The Writing and Society Research Group
at the University of Western Sydney presents
Chris Meade (if:book London)
"If all the sky was paper...
How digital devices can set literature free"


The book has been constantly evolving, from scroll to codex to paperback to kindle and now iPad, and literary forms have always evolved in the light of technological change. Now digital platforms put books on the mobile devices that all young people are looking at, they free writers to explore new forms of transliterature and the means to interact with
creative readers. Reading on screen reminds us that books are experiences that happen in our heads and hearts, the paperback merely a souvenir of our visit.

The presentation will cover if:book London's work in collaborative fiction, networked books and multimedia 'illumination' of texts in projects such as 'The 24 hour book', 'In Search of Lost Tim', 'The Golden Notebook', and schools work including the Hotbook and Project Wonda. Songs of Imagination & Digitisation, a digitally illuminated anthology, is inspired by William Blake, a multimedia poet and artist who sang, illustrated and distributed his poems, and would surely have relished the creative potential of new media as a vehicle for his vision.

All welcome.

RSVP: writing@uws.edu.au.

Location
University of Western Sydney, Bankstown campus
Building 1 (Main Building), 1.1.119
(via the Henry Lawson Drive exit of the M5)