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(2009) Sensualities/textualities and technologies, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter explores the potential of the use of the computer for developing a new "remediated' language through structured interactivity with the user, where the notion of the screen as page is explored in the context of new media artwork. The term "remediated' refers to Lev Manovich's reference to Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin's book Remediation (1999) where Manovich discusses new media as "translating, refashioning and reforming other media, both on the level of content and form' (Manovich, 2001: 89). The term "ScreenPage' is employed to describe new media's ability to occupy the space between the non- interactive montage of the screen and the linearity of traditional textual print media (albeit with the ability to "turn' the page) and how it might provoke new dilemmas and tensions in the way in which text(ual) and audiovisual artworks (including the literary, filmic and sonic) are created, opening new sites for investigation regarding perception of the interactive exchange and human relationships with the object of the computer.
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Ellis, P. (2009)., The body of the text: the uses of the "screenpage" in new media, in S. Broadhurst & J. Machon (eds.), Sensualities/textualities and technologies, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 50-64.
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