Scatter Matrix - Softcover

Child, Abigail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937804630 ISBN 13: 9780937804636

Publisher: Roof Books, 1996

Synopsis

Abigail Child's Scatter Matrix experiments with language as her films play with image. Alien constructions of words are built from familiar phrases. Psychology presents as a grid of possibilities rather than an emotional tangle. Readers are pulled into the poetry by what they know and then shown how these common ways of speaking and writing are composed out of surprising possibilities.

About this title

About the Author

Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations, and written 6 books. Her books and numerous chapbooks include: This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film the only critical book written by an active American artist/filmmaker in over two decades. Her book of poetry Mouth to Mouth won a Lambda Prize. Child is Emeritus Professor of Media at Tufts University, the SMFA, and lives and works in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Roof Books
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937804630
• ISBN 13: 9780937804636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78