ENG 381 - Advanced Topics: New Media Writing and Hybrid Forms (1)

In this contemporary moment, in this digital world - with the increasing accessibility of language, the increasing hybridity of language - is language more vulnerable or is it more alive? In this course, we will consider what it means to use new media writing and language as a form of resisting sterile spectatorship. Together we will develop annotated chapbooks, our own interactive zines, online scavenger hunts, installed audio visual essays, and more. Though we will cover acres of ground in both our own work and the work of others, we will stay anchored to the central question of what work each work is trying to do. How is the language alive, how is it making use of form to produce activity, change, conversation - and what is our role in this.
(Fine Arts)