The video demo shows interaction with a small portion of the work. The interactive Windows version still operates perfectly and is available for a modest fee through the artist, Sally Pryor. Sadly, the Apple Macintosh version can no longer be played.
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One approach to these questions is provided by Integrationism, a radical new theory of language and communication which Roy Harris has applied to a groundbreaking analysis of writing. In this view, writing is teased apart from speech (transcription of speech is just one of writing's possible uses) and re-aligned with spatial configurations in general. 'Picture writing' then becomes a meaningless and rather ethnocentric term because the boundary between writing and pictures is shown to be fluid, rather than fixed.
These are quite difficult ideas to grasp in a world where written
words are so important. In Postcards From
Writing, a kind of intellectual road movie, I artistically express
my own encounter with them and explore their implications for new
media writing and interfaces. My work offers users an interactive
experience, rather than simply an illustrated lecture, because user
interaction creates
dynamic and multidimensional signs that illuminate the ideas I'm trying to express.
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| by Sally Pryor 2004 | ||
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Excellent review by Edward Picot, The Hyperliterature Exchange Honourable mention, trAce New Media Article Writing Competition (UK) 2004 Selected for Online Gallery: The New Incunabula: The Shape of A Woman’s Form, curated by Carolyn Guertin INCUBATION3 (UK) 2004 Exhibited at File Electronic Language International Festival , Brasil 2005 Finalist, Web Art, Drunken Boat's Inaugural PanLiterary Web Art Awards (USA) 2006 |
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The Australia Council 's New Media Arts Fund Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund - The Digital Media Fund is funded by Multimedia Victoria as part of the Victorian Government's Connecting Victoria policy, which aims to bring the benefits of technology to all Victorians
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