Strange Oceans is a poem designed by Cassandra Loh for the digital age. Textually, it depicts how we socially interact in online spaces. As a designed artefact, it uses digital tools to extend and support the poem’s text.
In the digital space, multimedia opportunities offer new textual behaviours that affect a worker’s experience. By developing accessible and intuitive works for digitally native readers to operate, digital poetry can provide fruitful communication opportunities for powerful self-expression.
The poem Strange Oceans investigates three main digital tools for their poetic effects through practice-led research: mouse events, animation, and typography. The most prominent use of these tools is as metaphors to persuade readers to feel or do something, as well as subtext to add layers of meaning to the text. Through these tools, the poem designs a space to encourage empathy and immersion.
Strange Oceans is a short interactive and animated experience that can be viewed in-browser (Chrome recommended).
Congratulations to Digital Design Major graduate Varvara Solovyeva whose animated film ‘USO’ has been selected in competition for the International Programme at the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF 2023).
‘USO’ was Varvara’s graduating film for her Bachelor of Design in 2022. Varvara is currently undertaking her Master of Design studies at the School of Art and Design.
The ninthWavesound project, produced for Laura Marsh’s doctoral thesis, fuses feminist activism and a DJ practice to generate an installation and participatory art practice aimed at corporeal, low-frequency, sound-oriented experiences.