Postcards from Writing
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Dr. Sally Pryor
(www.sallypryor.com)
is an internationally award-winning digital artist/animator/programmer
and researcher who is based at Melbourne University. Her current work explores the applications of a challenging
new theory of language and communication, Integrationism
(www.integrationists.com),
whose most notable proponent is Professor Roy Harris in the UK. “Postcards
From Writing” articulates this exciting yet difficult
theory (particularly the idea that there are no fixed boundaries between
writing and pictures) and extends it into writing at the human-computer
interface. “Postcards” is a kind of intellectual
road movie that offers users an experience of these
ideas, rather than simply information about them, through its unique
human-computer interface.
Sally has been working with computers since 1979 and was an Australian pioneer in 3D computer animation, digital art and interactive multimedia. Sally began her career as a biochemist, later moving into computer programming, 3D computer animation and then, digital art and research. Significant themes in early works were art, technology, the body, gender and subjectivity, for example the landmark paper, “Thinking of Oneself as a Computer” (1990). Spending a year in Tunisia led to an ongoing interest in relationships between language, technology, writing and human-computer interaction. Sally created “Postcard From Tunis” (1997), a very successful personal CD-ROM portrait of Tunis that also teaches the user to read basic Arabic. |