Accompanying materials housed with archival copy. / Using an animation program on a Macintosh computer, I have animated poems, song lyrics and expressions in an experimental way to investigate alternatives to the restrictive poetics of the static medium of paper. Animated Writing is thus the process of enacting, in a visually rich and compelling fashion, the various semantic possibilities of text presented on a screen. While a CD-ROM or Web site would flawlessly display the pristine digital content of the animations which comprise the Creative Writing Master's Thesis, for ease of distribution the thesis is presented on analog VHS videotape. An animated text offers many subtle nuances, doubling of meaning and delicate complexity which are wholly impossible to achieve on paper. This technique of animating words provides for an exciting and intriguing enrichment of both original poetry created specifically for the form, and prose, lyrics or other found text adapted for use.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.28047 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Fisher, Matt, 1966- |
| Contributors | Trehearne, Brian (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of English.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001609712, proquestno: MQ43865, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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