Morphing writing practices and feminisit experimentalism

In contemporary culture, with the emergence of new technologies, words are increasingly mediated through sound and image. Communication also occurs through a plethora of different channels: the TV, radio, mobile phones, and--most ubiquitously--the Internet. Consequently, literature is evolving: poetic and fictional modes are emerging in new media which are kinetic, variable, and interactive; they also involve the interweaving of the verbal, sonic and visual. As a result, writers have a great many choices about how they want to present their work, and more opportunities than ever to shift between different practices at will. I want to focus here on what I call a morphing writing practice, that is, moving between different modes of writing. By this I do not simply mean morphing between different writing styles or genres, though this may be part of such a practice. A morphing writing practice involves, rather, reaching beyond the page into domains of production often viewed as extra-literary, such as performance or new media, and sliding between these different domains at will.