描述
Jonathan Stallings experimental approach to bridging art poetics and linguistics imagines a world where individual value systems are no longer translated into the language of other mediums but foster conscious interlanguages. Stalling writes ampamp8220Meeting in the middle ampamp8216interlanguagesampamp8217 are spaces where one learns a new language without having left oneampamp8217s home fully behind these situations can result in richly generative interlingual and intercultural estuaries which provide new ways of imagining.ampamp8221 Stallingampamp8217s conceptual language art fuses Classical Chinese poetics and linguistics with modern algorithms to create art installations and poetry that transform Chinese into English and English into Chinese in new and surprising ways.With a visual gallery of Stallingampamp8217s work an interview with the artist a critical introduction by the editor and critical chapters written by the comparative literature scholar Timothy Billings and Chinese Linguist Liu Nian the volume provides readers with a significant introduction to a wide range of Stallingampamp8217s interlanguage work spanning the past two decades. The volume runs from the late 1990s English Jueju project to his most recent work Song Dynasty English a series of movable woodtype printing presses and prints to Pinying a series of digital interlanguage learning environments and platforms.
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Fruugo ID:
391830945-838583411
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ISBN:
9789887470755