we see as we see it but that we know we have seen only after we move over them, and new contours of our own shape themselves over what they have left us. They are, in short, what happens as we go, the essential communication between the artist who gave way and the viewer who now gives ways to see" (207). Perhaps landscape lacks the sense of motion and focus on interaction--shaping and being shaped by the terrain we traverse--that Joyce seems to capture with contours.