The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

‘oedipality, oedipality, oedipality? oedipalized’ emerges, slides diagonally upwards, and mutates into a rapid circle of letters ...

A single-scene movie These are strategies for Exercise 2a, creating an animated text within a single scene: a) Place two short b ...

you want the text to scroll or appear within a single frame. If you don’t want the text to scroll, then you will need either to ...

THE CYBORG WRITES CODE Cyberwriting sometimes includes linguistic experimentation: we have already seen how animation allows for ...

In/using one word, I’d describe the kind of net.artwork I make as ‘mezangelled’. In/using one sentence, I’d describe it as a con ...

we have seen, point to the fluidity of sexuality and writing. Notice also, in Jason Nelson’s two pieces on The Writing Experimen ...

plays with the layering of words and images. Create tensions and colli- sions between the meanings of the words and the visual i ...

programming. If you have an interest in programming, it could be extremely productive to follow up developments in this area. IT ...

Jackson, S. 1995, Patchwork Girl , Hypertext Fiction. Eastgate Systems, Watertown, Massachusetts. Joyce, M. 1990, Afternoon: A S ...

chapter twelve Mapping worlds, moving cities In the previous chapters, we have been exploring techniques for writing rather than ...

Mapping worlds, moving cities 255 exercises Create three texts: a) one based on an explicit sense of place b) one based on an i ...

Mapping worlds in fiction, however, is different because we can produce a much more fluid sense of place, and of the relations b ...

Mapping worlds, moving cities 257 active and changes with the seasons: ‘The river shrinks’, ‘Jackfruits burst’, ‘black crows gor ...

PLACE IN QUESTION Some experimental fiction questions normal categorisations and repre- sentations of place. In Bernard Cohen’s ...

Another section, ‘Armidale’, draws our attention to power relations within the city. Again this does not seem to be only applica ...

and pursue domestic goals. The private and public aspects of our lives are intertwined, power structures operate in both, and so ...

It has produced cultural hybridity: a city such as London includes people from India, Pakistan, Africa and many other locations. ...

they are often at risk of physical and sexual violence. Consequently, there may be places where women cannot, or do not want to, ...

bridges made from sheets of music. The unreal city is made of desires and memories, but is as important as the physical city. Th ...

making social patterns through our walking. Whereas the nineteenth century ‘flaneur’ was somewhat detached and elitist, de Certe ...