Underbelly
An award-winning playable story about a woman sculptor, carving on the site of a former colliery in the north of England. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of voices, some from the site's dark industrial past, and the player/reader is plunged into an underworld of repressed fears and desires.
Here's a video screen recording of Underbelly. I created the original work in Flash but the web has discontinued support for Flash.
Awards
Publications, exhibitions & performances
Some of the places where Underbelly has been published, exhibited or performed:
- The ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature
- 'Dyscorpia' exhibition, Enterprise Square Galleries, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2019
- 'Underbelly: Turned to Stone' exhibition, Index Visual Arts Festival, a fringe festival during Yorkshire Sculpture International, 2019
- 'La paraula pixelada. La literatura a l’era digital' (Pixilated Words. Literature in the digital age) exhibition at Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, 2016
- The Future of Reading? An Exhibition of Digital Literature (in Gallery 3: Engaging the Senses), Sheffield, UK, 2014
- ‘Women Shift Digital’ Conference (in Digital Textualities Showcase curated by Maria Mencía), London, UK, 2013
- Digital Fictions: Can stories help young women think differently about themselves?, 2013
- 'Electronic Literature' Exhibit at the Modern Languages Association 2012 Convention, Seattle, USA
- 'Seven Wanders', Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe, Yorkshire, UK, 2012
- Hyperrhiz.08, Issue 8, Spring 2011
- Studies in the Maternal, Special Issue: Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2011
- 17th International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor, Slovenia, 2011
- The Shoebox Experiment, Sheffield, UK, 2011
- Neo-Victorian Art and Aestheticism symposium, Hull, UK, 2011
- Inspace ...no one can hear you scream - Language in Digital Performance, ICIDS 2010, Edinburgh, UK
- Electronic Literature Organization 2010: Archive & Innovate, Arts Program, Providence, USA
- PW10 Performance Writing 2010, exhibition at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
- Transliteracy Conference 2010, Leicester, UK
- Writing Bodies/Reading Bodies: PG CWWN conference 2009 (featured author), Cambridge, UK
- Mum’s the Word: The maternal in contemporary literature, Leicester, UK, 2009