Digital Literature & Arts

Many artists have thought about developing new forms of expressions and aesthetics. Stellarc reverses the computer device body.-Who controls the body?. Digital arts gradually got wider with a large amount of artists. It has become so mainstream, digital culture has become mainstream so fast. Aesthetics Interests: -programming -Interactivity (an interesting form of intertextuality) You can oriduce texts which are much more flexible. Many writers have thought about developing new forms of new media writing. Meta data is data that describes other data. Typical meta data includes such things as; page title, keywords and a description. Tags are a way of organising blog posts. Delicious.com is used for tagging. Is all tagging creating a Folksonomy?Folksonomy is how we arrange the information on facebook, google, youtube, etc. PROSUMERS A model of production in which the user of the product or service gets more involved in the process. Producers had all the power. Prosuming could be making more phone apps. Prosuming is orginally from the video industries referring to technologies armed between the consumer domestic market and the professional production market. Threadless.com - is T Shirt modelling. (they get their designs for free the company) E.G. The national lottery gets more money then the actual prize winner! Internet requires massive amounts of labour to sustain it. (Terranova, 2002:90). Crowd sourcing should allow users too gain something from the experience- even if its not monetary gain. AOL sold themselves to co-operation-remote staff community leaders. Networks contain vast amount of imformation. HYPERTEXT Texts composed of block of text and the elctronic links. It permits users/readers to choose their own paths through a set of possibilities. "nobody is going to sit down and read a novel on a twitchy little screen"-1994. EXAMPLES OF LITERACY HYPERTEXT: -Stuart Moulthrorp:Victory Garden -Shirly Jackson -Geoff Ryman: 253 The internet allows us to look at text in different ways. Authors of websites can experiment with different ways of conveying information. CYBERTEXT- is a cybernetic system that generates a different sequence of signs everytime the work is experiment. - It is a calculating device. Inanimate Alice is an interactive digital novel relating the experiences of Alice and her imaginary digital friend 'Brad'. The viewers experiences a combination of text, sound,imagery and interacts with a story at key points. Inaminate lacks of quality or ability of motion.