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1. Broken Windows and Slashed Canvases: Digital Comics and Transgressive Horror

   I investigate digital horror comics as a case study in anxieties about the boundaries between fiction and reality provoked by the remediation of print media forms, such as text or comics, as digital media forms. Because the horror genre often deals with questions of transgression and boundaries, and because the frightening fictions depicted in horror media raise the stakes on questions of the boundaries between media and reality, horror it is a fruitful site for exploring assumptions and anxieties about the boundaries of media. This paper uses Noel Carroll's framework of “art horror” to examine digital horror comics by three authors: Studio Horang's Bong-Cheon-Dong Ghost (2011), Ok-su Station Ghost (2011) and Ghost in Masung Tunnel (2013), Emily Carroll's Prince And The Sea (2011), When The Darkness Presses (2012) and Margot's Room (2011), and Kazerad's Prequel (ongoing). These comics all make use of uniquely digital elements, such as “infinite canvas” pages of different sizes, animation, and sometimes sound, to subvert the reader's expectations and create horrific effects.

   Linn Heidi Stokkedal - 05.09.2018 - 15:24

2. Opening up the Silent World: Narrating Interaction in a Digital Comic

   This paper examines Minna Sundberg’s ongoing and award winning digital web comic Stand Still. Stay Silent as a type of e-literature increasingly found in the “gap” between digitized comics and graphic novels on the one hand and born digital e-lit on the other. While the Sunberg’s process of production will be briefly noted, the main focus explores how the comic thematizes modes of interactivity that Sundberg also encourages in her readers/followers via forms of social media. Set in a post-apocalyptic world , the comic is an ongoing tale of exploration and discovery, where a group young explorers have left the havens of plague-free safe zones in order to see what is left of the rest of the world. The supernatural elements associated with the plague, or “the illness,” are also associated with a past that somehow went wrong. Writing of “Beasts, Trolls, and Giants,” the narrator explains, “They are a shadow of our past, a distorted echo of what once there was.” Avoiding the shadow of the past and the monstrosities it has produced is a powerful theme, carrying an implied social critique that deserves examination.

   Amirah Mahomed - 19.09.2018 - 15:17

3. Dispersed Digital Poetry Project

   The Dispersed Digital Poetry Project is a year-long endeavour to create a series of short one poem/screen/page interactive digital poems, with each of those digital poems hosted on a different website or portal. And then the entire series of interactive works inter-linked together, forming a larger collection, existing across the net. 

   For example: I will create a mouse-follower digital poem to be hosted by gallery’s website in Vancouver. And that work will link to 3D textual work hosted by a literary journal in Singapore. Add 24 others! In essence, the works will have dozens of different entry points and doorways, with the whole of the work forming a grid across the websites of places, institutions, people, publications and organizations around the world. 

   What is the overarching theme of this collection of works from the Dispersed Digital Poetry Project? 

   Nina Kolovic - 26.09.2018 - 14:59