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dc.contributor.author |
Heyward, ME
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3146-2569
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dc.date.issued |
2015-05-12 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
ELO 2015: The End[s] of Electronic Literature, 2015 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122176
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dc.description.abstract |
The Secret Language of Desire is an electronic literature app for iPads, in which 27 textual chapters are augmented with animation, sound, interactive and haptic elements, working with the multimodal and interactive affordances inherent to digital tablets. The creative work comprises 27 chapters, over 60 pages/ screens of content, and over 50 animation elements, totalling 5 mins 15 secs of animation, with an overall duration of around 30 minutes. All writing, photography, graphic design, animation, layout, and programming by Megan Heyward. Sound design by Michael Finucan. This project has been supported by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. The Secret Language of Desire is published in the AppStore. |
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dc.format |
Digital interactive / electronic literature app |
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dc.publisher |
Apple |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
ELO 2015: The End[s] of Electronic Literature |
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dc.title |
The Secret Language of Desire |
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utslib.location |
Bergen, Norway |
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utslib.for |
1902 Film, Television and Digital Media |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
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utslib.copyright.status |
open_access |
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pubs.consider-herdc |
true |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Bergen, Norway |
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pubs.rights-statement |
The Secret Language of Desire is an interactive literature app developed specifically for digital tablets. Working with the haptic and multimodal capacities of electronic tablets, the project is an electronic literature app comprised of 27 separate chapters, each with unique interactive elements including animations, sound, and interactive effects. The work explores and extends literary experience into a contemporary app environment through the integration of interactions triggered by the reader, without sacrificing narrative flow. This project has been supported by a New Work grant in Digital and New Media Writing (2014) by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. |
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pubs.rights-statement |
The Secret Language of Desire is an electronic literature app exploring the ways in which interactivity and multimodality are impacting the form and experience of literature within digital environments. *Research background* The research sits in the fields of digital, electronic literature and multimodality. Alice Bell argues that digital literature can be distinguished through its structural and formal engagement with the digital medium. Anastasia Salter argues that the iPad represents a site of tension between “the codex and the breaking of the page, between genres of fiction and genres of play”. While Kate Pullinger’s works demonstrate the interactive, multimodal potentials of literature written for a digital context; Richard House’s The Kills represents a hybrid novel where multimodal elements augment text-based narrative. Concurrently, literary and digital publishers are experimenting with the affordances of digital platforms through initiatives such as Google’s Editions at Play. The work explores the question: in what ways can the interactive, multimodal and haptic potentials of digital tablets impact the form and experience of literature within a digital environment? *Research contribution* The work is an electronic literature app in which 27 textual chapters are augmented with animation, sound, interactive and haptic elements, working with multimodal and touch driven affordances inherent within digital tablets. It operates at the intersection of codex and interactive text, offering a model for the interactive augmentation of literary content via digital platforms. *Research significance* The work was funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and internationally exhibited at ELO 2015 in Bergen, Norway. |
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pubs.rights-statement |
The Secret Language of Desire is an electronic literature app exploring the ways in which interactivity and multimodality are impacting the form and experience of literature within digital environments. *Research background* The research sits in FOR 1902, Film, Television and Digital Media. Alice Bell argues that digital literature is distinguished through its structural and formal engagement with the digital medium. Anastasia Salter suggests that the iPad represents a site of tension between “the codex and the breaking of the page, between genres of fiction and genres of play”. While Kate Pullinger’s works demonstrate the interactive, multimodal potentials of digital literature; writers and publishers are experimenting with hybrid novels where multimodal elements augment text-based narrative. The work explores the question: in what ways can the interactive, multimodal and haptic potentials of digital tablets impact the form and experience of literature within a digital environment? *Research contribution* The work demonstrates that interactive and multimodal features can be integrated with predominantly textual narrative to extend the narrative experience without necessarily sacrificing narrative flow and engagement. It does this through textual foregrounding and relevant interactive augmentation such as the selective use of touch-driven animation and sound, the use of relevant haptic interactions such as scratch-off effects, and specific consideration of user interface and sound design within the digital tablet experience. *Research significance* The work was funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and internationally exhibited at the peer-reviewed Electronic Literature Organisation’s conference and exhibition in Bergen, Norway, 2015. |
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