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Reimagining Literature in a Digital Space: an Arts Council of Ireland study

The Arts Council of Ireland recently published a profile on my work as a poet operating in a post-digital landscape, specifically in relation to sorry that you were not moved, my digital project in collaboration with Kimberly Campanello that was released by Fallow Media in February 2022.

This study of my work and our project is one of five such profile pieces commissioned by The Arts Council. It was produced in the context of its new drive to support the Digital Arts in Ireland and in connection with the recent launch of its Digital Arts Policy.

Titled 'Reimagining literature in a digital space', the study was authored by Denise McDonagh of Culture Works, with an accompanying video element created by Kate Costello of Narrator & Co. It was composed following a transcribed informal conversation and interview with me - as director and lead artist on sorry that you were not moved - about the aims, development and impact of the project, as well as the conditions of making digital literary work in Ireland today and the likely implications of the Digital Arts Policy. An excerpt:

"How do you use digital tools to present something rather than, or in addition to being on screen and say reading from a text or having a conversation?” Chris is interested in the developments as society has stepped back into physical spaces“[...] we have been presented with all these tools, the digital tools in the meantime. So how do we make use of them going forward and expand the way we can speak about language and speak about texts and all that stuff? So that was interesting to me."

Read the full study on the Arts Council website, where you can also view the accompanying video as an embedded element. The video is also available on the Arts Council's YouTube channel, and below.


The other artists, collectives and organisations profiled for their digital work are Crash Ensemble, Niall de Buitléar, Alan James Burns, and Dead Centre.

My thanks to the Arts Council for supporting our project in the first place, and for the interest in creating this profile piece. Thanks especially to Denise McDonagh and Matti Hallam at Culture Works, and to Kate Costello.

And thanks always to Kimberly and to Ian Maleney. Travel with us.

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