New media writing

This workshop focuses on new media writing, an exciting and contemporary area of creative endeavour, in which writing interfaces with new technologies. In new media writing - known variously as cyberwriting, digital poetry, e-poetry or networked and programmable writing - you work with language in the context of a computer program. You also create work for the screen rather than page, and this can radically change the way you think about writing. Writing for the screen makes it possible to animate words, link texts together in a non-linear way, increase the interactivity of the reader, and bring together words, sounds and images within the space of the computer. Cyberspace is therefore more fluid and dynamic than the page, but less hospitable to lengthy texts which need to be read in a linear fashion.