Illya Szilak

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Illya Szilak
Residency: 
New York , NY
United States
New York US
Born: 
1968
Record Status: 
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Short biography: 

Illya Szilak uses open source media and collaborations forged via the Internet to create multimedia novels. Shaped by her experiences as a practicing physician, her artistic practice explores mortality, embodiment, identity and belief in a media inundated and increasingly virtual world.

Works by this author:

Work title Publication Type Year
Queerskins: ark Application 2024
Queerskins: a love story Application 2020
Steve Tomasula’s Brilliant Literary Time Machine Published on the Web (online journal) 2016
Queerskins Published on the Web (individual site) 2012
Reconstructing Mayakovsky Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (online journal) 2008

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Critical writing by this author:

Title Publication Type Publisher Year
Towards Minor Literary Forms: Digital Literature and the Art of Failure Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2015
Learning to Throw Like Olympia: E-Lit and the Art of Failure Keynote address 2014
Review: Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound Review Huffington Post 2014
A Book Itself Is a Little Machine: Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction. Article in an online journal Huffington Post 2013
Reorienting Narrative: E-lit as Psychogeography Article in an online journal, Interview Huffington Post 2013
Session 4.1: Narratives & Narrativity Conference panel or roundtable

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Research Collection that references this person:

Title
International Electronic Literature by Women Authors 1986-2024

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Full Name: 
Illya Szilak
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https://elmcip.net/node/654

Record posted by: 
Eric Dean Rasmussen