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Christine Ann Wilks (born 1960)[1] is a British digital writer and artist whose work in electronic literature has been published in online journals and anthologies.[2] Her interactive Fitting the Pattern (2008) depicting memories of her mother by drawing on dressmaking tools is considered to be a "born digital" work.[3] Underbelly, presenting a digital account of women working in the pits of northern England, won the New Media Writing Prize 2010 as well as the 2010/11 MaMSIE Digital Media Prize.[4][5] In 2021, Wilks earned a Ph.D. in digital writing from Bath Spa University with a thesis titled "Stiched Up in The Conversengine: Using Expressive Processing and Multimodal Languages to Create a Character-Driven Interactive Digital Narrative".[6]

Biography

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Born in June 1960, as of mid-2022, Christine Wilks is based in Leeds in the north of England.[1] After graduating in fine art from the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in 1982, Wilks earned a masters degree in Fine Arts from the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992.[7] In 2008, she received a second master's degree in creative writing and new media from De Montfort University. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in digital writing from Bath Spa University in 2021.[8][6]

Wilks has spent many years with the electronic learning company, Make It Happen Now, where since 2011 she has served as creative director.[1][9] From 2007, she was a key member of R3M1XW0RX, a remixing project for digital media which was developed until 2012.[10]

Wilks recounts that she began as a visual artist but moved into filmmaking and joined the trAce Online Writing Centre, set up by Sue Thomas.[11]

Awards

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Underbelly won the New Media Writing Prize 2010[12] and the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition 2011.[13]

Works

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Electronic literature works

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  • Writing New Body Worlds
  • Stitched Up
  • Inkubus, 2014. This is a largely 3D narrative-based game.[14] Reviewed in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities [15]
  • A Revolution of Words (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
  • Upside Down Chandelier (Collaboration with Maria Mencia, Jeneen Naji, and Zuzana Husárová)
  • R3M1XW0RX, 2007- 2013, various media
  • A crissxross trail (originally included Flash)
  • Rememori, 2011 (originally Flash)
  • Out of Touch, 2011 (originally Flash)
  • Underbelly, 2010 (originally Flash) . Underbelly explores a hypertext-guided connection between the carving of a successful sculptor of today and the submissive women who in the past carved out coal from a Yorkshire colliery.[3][16] Published in Studies in the Maternal, Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2011 • Special Issue: Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care[17] Wilks analyzes this piece in #WomenTechLit[18]
  • Fitting the Pattern, 2008 (originally Flash). The interactive Fitting the Pattern (2008) depicts memories of her mother by drawing on the vocabulary of dressmaking tools. It is considered to be a "born digital" work.[3] The reader is required to cut, sew and weave to appreciate the relationship between daughter and mother.[19]
  • Tailspin, 2008 (originally Flash)
  • Heights, 2006 (originally Flash). This poem was inspired by the Sagrada Familia and other church spires.[20][21]
  • IntraVenus, 2005 (originally Flash). This work combines an image from the Venus of Urbino by Titian as well as voices and photography in a complex polysemy: a phonetic game showing both desire and violence.[22]
  • We Drank, 2005 (originally Flash)
  • Social Dis-Ease, 2004 (originally Flash)
  • Sitting Pretty aka Before We Begin, 2004 (HTML and CSS)

Essays

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  • These Waves …:" Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies [23] Also published in First Person Scholar.[24]
  • Chapter 7: Bodies in Elit [25] Edited by Dene Grigar & James O’Sullivan Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 2021

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Christine Ann Wilks - Leeds". Check Company. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Christine Wilks". Washington State University. 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Naji, Jeneen; Subramaniam, Ganakumaran; White, Goodith (2019). New Approaches to Literature for Language Learning. Springer. p. 102. ISBN 978-3-030-15256-7. Retrieved 18 September 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Pullinger, Kate (1 July 2011). "Visual Work: Maternal Subjectivities, Care and Labour", Studies in the Maternal 3(2)". Mamsie. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Previous Shortlists & Winners". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  6. ^ a b Wilks, C. (2020). "'Stitched up' in the 'Conversengine': using expressive processing and multimodal languages to create a character-driven interactive digital narrative. PhD thesis, Bath Spa University" (PDF). Bath Spa University. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  7. ^ Book Review, Electronic (5 April 2020). "Christine Wilks". Electronic Book Review.
  8. ^ "Christine Wilks". elmcip. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  9. ^ Stefans, Brian (28 July 2011). "Third Hand Plays: "Out of Touch" by Christine Wilks". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  10. ^ "R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX - selected works". elmcip. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  11. ^ Literary Review, Electronic (20 January 2017). "Interview with Christine Wilks". electronicliteraturereview.
  12. ^ "The New Media Writing Prize: The Interviews". thewritingplatform.com. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  13. ^ "Digital Media Competition, Motherhood: Care and Labour (supported by the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University) – Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MaMSIE)". mamsie.org. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  14. ^ Hight, Jeremy (16 November 2022). "Unlikely Stories".
  15. ^ Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: contexts, Forms, and Practice (PDF). New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing Inc. 2021. pp. 43–46. ISBN 978-1-5013-6349-8. Edited by Dene Grigar & James O’Sullivan Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 2021
  16. ^ "Underbelly". Electronic Literature Directory. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  17. ^ Wilks, Christine (1 July 2011). "Visual Work: Maternal Subjectivities, Care and Labour, Underbelly". Studies in the Material.
  18. ^ #WomenTechLit. West Virginia University Press Computing Literature. pp. 243–254.
  19. ^ Doménech, Oreto (2016). "Christine Wilks' Women, Politics and Poetics". International Journal of Transmedia Literacy, Vol 2. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  20. ^ "Christine Wilks". Electronic Literature Directory. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  21. ^ Remírez, Féliz (July 2022). "Heights" (in Spanish). Bilumliteraria. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  22. ^ Doménech, Oreto (2021). "Christine Wilks' Women, Politics and Poetics". Led on Line: Electronic Archive of Academic and Literary Texts.
  23. ^ Wilks, Christine (5 April 2020). ""These Waves …:" Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies". Electronic Book Review. doi:10.7273/c26p-0t17.
  24. ^ Person Scholar, First (2022). "First Person Scholar".
  25. ^ Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: contexts, Forms, and Practice (PDF). New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing Inc. 2021. pp. 43–46. ISBN 978-1-5013-6349-8.
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