Eleventh International Conference on The Image

Abstract

The internet is traditionally a toxic, patriarchal, and heteronormative space. My imagetexts, produced and consumed entirely for the mobile space, combine centuries of experimental techniques—like erasure, cut-up, fold-in, makeready, collage, assemblage, symbolism, concretism, meme play, layering, blending, and filtering—with the visual and textual content of our private and digital lives to acknowledge, explode, and ultimately abandon those parts of our past. My workshop will lead users through the creative possibilities of generating their own imagetexts, from production to publication, and community organization. New media and new readership habits have given rise to a new voice and mode of communication, one both sincere and subversive, that is rapidly reorienting traditional ideas of engagement, accessibility, connectivity, interactivity, and community in the ever-mutating space of the internet. My imagetexts have appeared in Operating System, Mannequin Haus, AMP, petrichor, Textshop Experiments, New Delta Review, and others, and can be found daily on my instagram @ds_chapman.