Exploring Poetic Intermedia with Coco X. Huang

Costs: $35 members, $50 non-members. Online booking fees also apply. To avoid paying fees, please phone KSP directly to book and pay by debit/ credit card: 9294 1872.

This workshop is brought to you by the KSP Writers' Centre with support from the Shire of Mundaring. Tea and coffee provided.

Ready to take your poetry beyond the page? Join Coco X. Huang for an engaging, hands-on workshop where we’ll traverse the many dimensions of poetic intermedia—an exciting fusion of text, technology and multi-sensory experiences. This workshop is perfect for those wanting to push the boundaries of traditional writing and explore innovative ways of merging language with other disciplines and forms.

Target audience: emerging and established writers, artists and creatives (not limited to poets) who are interested in conceptual writing and experimenting with their craft.

What You'll Learn:

Introduction to Intermedia: Discover the history and key concepts behind intermedia, and how it can transform your creative process.
Dimensions of Poetic Intermedia: Explore how text-based works can evolve and take on new forms by incorporating visual, auditory, and interactive elements.
Creative Process: Learn the stages involved in developing poetic intermedia, and how to integrate these techniques into your own practice.
Real-World Examples: See firsthand how Coco X. Huang has transformed text-based works into intermedia, offering inspiration and insight for your own projects.

Hands-on Exercises:

Exploring New Domains: Examine your own unique skills and passions outside of writing and learn how to weave them into your creative process to craft intermedia.
Creating Intermedia with AI: Explore ethical ways of incorporating AI tools (like ChatGPT) into your writing, experimenting with human-technology interaction to create unique poetic works.

What should I bring to the event?

Please bring a laptop and writing tools i.e. pen and paper, and at least one short standalone piece of writing (maximum 500 words or 30 lines, your own or another writer’s).

About the Facilitator:

Coco X. Huang is a Chinese-Australian writer, musician and scientist who enjoys creating intermedia—interdisciplinary hybrid works that challenge and extend conventional forms. She won the 68th Blake Poetry Prize and a Faber Writing Academy scholarship and was shortlisted for the Booranga Prize for Prose and the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry. She has performed at the National Young Writers’ Festival, Boundless Festival, QPoetry! and Sydney Festival, and her works have appeared in Voiceworks, Meanjin, the Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Going Down Swinging, Meniscus and fourW, among others.