From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book
explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based
technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary
experience. In so doing, it unpacks how situated literary experiences
delivered through text, audio and sensor-based delivery offer
distinctive new forms of reading and listening and lay the ground for a
new poetics of situated writing practices.
Exploring an experimental, practice-based approach to digital literary
forms and its emerging poetics, this book critically examines the
ecology of ambient literature from a range of perspectives, including
researchers and practitioners working in the fields of digital writing,
sonics, visual art, performance, literary studies, creative writing and
computer science.
Essays look towards the emerging field of ambient literature, drawing on
contributors' own background and interests. Contributors study topics
ranging from ecological and climatic challenges through critical and
creative cartographies to understanding the metaphorical work of
'ambient' as a form embedded in the social, technological and literary.
Including practice-based essays from writers, artists and practitioners
on the use of data to write poetry and the position of the writer as
maker, this book's combination of practice-led approaches and
interdisciplinary research makes it a valuable and varied contribution
to the field of digital writing.
