Urbanalities is a non-interactive piece of electronic literature depicting the nature of urban life. Authors Babel and Escha take an antagonistic view which touches on major issues of urbanization including, discrimination, stresses of everyday living, life on the streets, loose morals, and consumerism. Each of these issues is poetically illustrated throughout eight separate scenes that [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘English 214’
3 November 2009
English 214 vs Babel
The third (and final) virtual collaboration of the 2009 edition of the E-Lit Forum has reached the Q + A stage. Our third contributor to this year’s E-Lit Forum is Chris Joseph/Babel.
We began this afternoon’s class by rewatching Babel + Escha’s “Urbanalities”. The screening was followed by an extended rambling but often suggestive group meditation [...]
27 October 2009
English 214 Responds to Ezzat
It is Week 2 of the E-Lit Forum 2009.
This week’s guest blogger is Sharif Ezzat. The students are seated in a large circle quietly talking about Sharif’s post.
All we need is a campfire: a campfire to catapult us into our Coastal Mountains – a northern extension of the rocky spine that runs up and down the [...]
23 October 2009
ELC Review- Keyword: “Games”
The Electronic Literature Collection has been divided up into keywords for easy navigation. Under the keyword, “Games” falls seven different pieces; some of which do the keyword justice and some that fall short. Digital gaming is broad sector consisting of video, arcade and computer games; a category too broad to place the pieces of this [...]
23 October 2009
E-Lit Forum – Guest Blogger 2
Sharif Ezzat is an Egyptian-American multimedia artist based in San Francisco. In 1998 he co-founded Good Food Productions, through which he works in a wide variety of digital media, from web sites and interactive installations to multimedia performance. Sharif develops the artistic dimensions of his work through many collaborations and participation in international exhibitions. His [...]
