Plenary Session - Creating and Publishing in the Digital Era
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In this discussion I will explore two complimenting versions of the Canadian poet from Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood and consider their continuing relevance for artists in the Maritimes. In Canada and Its Poetry Northrop Frye asserts “The colonial position is therefore the frostbite at the roots of the Canadian Imagination, and it produces a disease for which I think the best name is prudery.” And in The Paralyzed Artist Atwood sta...
The internet is often described in abstract, intangible ways, yet is actually facilitated largely by physical infrastructure, particularly the submarine cables that wrap around the world, carrying our messages between continents. These systems are both built in and with materials from the environment, within ecosystems where more-than-human kin that are affected. The media used to capture and document these ecosystems influences how we...
Several years ago I accidentally wrote a graphic novel on Instagram. I was simply expressing my feelings about my life the way we all do in this day and age, online and without much thought. Before long I realised something was happening and these thoughts and ideas were forming a cohesive structure in search of an archive to live in. That archive took the form of a book. The process made me look at all the text that surrounds us...
With the proliferation of digital and self-publishing platforms, along with the increased use of algorithms and manipulation of online book review and consumption metrics by publishers, websites and even writers themselves, the ability to discern what constitutes “the best” literature for readers is an especially 21st century problem.More than a question of marketplac...
