Poiesis as referred to in the ELC1 is a term used to describe the continual construction of the electronic environment by its creators and receivers. Two additional works that I have chosen for discussion include: ‘Cruising’ by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar, and ‘Girls’ Day Out’ by Kerry Lawrynovicz. These works serve as forms of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Cruising’
5 November 2009
Cruisin’ with “Cruising”
“Cruising” by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar is an electronic, reader-controlled piece of literature that combines written word, image and sound. It is the manipulation of the reader’s tactile, visual and auditory senses that make the poem effective and quite enjoyable. “Cruising” is about the ritualistic activity of driving in a vehicle up and down [...]
22 October 2009
Response to “Cruising” questions
Hi everyone, thanks for your excellent questions. And thank you Aurelea for selecting our work and for inviting me to virtually participate in your class. This blog is a great idea, and I truly enjoyed sharing some of the background on Cruising with the class and hearing your questions. I hope my responses answer your [...]
20 October 2009
Learning to Drive Digital Poetry
It is a Tuesday afternoon in October and two dozen English 214 students at Capilano University have been driving Megan Sapnar Ankerson and Ingrid Ankerson’s poem “Cruising” since Sunday night. “Cruising” was first published on the new media poetry site Poems That Go. It was later selected to appear in the Electronic Literature Organization’s Electronic Literature Collection, [...]
19 October 2009
On “Cruising”
Behind the Scenes of Poems that Go
Cruising was published in the fifth issue of Poems that Go, the new media poetry journal that Ingrid and I started in the spring of 2000. Ingrid and I are partners in art and in life, and at that time we were also working together designing websites. Our mutual [...]
