[ISEA2015] Paper: Anastasios Maragiannis & Janis Jefferies – ‘Twitter’: Practice in Writing, A recipe for Creativity & Creative Interpretation

Abstract (Short paper)

Keywords: Screen; Reading, Writing, Graphics, Twitter, Novels, Brains, Technology, Type

This paper will explore how the way we read on the screen can create new forms of collaborative writing online. With reference to our ‘Twitter: Practice in Writing’ workshops in London 2014 and Vancouver 2015. As a younger generation move swiftly from print to pixel, reading no longer becomes deliberate and concentrated but rather a scan for information as our eyes follow an F-shaped pattern. Screen-reading encourages rapid patternmaking, provoking action, whereby words are merged with images. From scroll to moveable type, will twitter ‘novels’ give rise to twitter brains? How does it affect what we read and write? Has this change been recognized in the publishing industry?

  • Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Jefferies is an artist, writer and curator and internationally recognised for her curatorial work, publishing and exhibitions of studio practice in Europe, Canada, Australia and Eastern Europe (400 research entries on the Goldsmiths Research database). Her areas of expertise lie at the intersection of arts and technology (textiles, performance, sound, publishing), new economic business models (NESTA) cultural heritage (museums and archives).
  • Anastasios Maragiannis, University of Greenwich, London, UK. Anastasios is the Academic Portfolio Leader and Principal lecturer in Design Theory & Practice, in the department of Creative Professions and Digital Arts, University of Greenwich, London. Anastasios is also the Co-leader of the “Digital Grand Challenge”, a series of research projects that investigates how theory can shape digital practice and vice-versa; as a way to enhance multiple interactions across numerous disciplines, including, Architecture, Arts, Design, Computing, Humanities and other Sciences. His intersubjectivity research project explores design thinking across creative industries and the role it plays within the academic environment.  gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/ach/study/cpda/staff/anastasios-maragiannis

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