There is No one central Text here!!
I have created a hypertext collage production that illustrates the mediation beyond the physical texts that I have chosen from American quotes and a short story. When confronting my collage I intended it to be looked at beyond the physical text and the focal point to be in the details between the lines of each image. My theme in this production was the multiplication of space using conceptual imagery combined together with emotional sound to deliver a singular message per slide. I also chose to create this project as a way to show my own personal style of art in a slide by slide form so that each work can be appreciated in its individual element to promote the exploration of its intended interface. My hypermedia piece promotes the immersion of the readers’ thoughts and the interactivity of the imagination. I have learned from Lev Manovich that “the production of illusionistic representations has become the domain of mass culture and of media technologies- photography, film, and video.”Which in this case I have focused on images or photography combined with a layer of text and sound.
A collage I felt was a best choice to illustrate what I have learned because it came from the idea of “pulling the exterior into the interior” instead of isolating the illustration of each text to words on a blank page, so in that respect I highlighted heavy illustrational images with the text muted slightly so the emotion was stronger than the actual text itself. Electronic literature has been fun to create and really opens up the imagination I find.
By Heather Marsh