Christine Wilks
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Christine Ann Wilks (born 1960)[1] is a British digital writer and artist whose work in electronic literature has been published in online journals and anthologies.[2] Her interactive Fitting the Pattern (2008) depicting memories of her mother by drawing on dressmaking tools is considered to be a "born digital" work.[3] Underbelly, presenting a digital account of women working in the pits of northern England, won the New Media Writing Prize 2010 as well as the 2010/11 MaMSIE Digital Media Prize.[4][5] In 2021, Wilks earned a Ph.D. in digital writing from Bath Spa University with a thesis titled "Stiched Up in The Conversengine: Using Expressive Processing and Multimodal Languages to Create a Character-Driven Interactive Digital Narrative".[6]
Born in June 1960, as of mid-2022, Christine Wilks is based in Leeds in the north of England.[1] After graduating in fine art from the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in 1982, Wilks earned a master's degree in Fine Arts from the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992.[7] In 2008, she received a second master's degree in creative writing and new media from De Montfort University. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in digital writing from Bath Spa University in 2021.[8][6]
Wilks has spent many years with the electronic learning company, Make It Happen Now, where since 2011 she has served as creative director.[1][9] From 2007, she was a key member of R3M1XW0RX, a remixing project for digital media which was developed until 2012.[10]
Wilks recounts that she began as a visual artist but moved into filmmaking and joined the trAce Online Writing Centre, set up by Sue Thomas.[11]
