Christine Wilks

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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

Born in June 1960, as of mid-2022, Christine Wilks is based in Leeds in the north of England.[1][7] After graduating in fine art from the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in 1982, Wilks earned a masters degree from the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992. 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]

She has been creating digital works since 2006 when she published the poem "Heights" inspired by the Sagrada Familia and other church spires.[11][12] 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.[13] Published in 2012, 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][14]

References

  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 web}}: 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. ^ "Christine Ann Wilks in Leeds, LS27 Based on 2012-19 Electoral Roll and Companies House". 192.com. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  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. ^ "Christine Wilks". Electronic Literature Directory. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  12. ^ Remírez, Féliz (July 2022). "Heights" (in Spanish). Bilumliteraria. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  13. ^ Doménech, Oreto (2016). "Christine Wilks' Women, Politics and Poetics". International Journal of Transmedia Literacy, Vol 2. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  14. ^ "Underbelly". Electronic Literature Directory. Retrieved 19 September 2022.

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