Writ Large: texts on screens

Writ Large is an Oakland-based exhibition and screening series and commissioning program for creative work at the intersection of literature, visual arts, and programming. Our ongoing curated programs feature text-based artwork in several related genres which go by different names but all share the use of screens rather than (or in addition to) print media or performance as vessel for the written word. These include kinetic typography, motion design and text animation, visual poetry, cine-poetry, and video poems, interactive poetry, text-based digital and new media art, generative and procedural programmed texts, and many forms of what’s known as “e-lit”. Writ Large curators take an expansive view of screen-based writing, and will consider work in many styles, genres, and disciplines — as long as text or language is an important element in the finished work or the process of its making. All media and formats are accepted, as long as the work can be viewed or accessed on a projection surface, computer, digital display, or mobile device in a screening or exhibition environment.

Please submit here: http://www.writlarge.us/submit/. Submission is free.

The May 2016 event at UC-Santa Cruz will feature an evening of screenings, a week-long exhibition of installation and interactive works, and a series of talks and workshops by Allison Parrish, Brian Kim Stefans, Rita Raley, Brian Christian, and more. Student works will compete for prizes, and several new commissions will be debuted. The ongoing series at The Great Wall of Oakland will continue in Fall 2016.