https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/31533bc04b3d0d9bb517ccf01f558b2d.png 56dacd63b3f57df92ed0443441452c58 https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/2b40cd111a881179a09efafaf1cd401b.png af248fb03b4420379cf1c9760578bd50 https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/2450c6a47ddbc79dfa06dbbf855afd81.png d1793cd479c9d4d3a14eb9ddcfcd19ca ADELTA Item Items included in the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art (ADELTA). Platform Software platform or means of display e.g Installation / YouTube / HTML / Flash / Twitter / QuickTime Shockwave/CD ROM Work URL The URL of the original work, included as an HTML link. <a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/postcards.html">http://sallypryor.com/works/postcards.html</a> Artist Statement A statement about the work, as provided by the artist(s). What exactly IS writing? Is picture writing something that is half way between pictures and writing? And is it a useful concept for thinking about new media writing and interfaces? One approach to these questions is provided by Integrationism, a radical new theory of language and communication which Roy Harris has applied to a groundbreaking analysis of writing. In this view, writing is teased apart from speech (transcription of speech is just one of writing's possible uses) and re-aligned with spatial configurations in general. 'Picture writing' then becomes a meaningless and rather ethnocentric term because the boundary between writing and pictures is shown to be fluid, rather than fixed. These are quite difficult ideas to grasp in a world where written words are so important. In Postcards from Writing, a kind of intellectual road movie, I artistically express my own encounter with them and explore their implications for new media writing and interfaces. My work offers users an interactive experience, rather than simply an illustrated lecture, because user interaction creates dynamic and multidimensional signs that illuminate the ideas I'm trying to express. <a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/postcards.html">Statement from author's website</a> Source of Artist Statement The source of information included in the Artist Statement, included as an HTML link to the relevant URL where possible. <a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/postcards.html">Statement from author's website</a> Genre Interactive multimedia Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Pryor_writing Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Writing Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pryor, Sally Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2004 Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Sally Pryor. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder. Description An account of the resource <strong>Artist Statement<br /></strong>What exactly IS writing? Is picture writing something that is half way between pictures and writing? And is it a useful concept for thinking about new media writing and interfaces? One approach to these questions is provided by Integrationism, a radical new theory of language and communication which Roy Harris has applied to a groundbreaking analysis of writing. In this view, writing is teased apart from speech (transcription of speech is just one of writing's possible uses) and re-aligned with spatial configurations in general. 'Picture writing' then becomes a meaningless and rather ethnocentric term because the boundary between writing and pictures is shown to be fluid, rather than fixed. These are quite difficult ideas to grasp in a world where written words are so important.<br />In Postcards from Writing, a kind of intellectual road movie, I artistically express my own encounter with them and explore their implications for new media writing and interfaces. My work offers users an interactive experience, rather than simply an illustrated lecture, because user interaction creates dynamic and multidimensional signs that illuminate the ideas I'm trying to express.<br /><a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/postcards.html">Source of Artist Statement</a> CD ROM Interactive multimedia Sally Pryor