User / Digitize Me
This is a practice-based research project in the area of creative writing and new media and is concerned primarily with the critical issue of identity production in participatory digital network culture.
The work consists in two separate but interdependently evolving practices:
User is concerned with developing a body of creative writing that engages with the nature of real and virtual identity production through traditional fictional narrative making.
The other, Digitize Me, investigates the interplay of participatory digital media exchange in online network culture via the production of a new online platform. Digitize Me exists as an online community art project that engages fully in every day practices of current social network practices, organizing its intermedial spaces in such as way to inform and respond to specific activity [assignments].
This exploration of digital remediation will be compared to traditional forms of writing in order to investigate a number of key research questions. How has participatory network culture [Web 2.0] affected the way we negotiate ourselves online? Has the proliferation of user content driven interaction made us all critical media content creators? Is there still a place for traditionally authored artefacts? If so, how should the makers of such artefacts respond to an increasingly intermedial world?
Contact: Sarah Gibson-Yates
Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
The work consists in two separate but interdependently evolving practices:
User is concerned with developing a body of creative writing that engages with the nature of real and virtual identity production through traditional fictional narrative making.
The other, Digitize Me, investigates the interplay of participatory digital media exchange in online network culture via the production of a new online platform. Digitize Me exists as an online community art project that engages fully in every day practices of current social network practices, organizing its intermedial spaces in such as way to inform and respond to specific activity [assignments].
This exploration of digital remediation will be compared to traditional forms of writing in order to investigate a number of key research questions. How has participatory network culture [Web 2.0] affected the way we negotiate ourselves online? Has the proliferation of user content driven interaction made us all critical media content creators? Is there still a place for traditionally authored artefacts? If so, how should the makers of such artefacts respond to an increasingly intermedial world?
Contact: Sarah Gibson-Yates
Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
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