Shan Shui is an electronic literature work that combines background images with poetry through digital technology. There are nine different background images in five different places on the page. When the reader clicks on the page, the background images change. At the same time, a poem will be appear in every click, the poem was made by re-ordering some of the character in a library that has 38 Chinese character and the to create as a new landscape. [1]
Shan Shui's author, Chen Qian Xun, is a media artist and researcher who has traveled to many countries and is passionate about learning languages. She is passionate about studying digital technology and language to express art. Shan shui was her first work. This experimental work provided experience for her subsequent productions. [2]
This work was originally published in CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action, Issue 14, in Fall 2014. [3] It was subsequently collected during the winter by Drunken Boats, an online literary journal. [4] It was included in the Electronic Literature Organization Collection Volume 3 in 2016. [5]
This digital work combines images and language with coding.
LICHENG XIE in If DeLillo was an E-Lit Writer: DeLillo's Language as Visual Art [1] in the Digital Age cites Shan Shui as an example to show the image features of natural language. Random arrangements of poems and background images are combined into a variety of meaningful landscape paintings, making the language part of the background image. He believes that this work highlights the relationship between language and image, and shows the "reshapable" characteristics of language in pictures.
In Beauty in code - 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages, [6] Author David Wright also use this work as an example in his visual verse. Poets have combined poetry and images for centuries. While poets of the past would use sculpture and poetry together, contemporary poets can use digital technology for the same purpose. shan shui is regarded as a symbol of the combination of poetry and digital coding.
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