Christy Sheffield Sanford

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Christy Sheffield Sanford is an American new media writer, artist, editor, and project designer, who lives in Florida. [1] She coined the term "web-specific" for her work. [2]

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Early life and education

Sanford earned her master's degree in Creative Writing and Interarts from Antioch University, Ohio. [3]

Life and career

Before her web work starting in the 1990s, Sanford experimented with print forms. [2] This segued into Sanford's artistic vision for the web to merge text and imagery while allowing "each art form to maintain its integrity." [3] Frederick Barthelme noted that her early web work was noted as a way to use the web to innovate literature. [4]

trAce, in Nottingham-Trent University, was one of the first centers for new media writing. In 1998, as trAce's first virtual writer in residence, she designed and curated trAce's journal for new media literature, frAme Volumes 4 and 5, [5] and wrote electronic literature works such as the Two Little Soldiers. [6] [2] [7] [8] [9]

As an Alden B Dow Creativity Centre Fellow, at Northwood University, Michigan.

Works and publications

Her small press books include The Italian Smoking Piece, The Cowrie Shell Piece, and the Hs: the Spasms of a Requiem, [1] and Sur les Pointes, The Ballerina and the Sea Anemone, White Eagle Coffee Store Press; The Kiss, Radio Room Press; and The H's: the Spasms of a Requiem, Bloody Twin Press. [10]

Her digital animation poems include:

Awards and honors

She has received 9 grants, including a National Endowments for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship [13] and two NEA-Rockefeller sponsored grants. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Currents: E-poets on the State of their Electronic Art: Christy Sheffield Sanford". currents.dwrl.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
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  4. ↑ "Digital Culture - An Exchange with Frederick Barthelme". www.theatlantic.com. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  5. ↑ "frAme:Journal of Culture and Technology (Critical Cyberculture)". archive.the-next.eliterature.org. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  6. 1 2 "Celebrating Women in E-Lit". Electronic Literature Lab. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  7. 1 2 3 "from The Fan Cycle: Mallarme in late Summer by Christy Sheffield Sanford". INVERTED SYNTAX. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  8. ↑ Thomas, Sue (1999). "Early engagements of creative writers with online media". Proceedings of the third conference on Creativity & cognition - C&C '99. ACM Press. pp. 187–188. doi:10.1145/317561.317594. ISBN   978-1-58113-078-2.
  9. ↑ "Novel appointments". Times Higher Education (THE). 1999-02-12. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  10. 1 2 "Enterzone: Christy Sheffield Sanford". ezone.org. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  11. ↑ Lui, Alan. "Voice of the Shuttle".
  12. ↑ "Special Project: Birds of a Feather". Debra Mixon Holliday. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  13. ↑ "Issue 1". www.cddc.vt.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
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