Christy Sheffield Sanford
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Christy Sheffield Sanford | |
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| Alma mater | Antioch University |
| Genre | Electronic literature |
| Notable works | Light-Water: a Mosaic of Meditations |
Christy Sheffield Sanford is an American new media writer, artist, editor, and project designer, who lives in Florida.[1] She coined the term "web-specific" for her work.[2]
Sanford earned her master's degree in Creative Writing and Interarts from Antioch University, Ohio.[3]
Life and career
Before her web work starting in the 1990s, Sanford experimented with print forms.[2] This segued into Sanford's artistic vision for the web to merge text and imagery while allowing "each art form to maintain its integrity."[3] Frederick Barthelme noted that her early web work as a way to use the web to innovate literature.[4]
trAce, in Nottingham-Trent University, was one of the first centers for new media writing. In 1998, as trAce's first virtual writer in residence, she designed and curated trAce's journal for new media literature, frAme Volumes 4 and 5,[5] and wrote electronic literature works such as the Two Little Soldiers.[6][2][7][8][9]
As an Alden B Dow Creativity Centre Fellow, at Northwood University, Michigan.