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]

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Biography

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

Underbelly won the New Media Writing Prize 2010 and the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition 2011.

Works

Electronic literature works

Essays

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References

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  2. ↑ "Christine Wilks". Washington State University. 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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. ↑ Hight, Jeremy (16 November 2022). "Unlikely Stories".
  13. ↑ 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
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  15. ↑ Wilks, Christine (1 July 2011). "Visual Work: Maternal Subjectivities, Care and Labour, Underbelly". Studies in the Material.
  16. ↑ #WomenTechLit. West Virginia University Press Computing Literature. pp. 243–254.
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  21. ↑ Wilks, Christine (5 April 2020). ""These Waves …:" Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies". Electronic Book Review. doi:10.7273/c26p-0t17.
  22. ↑ Person Scholar, First (2022). "First Person Scholar".
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